Hillary Gerardi Pre-2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail Interview

A video interview with Hillary Gerardi before the 2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail.

By on September 24, 2025 | Comments

Coming from a mostly skyrunning background, Hillary Gerardi of France arrives at the 2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail excited for the year’s technical terrain. In our first interview with her, Hillary talks about growing up in America and finding trail racing once she moved to France, her love of skyrunning, her thoughts on how the course has something for every runner, and what it’s like to make a world championships team after more than a decade of racing.

For more on who’s racing, check out our in-depth women’s and men’s previews and follow our live race coverage on Saturday.

[Editor’s Note: If you are unable to see the video above, click here to access it.]

Hillary Gerardi Pre-2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail Interview Transcript

Transcript coming soon.

Eszter Horanyi

Eszter Horanyi identifies as a Runner Under Duress, in that she’ll run if it gets her deep into the mountains or canyons faster than walking would, but she’ll most likely complain about it. A retired long-distance bike racer, she turned to running around 2014 and has a bad habit of saying yes to terribly awesome/awesomely terrible ideas on foot. The longer and more absurd the mission, the better. This running philosophy has led to an unsupported FKT on Nolan’s 14 and many long and wonderful days out in the mountains with friends.