The InnerFight Endurance Podcast

In this week’s episode of the InnerFight Endurance Podcast, Tom Walker sits down with Warren van der Merwe from Supersports, the man behind many of Dubai’s biggest endurance events and the organiser bringing Dubai T100 to the city for a third year.Dubai T100 weekend is almost here, and this time the race has a new home. Warren walks us through what has changed, why it makes for a better day for athletes and spectators alike, and the bits of the course people are already talking about.He is also honest about what it takes to put on a race in this region right now, where every decision comes back to athlete safety. The episode opens with a full breakdown of on course fuelling, including when to actually take your caffeine.Racing on the 14th and 15th of November 2026, supporting, or still deciding? Have a listen before you head down.

In this episode, we’re joined by Muzoon Matar, who went from 100 km Dubai loops to riding the Stelvio twice in one day.Six months ago she started structured training. She’d barely touched a tubeless tyre and never ridden back-to-back mountain days. One New Year’s she signed up for the Dolomites anyway. Her reason was two words: why not.We talk about everything that followed. She got locked down in Bahrain with no bike right before her biggest training block, propped a spin bike up to fake the climbs, and got out through Saudi before the bridge closed. Then she spent two and a half weeks alone in the Dolomites, rode the Sellaronda twice for the better views and climbed the Stelvio twice in a day.We also get into trusting your body, being kind to yourself without letting yourself off the hook, and why “you can be a rock star at work, but go climb a mountain.”If you’ve ever looked at a big ride and asked “why?”, try “why not?”

What happens when the race you signed up for disappears, and the version you’re left with is nothing like the one you wanted?In 2020, Miranda Mason was three weeks out from Ironman South Africa. The medal, the crowds, the finish-line fanfare, the moment someone finally calls you an Ironman. Then the world shut down and the race was gone.What replaced it was a compromise. A full Ironman distance taken on in Dubai with no official event, no spectators, no red carpet, brutal weather, and barely any support. A swim off a half-closed beach, the long solo loop out at Al Qudra, a full electrical storm overhead, and Tom in a truck loaded with water and drop bags as her only support crew.It was everything she thought she didn’t want. Six years on, Miranda joins Tom to reflect on why it turned out to be exactly what she needed.In this episode we explore the difference between confidence and self-belief, learning to sit with discomfort when no one is watching, managing your ego out in the desert on your own, and discovering what you’re truly capable of when there’s no medal, no crowd, and no one else to rely on. Miranda also shares how the lessons from that day continue to shape her business, her relationships, and her priorities today, and why she now rates this unofficial, improvised lockdown Ironman above the real event she went on to finish in Austria.Because sometimes the biggest achievement isn’t crossing the finish line. It’s discovering who you become when the finish line isn’t even there.If you’re ready to challenge yourself, get out of your own way, and find out what’s possible, this episode is for you.Get in touch with the InnerFight coaching team at [email protected] to discuss your goals and find the right coach to help you get there.

There is a difference between a run club and a community, and most people have never had to think about what it is.Coaches Steph and Zoe are back to talk about the ones they have built, based off the back of an interview Steph held with Ladies Run Club member, Justine, who kept showing up to the LRC community through her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment last year. Justine gives a raw and honest reflection of what it meant to keep showing up for the community and herself, simply taking things one step at a time. Our IFE communities across the globe showcase that often size has nothing to do with it, and what happens when someone in the group is going through something big.The second half is a recording from the recent LRC Forum, where Steph interviews Justine in front of her peers.

Most training plans are written for nobody, for nowhere. Download one for a big gravel race and it'll build the basic physiology of cycling, but it won't tell you what to do seven hours in when you're sick of gels, or how to descend loose terrain on hands that have stopped working. In this episode, Rob Foster breaks down how to build a cycling plan that's actually specific: to the event, to the rider, and to the environment they train in. He covers why the gut is a trainable weapon and why you start now rather than January, how to manufacture real fatigue on eight hours a week using long weekends, stair repeats and a hard Friday after a hard week at work, and what a coach needs to earn before they can send an athlete into one of those weeks.If you're riding towards something big next spring, this is the conversation to hear in September, not February.