Love seeing Kuni. His daughter inspired me to start running again and when she told me about her dad who runs 100 miles races, I was inspired even more to sign up for my first 50K in 2015. So glad you got footage of him and their whole family running him in!
@@ambissing I google his name, but couldn't find anything. Someone said he'd been taken from the track to a hospital. He wasn't present to get his buckle.
what a perfectly appropriate/ideal use of slo-mo, letting us experience, as much as one can via video, the historic (in their lives) moment of conflicting pain and victory in the face and posture of these golden hour athletes.
You had me in tears!!!!!!!!! Thanks, Jam Jam! really grateful you make this video and to all the finishers of this EPIC race....congrats!!!!!!! I'm inspried to run a wser qualifier!!!!
next to these awesome finishers, you are amazing Jamil, for letting the world celebrate it with them! And it'll mean so much for them to have this registration🙏🏽🏃🏽♀️ Also loving the excitement of those wonderful pacers!
This is a fabulous video, thank you so much for producing it. The music was very effective...the slo mo elements wonderful. This is a fantastic gift to all those who finished in the Golden Hour and, indeed, probably had moments along the course when they wondered if they would finish at all. Thank you for capturing it so well!!!
@@slowjamcdub He was stumbling 20 yards before the finish I don't fault him at all I'd be smashing through people like Kool-aid to cross the line at that point lol
I thought so too, but looks like he trips on the mat and the little girl and guy just happened to be what he reached his hand out to avoid falling. You can even see him turn around and give an “I’m sorry” gesture
This is an Awesome Video! I know that feeling all to well! Just over a week ago I finished Big Horn 100 with 11 minutes to spare to Cut off Time! The Mixture of Fear of maybe not making it and the Excitement of Making it! Such and Awesome emotional roller coaster ride! Congratulations to all the Western States Finishers!
Will admit that I had tears streaming down more than a few times during this vid. Still a goal of mine and this just stoked that fire. Thank you for that, and congratulations to all of this year’s finishers!
There is no ultra quite like Western States - you don't get this sheer human drama at UTMB! Thanks for caputring this Jamil, and the music was bang on too.
I'm a Metric-side-of-the-Force guy; I already watched other 100 miles runs, but this was the first time I went into converting that length into km. I couldn't believe myself when I saw the number 160 km, and converted it into the real distance between two cities here in Portugal (for the curious ones, it's the distance between Mirandela and Porto, bloody hell!!!). This is absolutely insane. Lot's, LOT'S of respect for these athletes: you guys are sacred monsters.
Thank you so much for capturing every ounce of emotion in that moment and sharing it! The energy the moment I entered the stadium is one of the most intense things I’ve ever felt. Top that off with it being The Golden Hour, then it’s safe to say that it is the most emotionally intense experience in my life.
Congratulations to you EJ!! Your emotion came through in the film...so happy this is captured for you and your family and friends. Very, very happy for you!!!!
I started running again and got into ultras after stumbling on to Gunhild Swansons finish at this event two years ago. I thought if she can go 100kms so can I. I didn’t figure out she’d actually gone 100 miles to a year later! Frankly, I would rather watch videos of ultra race finishers than live sport. They don’t have the same emotional pull anymore. Thanks for posting.
This is what's so great about this sport - the sense of community, that makes an elite get out on the track to cheer on a back-of-the-packer. Can you imagine being an amateur, running for nothing but the challenge, hours behind the leaders. Finally reaching the track to find Jamil Coury filming you, Kaci Lickteig cheering you home, and Billy Yang shouting you out on the livestream?
That must have been tough trying to decide who to point the camera at when Paul and Sean came in! Awesome video, thanks for this - I'm still thinking about this finale days later
@@Charlestuckernorton_ Pretty sure he tripped over the timing mat, saw it from another angle. Didn't help that the finishing line was loaded up with people either!
@@andrewjknoxuk Maybe for the kid, yeah, but the other two, definitely look like a shove. It was super crowded for sure and after almost 30 hours running, I'm sure the mind wasn't firing on all cylinders, I would have been slightly annoyed as well.
