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Ruth Croft Pre-2025 UTMB Interview

A video interview with Ruth Croft before the 2025 UTMB.
By on August 25, 2025 | Comments
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Last year’s second-place finisher, New Zealand’s Ruth Croft returns to the 2025 UTMB with more course knowledge and experience. In the following interview, Ruth talks about some of the things that she’s changed from last year, her pacing, and some of her training techniques.

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Ruth Croft Pre-2025 UTMB Interview Transcript

Transcript coming soon.

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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.