We thought we’d make it easy for all you Western States 100 fans out there by collecting some of the best race coverage from around the web, including articles, photos, videos, interviews, and first-person race reports. We’ll be updating this page as we–both iRunFar and you–identify additional resources. Please feel free to leave a comment noting such resources and your thoughts on the race.
We’ve included the men’s and women’s top 10 at the bottom of this page for those of you who want to find out quickly how the top runners did.
If you’re looking for more on the race, check out our dedicated Western States 100 coverage page as well as our Western States results and commentary article.
Thanks again to Inov-8 for making our coverage of the 2014 Western States 100 possible!
General Overview Articles
- TraiLive — Episode 3, featuring Western States 2014
- Auburn Journal — Western States 100: Stephanie Howe tops the women’s field (behind survey wall)
- Auburn Journal — Rob Krar takes Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run title (behind survey wall)
The North Face — Rob Krar and Stephanie Howe Win Western States 100[broken link removed]- Auburn Journal — Additional stories (behind survey wall)
- Running Times — Rob Krar and Stephanie Howe Take 2014 Western States Endurance Run Titles
- Sierra Sun — Rob Krar, Stephanie Howe win 41st Western States 100
- Endurance Buzz — 2014 Western States 100 TALON Tribe Wrap-up and Reflections
- Robert Yehling’s two-part tale of crewing and pacing 29:49 finisher: Part 1 and Part 2
Photo Galleries and Video
- Video of the podium women and men finishing
- Glenn Tachiyama (Facebook gallery of highlights; complete photo gallery)
Matt Trappe[broken link removed]- Luis Escobar (Facebook gallery of highlights; enormous smugmug gallery)
- iRunFar.com (Facebook)
- UltrarunnerPodcast
- Tonya Perme’s photo gallery from Duncan Canyon
- Larry Gassan’s finish-line photo album
- Ginger Runner’s Crewing States video
Interviews and Profiles
- Stephanie Howe iRunFar video interview
- Stephanie Howe finish-line interview
- Rob Krar iRunFar video interview
- Rob Krar finish-line interview
- The Contradiction of Rob Krar (Running Times)
- Larisa Dannis iRunFar video interview
- Seth Swanson iRunFar video interview
- Nathalie Mauclair iRunFar video interview
- Dylan Bowman iRunFar video interview
- Brett Rivers iRunFar video interview
- Andy Jones-Wilkins iRunFar video interview
Race Reports
Men
- 1st — Rob Krar (Strava profile of run… WELL worth looking at!)
- 3rd — Dylan Bowman
- 4th — Max King
- 6th — Ian Sharman
- 7th — Alex Varner
- 8th — Brendan Davies
- 13th — Paul Terranova
- 19th — Dominic Grossman
- 20th — David Laney
- 38th — Yoshikazu Hara-san (in Japanese, use Google Translate on the top to read in English)
Women
- 1st — Stephanie Howe (and an additional report on her blog with even more details and photos)
2nd — Larisa Dannis[broken link to “The Dark Horse” removed]- 4th — Pam Smith
- 7th – Denise Bourassa
- 8th — Meghan Arbogast
Call for Comments
Please let us know about any other great resources you’ve found about the race.
Men’s Top Ten
- Rob Krar (The North Face) – 14:53:22 (finish-line and post-race interviews)
- Seth Swanson (Pearl Izumi) – 15:19:39 (post-race interview)
- Dylan Bowman (Pearl Izumi) – 15:36:41 (pre-race and post-race interviews)
- Max King (Montrail) – 15:44:45 (pre-race interview)
- Ryan Sandes (Salomon) – 15:46:59 (pre-race interview)
- Ian Sharman (SCOTT) – 15:47:50 (pre-race profile)
- Alex Varner (Nike) – 15:53:42 (pre-race interview)
- Brendan Davies (Inov-8) – 15:56:49
- Brett Rivers (San Francisco Running Company) – 16:20:06
- Jesse Haynes – 16:36:42
Women’s Top Ten
- Stephanie Howe (The North Face) – 18:01:42 (pre-race, finish-line, and post-race interviews as well as race report)
- Larisa Dannis (Altra/INKnBURN) – 18:29:18 (post-race interview)
- Nathalie Mauclair (La Fuma) – 18:43:57 (post-race interview)
- Pam Smith (La Sportiva) – 19:10:42 (pre-race interview)
- Nikki Kimball (Hoka One One) – 19:51:31 (pre-race interview)
- Kaci Lickteig (Pearl Izumi) – 20:07:10 (pre-race profile)
- Denise Bourassa (Patagonia) – 20:19:30
- Meghan Arbogast (Scott) – 21:14:48 (pre-race interview)
- Shaheen Sattar – 21:20:49
- Sally McRae (Nike) – 21:24:43
Last updated July 26, 2014