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Matt Rayment
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Trail running talk and banter, delving deep to gain insight and inspiration from interesting runners in New Zealand, Australia and the world. Learn more: dirtchurchradio.com

  1. 2D AGO

    Damian Watson. Layer Upon Layer Upon Layer | Dirt Church Radio 355.

    Kia 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 travelled out to Muriwai Beach on Auckland’s rugged West Coast to meet up with Watson at the Deli he co-owns with the Steel brothers for a run and yarn about what it takes to compete at the highest level in 100-mile plus racing, how his past as a New Zealand Ice Hockey representative influenced his running, his love of travel, and just what his mother talked to the ODT about when he set the course record at the Wild Horse. P.S. for those old enough, yes, that is a Sara Lee reference.  Excellent Stuff.  Dirt Church Radio – Best Enjoyed Running. ​ --- --- ---  Episode Links  The Muriwai Deli Damian Watson Instagram Sign up for the DCR AidStation newsletter. The Squadrun 4-Week Training Trial for DCR Listeners! Dirt Church Radio on Instagram Dirt Church Radio on Facebook Further Faster New Zealand Enjoy! Music by Andrew McDowall, Digicake

    55 min

  2. 6D AGO

    Live, Laugh, Love-Your-Mat-Time-Not-Your-Strava-Time, You Dorks | AidStation 42

    Kia ora e te whānau. It’s the last Aid Station of 2025, and we're in a reflective mood. Matt wishes he could run faster, Ali wishes she could move house automatically, and Andrew wishes he had feelings like a real boy. Apart from these aspirational goals, our heroes run down the year that was, listing what they’ve loved, learnt, and what they wish to take forward into 2026.  Never free from the hottest of takes, we explore the qualitative vs. quantitative divide in this most terminally online trend: listing your Strava time, not your mat time, during races. We round it out with our favourite running media of the year and look forward to taking a couple of weeks off just after our annual DCR awards. Oh, hey, also, GO TO THE MURIWAI DELI.  Excellent Stuff. Dirt Church Radio – Best Enjoyed Running. ​ --- --- ---  Episode Links  Sign up for the DCR AidStation newsletter. The Squadrun 4-Week Training Trial for DCR Listeners! Dirt Church Radio on Instagram Dirt Church Radio on Facebook Further Faster New Zealand Enjoy! Music by Andrew McDowall, Digicake

    35 min

  3. DEC 12

    The 2025 Kepler Special | Dirt Church Radio 354

    Kia ora e te whānau. In this week's second episode, join Andrew McDowall for the 2025 Dirt Church Radio Kepler live show. Andrew took up the baton from Matt and Eugene, journeyed down to Te Anau to host a vibrant live show, and then tackled the 60km Kepler Challenge the following day—which, in typical AMCD style, he knocked out of the park. Settle into your long run this weekend, and enjoy Andrew’s conversation with Men’s and Women’s 60km champions Dan Jones and Frances Redmond, Kepler Challenge chair Steve Norris, Nikki Everton, and DCR returning champion Daniele Danesin. Excellent Stuff.  Dirt Church Radio – Best Enjoyed Running. ​ --- --- ---  Episode Links  Kepler Challenge Dan Jones Instagram Frances Redmond Instagram Nikki Everton Instagram Daniele Danesin DCR 231 Sign up for the DCR AidStation newsletter. The Squadrun 4-Week Training Trial for DCR Listeners! Dirt Church Radio on Instagram Dirt Church Radio on Facebook Further Faster New Zealand Enjoy! Music by Andrew McDowall, Digicake

    47 min

  4. DEC 9

    The 2025 Spectacle Special | Dirt Church Radio 353

    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 packed with as much awesomeness as you could shake a stick at. Happily, we can report that this circumstance eventuated for Matt at the 2025 edition of The Spectacle. In this episode of DCR, join Ali P and Matt as they bring you their conversations with returning 100-mile champ, Reefton's favourite daughter  (and Guinness World Record Holder) Emma Timmis, two-time Olympian and send-lord Sam Tanner, That Other Sam, you know, Harvey, and Taonga of the running world, Kathrine Switzer and Roger Robinson. If that’s not enough, Nelson’s prodigal son, and our co-host in the commentary team, Guy Williams, joins us to put the running word on notice about metrics, why we are all perhaps a little divergent, and his life growing up with Olympian and Spectacle co-founder Julian Matthews. Inspiring doesn’t begin to cover this weekend. Excellent Stuff. Dirt Church Radio – Best Enjoyed Running. ​ --- --- ---  Episode Links  The Spectacle 261 Fearless Sam Tanner Instagram Sign up for the DCR AidStation newsletter The Squadrun 4-Week Training Trial for DCR Listeners! Dirt Church Radio on Instagram Dirt Church Radio on Facebook Further Faster New Zealand Enjoy! Music by Andrew McDowall, Digicake

