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Ludovic Pommeret Pre-2025 UTMB Interview

A video interview with Ludovic Pommeret before the 2025 UTMB.

By on August 25, 2025 | Comments

Ludovic Pommeret of France lines up for the 2025 UTMB, a mere 21 years after he lined up for the event for the first time. In the following interview, Ludo talks about how his UTMB plans changed at the last minute, his summer of racing the Hardrock 100, UTMB, and hopefully Diagonale des Fous this fall, racing with his daughter a couple of weeks ago, and what success will look like for him this weekend.

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Ludovic Pommeret Pre-2025 UTMB 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.