The Endurance Asia Podcast

Endurance Asia
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Celebrating everything about endurance sports, from Ultra Marathons to Mountaineering, from Adventure Races to Ironman. We hear from athletes, explorers and race directors from or based in the Asia Pacific region. Hosted by endurance enthusiasts based in Singapore, we celebrate ordinary people achieving extraordinary things, going beyond the limit of what they once thought possible.

  1. FEB 6

    Tommy Lewis - Run the Runnable

    We are joined by the amazing Tommy Lewis @tommyrunpt off the back of running the @vietnamtrailmarathon in Moc Chau. Tommy is a personal trainer and coach that has been producing amazing running based content for the past few years. He has a deep level of experience coaching ultra athletes with a focus on strength and conditioning as a core part of an overall training plan, something runners are typically very bad at doing. We cover: Background how Tommy and Scott know each other How he has turned his passion into his career His impressions of Vietnam so far Importance of strength and conditioning for runners Tommy’s beliefs around nutrition and veganism for athletes. How to maintain macros inc protein Supplementation, Creatine “every man and his grandma should be taking it” Injury prevention through S&C Racing - how often and how to prioritise Check out Tommy on Instagram and his podcast and coaching That’s Runnable and on all podcast channels.

    1h 18m
  2. Endurance Asia Awards 2025

    JAN 22

    Endurance Asia Awards 2025

    It’s that time of year ago before the adventure season kicks off where we are joined by Chris Timms to recap the highlights of 2025. 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 Hisashi Kitamura, with his win at TMBT Lodowijk Vriens, wins in HK and Bali and top 10 in Cape Town John Stingray Onifa, with multiple wins across Asia Guangfu Meng, 2nd win at HK100 and win at Chiang Mai by UTMB Female Athlete of the Year Sunmaya Budha, 2nd in WMTRC and an miraculous win in Cape Town Hau Ha, another amazing year with wins in Tsiagu and Chiang Mai by UTMB Fuzhao Xiang, 2nd place at Western States and wins across many shorter distances across Asia Veronika Leng, 2nd place at HK100 on her comeback and 5th at CCC Race / Challenge of the Year World Trail Majors Hong Kong 100 Vietnam Mountain Marathon Asia Trail Masters Penang Skyrace Izu Trail Journey Japan UTMB TransLantau  Chiang Mai Others Tsaigu Trail  Godzone Endurance Feat of the Year Stone Tsang solo traverse across Taiwan Grant “Axe” Rawlinson and Luke Richmond Row across “The Ditch” Fundraising of the Year Natalie Dau’s 2nd Project1000 across Philippines, fundraising for female charities across Asia Jo Lodder and John Fan, 3100km UNBOUND ultra run from Beijing to China raising money for disabled charities Listen to the episode to find out who the winners are.. We loved watching these people reset the limits of what’s possible in 2025 and would love to hear from you about who we missed. Here’s to even more amazing achievements in 2026!

    45 min

  3. 11/21/2025

    TransLantau by UTMB With Salomon Wettstein

    We joined the 2025 edition of TransLantau by UTMB, a stalwart race in the Hong Kong trail running calendar that was included in the UTMB series from 2023. Following a few logistically challenges in 2024 edition we were keen to experience the race and see what adjustments they had made and take on the 120k distance, one of the toughest ultra courses in Hong Kong. We are joined by: Salomon Wettstein pre race to discuss his preparation and plans 2:15 Steven Carr, social media manager for TransLantau by UTMB and Race Director of 9Dragons, host of the 10t edition of Asia Trail Master in February 2026 10:50 Salomon Wettstein rejoins to discuss how his race went 18:30 Host Scott Pugh comes back to talk about how his race went and his overall experience of TransLantau by UTMB 36:45 To listen to Salomon’s first time on Endurance Asia after Four Trails 2021 you can listen here..