Saw another video of these last few people. The last runner (in blue shirt) stumbles backwards just before the finish. Almost fell over right there, but got across before collapsing. Bonkers hard work
Remarkable running (and coverage of it). For my 43rd birthday, that week, I ran 43 miles a day - 301 miles that week in 1992. So I THINK I could've done a 100-miler back then. What a shame it didn't occur to me to participate in one of these. KUDOS to all involved.
@@barlowwe Thanx. Looking back on it, there were a number of "amazing" components to that week. I did 6 of those 43-mile runs solo; out in the boonies - would I still be alive if, on any of them, I had had an accident (trip and fall hard; gotten more lost than I often got ...)? On the 7th, the Sunday run, I ran from home (El Cajon (San Diego area) CA), to Mission Bay and ran the official 10Km race that morning; then ran back home. For the first "marathon" / 26.22 miles of that 43-mile run, I broke 3 hours - so I had that extra thrill during that run.
@@barlowwe Was this your very first really long run; first 20 miler? I ask because I remember how I felt after my very first really long run (longer than a half-marathon/13.1 miles). Of course I was exhausted; but thrilled and my running horizons just widened incredibly.
@@teddy1234599 no, this is my third 20 miles in preparation for the Sundance to Spearfish marathon in September. I have run 11 marathons so I’ve had my share off long runs but I’m enjoying getting back to it. I feel I could go a lot longer though so maybe there’s a 50 miler in my future. 😀
BTW, the "MR. BIG" T-shirt early in the video is a reference to the 1980s band. A couple of crew members told me at Foresthill it was a reference to their song "To Be With You."
Incredible. So many tears.. Don't know why the last finisher Paul Bonnet shoved those 2 guys at the end, especially the one trying to help Sean but regardless, amazing accomplishment for all the people that ran that race.
@@SteepLifeMedia I don't doubt that he was tired. He was absolutely exhausted. I am going to assume that something might have happened before the bit we saw that might have upset him because he gave them a good shove unlike how nice he was when he moved the little girl aside but none of us are ever our best at all times. He is probably a wonderful man and it was more than likely just exhaustion and emotions that caused the reaction. He may have even gone up to them later an apologised and no matter what, he did an incredible feat.
@@ambissing He was severely dehydrated and on the cusp of cutoff for a long time. He also almost trips and you can tell is on edge in the final 100 meters. I think it’s cool having crew run you in, but having that many people in the finish line is honestly kind of a mess. Might be something for the organization to look at.
@@SteepLifeMedia yes, it does look like there was a lot of people right there when he was trying to finish almost like they didn't see him. Even the drummer was following Sean and Paul was still trying to finish.
I've finished many ultras and, especially with heat, you aren't totally thinking straight. Also, the "clutter" of people around a finish line is disorienting. I would assume no malintent here but just an exhausted guy who can only run in a straight line at this point...no zigging or zagging left in those exhaused and likely dehyrated and fuzzy.
Walmsley needs to get off HOKA. I love the work the brand does for ultras and racing events, but their shoes are just ugh, awful. I bet you the speedgoats he ran in were supped up in some way lol, like why not throw a carbon fiber or plastic plate in there for your best runner on race day? Idk, I would. HOKA is too soft, they just are.
@@ryandoherty9696 If he didn’t want the softness of the EVO Speedgoat, he would wear one of the other Hokas that are more firm. Such as the EVO Mafate that he wore the year before Hoka made the EVO Speedgoat. If he wanted to run in something like the Adidas Speed Ultra that Ruth Croft wore, he could have laced up the new Hoka Zinal. Hoka has options.
@@phillipoyer3407 I hadn’t heard of the zinal. I’ve disliked HOKA because of their cushion and how it always feels like you’re on a surface - 0 ground feel. Maybe the zinal has some ground feel at 22-18mm stack height. Worth checking out thanks!
