The Canyons 100k Ultra Marathon Trail Race: How The Top Runners Qualified for Western States 100!

On April 24th, 2021 the MutRunning.com team traveled to Auburn, CA to interview and film some of the top runners in this year's Canyons 100km ultramarathon trail race. The top two Women and Men would earn automatic entry into this year's Western States 100 so a lot was on the line! See how things played out and what the top runners had to say.
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[@Simco_]

Love this. When you put up placements throughout the race, maybe add a green ^ or a red (down arrow) to show changes in places.

[@jeffthompson4633]

This is the kind of coverage this sport needs! Great job - looking forward to more.

[@mutrunning]

Thank you very much! Glad you liked it!

[@Kelly_Ben]

Fantastic video, looking forward to more!

[@JohnMFlores]

Awesome! Looking forward to more this season!

[@GreatCoveRunningTV]

Nice highlight video - thanks for sharing!

[@SeeChadRun]

Very cool video and inspiring! Watched and loved every minute of it! Thank you for sharing this!

[@Runnerrwe]

Great coverage of Canyons 100K

[@andrewshortt4338]

Really enjoyed how this was covered, great to see this brand new channel❣️

[@DanRuns]

Love the way this video was put together. Thanks for the content!

[@MihaiGoRunning]

Beautiful video! I love interviews and race footage! Excellent content for full view! Subscribed! 💛

[@d.zyned2thrive584]

Awesome job covering the lady runners, guys😃🙌. 🏃‍♀️

[@owenf9793]

Great stuff......beautifully shot

[@dancook188]

Awesome to get to see these highlights! Great coverage! 🙌

[@mutrunning]

It was our first time and we learned A LOT! 🙏

[@BlakeMcTavishe]

Congrats on 420 subscribers!!!

[@jas0609]

Dang! Nice video! The camera work was great 👍

[@mutrunning]

🙏 that's all Stephen Gnoza's excellent work! (although I did get a couple moving GoPro shots 😆) -Sage

[@Scuba_Son]

Looking good guys.

[@erikwaldorff]

Great 1st video!

[@mutrunning]

thank you very much!

[@jsherzog]

This is epic thanks.

[@mutrunning]

Glad you liked it!

[@uleybusinesstaxservices4615]

Thank you

[@swiftcolin]

So awesome!

[@mutrunning]

thanks!

[@jonathanvedia5443]

Congrats on the new channel!

[@mutrunning]

Thanks!

[@jonathanbyers791]

Great coverage. These Athletes inspire me. Amazing pace they go at for 100k. Hopefully their comments on the lack of trail direction signs was taken in. I used to live in the UK with miles, now I'm in Ozz with km's for many years.. Its way easier to stick with just one instead of mixing them up.

[@mutrunning]

for sure!

[@mutrunning]

If you've enjoyed this kind of video production and media race coverage (as well as want more direct access to see what goes on "behind the scenes" with other top runners and sponsored athletes), please consider joining our Patreon page (link in video description above ⬆️) so we can continue to do this kind of work! Thanks so much for your support, mountain-ultra-trail running family 🙏!

[@nobletraders9033]

Good

[@RussiasSufferingInUkraine]

Comedy of errors with the marking near the finish. It cost Audrey Tanguy 2nd place with a mile and a half to go, and the women's winner Beth Pascal finished and had to go re-run part of it to finish 1st again. *Face palm* Great coverage. I've subscribed and hit the bell icon. I look forward to seeing more races. :-) ps: And Emily Hawgood got a golden ticket. Sweet.

[@mutrunning]

There are a lot of side trails around that area (and it was a brand new route). Still, you are right that Audrey probably would've gotten 2nd place and Max may have been a lot closer to Anthony for the win. Sometimes course markings are tampered by (we don't know if this was the case here, but there were a lot of other people out there not associated with the race). Still, the good news here is that these mishaps with the top runners didn't influence who won a Golden Ticket entry into Western States (Audrey already has a Western States entry) and Max and Anthony rightfully earned theirs. Noah, (the guy in 3rd) would not have taken his Golden ticket anyway because he is moving to Europe.

[@TroyRibao]

Hopefully course markings are done better in the future. Seemed like a lot getting lost.

[@agnidas5816]

this is 'normal' in ultra running races... unfortunately.. quiet a joke at times :P . That is the real reason we get so many DNFs on ultra races : people get lost.

[@gregwaters8480]

❤️Max King❤️

[@gregwaters8480]

Masks really not needed outside folks!

[@AmberSoleil1]

Wait… heat training for 75 degrees? Sounds like I need to move

[@UTFapollomarine7409]

God bless

[@Adiusza]

Carla Molinaro 3:05 :D

[@AyakoTachi]

Is this course poorly marked? How did she get lost?

[@Website9]

why are they crossing the line like they have just done a 5k easy run.... why aint they totally exhausted after 100k....

[@elvay6847]

Cute masks -.-

[@gokiwi2642]

What a ridiculous race, should be way better marked out, you’re there to race not figure out witch way you meant to be going, 😏

[@RicosUncle]

Sad to see such great athletes bowing to fake science and wearing masks as they walk around the finish area and literally (a couple runners) actually wearing them as they finished! So sad. You're ultra runners, you're the punk rockers of the modern sports era possibly in the only arena left that isn't fixed or scripted.