Didn’t notice that. Thanks for pointing it out! Very cool and good sportsmanship.

Yeessss - and Kilian is the GOAT in so much more ways than just winning ultra-mountain-races …

standard to run with someone during night, hes helping him but himself as well :p

I would prefer Tim to end the obsession of american male runner for winning UTMB. I guess it is because he has this humble and carefull approach this course deserves. What I would love is to hear those male runner credit Courtney Dauwalter, Rory Bosio, Krissy Moehl and Nicky Kimbal who manytimes this race as female US runner. These women are awesome ! I love Zach on TNF 50 but I always felt like he did not get the "self-management" necessary to win Mountainous 100 Miler. Xavier broke Zach because Xavier saves his energy using sticks and manage his effort.

@@FuckAdds agree, I also have the impression that Jim W. is not able to manage his effort when the race is hilly

@@julien7705 yes exactly the same kind of runner "fastest or blow up". It looks to me like a cultural gap that I just hardly understand from France. It s withoit iffebse to those great runner that I say " not the mountain mindset". It boils down to some humility facing this gnarly environment that implies to keep a margin in the begining to make do through later adversity. It is probably not a "psychology thing" but really a relation to racing. As far as I know Zach, Hayden, Jim, Sage never threw themselves in mountaineous Ultra off races ( and beaten tracks). I see this as a view if mojntains as training or racing ground rather than places to roam endure and discover. Guys like Joe Grant, Gary Robins, Anton Krupicka, Adam Campbell and others really seems to have a different relation where long off path outings lies at heart. Thus they are much closer to Jornet, D'Haenne and Thevenard and many european athlete who really enjoy the mountain ultra as personnal adventure.I know little about female us top runner but Courtney Dauwalter and Rory Bosio are also into ultra solo off atempts. The underlying values and relation to the environment are deeply different and make a difference in race style. Last but not least, these "mountain people" seem much less encline to "sharing" ( media exposure) than "puncher racer". This make sense regarding the underlying values. That is why I much prefer the mountain kind of ultra runner. Hence my bet ( and hope) for a Joe Grant ir Tim Tolefson to win utmb wich would be both logic and meaningfull. That being said, utmb remains among the smothest ultra trail of the french alps. We have much more rugged and wild ultras like Échappée Belle. It is much less runable than hardrock wich has 30%mileage of drivable tracks. François d'haenne won both and underlines the physical care and mental game it takes to cope with technicity. To me it's a pity to have such wild and rugged places in the us but so little interest in running there. How greay would it be to run across yellowstone, the tetons, jmt, Nolan's14, wasatch etc... If I even get again to the us to run I would get there rather than any of big races. Just like Guillaume Arthus. I get that races are impossible across NParks but solo endeavour are so obvious and exciting ! Ironically it is François d'haenne that blew the JMT fkt... A wake up call from France: covid is here so get OFF races to the true mountains !

@@FuckAdds I completely agree with concerning the different styles and wich I like more - the Krupicka, Campbell, Robbins type. And I agree with the mention that it’s kind of ridiculous that everyone seems to wait for the first us-american male and overlooks all the great females. Maybe there’s something to learn from them ;-)

@@kstoebThanks, there is surely a lot to learn from female runner.

I was just going to say that.

I totally agree, this is top notch!

Couldn’t have said it better. Very inspiring.

Just finished, and I completely agree

Its definite equal to some of his others but so many great videoes its hard to choose .

I thought of this quote, too, while watching.

Made me wonder if Pre came back to us ?

Epic footage😂

Incredible start of the film

I'll make a longer film next time.

:-D

@@BillyYang Thank you for still making these ! Thank you sooooo much.... there is far too little new footage of running.... there was a boom in 2016-2018 and it is gone now

Exactly what I did 😀

I love this feedback, thank you. Can't wait to go back to Alaska. Zach is signed up for Mount Marathon...here's hoping between Covid and his latest injury, the stars will align...

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Awesome Quote!

I could without the singing - kind of distracting.

Thought the same thing. :)

I could hear his voice narrating...

He's the best.

Thank you Jack

I freaking love it, it's been emblazoned in my mind for years. So much grit. Here's where the clip is: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bapzhZNkuqrLl3U.html

That is my favourite race finish, such unmitigated grit, awesome.

This remains my favorite race finish video yet! If I'm ever in a place where I need to suck it up and push through, I think about how hard he went at the finish

When I'm struggling I just think of that . 😂..inspirational 👍

Has Billy ever said why it took 2+ years for this to get released?

🙏🏻

thank you