MAX KING is WINNING Western States 100 Miler

Krar is gaining fast.

At the 55.7 checkpoint

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King: 1:29pm

Krar: 1:37pm (8 minutes behind)

At the 62 mile

King: 2:26pm

Krar: 2:30pm (only 4 minutes behind)

Although King did take a longer break at the 55.7 point, I would say he is in trouble.

Krar wins this. I want King to win, however.

I think it's Krar's to loose. I'm afraid that King simply went out too fast. 100 miles is a loooooooong way.. Could be an exciting ending!

Rubber Duck wrote:

I think it's Krar's to loose. I'm afraid that King simply went out too fast. 100 miles is a loooooooong way.. Could be an exciting ending!

With that short-distance speed, King should just sit and kick the last 300.

Looks like King was overtaken.

That's because 100 x 200m is for pxxsies. Real men do 200 x 200m.

Doubter wrote:

Looks like King was overtaken.

Think he won the jfk 50 a few years back when I ran it. Set a course record if I remember right.

At mile 78, Krar leads Kins by 5 minutes.

Yeah, barring an explosion from Krar, King won't win, but I think he has a reasonable chance of maintaining 2nd. I guess he started WS100 back in 09, but was injured, so he wasn't even planning on finishing right from the start.

Following the live feed at irunfar.com - love seeing Max do well, but I was a college teammate of Robbie's so hoping he holds on for the win ( and dare I say a shot at the course record?)

Don't forget that Krar placed 2nd at WS in 2013... King is the new iteration of Krar.

Hope Max hangs on for the podium. Still for a guy who was only shooting for a 24 hour buckle that's pretty good to lead the race for 70 miles. This is neither his terrain or distance.

` wrote:

At mile 78, Krar leads Kins by 5 minutes.

How brutal is that. You've run 78 miles and realize you've still got 22 to go.

-Rojo

PS. Ultra guys,

I was thinking of starting another thread. "How would Galen Rupp do in the Western States 100."

Is that just stupid (like you guys think there is no chance he could win it) or is it debatable?

Ladies and gentleman, I give you your 2014 champion, Rob Krar, in 14:53:22. Max may or may not retain podium. He was only 2 minutes up on Dylan Bowman at Highway 49.

I coach a club with a couple of top ultra guys and some milers and everything in between. If Galen Rupp wanted to give the ol' heave ho his track career and put two years into gearing up for an ultra, he might kill it, but they would be mutually exclusive options. Or put it another way, if you put $500K or $1 million as a bounty on the Western States title and the Africans put in a year or two of training and came out for it fully loaded, they would break 14 hours.

rojo wrote:

` wrote:

At mile 78, Krar leads Kins by 5 minutes.

How brutal is that. You've run 78 miles and realize you've still got 22 to go.

-Rojo

PS. Ultra guys,

I was thinking of starting another thread. "How would Galen Rupp do in the Western States 100."

Is that just stupid (like you guys think there is no chance he could win it) or is it debatable?

100% agree. Talented distance runners are talented distance runners, but they have to apply the talent to a specific event. The 10k is different from the marathon (ask Mo) which is different than a trail 100 (ask Aish in 2012). Same principles, but specificity is key. That's what gets lost on the MB sometimes.

Krar and Sage Canaday are good examples of that - talented athletes at distances 800m thru marathon who moved to trail towns and trained for ultras. And there are more talented runners out there. So yeah, Rupp or someone comparable would destroy it, but they won't until there's more money since, as was said, top-end success at both 10k track and 100m trails is mutually exclusive.

Which makes King hanging with both WS100 leaders and the OT steeplechase all the more impressive.

I don't really follow this race, but how is it that these guys ran faster than Kilian Jornet? What was the race like that year? Are these guys faster than Jornet?

1st: Rob Krar in 14:53:22

2nd: Seth Swanson in 15:19:39

3rd: Dylan Bowman in 15:36:42.

4th Max King in 15:44:49

LOL at Galen Rupp running Western States. Nearly four consecutive marathons in the mountains. Not gonna happen.

jornet fan wrote:

I don't really follow this race, but how is it that these guys ran faster than Kilian Jornet? What was the race like that year? Are these guys faster than Jornet?

jornet's more of a mountain guy, WS is an "easier" 100. not to say kilian doesn't have some "speed", he obviously did well enough to win it, but he excels on huge climbs and such, which is why he'll probably wreck hardrock this year.