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...

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...

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...

Joined by Valentin Orange, we recap last weekends Doi Inthanon 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

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,...

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...

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/

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/

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 overallWestern States: 20:19:58 39th overallVermont: CancelledDevil’s Gulch: 23:54:44 1st overallLeadville: 23:31:18 40th overallWasatch: 23:17:17 6th overallBest 4 x...

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...

We reconnect with Ben Pulham the founder of Coached, a Singapore-based testing lab and - surprise - coaching service for athletes of all stripes. A former pro triathlete himself, Ben - together with in-house sports scientist James (Jim) Webster - is an expert in helping people perform better.  Listen to our first podcast with the Coached team that goes into more detail about the testing they offer and Ben’s background as a professional athlete....

We welcome Christ Timms to the podcast this week to discuss the trail running community in Singapore. Chris has been on the podium at a lot of races around South East Asia the past couple of years and was in the top 10 of last years ATM Finals in Mt Apo Philippines. We catch up in Red Dot Running Company store where he is an elite ambassador to discuss his background, training, the Mountain Goat Challenge and plans for the rest of the year. Chris’ background. Where he’s from and his day...

Off the back of the 2023 edition of Hardcore100 H1 Ultra in Philippines, we catch up with race director Jonel Mendoza as well as competitors Nikki Han, Will Hayward and Viirginie Goethals to discuss one of the first and one of the toughest hundred mile races in Asia. First up we speak with Jonel to discuss: The genesis of Hardcore100 and how Jonel decided to map an Ultra Marathon around Mt Pulag and Mt Ugo How he managed to get qualifying spots for Western States and HardRock How the race...

We talk with Janet and Steve about the 2023 edition of HK100, the first in person since 2020. How the race went and what they thought about the performances. We also cover: how they both first get into trail running  What made them decide to start HK100 How the race has evolved over the years Discuss some of the returnees every year inc John Ellis and Jeremy Ritcey doing every year 16 hours. We discuss Janet’s role as President of International Trail Running Association. We talk about PTL,...

We welcome back Tomokazu Ihara from his 4th attempt of the Barkley Marathons and his best effort yet, achieving a fun run in 35:55 and getting out on the fourth loop with 27 seconds to spare! A momentous year that saw 3 finishers for only the second time ever and the first finish since John Kelly’s last finish in 2017. Tomo has been dedicated to this challenge for the past 7 years and it’s inspiring to hear his story of dedication and tenacity to an event that has the highest DNF rate of any...

GODZone Chapter 11 , Fiordland is in the books and what a historic week it was. We saw the very last expedition adventure race of Nathan Fa’avae’s career and one last win to cap of a tremendous career with Team Avaya. We catch up with race director Warren Bates to recap the race and pay homeage to the leader of the greatest ever adventure racing team. We suggest looking at the Dotwatch map as you listen to view the section discussed in the race We discuss: How has the last week went for RD...

We are delighted to welcome Chris Forne, lead navigator for Team Avaya and winner of the Endurance Asia Male Athlete of the Year in 2022. He and Team Avaya have just kicked off the GodZone Chapter 11 and you can dot watch here.. We cover: His back ground, how he first got into orienteering How he first got into expedition adventure racing and worked towards first world champs victory in 2007, How the team deals with major challenges when they arise, eg, when they lost their timing card at...

In this episode, we talk to the inspiring Jack Thompson, aka Jack UltraCyclist. In 2022, Jack climbed an astonishing million vertical metres on his bike, including 52 Everestings, as part of his Million Metres Challenge. That’s a crazy average of over 19,000m of climb each and every week! It was his latest in a series of incredible endurance achievements, which we cover in the episode. Jack is also very honest and outspoken about his personal struggles, as well as the centrality of...

We catch up with Tomokazu Ihara following his epic performance at HK4TUC. Ric and Scott also catch up to discuss all of the other amazing performances at the 2023 events. Check out www.hk4tuc.live to rerun the dotwatching fun.. Here are the list off Finishers and survivors: Tomokazu Ihara 井原知 - 54:02:36 Nugo Yamanath Limbu - 56:29:23 Ryan Whelan - 56:54:19 Wong Ka Kit 黃家傑 - 57:11:37 Kevin Cheung Kei Fung 張 - 59:30:45 Elvis Fu Chin Ping 傅展平 - 63:23:20 Alger Cheng Sai Kit 鄭世傑 - 66:15:33 Trevor...

the 12th Edition of HK4TUC is upon us and Ric and Scott connect to discuss the changes to start times and some of the athletes returning and as well as those taking on this epic challenge for the first time. You can follow live at www.hk4tuc.live. 2023 competitor list: Chamelia Suhra Milk Li Lai Ting 李麗婷 Sandy Xiaoqing Sun 孙晓青 Karen Tse Tze Wai 謝芷蕙 Kimmy Leung Hong Kiu 梁康翹 Mayank Vaid Nugo Yamanath Limbu Kurt Lynn Kenneth Chan Wai Tik Yu Long Chai Harrods 余朗齊 Yeung Wing Kent 楊永健 Wong Ka Kit...

Ahead of the world premiere in Hong Kong, we talk to documentary filmmakers Robin and Ben Lee about their latest project, Four Trails. Following the success of their 2017 project, Breaking 60, the two brothers return to this most iconic of Hong Kong trail running events to tell a more complete story. Four Trails documents the 2021 edition of HK4TUC, which saw previous Finishers and Survivors invited back, with some wondering if the previously unthinkable 50-hour barrier might finally be...

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 in the following categories: Male Athlete of the Year Chris Thorne of Team Avaya: winners of both the Adventure Racing World Championships and the 2022 edition of Godzone Stingray with his triple win at the Malaysia Mountain Trail Festival Nimsdai, who set a new speed record for the...

In reality there’s nothing accidental about Eszter’s rise to the top of the ultra running elites. She is an incredibly disciplined, focused and committed person, but seems to have even surprised herself at the speed at which that rise as happened and the speed she shows on the trails.  A very humble but extremely competitive athlete, the last few years have seen Eszter rise from a trail virgin prior to arriving in Hong Kong, to rubbing shoulders with the worlds elite and finding herself on...

Jay Jantaraboon is the without debt the best outdoor adventure athlete Thailand has ever produced. Part of The North Face Adventure Team, he has twice finished top 50 in UTMB. He also has an incredible record ultra running in Thailand races, coming 1st or 2nd in every race he has competed in on his home turf. A Background in Mountain Biking and adventure racing, following a 10 year stint competing in Muay Thau as a child and teenager, now 37, Jay is hitting the peak of his endurance career...