He did beat Jared at the Canyons, but, he's never run 100 miles before and Jared has run under 14:30 there, which is amazing. I generally give the edge to experience when it comes to a 100 miler, but, Jared dropped there last year and think he has some mental weakness in his game (he has dropped out of a lot of races). So, tough call, so many things can go wrong on race day, and with Jim gone, this was looking to finally be Jared's year to win, but, yeah, I'm going with Adam.
That's hard. Peterman has really taken a nice step forward since 2019 (really good) to 2021/22 (almost unbeatable). Plus, his Canyons performance is a good one to compare here, so that's promising.
OTOH, the extra 38 miles is nothing to be scoffed at, so some caution warranted. After last year, I think Tyler Green has to merit consideration because he races so smartly.
I checked the women’s lineup and it looks like a pretty solid one. Part of me was really hoping Courtney Dauwalter would come back after an incredible race in 2018, but it looks like she’s training for Hard Rock instead.
Camille Herron is back and it’ll be interesting to see how she does this year since historically tougher trails tend to be her weakness. After a rough race last year, it looks like she’s put in more technical trail work to target those weaknesses. Best of luck to her!
As for the men: no chance a rookie wins this. So, I’m going with Tollefson. Pretty solid 5 guys I can see competing for it though. Ultimately, 3 of them will go out too fast and explode per the usual.
As for the women: it’s popular for ultra people to drool over the “stacked field” of women in the races for some reason. But the way I see it, this sport lacks women talent besides Courtney (and she’s not racing). So, probably someone I never heard of will win the gals race. Corrin will blow up by Cal 2, per the usual.
Camille Herron is back and it’ll be interesting to see how she does this year since historically tougher trails tend to be her weakness. After a rough race last year, it looks like she’s put in more technical trail work to target those weaknesses. Best of luck to her!
I watched the video of the runners going over the first climb. Camille led the way, but, no surprise, almost tripped as soon as she hit rougher trail at the top. Doing more trails hasn't fixed her lack of proficiency on trails.
Looks like she was with the leader at 10.3 miles, but now, at the next checkpoint at 15.8 miles, 18 women have come through, not including her. She's at minimum 34 minutes behind and counting. Maybe DNF already?
Camille Herron is back and it’ll be interesting to see how she does this year since historically tougher trails tend to be her weakness. After a rough race last year, it looks like she’s put in more technical trail work to target those weaknesses. Best of luck to her!
I watched the video of the runners going over the first climb. Camille led the way, but, no surprise, almost tripped as soon as she hit rougher trail at the top. Doing more trails hasn't fixed her lack of proficiency on trails.
Looks like she was with the leader at 10.3 miles, but now, at the next checkpoint at 15.8 miles, 18 women have come through, not including her. She's at minimum 34 minutes behind and counting. Maybe DNF already?
Camille is an excellent road ultrarunner.
A trail runner she is NOT. I can't believe that she is still doing this to herself. She should just stick to the roads with her dorky running style.
If she would stick to the roads she could stay world class for a couple of years but instead she goes back and forwards from roads to trails.
I don’t mean to be rude here, but how tf did Jared Hazen run 14:30 on this course and what has happened since?
Just about every American and even world talent have passed through WS100 at some point but he is the 2nd fastest. Haven’t seen any signs of a performance like that since. Has he been seriously injured over the past few years or something?