REDEMPTION at the Woodstock Festival: Hallucination 100 

I've been binging you channel each time I'm on the dreadmill. Love the actual race videos. Truly appreciate your work.... Thanks

Doctor - “Don’t Run the downhills” Ryan - * runs downhills anyways *

Inspired! Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. Training for my first 100 miler in February. The Rocky Raccoon 100.

This is one of my absolute favorite runs! Just make it to the morning and you'll get that second pop of energy. Should be golden after.

Thanks for taking us along the journey! Really enjoyed it!

Been waiting for this!

You absolutely should be proud! After all your set backs (and accomplishments) in 2019, you pull this out. That's grit. By the way, great editing and sound.

Couch to 100 in 2 weeks: The Clayton Plan. You could sell the heck out of that! Seriously though, gutsy and inspiring finish! I will watch this again before my next race - remind myself how powerful racing smart can be in creating a good outcome.

Love the content - awesome job and congrats

nice! This was my first 100 about 7 years ago. I was the last place finisher, coming in 29:50! Scary being that close to the cutoff! Great job!

Hi there. I watched your video running the hallucination 100. I am running it 2022. I appreciate watching you and your ability to continue running without being able to keep food in your stomach. I have never run that far and I am afraid I might have the same problem because I get ill after a hard or long run. But you showed that I can make it so thanks for inspiring me!

After seeing your success on Strava... I eagerly awaited the video... what a great Christmas gift. Thanks for sharing your story.

Great job ! Inspiring !!

Congrats and thank you for sharing your experience!

AWsome Ryan. So great.

congrats, Ryan!!! love your channel, lots of great content and advice!

Im inspired!! You are great! Thanks for your vídeos!

I'm enjoying catching up with your channel. The race videos are my favorite. Thanks!

Awesome job Ryan!! Great job😉👍I can't wait for what races you want to prepare for 2020.

Excellent video. Congratulations on completing.

A great display of grit! Good work Ryan.

I'm watching this a little late, but great video, and thanks for documenting. I'm doing KM 100 soon and good to see you get the finish here. This is another race I'm thinking of doing.

Congratulations on knocking one out! Watching your battles through injury and stomach issues I’ve been rooting for a 100 mile finish for you. Your determination to finish even with minimal training encourages and inspires me for my upcoming races in the beginning of 2020. Great job!

Awesome 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I'm very happy for you. Here's to your continued success in 2020

Congrats! I was there too...somewhere. Thanks for the video....brought back a lot of memories! What a great race!

Ryan fantastic work! I ran the 50 miler in 2015. Under trained and it was brutal. I can't even imagine doing the 100!

Fantastic video Ryan! I always look forward to your journey in the Ultras! You inspire me to start my ultra life next year with some 50k races!

Brutal. Great job man!

Congratulations! Awesome job! You deserve more subscribers.

Great video Ryan!! Fantastic job, after the year that you have had. So happy for you. And I can’t wait to hear what you have in the works for 2020. I look forward to following along with you. You and your videos are very inspiring Ryan. Thank you for sharing. I’m still working on my schedule for next year. Among other races, I’m looking at my first 50 miler. If that goes well, I may even try to stretch to a 100k before the end of 2020. Who knows? Much will happen over the course of the year. We all just need to be ready to act and react to the curves that are thrown our way.

What a great video, you put together a quality story with your videos dude! Also highly inspirational :-)

awesome vid man !

Good job mate, wasn’t sure how that video was going to end when the blisters and stomach issues kicked in! Looked like a fun race, good vibes! Thanks for the awesome videos, I learn a lot from them. Here’s to an injury-free 2020 💪

Nice race Ryan. I too came up short on my quest for the midwest slam. Was able to finish Burning River and Hallucination. Thanks for capturing my olde tired behind at the finish. Nice video and wish you the best in 2020!

Great job! This race was my first 100. Looking forward to watching your collaboration with Rob.