    2h 9m

  5. DEC 2

    Ultra 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 Kosci frother, Bel, and the incredible Lucy Bartholomew. Excellent Stuff. Dirt Church Radio – Best Enjoyed Running. --- --- ---  Episode Links  Ultra Trail Kosciuszko by UTMB Lucy Bartholomew Instagram Martin Gaffuri Instagram  Running Mums Australia  Sign up for the DCR AidStation newsletter The Squadrun 4-Week Training Trial for DCR Listeners! Dirt Church Radio on Instagram Dirt Church Radio on Facebook Further Faster New Zealand Enjoy! Music by Andrew McDowall, Digicake

    1 hr

  6. NOV 28

    Inside the Wai2k- The Toughest Race In Town | Aidstation 41

    Kia 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 the the WAI, the WUU is “a kid’s run” apparently. AMCD’s pain is indeed our gain. This week, the gang debriefs Andrew’s most epic weekend, we’ve got a sweet little interview that Andrew did with Gareth himself, and we run down our upcoming travels (to Kosci, Kepler, and Nelson), all the trail tea, and how awesome Tamaki is for heavy music. All this and more on this week’s episode of the AidStation Podcast.  Excellent stuff. Dirt Church Radio – Best Enjoyed Running. --- --- ---  Episode Links  Sign up for the DCR AidStation newsletter The Squadrun 4-Week Training Trial for DCR Listeners! Dirt Church Radio on Instagram Dirt Church Radio on Facebook Further Faster New Zealand Enjoy! Music by Andrew McDowall, Digicake

    50 min

  7. NOV 18

    Ruth Croft- Hail To The Chief| Dirt Church Radio 351

    Kia 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 was 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 abortive attempt post UTMB (Thanks, French Internet, you dork), Ali P gets together for a long overdue catch-up with Ruth about the year she’s had, and what it was like to finally knock the bastard off. The bastard in question is of course, UTMB. This episode also finds our heroes discussing if they’d volunteer themselves as tribute for a fox hunt (them being the fox), the Queenstown and Aotearoa Afghanistan Marathon, and a Greatest Run Ever for the ages.. Excellent Stuff. Dirt Church Radio – Best Enjoyed Running. --- --- ---  Episode Links  Ruth Croft Instagram  Adidas Terrex  Sign up for the DCR AidStation newsletter The Squadrun 4-Week Training Trial for DCR Listeners! Dirt Church Radio on Instagram Dirt Church Radio on Facebook Further Faster New Zealand Enjoy! Music by Andrew McDowall, Digicake

    1h 28m

  8. NOV 14

    100 miles is 100 miles is 100 miles| Aid Station 40

    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 UTMB kilometre effort industrial complex.  The gang is back together for the literal and figurative heat of the Grapian’s Peak Trail and Arrowtown Ultra. Join Matt Rayment, Ali Pottinger, and Andrew McDowall for all the hot takes you need and so much more on this episode of the AidStation Podcast.  Excellent stuff. Dirt Church Radio – Best Enjoyed Running. --- --- ---  Episode Links  Sign up for the DCR AidStation newsletter The Squadrun 4-Week Training Trial for DCR Listeners! Dirt Church Radio on Instagram Dirt Church Radio on Facebook Further Faster New Zealand Enjoy! Music by Andrew McDowall, Digicake

    37 min
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Trail running talk and banter, delving deep to gain insight and inspiration from interesting runners in New Zealand, Australia and the world. Learn more: dirtchurchradio.com

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  • Creator
    Matt Rayment
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2025
  • Episodes
    359
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Dirt Church Radio Trail Running
  • Show Website
    Dirt Church Radio Trail Running

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