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Katie Schide Pre-2025 Hardrock 100 Interview

A video interview with Katie Schide before the 2025 Hardrock 100.
By on July 4, 2025 | Comments
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Katie Schide has won some of the biggest ultramarathons around the world, and now she’s racing the 2025 Hardrock 100. In the following interview, the American living in France reflects back on her big 2024 which included wins at both the Western States 100 and UTMB, why Hardrock here and now in her career, her month-plus of living and training in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, and the free-form approach she’s taking to make her way through a race this unique.

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Katie Schide Pre-2025 Hardrock 100 Interview Transcript

Transcript coming soon. 

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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.