UTMB 2017 - Drool Worthy

​This year's UTMB has been a rather exciting event to watch. The startline of the UTMB was stacked with most of the greats, with a few notable absences. Coverage was solid this year with live video feeds of the start line and multiple aid stations on the official website, the race's official twitter and instagram, and constantly updated iRunFar coverage. The most exciting piece of media we got from the event is Journet's FB Live video covering the last few minutes on the start line before they were sent off.  Chills. If only he had carried on filming as they started. That would have left me drooling.

Nuria Picas crossing the finishline at 25h 46m 42s. Beastly. Courtesy of iRunFar Twitter coverage. Source: bit.ly/2gsPKyq

UTMB Top Women:
1st - 25:46:42, Nuria Picas
2nd - 25:49:18, Andrea Huser
3rd - 26:39:03, Christelle Bard
4th - 26:28:30, Kaori Niwa
5th - 27:13:20, Alissa St Laurent
6th - 27:19:55, Kellie Emmerson
7th - 25:42:11, Anna-Marie Watson
8th - 26:06:33, Amy Sproston
9th - 26:14:28, Maria Nikolova
10th - 26:44:08, Robyn Bruins

Francois D'haene crossing the finishline at 19h 1m 32s . Absolute savage. Courtesy of iRunFar Twitter coverage. Source: bit.ly/2x0Lwc4

UTMB Top Men:
1st - 19:01:32, Francois D'haene
2nd - 19:16:38, Kilian Jornet Burgada
3rd - 19:53:00, Tim Tollefson, 
4th - 20:03:14, Xavier Thevenard
5th - 20:11:38, Jim Walmsley
6th - 20:12:43, Pau Capell
7th - 20:19:48, Dylan Bowman
8th - 21:24:19, Gediminas Grinius
9th - 21:28:32, Zach Miller
10th - 21:44:31, Jordi Gamito

Check out the results for the other races in the UTMB series, CCC, OCC, TDS, the ridiculously cool PTL, the YCC, and the YRun. These event's receive the level of attention that the UTMB does, but take a look over the course previews and you'll realize that these are equally exciting. These are all found on UTMB's homepage.

I look forward to hearing some tantalizing tales of the race in iRunFar's post-race interviews and recaps. 

Happy Trails!