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An interview with Camille Bruyas after her second-place finish at the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, Camille talks about how she's feeling the day after, how special it was to run with some of the other women at the front of the race, her pacing strategy, and plans for future racing. iRunFar is covering UTMB 2025! Check out all of our coverage: https://www.irunfar.com/UTMB

An interview with Katharine Hartmuth after her third-place finish at the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, Katharina talks about how she recovered from placing third at the Hardrock 100 earlier this summer, stomach issues during the first part of the race, how she would have preferred drier weather but was committed to having fun despite the rain, and how the closing kilometers of the race played out. iRunFar is covering UTMB 2025! Check out all of our coverage: https://www.irunfar.com/UTMB

An interview with Ruth Croft after her win of the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, Ruth talks about how she had to switch her strategy from focusing on splits to just surviving the bad weather in the night, how having a DNF from hypothermia at Transvulcania earlier this year helped her manage the weather conditions, and how a 10-year relationship with the UTMB races, which started with the 20215 CCC, finally culminated with a win on the big loop.

An interview with Ben Dhiman after his second-place finish at the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, Ben talks about the bad weather's effects on him and the competition, working together during the middle kilometers with men's champion Tom Evans, how he struggled on the climbs but ran the descents well late race, and if he's satisfied with his podium performance. 

An interview with Josh Wade after his third-place finish at the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, Josh talks about his background in fell walking, his pacing throughout the race, how the weather played to his advantage, how UTMB was always a dream race, and how he hopes to come back for many more years. 

A video interview with Tom Evans after his win of the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, Tom talks about how he adapted to the weather and competition, how his uphill hiking ability gave him an advantage, how self-talk was an important part of his performance, and what it was like to win an event he's been committed to for so long.

A video interview with Tom Evans before the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, Tom talks about being a new dad and how that's changed his outlook on racing and life, feeling relaxed before the race, and how he'll try to take his own advice on patience and pacing to have a successful race.

A video interview with Camille Bruyas before the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, Camille talks about some of the other big races she's done since her last visit to UTMB, how her training has gone this summer, and about her fastest known time on the 14 summits over 2,000 meters in height in the Bauges mountains near where she lives.

A video interview with François D'Haene before the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, François talks about his enduring history with UTMB, his Nolan's 14 fastest known time in the U.S. in early July, and what his recovery from Nolan's and UTMB training has looked like.

A video interview with Hayden Hawks before the 2025 UTMB.   In this interview, Hayden talks about his long-term relationship with the UTMB Mont Blanc festival, how he's changed as a person and runner since his first run here in 2017, his injury and surgery this year, and his desire to run free and with few expectations at this year's UTMB.

An interview with Courtney Dauwalter before the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, Courtney talks about why she wanted to return to UTMB after her 2023 win, her goals for the race, what a year of less racing and more uninterrupted training has looked like, and what happens to two Minnesotans when they talk on a camera together.

An interview with Germain Grangier before the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, Germain talks about his recovery and training since Hardrock in July, the importance of not trying to replicate experiences in ultras, and the changes he's seen at UTMB in the past decade. 

An interview with Lin Chen before the 2025 UTMB. In iRunFar's first interview with Lin, we talk about her background in running, how she found her love for ultrarunning, to what she attributes her rapid improvement over the last two years, and her goal for this year's UTMB.

An interview with Ruth Croft before the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, Ruth talks about some of the things that she's changed from last year, her pacing, and some of her training techniques.

An interview with Ben Dhiman before the 2025 UTMB. In his first interview with iRunFar, Ben talks about his background in soccer and as a thru-hiker, how he discovered ultrarunning through pacing at the Hardrock 100, some of the mistakes he made at the start of last year's race, and how he plans to race with a bit more intelligence this time around.

A video interview with Emily Hawgood before the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, Emily debriefs the highs and lows of her top-10 finish at the Western States 100 two months ago, how her transition to doubling back at UTMB has been, and what keeps bringing her back to the big loop around Mont Blanc.

An interview with Ludovic Pommeret before the 2025 UTMB. In this 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.

An interview with Abby Hall before the 2025 UTMB. In this interview, Abby talks about recovery after winning the 2025 Western States 100 just two months ago, waiting to make sure that she was both mentally and physically ready to train again, and how she thinks that maybe UTMB and Western really aren't as different as people make them out to be.

An interview with Scout Adkin after her win of the 2024 Mountain Running World Cup, a global series of mountain running races.

An interview with Patrick Kipngeno after his win of the 2024 Mountain Running World Cup, a 12-race mountain running series across seven countries.

An interview with Philaries Jeruto Kisang of Kenya before the 2024 Mountain Running World Cup Finals in Chiavenna, Italy, where she'll compete in the vertical kilometer on one day, and the 23-kilometer race on the following day.

An interview with Philemon Kiriago of Kenya before the 2024 Mountain Running World Cup Finals in Chiavenna, Italy, where he'll compete in the vertical kilometer on one day, and the 23-kilometer race on the following day.

An interview with Kenyan Patrick Kipngeno before the 2024 Mountain Running World Cup Finals in Chiavenna, Italy, where he'll compete in the vertical kilometer on one day, and the 23-kilometer race on the following day.

An interview with U.K. runner Scout Adkin before the 2024 Mountain Running World Cup Finals in Chiavenna, Italy, where she'll compete in the vertical kilometer event as well as the 23-kilometer trail race.

An interview with American Joseph Gray before the 2024 Mountain Running World Cup Finals in Chiavenna, Italy, where he'll compete in the vertical kilometer event.

An interview with Joaquín López after his third-place finish at the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Marianne Hogan after her third-place finish at the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Ruth Croft after her second-place finish at the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Baptiste Chassagne after his second-place finish at the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Vincent Bouillard after his win of the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Katie Schide after her win of the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Tom Evans before the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Maite Maiora before the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Ruth Croft before the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Eszter Csillag before the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Marianne Hogan before the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Jim Walmsley before the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Katie Schide before the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Germain Grangier before the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Aurélien Dunand-Pallaz before the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Ludovic Pommeret before the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Fu-Zhao Xiang before the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Hannes Namberger before the 2024 UTMB.

An interview with Jason Schlarb after his third-place finish at the 2024 Hardrock 100.

An interview with Katharina Hartmuth after her third-place finish at the 2024 Hardrock 100.