Download our conversation with Dr Tom Reynolds elite endurance athlete, and Medical Director of Tarawera Ultra, about Tom’s five points for enhanced enjoyment and wellbeing during this year’s busy racing schedule.
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Download our conversation with Sarah Douglas, New Zealand representative mountain runner, national champs 5000m medalist and Luxmore Grunt champion. Also, snoring dogs. Not even a euphemism.
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Download our end of year review show, ft conversations with Ruth Croft, Andrew McDowall, and Dan Jones. Plus favourite moments of 2020 (yes, there were some), reflections, and listener questions.
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Download our conversation with Sarah Bouckoms about subatomic particles that have been travelling through space and time since the Big Bang and are travelling through you AS YOU ARE READING THIS!!!!!! OMG. And, how Sarah has the heart of a lion.
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Download our Kepler 2020 special ft Scotty Hawker and Fiona Love. Matt and Eugene go to Te Anau, hang out with all the good sorts, eat all the pizza, Matt drinks a river of beer (post race, mind). And some Kepler-ing is accomplished.
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Download our conversation with Hanny Allston, author, business owner, and double world champion orienteer, about her extraordinary life on the trails and beyond, we have a powerful Stuff You Should Know, get all giddy about Kepler, and share a Greatest Run Ever that speaks to the essence of our sport. Dirt Church Radio - interesting conversations with interesting runners.
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Download our conversation with international best selling author Markus Torgeby about how overcoming truly existential challenges are our greatest triumph, how oatmeal is nearly the perfect food and how he spent four years living by himself in a tent near the arctic circle.
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Download our conversation with running photographer Kunal Kumar about his love of the trails and documenting races, just how to get that perfect shot, and why if Matt had longer arms, he’d take better selfies. Dirt Church Radio - interesting conversations with interesting runners.
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Download our conversation with Zoë Rom, associate editor of Trail Runner magazine and DNF podcast creator, about failure, Iditarod, how the Capitol Peak will kill you if you let it.
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Download our conversation with Glenn Sutton about Badwater 135, pushing the limits of what you can achieve, or believe, family, heat training, COLD running, Big’s Backyard, broken pelvises (pelvi?) and the will to overcome.
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With our planned guest being out in the wild adventuring, we were faced with the prospect of missing a week or switching it up a bit. So here we are with a mini-DCR for the people, to tide you over until next week, packed full of news, results, Stuff You Should Know and a brilliant Greatest Run Ever.
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Download our special episode about the Aotearoa edition Big’s Backyard Ultra, the NZ Trail Championships, and an exciting announcement from Malcolm Law and the Wild Things.
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Download our conversation with the legend Amy Sproston about her Jordan Trail FKT, world travel, how sleep = happy, 100000 footfalls a day for 8 days are a lot, and how although a cheese burger from Dirty Ron’s will hit the spot in times of need.
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Download our conversation with Meghan Hicks of irunfar about FKTs, the Sawatch, Tupuna, and the racing scene going forward.
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Download our conversation with Phil Rossiter about the beauty, lack of pretension, brutality of the West Coast and the Old Ghost Ultra. A true gem, Phil tips us on our heads with his passion, personableness, and perspicacity. Perfect. Dirt Church Radio - interesting conversations with interesting runners.
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Download our conversation with Coach Craig Kirkwood about his background in the sport, his long-held love of performance and coaching, how Timaru and Oklahoma are different, and what is the hardest thing about Kona, besides … everything.
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Download our conversation with Mel Aitken about reframing her year as an elite runner who loves to race during the time of Covid, her work in the New Zealand Police, and goals for the rest of the year.
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Download our conversation with Brad Dixon about his book, Holistic Human, his approach to wellbeing, performance, life, the planet, his inspiration to write, and a fantastic Greatest Run Ever. Dirt Church Radio - interesting conversations with interesting runners.
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Download our conversation with Damian Hall about his Pennine Way FKT and how an FKT doesn’t have to FCK the planet.
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Download our conversation with runner, event organiser, and director of 261Fearless NZ’s Kate Southern about community, engagement, fulfillment, and treating people as you expect to be treated. Dirt Church Radio - interesting conversations with interesting runners.
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