Great video! Very inspiring! You are a true warrior. Made it to the end, despite the blisters and bad nutrition. I have tried running a 100K and never been able to finish due to terrible blisters. You inspire me to try again. Maybe soon! Thanks.

Great finish Ryan! It was good to see that you salvaged 2019 with a huge effort. You kinda got me curious about this race since I've never ran a 100. It sounds like the climbing is manageable for a first timer. Good luck in 2020!

Brother! Nice job, some serious badassery to finish after being injured. I know how bad your foot was at Run Rabbit Run, too, way to fight through it again. Love the vid, getting me pumped and inspired for this season! Thanks, Ryan!

Beyond awesome work. Way to push through it. You rocked. Also to run my first 50 miler.

Enjoyed the video. Push, push, push. Awesome job getting it done! I’m already signed up for this one this year. I will be 50 in January and wanted to get a 50K, 50M, 100K, and 100M this year. Did the 50K a few weeks ago and have the 50M in 2 1/2 weeks. I will be going back to watch some more of your videos. Thanks!!

Those evening starts are tough! Loved all the footage of the lead-up to the race. This event reminds me of the Canadian Death Race, an ultra in the Canadian Rockies which is also a bit of a music festival.

You inspire me a lot😋

AWESOME video Ryan and great running 👌 that feeling of crossing the start line when you've been waiting so long for it, I could see/feel it. Next big one for me is in Catalan (Spain) Pyrenees 100miles 34,000ft of elevation, I'll be sure to film and share it on my channel, through the ups and downs :) Thanks again for this video

Congratulations on your finish! It was great to chat with you briefly shortly after this at Tahoe 200 when you were filming. I have Black Canyon 100k coming up and hopefully an entry into CCC.

LOL, "all the people passing me are running the 5K, so don't judge me". Congrats to you and Matt, you had me worried at the end, so little time to spare.

Loved this video. Well done and congrats on the 100 miles! Great accomplishment after coming back from a significant injury. Thank you for the inspiring words at the end; I really needed that. I'm trying to get out of a deep funk and change my life through running. All I can do right now is jog for a few miles but I dream of running longer distances on the trails. Grateful for channels like this; enjoy the holiday season!

Awesome video again. You rocked it. I know the felling of not getting any nutrition in at races.

I've run couple 1/2's and am running my first full marathon in March (Chattanooga). I'm running between 7 and 8 miles a day trying to build a foundation and have the crazy idea to run the Ga Sky to Summit 50K next Fall. Your runs and videos are a big part of why I want to challenge and push myself to do that (with aspirations of running longer races afterwards). Thanks a ton and I look forward to seeing more of your adventures.

Fantastic Ryan!! So inspiring as I DNF’d my first 100 last year and need to get back on that horse. I learned a lot, mainly about nutrition & hydration. But watching your journey on this 100 has inspired me to sign up again for 2021. In 2020 I’m doing 100k. Happy New Year Ryan 👍

22:26 thought I was gonna watch you blow chunks! Epic video and great job!

Thrilled to watch this one, know you’ve had a rollercoaster of a year!

Inspiring video, Ryan. It's amazing you were able to finish 100 miles on such short prep, but experience probably helps with the mental game, at least. I did the Jackson County 50k still nursing an injury, and it was good that I did not sign up for the 50 mile - my right leg would have never lasted on the steep downhill portions for that much abuse. I'll see how I feel at the end of January, but plan to sign up for the inaugural Knobstone Knockout 50K on March 15th.

I KNEW there were extra miles. I didn't want to admit it to myself at the time. 😂 Great video, great race! I was there doing the 50 miler.

Very nice video Ryan! I’ll be at Bandera as planned in 3 weeks. This summer I still don’t know what’s in store!

