The Endurance Asia Podcast

With the world in lockdown, Scott and Ric chat about what this means for training and racing, including the recent Quarantine Backyard Ultra. Then we check in with the founder of Singapore's homegrown triathlon, cycling and running apparel brand, Purpose.

PS Sim is one of the most accomplished Singaporean mountaineers having completed 6 of the 7 highest Summits across the worlds 7 continents. She shares her story of not even reaching Everest Base Camp in year 2000 to Summit the highest peak in the world 20 years later.

Jessie Montague is a Pro Spartan Athlete based out of Singapore. We discuss her rapid transformation from zero to pro in a short 2 year period.

Andy Dubois - The coach to Asia's ultra elites Endurance Asia Andy Dubois is the founder of Mile 27 a coaching company that advises a lot of the very top ultra runners in Asia Pacific inc Jeri Chua, Alessandro Sherpa, John Ellis, Ryan Whelan, Ryan Blair and North Face Adventure Team. We talk to Andy about how he picks his clients, how he gets to understand their ‘Why’ before he agrees to work with...

HK4TUC 2020 Finishers Endurance Asia The Hong Kong 4 Trails Ultra Challenge is a 298km ultra across Hong Kong’s 4 long trails with an accumulative elevation of 14,500m. Taking place over Chinese New Year, athletes race the clock to starting at 9am on the first day of CNY to finish before 9pm and #Breaking60 hours. The 2020 edition was the most competitive yet with a total of 7 finishers under 60 h...

William Cheang (or Adventure III) is an ultrarunner and accomplished photographer, who regularly shoots for the Asia Trail Master series.

This week Scott and Ric catch up to discuss the Everesting Bukit Timah challenge for the charity Free to Run. Scott is then joined by the Executive Director of the charity, Taylor Smith, to discuss all the fantastic work Free To Run do to help and empower women and girls in Afghanistan and Iraq through outdoor activities and building their physical, social and emotional well being.

In our interview with Alessandro, we talk about: Alessandro’s background in mountain biking in Italy and how he grew up racing competitively before falling out of love with the sport. How he moved to Asia and got into trail running through doing hash runs in Malaysia How he became aware of the Asia Trail Master series His favourite places to race around Asia and why Times he’s been deep in th...

Unofficial Trailwalker with Gone Running Joint Dynamics Team Endurance Asia This week on the Endurance Asia Podcast we’re joined by the winners of the Unofficial Oxfam Trailwalker, Gone Running Joint Dynamics: Veronika Vadovicova Ryan Whelan John Ellis They tell us a bit about themselves. Where they’re from, back ground in endurance sport and how they got into trail running John talks about winnin...

Arseny Chernov is the founder of Food Buddy an endurance nutrition coaching company and has a diploma of nutrition science as well as being an ironman athlete and tech professional. Engage with Foodbuddy on https://instagram.com/foodbuddy or https://fb.me/foodbuddy Mentioned the following: • Estimated Energy Requirement Calculator: http://bit.ly/foodbuddy-eer • Conrad P. Earnest, Jeff Rothschild,...

Alan Grant is founder of Specialized Mavericks Cycling team in Singapore. Having being on the podium of 100's of races across Asia. Grant shares the story of the team and his own cycling challenges.

Japanese ultrarunner Tomo-San is on a mission to complete 100 Miles, 100 Times

Coached is a Singapore lab specialising in sports performance, testing and coaching

Bern Dornom is an Aussie adventure racer and all round bad-ass endurance athlete.

Founder and Director of the North Face Adventure Team, HK-based Ryan Blair has some crazy adventures to share.

Nic Tinworth, Michael Ormiston and Steven Carr are the race directors and keen runners behind Hong Kong's RaceBase, a team of passionate and experienced trailrunners, united by a shared love for discovering and traveling to races and events all over the world

Thaddeus Lawrence is a Singaporean endurance athlete and performance coach.

Andre Blumberg is an accomplished ultra runner, who has completed both the US and German Grand Slams of ultrarunning. He is the founder of the Hong Kong 4 Trails Ultra Challenge.

Maggie Cvetcovic is a pro Spartan racer based in Hong Kong.

Abi Shunmugam is an ultrarunner who recently became the first Singaporean to complete the Dragon's Back Race.

Séb Bertrand is a Chiang-Mai based trail runner and guide. He spent a year connecting more than 350km of forgotten trails between the northern Thai city and Chiang Rai.

Jeri Chua is synonymous with ultrarunning in Asia. In this interview we go back to her triathlon roots, find out how she went from fashion photography to owning a running store, and talk about the importance of community. We also hear more about her experiences at UTMB and Tor des Geants, as well as plans for the upcoming Triple Crown of 200s.

In this interview with the Singapore-based Kiwi explorer, we find out all about the Home to Home challenge, as Grant endeavours to become the first person to travel from Singapore to New Zealand under human power.

Charming, humble and yet somehow also the man behind the 100 Miles 100 Times project, Tomo-san sat down with us to talk about his finish at the 2019 Hong Kong 4 Trails Ultra Challenge, how he approaches training and recovery, what it’s like to run 100 miles on a treadmill (!) and why he has unfinished business at the Barkley Marathons. [This episode was recorded just prior to Tomo’s 2019 Barkley a...