Germain Grangier Pre-2025 Hardrock 100 Interview

A video interview with Germain Grangier before the 2025 Hardrock 100.

By on July 4, 2025 | Comments

France’s Germain Grangier is taking on the 2025 Hardrock 100 amongst an ascendant international running career. In the following interview, Germain talks about some health worries of 2024 which now seem cleared up, how he’s been able to return to races and improve at them year over year, the uniqueness of living and running at high altitude in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains for the last month, and some of his experiences of his extended stay in America.

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Germain Grangier Pre-2025 Hardrock 100 Interview Transcript

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Bryon Powell

Bryon Powell is the Founding Editor of iRunFar. He’s been writing about trail running, ultrarunning, and running gear for nearly 20 years. Aside from iRunFar, he’s authored the books Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons and Where the Road Ends: A Guide to Trail Running, been a contributing editor at Trail Runner magazine, written for publications including Outside, Sierra, and Running Times, and coached ultrarunners of all abilities. Based in Silverton, Colorado, Bryon is an avid trail runner and ultrarunner who competes in events from the Hardrock 100 Mile just out his front door to races long and short around the world, that is, when he’s not fly fishing or tending to his garden.