DCR AidStation

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com 2024 Ultra Trail Australia by UTMB Special + Live Show.  Dirt Church Radio 278.  Kia ora e te whānau! This episode of the pod finds Matt returning to The Blue Mountains for the UTA running festival. With 7000 athletes over 4 days this is a one-of-a-kind spectacle in one of the most beautiful places on the pl...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com AidStation Podcast 009: Things that make you go oh, oh … In this episode of our paid-subscriber-only podcast, our beloved fancy bois talk to a real Southern (Northern?) man in Rocky himself, of Further Faster fame, about five things that he takes in his pack whenever he’s out for a big day in the big hills a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau! This week, Eugene and Matt have got the band back together! We have the distinct pleasure of being joined by the brains behind SQUADRUN, Ali Pottinger and Kerry Suter to preview the 2024 edition of  Ultra Trail Australia. Ali and Kerry are two people who know this race intimately, they s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com AidStation 008 - The Inaugural 2024 Further Faster Live Show Special and the Skedaddle Weekend.  Kia ora e te whānau! This week on our paid-subscriber-only episode of the AidStation we’ve got something different for you. Eugene and Matt take a trip to Ōtautahi/Christchurch for our first ever live show at Fur...

Jeff and Jenny Vierling: Tailwind Tales — Taste-Testing and Airport Antics Kia ora e te whānau! This episode, we catch up with Jenny and Jeff Vierling, the founders of Tailwind . They were in Aotearoa for the Faultline Ultra on the weekend, and right about now they’ll be riding the Old Ghost Road. They live in the mountain town of Durango, Colorado, where they have made a deliberate decision to gr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Greig Hamilton - Worsley Warrior and Barkley Marathons Finisher. Dirt Church Radio 274.  Kia ora e te whānau! This week, Eugene and Matt have the distinct pleasure to speak with Greig Hamilton and let us tell you this has been a long time coming! In case you don’t know, Greig Hamilton became the first Kiwi f...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com AidStation 007 - Obsession, Addiction, or Healthy Habit?  This week on our paid subscriber-only episode of DCR AidStation we speak to Gavin Clifton about Fire and Rescue New South Wales’ Motor Neuron Disease Furber Steps Climb in the Blue Mountains (which we are going to in late August!). Matt gets over exci...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Dirt Church Radio Episode 272: Roger Robinson Returns Kia ora e te whānau! This week on the podcast Eugene speaks to returning champion and one of the most impressive human beings we’ve had the pleasure of speaking with, the one and only Roger Robinson .  Roger is an age group world champion runner, an emeri...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com AidStation 006 - Do You Need A Shovel Or A Ladder? Everyone who has been running long enough will experience, at some point in their running life, a psychological and/or physiological collapse so shattering that it has its own lore and terminology. We’re talking about the other side of the pain cave, a place...

Northburn100 BONUS POD with Gareth Morris!!! - Dirt Church Radio 271.  Kia ora e te whānau! Enjoy this cheeky little bijou podcastette from this year’s Northburn 100. Llaingholm’s favourite son, Episode 33 alumni, and Commonwealth Games Medallist Gareth Morris went to Northburn to document the action. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to b...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com ReLaps and Northburn and Barkley Marathons – A Weekend For The Ages: Dirt Church Radio 270.  Kia ora e te whānau! WOOOOO some weekends in the calendar just stack up don’t they? This weekend certainly didn’t disappoint with the fourth running of Aotearoa’s original Backyard Ultramarathon, the Riverhead Backya...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com AidStation 005 - What We Think About When We Think About Not Running*  Most often what we talk about with our running friends when we are not running is running. When we are running with others we most often talk about non-running related matters (and running), and when we are running, or more importantly, C...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Ali Pottinger - The future of Trail Running for Women in Australasia, Dirt Church Radio 268.  Kia ora e te whānau! Our friend, fellow MC, and DCR away game co-host Ali Pottinger sent us a message wanting to talk about what the trail running community could do better (and is doing better) to support women in...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com AidStation 004 - The Venn Diagram of Big Missions vs. Traditional Races and the Terrifying Nub in the Middle  Leaving the great Tarawera pūkeko assault of ‘21 aside, there is a continuum of challenge throughout every level of our sport, and what one person finds scary another may not.  This DCR AidStation, M...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Photo: Sportograf/Tarawera Ultra-Trail Polly Taylor. Unbroken, the road back  to UTMB — Dirt Church Radio 266. Kia ora e te whānau! She’s 90 lbs soaking wet and with a personality 150 ft tall: Polly Taylor is a force to be reckoned with. A  guide in the Marlborough Sounds, past Northburn 100 mile winner, and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com We went to Tarawera Ultra-Trail in 2024 and it was incredible. Moments so surreal you question reality. Simple pleasures, mundanity, joy, filth, pride, and noble stupidity (and this was just the car trip down). Please enjoy this episode of the DCR AidStation, recorded at some aid stations, among other places...

Race week is here and we’re so excited! We’ve been getting along to Tarawera for more than 10 years, with a bunch of race starts in the 102 km and the 100 miler between us. And the last few years we’ve been lucky enough to welcome home thousands of runners at the finish line, as MCs. We’ll be there again this year — say kia ora if you see us, at the start line, out and about on course, or at the f...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com AidStation 002 – So, You Can Run 100 Miles, But You Can’t Do Your Calf Raises. Why are runners so bad at managing injury? So we’ve all been there, perjuring ourselves in the ( insert health professional of choice ) office: “Of COURSE I’ve been doing my prescribed rehabilitation ( look of pained innocence ) “...

AidStation 001 – Insert Something Cliché About Processes We didn’t know this, but the second Friday in January is known as “Quitter’s Day”.  This is the day that, statistically, most people abandon their New Year’s Resolutions. Are you a resolution person? Or a goal guy? Or someone who loves a good old intentional process? And why can’t we have all three? On the first episode of our brand-new, sub...