The Endurance Asia Podcast

Endurance Asia

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. 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
  2. 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

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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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