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.
For the 50th episode of Endurance Asia Podcast we are joined again by the legend and our first ever guest Tomkazu Ihara.
Tomo shares everything he’s been up to over the past couple of years including:
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For this International Women’s Day, we got to speak to one of the women that we find most inspiring at Endurance Asia. Natalie Dau is a social media influencer with over 420k followers on her RockSta…
We catch up with Richard Kimber AKA The Drone Runner to discuss his recovery from the 11th edition of Hong Kong 4 Trails Ultra challenge. An incredible story of finishing the HK4TUC inspite of bade k…
Previewing the 11th edition of the Hong Kong 4 Trails Ultra Challenge with Andre Blumberg.
Here’s the class of 2022:
Kimmy Leung Hong Kiu 梁康翹
Virginie Goethals
Tanya Bennett
Joannie Ho Chung Yee ("Jcy") 何…
This episode we catch up with Philippe Daniel and Jean-Henri Haniquaut following their 200km RTI Round The Island in Singapore.
The challenge went viral in Singapore, getting over 340k views on this F…
The second part of the recap of the 10th Edition Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge. 298km, 14,500M elevation and cut offs of 60 hours to finish and 72 hours to ‘Survive’.
We are joined in Part 2 …
The first of a two part recap of the 10th Edition Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge. 298km, 14,500M elevation and cut offs of 60 hours to finish and 72 hours to ‘Survive’. Previous runners were i…
Previewing the 10th Edition of Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge with the race Director and 3 competitors:
Andre Blumberg, Godfather of Hong Kong Ultra Running. We had him on the podcast 2 years a…
Andy Van Bergen is the founder of Hells500 and Everesting, the cycling and running challenge that exploded in popularity in 2020 (on the bike, the top seven fastest women’s times and top 14 men’s wer…
Kris Van De Velde is a former competitive cyclist from Belgium who set up and now oversees Asia Trail Master (ATM), a competitive running series that showcases some of the best (and often most remote…
In the second instalment of our 2020 awards, we discuss, debate and decide who should be crowned Athlete of the Year (both Female and Male) as well as Fundraiser of the Year.
Female Athlete of the Yea…
In this episode, we look back at the extraordinary year that was 2020 and highlight what we believe were the most outstanding achievements in endurance sports across Asia and Australasia.
It was a yea…
Veronika Vadovicova (@veronka_running) is the 2019 Asia Trail Master champion, having burst onto the scene in the last couple of years and made the 50-100k distance her own. Now based in Hong Kong, s…
A true modern day adventurer, Welshman Ash Dykes has gone from backpacking around SE Asia, teaching scuba diving and fighting Muay Thai, to setting three World Records as the first person to walk sol…
With the Backyard Ultra World Champs having captured the world’s attention in recent days, we caught up with the final three from the Singapore edition, a.k.a. Dead ****ing Last, as well as race orga…
We are joined by the Queen of Asia ultra running Jeri Chua who is race director the “Dead F**king Last” Backyard Ultra in Singapore as well as 5 of the 15 competitors:
Alex Ang
Ned Philips
Winnie
KK Lim
N…
Lynn Paterson, aka “Red”, is the first person to kayak around the circumference of New Zealand in a single expedition. It took her more than 400 days and she covered just shy of 6000 kilometres!
You c…
Nathan has a 25 year track record of being at the very top of the Adventure Endurance world from olympic level mountain biking to competing around the world in Adventure Racing as the leader of Team …
Mark Agnew is the Outdoor and Extreme Sports Editor at the South China Morning Post (SCMP) in Hong Kong. You can find all his articles for SCMP here: https://www.scmp.com/author/mark-agnew. And he’s …