Katie Schide Pre-2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail Interview

A video interview with Katie Schide before the 2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail.

By on September 23, 2025 | Comments

After a podium finish at the 2025 Sierre-Zinal and a win at the 2025 Hardrock 100, America’s Katie Schide comes to the 2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail continuing her year of multi-distance racing. In the following interview, Katie talks about her hat choices for iRunFar interviews over the years, recceing the course earlier this year, her transition between the various races she’s done this summer, and what she thinks about this race course.

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.]

Katie Schide Pre-2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail Interview Transcript

Transcript coming soon.

Meghan Hicks

Meghan Hicks is the Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar. She’s been running since she was 13 years old, and writing and editing about the sport for more than 15 years. She served as iRunFar’s Managing Editor from 2013 through mid-2023, when she stepped into the role of Editor-in-Chief. Aside from iRunFar, Meghan is the Board President of the Hardrock Hundred Endurance Run, has worked in communications and education in several of America’s national parks, was a contributing editor for Trail Runner magazine, and served as a columnist at Marathon & Beyond. She’s the co-author of Where the Road Ends: A Guide to Trail Running with Bryon Powell. She won the 2013 Marathon des Sables, finished on the podium of the Hardrock 100 Mile in 2021, and has previously set fastest known times on the Nolan’s 14 mountain running route in 2016 and 2020. Based part-time in Moab, Utah and Silverton, Colorado, Meghan also enjoys reading, biking, backpacking, and watching sunsets.