  4. 09/05/2025

    TMBT 2025 with Hisashi Kitamura

    This week we cover one of the longest standing races in Asia, TMBT and interview the eventual winner Hisashi Kitamura prior to the race as well as Race Director Claus Pedersen at the 50k finish line. Chris Timms and Scott Pugh catch up to discuss the results of the race and Scott’s experience as well as what Happened at UTMB: Hisashi Kitamura - 01:55 Where Hisashi is from and lack of athletics growing up His time in Malaysia getting into Ultra Running? His start with Asia Trail Master Races and 9 Dragons Being the first ATM Golden Grandmaster to get to 20 ultra >70k. Vice champion year in 2019. In that year the format was just most points from 4 races and happened to end with a final race of the season where you and John Ellis battled it out. He talks about that season and what happened in the final race? Training on treadmill. How he does 95% of his training on Treadmill How he has competed in TMBT 4 times coming 2nd every time what this race mean to him Last year you came 2nd to Jeff in the ATm final talk to me about that race.. His plan for ATM final in Oct. Race strategy for tomorrow? Pacing, nutrition, how to beat Milton Amat and Daved Simpat His preparation day before Claus Peteresen TMBT Race Director - 49:30 History of Borneo Ultra and their races The community and villagers getting involved How the race 2025 race is progressing Future races and plan Scott Pugh and Chris Timms - 1:00 Hisashi’s training on the treadmill Recap if TMBT 100k Recap of TMBT 50k Recap of UTMB

    1h 33m

  5. 05/23/2025

    South East Asia Trail Season Update

    Chris Timms and Scott Pugh catch up to discuss what’s been happening in the South East Asia Trail Season and some of the races they’ve been running around the region Races we cover: Silabur cave trail Penang 50k ATM and 30k Skyrace Bali Trail running Ultra Rinjani  Checkout https://www.asiatrailmaster.com/ for upcoming races in SEA.. Other discussions David Roche 140g per hou Quicksilver Endurance Run Goal setting for races Natalie Dau Project1000, Russ Cook, William Goodge

    1h 3m

  6. 03/21/2025

    How to PB a marathon with Chris Timms

    This week Chris Timms joins off the back of Seoul marathon to discuss how to set a personal best in a road marathon. We discuss: Marathon block and training fundamentals How to get the most out of a taper What to do the week and night before a race How to get ready in the morning Pacing strategy Shoes choices For training plans and to join track sessions with Singapore Falcons, check out https://www.singaporefalcons.com/ or on socials Instagram Facebook

    55 min

  7. 02/28/2025

    Jeff Campbell - Endurance Asia Male Athlete of the Year

    Endurance Asia Awards Male athlete of the year for 2024, Jeff Campbell joins the latest episode. Jeff talks about: His background and how he managed to fall in to ultra running in Asia after a chance dinner with John Ellis. How he came to realise his talent? Being part of the Join Dynamics team and realising he had a V02 max of high 70s. The impact of being part of the Gone Running, Joint Dynamics team and T8 team and how being part of a squad improved his running. We talk about Oxfam Trailwalker, his 4 consecutive wins and what the race mean to means to him. We discuss the 2023 edition where he ran with Fuzhou the female winner of the 2024 Endurance Asia awards and Eszter Csillag and recent GPT 100 mile winner Ryan Whelan. We talk about his preferred distances and training for a marathon Blok. What his plans for the rest of 2025.. Chris and Scott catch up at 01:03:00 to discuss marathon training for Seoul and up and coming Asia trail master races..

    1h 20m

  8. 02/07/2025

    HK4TUC 2025 with Wen Fei Xie, Jo Lodder and Andre Blumberg

    We are joined by Wen Fei Xie and her support crew Jo Lodder to discuss Wen Fei becoming the first women to survive the 2025 edition of Four Trails in 65 hours 20mins. You can rerun the live tracker of the event here.. We cover: Wen Fei’s ultra running back ground.. Just check out her amazing Itra profile How long she planned for Her warm doing the Grand Sam at HroupK100 3 weeks before How Wen Fei and Jo planned the challenge strategy and reacted to change in rules How she executed on the plan around MTR timings Her eating and sleeping strategy Jo discusses his HK5in5 fundraising event that won the Endurance Asia award in 2023 What’s next for Wen Fei and Jo inc World Trail Majors for Wen Fei and a charity run from Beijing to Hong Kong for Jo! We are then joined by challenge director Andre Blumberg at 1:03m.. We discuss: How this years event went The smaller group of 15 athletes instead of usual 30 The impact the Four Trails movie has had on the event What are the plans for 2026 Follow Wen Fei and Jo on Insta Follow HK4TUC on Insta

    1h 39m
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Celebrating everything about endurance sports, from Ultra Marathons to Mountaineering, from Adventure Races to Ironman. We hear from athletes, explorers and race directors from or based in the Asia Pacific region. Hosted by endurance enthusiasts based in Singapore, we celebrate ordinary people achieving extraordinary things, going beyond the limit of what they once thought possible.

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