This week we were joined by Natalia Dau, Rockstar Arms, to discuss what she has been up to for the past couple of years and more importantly, what’s coming up in the next couple of months. We discuss: Her 4 marathons in Sydney, Singapore, Gold Coast, Tokyo last year The 4 ultras she ran in 2023, all of which she won and a couple of the ultras outright Her first book Run like a Woman Project1000, Natalie’s goal to run 1000km from Thailand to Singapore and raise $150k for GRLS charity You can follow Project1000: www.project1000.run https://www.instagram.com/rockstararms The chari ..read more

After another year of this awe inspiring event, we are joined by a survivor and finisher, Alice Mcleod and Mayank Vaid. We first chat with Alice to discuss: Her back story, growing up in Perthshire, Scotland and moving to HK from London in 2019 and exploring the trails Her awareness of Four Trails from seeing the legend Nikki Jan finish in 2019 Her training block for 2024 and the volume and focus Four Trails goal Sleep and nutrition strategy What next?? As the second Scottish lady to reach the green post box, Will Alice come back to follow Nikki Han and finish? And then we are jo ..read more

We kick off the New Year with a look back at the most inspiring performances and challenges of the year just gone. In this special awards episode, we discuss the stories that moved us and the people who mattered. Here are the categories and nominees: Male Athlete of the Year John Stingray Onifa with his clean sweep of wins at Asia Trail Masters races including the win in the final Tomokazu Ihara with his Four Trails win, Barkey Marathons Fun Run and Grand Slam Female Athlete of the Year Eszter Csillag, who placed 3rd at Western States and a win at Oxfam Trailwalker Hong Kong and Izu ..read more

Joined by Valentin Orange, we recap last weekends Doi Ithanon by UTMB in Chiang Mai Thailand, the major UTMB race of Asia. We cover: Race organisation Location, Atmosphere at start/finish line The races: 50k 100k 100 mile And we go in to Valentin’s past year covering Sange Sherpa as he documents his life running ultras every weekend. You can follow Valentin at Insta Facebook www.valentinorange.com ..read more

Phil Snowden, a. military veteran, Personal Trainer and all round machine, joins us to talk about his crazy endurance exploits and the importance of strength and conditioning for endurance athletes.. His back ground in growing up in the military and getting into Personal Training after the miliirtary His first DNF doing the 24 hour Tough Mudder in the US Ultra in the Antarctic, Borneo 100 miler Pushing and pulling a body weight sled for 46km across the UfIt gym for 50 hours Ultra triathlon, 300 miles on Ski erg, Rower and bike Then we get in to Hyrox, the years of training that led ..read more

We are joined again by the Asia Adventure Journalist turned explorer, Mark Agnew. Having had Mark on the podcast 3 years ago discussing all of the amazing endurance feats he has covered for SCMP, he has become the story! He shared on that podcast (you can listen here) his passion for arctic exploration and his only plans to tackle the north west passage and be the first human as part of the team to cross it! Well he’s only gone and done just that. Along with a team of expedition kayakers from Texas, The Artic Cowboys, he has become the first person to cross the North West Passage by human powe ..read more

We are joined on stage at VMM by some of the elites preparing to run. We get to speak to Ha Hau Sange Sherpa Jeff Campbell Trùn Nguyễn David Lloyd Follow them live for this weekend at https://live.dottrack.asia/mountainmarathon23 ..read more

We are joined for a live on stage interview at the Vietnam Mountain Marathon by T8 Athletes  Jeff Campbell Vanja Cnops Kristian Joergensen Stingray, John Ray Onifa Follow them live for this weekend at https://live.dottrack.asia/mountainmarathon23 ..read more

Repeat guest Tomokazu Ihara comes back to talk about his epic performance in the Grand Slam of Ultra Running in the United States, completing 5 of the oldest 100 mile runs in the same season and doing so in the fastest time of any athlete from Asia Pacific and top 20 in history. His results included: Old Dominion: 18:52:27 2nd overall Western States: 20:19:58 39th overall Vermont: Cancelled Devil’s Gulch: 23:54:44 1st overall Leadville: 23:31:18 40th overall Wasatch: 23:17:17 6th overall Best 4 x 100 times: 86:01:01 19th/403 finishers since 1986 You can find out more about the Grand Slam of Ul ..read more

Vincere Zeng at 31 years old is a record holder in the high altitude mountains, becoming the first Singaporean female to summit Everest and K2 back to back and also the first Singaporean female to summit K2 and to do this all in one year. We catch up with Vincere to discuss: How it came to be. Where her passion for adventure and exploration come from. How she progressed to take on high altitude mountains from trail running in Singapore. How she planned for two expeditions in the same year and also 2 mountains in her Everest expedition The company she chose, 8k Expeditions and how she wor ..read more