It was nice to see you finish the race. I’m sure all of your muscle cells have been wondering when you were going to run your next 100-miler. One thing I noticed from you in this race was about the rejection of foods. After I ran a half marathon in training, my body really didn’t want me to eat a garden salad. So I think I can relate to you. On the other hand, macaroni and cheese was something I could eat a lot of very readily. Maybe for you, you can experiment more on what your body accepts or rejects through trial and error from training. I’m sure there are foods that your body will never reject under any circumstances. I want to keep watching your videos because you are always inspiring me to run longer distances. I just signed up for the Hilton Head Island Half Marathon, which will be a bigger mountain for me to climb, because I am more of a 10K runner. I’ve only run the half two times in my whole life and I am 39 years old, so I will see how this race treats me. If I get the courage, I want to do a marathon in March. At this point, it seems that for me to run an additional 13.1 miles from already running 13.1 miles-I’m not sure what to expect. Happy Holidays, Ryan!

Boy, the lady at race check in seemed nice. Lol Awesome job!!!! As a viewer, these are the runs I love to see. You did this with determination, that's it. We saw you struggle and never quit. That's what running an ultra is. Great job again!!! You running Mohican again this year?

Great stuff Ryan!! I'm going big this year. I am running Worlds End 100K and Laurel Highlands Ultra 70m two weeks apart. My longest race so far is 50m. Going BIG!

I got a 50 k this Saturday “wildflower run” and then a 56 k on the 22nd called “possums revenge “ did a 50 K in April called the Sasquatch shuffle 6:54:10 finished 12 overall, I just absolutely love trail running , great videos sir

I might do this race this year in September 2020. My "A" race is Tunnel Hill 100, which I DNFd at mile 61.7 November 2019, so I gotta go back. I liked the video and it gave me a sense of what the course looks like! Job well done!!

Congratulations. Very happy for you. Bodes well for 2020

Congrats on your race great video. I don’t much luck at ultras that starts at night both my dnf were night races.

Thanks for this video. Huge congratulations. You said, the extra miles were killing us. What did you mean? I'm heading to this race in 2 weeks. You did a great job documentating. Thanks, Oscar

Awesome. Epic performance and I love your storytelling in these videos. Brilliant video for the end of the year. About the nutrition issues halfway through..., you mentioned you couldn't eat cookies, chips, twizzlers, gels. Did you try any fruit (if available)? Also, were you able to eat anything after that half way point?

Thanks for stopping by!! Have you ever ran a race that started in the evening? How did you handle the prep time on the day? I've done a few now and like the format, it definitely has some different challenges though!!

Well done "No-Training-Necessary"-Ryan!

I just watched this one again. So inspiring. And BTW I just finished my first 50k, In 2022 at 55 years old. No limits

Love watching your videos, you always seem to speak 'to' us out here, not above us. Only a new runner, so haven't even done a race long enough to go through the night yet, but have you ever looked into how digestion and absorption of nutrients from the bowel is influenced by circadian rhythms? (I'm just thinking of the times I did nights in A&E and would get 7 or 8 hours into 9pm-9am shift and just not be hungry, and yet 5 hours into a regular 8 hour day shift it hits 12:30-1pm and I'm ravenous.)

The only 24 hour I’ve done started at 7:30pm. Drawback was that I wasn’t fully rested after being up all day and traveling to the event. The hardest hours were in the early morning before dawn. Another time I attempted 70 miles on my own, starting at 9 PM of a very hot day, also with traveling. I dropped out about halfway. Planning to try that same course again, but with a 5 AM start.

Awesome video! Would love to hear what your plans are for 2020!

Attempting my first hundred this year at this race. Just turned 40 so we gotta try. Looks like a fun atmosphere. Any advice for this particular race?

Were you using Xoskin socks at this point? At 21 minutes you mentions gnarly blisters, so hats why I ask. I just purchased some from one of your last videos I saw a week ago.

Awesome Ryan! Congratulations bro!

Yupiambob

Always inspired by your ultras.

REDEMPTION!!!!!

Gets dark in Pinckney, no? 😂

2 weeks of training is of no benefit for distance running.

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