Ruby Muir

Ruby Muir is an ultra-endurance runner from New Zealand, born on 1 July 1991, who grew up in Whenaukite on the Coromandel Peninsula and attended Mercury Bay Area School. At high school she trained on Mount Ruapehu for the Hillary Adventure Race, a five-day hiking and adventure racing event, and in 2009 she entered the Goat Adventure Run there as her first endurance event and won it. She then began competing regularly in endurance and trail marathons. She won the Tarawera Ultramarathon in 2013 and 2015, has won the Kepler Challenge six times and won the Otter African Trail Run in South Africa in 2013. After an injury at the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in 2014 she turned to shorter races, winning the Wellington Marathon in 2015 and the national women's cross-country event in 2017.