Hello, happy new year and welcome to free trails rollout of the 2023 Trail Router

of the Year award presented by Ketone IQ.

I'm your host Dylan Bowman, and for the first 10 days of 2024, we will be counting down the top 10

trail athletes in the world for both men and women, as was voted on by a thousand trail running fans

from around the world. Together with the athletes, we recount their seasons,

contemplate highs and lows,

meditate on some learnings,

and look ahead to their goals for the future.

As I said,

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Today we are joined by the number nine trail runners of the year, Tyler Green from Portland, Oregon,

and Ruth Croft from New Zealand. Tyler Green missed a reliable, captain consistent, another amazing

season highlighted by a third place performance at Transgrant Canaria, another second place at Western

States, a second runner-up finish at North America's most important race and a strong seventh

place at UTMB. Ruth Croft, the first ballot Hall of Famer, one of the greats of our generation.

She raced six times in 2023, taking home four victories, including a huge one to end the year

at Ultra Trail, Cape Town.

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