Running One of Canada’s Toughest Races - QUEBEC MEGA TRAIL 100
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2021
- New for 2021, the 100 mile course has over 6,500 metres of elevation gain, taking runners from the banks of the St. Lawrence River to the top of Mont-Saint-Anne through beautiful boreal forests and technical single track trails. While Quebec might be known for its extremely cold temperatures in the winter, in the summer runners could expect heat and humidity. My girlfriend Audrée and I couldn't pass up the chance to run what would prove to be one of the most challenging races in Canada.
Event drone footage courtesy of Loup-William Théberge.
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Have to say it’s refreshing to watch a running documentary that isn’t full of overly dramatic “inspiring” “blessed” music and framing. You do a great job of letting the footage speak for itself and instill a balanced set of emotions.
I second this!!!
Audree’s honesty about her butt crack maintenance will keep me coming back to your channel again and again Jeff.
Her parents helped her with it 💀
Wow what an incredible effort from Audree. Can we take a second to acknowledge she run her first 100miler! Incredible, upbeat all the way. She should be really proud
Totally incredible indeed, great execution.
You have a rare gift when it comes to telling long form stories.
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How have I only just found this channel. The footage and the commentary from you both during the race was spot on. Not over the top but just describing what you’re doing, how you’re feeling and reacting to the situation. All done with a smile. Top quality stuff subscribed.
120k in "The Energy Level might have dropped". Yeah. Mine to zero. 100km before that point. What a run and thanks for the wonderful video :-)
Just having come to find your channel, I really appreciate your no drama commentary of your races (no click bate or extremes). You stay very up beat and positive even when talking through struggles. You seem to be very respectful of other participants, volunteers and fans - no matter how tired you might be. Thank you for a very refreshing channel! That will keep me coming back for more, I really like to see what you use, products and tips along your races. Nothing to compare, it's just coming from someone, at 58 - getting out hiking and trying to increase my distance a little at a time.
I love Audree's commentary about her emotions throughout the race. You can anything physically if you have the right mindset. Her commentaries were real and honest. Bravo Audree! ❤
People who haven't lived in humid climes really underestimate the effect that high humidity can have. I have lived in both Phoenix AZ and Cleveland, Ohio, and I'll take Phoenix at 100 degrees F over Cleveland at 80 F when it is humid. As you said, it really robs your body of the ability to cool itself.
I’m thankful that I got into running when I lived in Hawaii, now everywhere else feels easy, well except florida lol
Honestly, one of the best running videos on YT. The history lesson and Quebec city tour was the cherry on top. Well done, the tourism board owes you big!!
Oh yeah, congrats on the fantastic finishes!
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Incredible film!!! Huge congrats for Audree for not only her first 100 miler, first win but also for shooting so much content on the way :) It's so inspiring to see you two pull this one off together with the support of Audree's family. Thanks for the Quebec and history topping. To me that's what makes your films unique - it's not just the running, but the nature, the places and the people. When I saw you walk up these stairs I wondered how was it climbing down ;) Thanks for taking us to that amazing place!
Thanks so much! I've been trying to incorporate more of the backstory of an area into my films. Glad to hear you enjoy it.
This just happened to pop up on my timeline. How didn’t I know about this race? This was amazing to watch!!!
Thank you UA-cam algorithm for bringing me these amazing running docs! Fantastic and well edited video
This is some top notch filming. Those drone shots of the river crossing were incredible. No clue how you do all that and run 100 miles. Congrats to both of you on epic performances
Being from Quebec, your filming, editing and overall appreciation for the province made me really happy and proud. Great film making! And the historic part at the end was really awesome😁
french, my native language that I dont speak anymore ... feel like I'm forgetting it a bit ...
and dont even think I would know what to say to another runner in french in a race ... chapeau bas Monsieur Pelletier ! tres impressionant
I've got only smile on my face at the end of this film. Merci beaucoup!
Im lovin it , the last few weeks ive been catching these when i could and loving the running ,the scenery ,the content is spot on for me and you make a great narrator also ,keep running and keep these coming ,thank you ❤
Totally awesome: the film, two North Van runners and the whole Quebec connection for the Pelletiers and LaFrenières! Great job in all respects - merci beaucoup!
