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Welcome to the DCR AidStation, your fortnightly bonus nugget of trail running goodness. Fill up your bottles, grab a snack, and take a seat with Matt and Eugene as they run through the hot topics, joined by occasional special guests.
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia ora e te whānau. This week, Ali Pottinger chats with Annie Hand, fresh off her second-place finish at the Six Foot Track Marathon. Hand, a Blue Mountain stalwart, completed the Ultra Trail Australia Miler in 2025 and is off for a lap of Mount Blanc in 2026. Annie and Ali talk about performance, Annie’s abiding love of the Blue Mountains, and the ple…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com This was the only photo I took the whole time. I was literally kicking rocks. The Tussock Traverse and/or the Ring of Fire is an event that you must do. 100%.We can’t really jazz it up more than that. If you like a unique mountain-running adventure that is both a grassroots event and offers the most incredible scener…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Paula Griffin in action for the Northern Mystics
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Would you let these two name (Curate, I guess) a trail for you? thought not…I don’t know, man. What’s in a name after all? We’re lucky enough that Matt’s youngest daughter isn’t called Skipper or Queenie (both names he went in hard for). Trying to decipher the lore behind a trail name is hard enough, right? T…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comJack Harris crushing the Rise and Shine. Photo Diego Belli Kia ora e te whānau. In our sport, we often hear stories of when people found trail running. Seldom do we hear of moments where trail running found us. Jack Harris was, as he tells it, going through a bit of a hard time, and one day decided to go for a hike along the Routeburn Track. By happy ci…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comRuth Croft, driving the stoke at Old Ghost Ultra 2026. Photo Credit Allan Ure @ photos4saleKia ora e te whānau. This episode has been a long time coming. DCR has been wanting to get down to the mighty Old Ghost Ultra for years, and this year, Ali P made it happen. The stoke is evident in her retelling of the event. If that isn’t enough, we’ve got interv…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comRuth Croft is as Ruth Croft Does- Photo Credit: Graeme MurrayKia ora e te whānau. Holy Hecka, what a weekend with the filth, fury, and triumph of Tarawera Ultra Trail New Zealand by UTMB. Join Ali Pottinger and Matt Rayment for a wonderful conversation with some of the leading lights in our sport for our annual live show—amazing insights from Ruth Croft…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comOn this week’s AidStation, we have the distinct pleasure of speaking with Race Director Tom Heath about the exciting new event on the calendar, Ultra Wanaka. Ali and Matt also speak to the most powerful returning champion, L. Bartholomew of Diamond Creek, Victoria, about her go-to Rotorua trails, Race week self-care, and the update on her Dad, Ash, afte…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Jackson ripping it up at the Minotaur Sky Race. Photo cred @skyrunningKia ora e te whānau. What a way to kick off 2026 with this awesome conversation with Goat Tongariro winner Jackson Cole. Jackson spoke with Matt from his base in Missoula, Montana. We touched on the usual topics like training and racin…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Ali and Kate Southern on the startline of The Goat TongariroOn this week’s AidStation, we bring you an excellent chat Ali P had with Michael Sutton at The Goat Tongariro. Michael, if you will remember, has represented New Zealand multiple times at the World Mountain Running Championships, and has recently …
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Kia ora e te whānau. We’re back again for the third annual DCR Tarawera Ultra Trail by UTMB special. Joining Ali and Matt at the helm is a special guest, two-time Tarawera champion, and running coach extraordinaire, Mr Kerry Suter. What a treat you have in store for yourselves this episode, as we dive deep into the history of the event and its impact o…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comMaybe we were all a bit too hopeful that 2025’s madness would not continue into 2026. Maybe these first two weeks are a post-credit scene, or maybe, just maybe, this is 2026 saying “hold my beer” in response to last year’s antics. Anyway you cut it, it’s probably best to get yourself out for a run. It’ll probably help.The WTF?! quality of early ‘26 hasn…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia ora e te whānau. Welcome to the second of our DCR Summer Series episodes, where we’ll be bringing you our most popular conversations from 2025. This week, we’ve got a double header, throwing it back to July when Sam Harvey made his DCR three-peat and spoke to Andrew McDowall about (literally) running himself to a standstill as the assist in the worl…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comPhoto Credit: David Hill Kia ora e te whānau. Welcome to the first of our DCR Summer Series episodes, where we’ll be bringing you our most popular conversations from 2025. Kickin’ it off this week, we are taking it back to March, and episode 318, when Ali and Matt spoke to the one and only Jasmin Paris. Jasmin Paris entered the wider public consciousnes…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia 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 overlays of experience. Andrew McDowall travel…
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 packe…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comUltra 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 Honey Buzzard himself, Martin Gaffuri, DCR Fan and…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia 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. To hear that, compared to the WAI, the WUU is…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia 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 since we’ve talked to old mate, and after an abort…
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 psychologically) and are aligned in our distaste of the U…
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