DCR AidStation

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. The path to success is seldom simple. It’s often multiple overlays of experience, each building upon the other until the goal is reached, be that setting course records at 200-mile events like the Wild Horse or becoming an expert pastry chef and deli owner. Damian Watson is someone with...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Ali P doing what Ali P does, bigging people up. Photo - Uncle Alan Ure Kia ora e te whānau. If, as a winsome youth, you’d had your heart broken at a Swedish wedding in Nelson, what would it take to shift the unconscious response when the town was mentioned from “yeah, nah” to “Hell Yes”? Turns out, a weekend...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Ultra Trail Kosciuszko with Lucy Bartholomew| Dirt Church Radio 352 Kia ora e te whānau. Join us for the first of three live specials as Ali heads off to the Snowy Mountains for the fourth edition of Ultra Trail Kosciuszko by UTMB. Featuring interviews with Running Mums Australia founder Nic Bunyon, The Hone...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. It turns out, the Wai2k is hard mahi. I mean, we always thought that, but to have our suspicions confirmed by AMCD as he valiantly sent it in the weekend’s 100km was oddly satisfying. Gareth Thomas builds hard races, as those who have had the pleasure of attempting the WUU2K will attest....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. We want to invite all who can be upstanding to welcome one R. Croft of Greymouth back for her Tenth appearance on Dirt Church Radio. We are Ruth fans. If there were a RAT for it (Ruth Antigen Test), we’d be positive. Or is that CAT? (Croft Antigen Test?). ANYWAYS. It’s been a minute sinc...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. Things we learned on this week’s episode. We suck collectively at Maths, there is such a thing called a Wet Globe Bulb Temperature (WHAT?!?!?), We are all pro-Kipchoge winning Western States. Despite their relative masses, Andrew and Matt cope conversely in the heat (at least psychologic...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Barefoot and onward to a GRE. Yung Sutton Throwing Down XC Style Kia ora e te whānau. We’re baaaaack and beyond excited to bring to you Matt’s conversation with the most excellent Michael Sutton. The words “mountain,” “trail,” and “ultramarathon” are somewhat interchangeable in the lexicon of the outdoors.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. Best laid plans and all that…We had a bumper episode lined up for you this week, with a lot of stuff to talk about, and an amazing GRE, that was even before we got to Andrew’s conversation with the mighty Helene Barron. Annoying story short, our entire episode got zoinked by the AWS outa...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. Even by our standards, this episode of the DCR AidStation is a lot. Future Andrew makes a record number of appearances to preface, foreshadow, recommend, and otherwise act as a lexographical zamboni for Ali and Matt (we all know it is mainly Matt).

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. We had a particularly nice time on this week’s AidStation podcast, celebrating one year of Ali and Andrew jumping on board. Matt had the opportunity to ask them a mix of longer-form and quick-fire style questions about the last 12 months, and what they were looking forward to in the next...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. Mistakes were made. The first of many in this week’s episode of the AidStation was Andrew McDowall describing Matt as having a “water off a duck’s back” mentality. This is not true. Especially when the water is the wider response to the Joyline Chepgnego doping saga. That water really sa...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. We make no bones about it. Dirt Church Radio is, was, and always will be Ruth Croft Positive. Over the (at least) 7 times Croft has appeared on DCR, there has always been one constant- a focus on moving forward. Ruth is on par with the best to take the gig, a wonderful human being, and a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. It’s that time of year when we start to see the end of winter and the earliest glimpses of spring. Thoughts turn to the new year, big events, and the lead-up to those events. Does one size fit all when it comes to peak months and loading during the macrocycle? This doesn’t even begin to...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. This week, Ali Pottinger and Andrew McDowall sit down with the one and only Phil Gore. You’ll know Phil from his two epic showdowns with our very own Sam Harvey at Dead Cow Gully — both times pushing themselves to the ragged edges of what we thought humanly possible.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com A complete psychological breakdown is rarely captured on a heatmap. Yet here we are. Kia ora e te whānau. I mean, the co-hosts of your third favourite trail and ultrarunning podcast haven’t gotten together for a chinwag for a while, and, if the universe has had a say in 2/3rds of our days, things are bound t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. This week, Ali and Matt sit down with the legendary Sage Canaday. Since turning pro in 2012, Sage has been a defining presence in the trail and ultrarunning world. With a strong background in road racing and tidy marathon times, he helped usher in a new era of professional athletes in tr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. This week, we’ve got another special edition of the AidStation for you. Ali and Andrew caught up with Australian endurance legend Maree Connor to talk about her amazing ultramarathon career. From the iconic Spartathlon to the punishment of Badwater 135 to the World 24-Hour Championships,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Marianne Hogan – The Will to Endure | Dirt Church Radio 335 Ali Pottinger catches up with the mighty Marianne Hogan after her epic third-place finish at this year’s Western States Endurance Run, cementing her as one of trail running’s top talents. We first tried to record before Tarawera Ultra, but life inte...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. This week we’ve something super special for you. Ali and Matt had the chance to catch up with Dan Jones about his third consecutive top-five finish at the Western States Endurance Run. We talk about the day that was,…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Sam Harvey and Stephen Redfern- To The Well We Go. Dirt Church Radio 333. Kia ora e te whānau. As the sport of trail and ultramarathon running evolves, we find ourselves searching for that extra 1%.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. This episode of the Aidstation leaves more questions unanswered than answered. Is finding your attention waning at a race with no end the same as disliking it? Why does Test Cricket suck? What’s wrong with Corriander? Will it…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. It would be easy to start this post off with something like “the internet sucks” and again, that would date us. In today’s context, the internet is, and with that comes its joys, its horrors, and the amplification of the worst angels of our psyche. In the physical world, moments come and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. Join Ali Pottinger, Lucy Bartholomew, Jessie Speedy, and Nicole Bunyon for the Ultra Trail Australia Women in Trail Panel. As our Ali says at the top, there is always more to say, and this is a good place to start. Join our incredible panel for this awesome discussion on the current stat...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Gary House-Cutting Through The Noise. Dirt Church Radio 329. Kia ora e te whānau. You’d need to have been living under a rock over the last year not to have seen one of Gary House’s videos in the ultrasphere. From satirical stitches that poke fun at the absurdity of running media to no-nonsense and practical...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com The Ultrasphere Is Getting Spicy. Aidstation 31. Kia ora…