Wow! Also at 59:50 the sportsmanship. Just astounding how much this is like a community wishing eachother the best.
The Music and the Video. Just Wow, i nearly cried. It inspired me as well! I am 18 running Half Marathon at the moment. The beauty of the nature, the endurance of the body, the fight with and against yourself. It showed me what is possible(theoreticly of course).
Yes I agree, what a phenomenonal effort, both the race and the film. Makes me so proud to be a Quebecer!
Deadset the best race report/docco I've watched on any platform! Incredible insight into what it must have been like for you 2. Cracking stuff!
Damn!!! What a film! I don't even know where to start... oh wait, I do: HOLY CR*P, Audrée!! I can't believe you won your first 100-miler! That is so freaking awesome! Congrats, to you as well, Jeff! 8th place is pretty damn good! Ok, that's enough exclamation marks. Haha... That race looked really cool. Very pretty, great landscapes. And then you finish the film with a little history lesson on the Pelletiers and Lafrenières? I totally loved it. I had no idea actually, how beautiful Quebec is. I may have to put that on my travel to-do list. :) Either way... Fantastic film, Jeff! I always get excited when you put one out! :)
That region of Quebec is one of the most beautiful in Canada-amazing film and cinematography Jeff!
Thanks! It really is a beautiful region.
Sooo nice to watch. Also super cool to see audreé's perspective.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love Mega Trail, the only place eating a Snickers as a breakfast is not only tolerated, but recommended. Congrats to the both of You. Félicitations pour votre classement, les efforts ont été récompensés !
As someone whose family traces back to the very first 50 families to settle Quebec and who spoke only French until I was 8 years old, this film evoked a lot of childhood memories. My mother grew up on a farm near Riviere du Loup and we visited there a couple of times when I was a child. Good memories. Great video too. I've also been a runner all of my life and still get in 1300-1500 miles a year. I just can't get enough of these videos and this was one of the best. Good work!
Jeff, thank you for the amazing videos. I started running a couple months ago due to circumstances in my life that required me to gain mental clarity. These videos are not just inspiration but they are full of life, I’m tearing up as I write this watching your guys’ journey, knowing next year I will tackle my first 100 miler. These videos give me the vision of myself finishing and wanting to gain that feeling. So thank you..
Well done Jeff and huge congrats to Audree! Y’all are a power couple - super inspiring.
Thanks Matt!
Hey Jeff. What a wonderful film. You spoilt us with this long film. Loved the footage and storytelling particular with your ancestors history. Huge congratulations to you and Audree with the completion of this race but also the creation of this beautiful piece of content! Much love from London, UK.
Thanks Danny! I’m glad to hear the longer runtime didn’t scare people away 😅
A beautiful view of a beautiful region - glad to have found this video! Thanks Jeff and Congratulations to you both on a great race.
Beautiful video and félicitations Audrée. Just getting into trail running in Australia and this footage from my native Québec brought back memories of lusher trails. Could almost smell it!!
Congratulations Audree on the win! Well, congrats to both! You guys made this feat look way too easy! Amazing!
Wonderful stuff as usual. Thank you both for another fascinating film.
10 minutes in an I love it already. I just love your films Jeff! Plus I love Quebec and I now really want to do that one some day. Thanks man!
Enjoyed this a lot. Great seeing the on-course action from both of you!
Great performances and a great film! Thanks for sharing
Really enjoyed the journey! Also - great drone shots - what a beautiful area!!
Once again an amazing video!😊 Congratulations 👏
This is amazing Jeff! Great film, scenery, story, and race! I enjoyed every minute of this video!!!
Great running from both of you!! Inspirational
Fantastic video. I loved following along with you. The extra material was amazing too.
I love everything about this documentary. The editing is perfect -- not one boring moment and I really feel I have a good grasp on the terrain -- except I suspect that for the average runner, it would be 100x more difficult. I guess it is largely hinted at when we learn that only about half of participants finished the race. But Jeff and Audree run with such grace. Also (and I'm resisting using ALL CAPS), the drone shots are incredible!!! I'm such a fan!
How cruel to show me poutine at 9:40pm, 🤤
Such a great docu on your race Quebec adventure. Thank you 🙏🏼 or should I say “merci”.
Thanks David! Now you’ve got me thinking about poutine again too.
