{"id":74314,"date":"2025-09-19T09:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/19\/ruth-croft-ultrarunner-new-zealand-ultra-trail-runner-utmb-mont-blanc"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:10:42","slug":"from-small-town-new-zealand-to-mont-blanc-how-ultrarunner-ruth-croft-made-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74314","title":{"rendered":"From small town New Zealand to Mont Blanc: how ultrarunner Ruth Croft made history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Croft\u2019s recent win the 174km Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc made her the first woman to take out the triple series crown in the prestigious event<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Stillwater, New Zealand, population 86, Ruth Croft learned hard work from a young age. Her father ran a transport company, managing dozens of drivers and semi-trailers across the 600km West Coast in the South Island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn school holidays I worked for my dad full time, sometimes 14-hour days,\u201d says Croft. \u201cShitty jobs like cleaning drains or the grease bay. I don\u2019t know anyone who works as hard as he does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/19\/ruth-croft-ultrarunner-new-zealand-ultra-trail-runner-utmb-mont-blanc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croft\u2019s recent win the 174km Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc made her the first woman to take out the triple series crown in the prestigious eventGrowing up in Stillwater, New Zealand, population 86, Ruth Croft learned hard work from a young age. Her father &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,203,2193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-sport","category-ultrarunning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74361,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74314\/revisions\/74361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}