I just fell in love with this sport. Me and my husky puppy are about to start training for this today. Thanks for that.
Wow, how coool is that!!! Audree ran on the podiums first place. Soooo stoked for you both! Big congratulations and greetings from Europe ☺️
Thanks so much!
awesome awesome run & film ... thank u :)
Thank you for this great film Jeff! It's awesome to see the inside of QMT by two exceptional trail runners. So glad that you put a part on Quebec City which is a must to visit when coming at QMT.
Québec Tourism should hire you ahaha! Great movie and thank you for showing my beautiful city like this! Merci Jeff :)
Well done! Thank you for sharing your experience and making this video.
Well done to you both! incredible video and an awesome narrative all set in such a beautiful and inspiring location!!
What a lovely video-really amazing!!!
Loved this video. Enjoyed the perspective from both of you.
Congrats Audree! Nice race and Jeff, that was another nice video you made. Keep up the good job guys!
What an amazing race to watch! Congratulations to both of you for such an epic run! Love seeing you race trails in the beautiful area I’ve skied! Awesome Audree on place #1!!
That was a great movie indeed. It made me feel I was there on the trails with you & in Quebéc, too - congratulatoins to Audrée and many thanks Jeff for this awesome film!
Hi Jeff, watched this video after you talked about it in your 2022 goals video - must say I absolutely love the double take - following the two of you on the same race is very enjoyable and insightful!
Beautiful and incredibly inspiring! What a great accomplishment, and what a great movie, everything is just awesome! Thanks a lot for that!
Special connection with Quebec... love you video and congrats for you race guys!
great race and dedication and effort and congrats to you both! another great job of taking us on a cool adventurous challenge! so happy for Audree!
By far the best ever trail running documentary I've watched, the people, the landscape, the music, the emotion and love, all touched my soul so badly, can't wait to continue my trail running training tomorrow in Shawka hump, U.A.E., haha.😄
Jeff and Audree....this is a great video. Thank you so much for posting. The video is very informative.
Perfect! One of the best ultra trail videos I've watched. Pre-race tips on food and gear; different points of view of the race you two got; soundtrack; images edition; organization of the race crew. Congratulations!
Awesome video Jeff! Great narration, filming while racing & winning Audrée! You two are wild
Absolutely loved this ! Very inspiring as always, cant believe you aren't into the millions of subs, it will come though i have no doubt. Congratulations to you both.
My brother is doing this race in 3 weeks! What a gem of information this video is!! Wow great job guys and thanks for uploading this!
Fantastic film yet again Jeff. Thanks to both of you for sharing your experience with us and congratulations on your achievements. Best of luck with your next endeavours. 👍🏻
Loved the video! ! Very Inspiring! Massive congrats to you both from Sydney! 👏
Greetings from Europe ! First, huge congratulations to both of you for the QMT (and the 1st place!!!), great crewing as well. :) This video particularly struck home for I lived many years in QC and have regularly returned to visit. Your video certainly awakened fond memories from numerous hikes and trail runs in the area from Baie-Saint-Paul all the way to Mont-Sainte-Anne, not to mention QC, l'île d'Orléans, les chutes Montmorency... Beautiful video, loved the way you edited it. I felt for you on some of the more technical and tortuous sections of the trails, especially in those humid conditions! And in the Petit Champlain stairs at the end! Looking forward to run the QMT one day in this beautiful part of the world. Thanks for sharing and all the best to both of you for what's next. Happy trails!!!
Wow! Awesome! Alot of great advice! Congratulations!
What an amazing film you have done. Litteraly one of the best i have ever seen ´bout trail running. Loved it
Absolutely loved coming along on both of your journeys. Keep up the great work you are doing to promote and inspire this sport.
Very good video and history! Thank you so much!
Congratulations to you both on your 8th and 1st placing! Awesome race and still have time to capture amazing video footages 👍
Wow - more compelling viewing from you amazing pair! Congratulations on not only completing but for your incredible placements! We also loved the city and genealogy tour. It was also interesting to note your very different mindsets during the race, or at least as we perceived them. Jeff - you seem quite the analytical thinker, articulating with great precision about each element - nutrition intake etc. and Audrée, we also loved your bouyant spirit as you seemingly floated through the course, your commentary of a more emotional style. Together you are wonderfully complimentary! Keep up the good work and know that your huge efforts in producing these are creating inspirational waves everywhere, even here in Sydney, Oz! Cheers and thank you - Dave and family
Wow, congratulations to you both!! What a beautiful film about a beautiful place! Adding this area to my racing bucket list!
Your films are amazing. Feel like I’m running with you. Inspiring. Makes the time fly on the treadmill while preparing for better weather adventures. Georgia series should be an awesome long run companion ! Thanks
Wow! Another incredible film, Jeff! BC ultra runners are having quite the summer season in Quebec.
Another great video Jeff, congratulations Audree'
A really cool movie and a very relaxed attitude, I really appreciate your approach to ultra running. Great couple, you make look running 100 miles easy! Congrats to you both!
What the heck! I’m amazed by your videos. So well made. I was so happy for Audree!
Great video and congrats to both of you for your amazing performances. Love from France
Oh my goodness! We were there getting ready to do our first 80k and saw you both taking a photo before going off to the bus for the start and said 'they look like pros'. So awesome! And happy to hear you say it is one of the hardest races as we found it quite challenging but were so happy it was our first! Great to know we saw you guys 😀
Well worth the watch. Congrats on the win and 8th is nothing to sneeze at. Well done for both of you. Enjoyed the tour after. As I get older I realise alot of family history is lost. Glad you know yours.
Thanks Alan!
I enoy watching your videos a lot. Thank you for the effort you put into making those.
Your videos are motivation for me to stay off the couch a little more each day! lol
Your journey has been extremely inspiring ❤
I'm looking to find a UA-cam channel like yours, but I can not find anything like this.
Probably the most beautiful runners channel I've seen. Once again you made a great video. Fantastic landscapes, very nice description! Thanks for sharing the video. :) :) :) :) :)
Thanks so much for the kind words!
What a race! beautiful but some tough sections indeed. Very good start for Audree first 100 miler.
First time here and I subscribed! This format really works for me. Having two different runners makes a huge difference to me because I can witness the same situations from entirely different viewpoints. This area of Canada is also stunning. Great race. Great location.
Beautiful storytelling Mr. Pelletier 👌 great insights to the real emotion, highs and lows during an ultra race. Wish I could do it here 🇵🇭
Very good video. The details of race preparation (equipment and food) were very good. Thanks.
Awesome film, Jeff (and Audrée). Very captivating and inspiring.
Looking forward to your next one.
I liked that you talked about things like going to the bathroom and chafing in the butt crack. These may not be the sexiest topics, but certainly important to the runner. Learning what a runner is going through physically and mentally during such a race is a big part of what makes such documentaries so interesting to me.
Thanks Rolf, that was my thinking as well. Lots of details that we can take for granted that newer runners could learn from.
Currently living in BC, but went to school in Ottawa and spent a ton of time in the Quebec woods while there. This is not only an inspiration for me to get outside and run, but also a visual treat featuring an ecosystem I miss despite appreciating the unspeakable beauty around me on Vancouver Island. You just gave me a perfect Sunday morning viewing experience. :)
Beautiful! Fine tuning for my next quickly incoming marathon (I know so short right?!). You guys make me want to drop it all and register for an Ultra… 👏
Vive le Québec! 💙
Ohh wow, a friend talked about your content to me and I'm discovering slowly all of it... This video is the first one I've watched, for two reasons, first I was running behind you in 2021, I was running my first ultra, the 110k parcour and also I'm doing the 100 miles this year. I can't tell you how grateful I am. Being with you on your journey, I've traveled my own ultra that I did last year and brought back many teary eyes eheheh. Thank you for putting togheter awsome documentary, they are so enjoyable!! Also It does inspire me to gather some content along my own path because I'm lacking in this area and my memory is fine but having more seems a wise idea at this time!
Thank you again Jeff and have fun on the trails!!
Congrats to both of you on the great race and video! I'm putting this race on my list!
Running in Canada forests and hills at night, I would not feel that comfortable with all animals that possess danger, like bears. You did great!
LOL. You people give me a good laugh.
Love that Québecois accent! Nice mix of run + heritage tracing!
Never know a running video can be that interesting. great production and big congratz to the lady!
Just wonderful !