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.
David Lloyd is Director of Sport for Topas Travel, Race Director for the Vietnam Trail Series and co-founder of cycle tour company Velo Vietnam.
Having first met David at the inaugural edition of the …
At a time when everyone could do with some positivity in their life, we are delighted to share the story of Veronique Bourbeau. Vero is a true shining light of positivity in what is a tough time for …
Mayank Vaid has been on an incredible journey over the past 2 years. From being inspired by a story of David Gething setting a world record running 7 marathons in 7 continents in 7 days, meeting him …
Scott and Ric catch up - via Zoom of course - to talk about:
Stephen Redfern’s crazy challenges
The 2021 Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge
And more, before introducing a…
PS Sim is one of the most accomplished Singaporean mountaineers having completed 6 of the 7 highest Summits across the worlds 7 continents. She shares her story of not even reaching Everest Base Camp…
Jessie Montague is a Pro Spartan Athlete based out of Singapore. We discuss her rapid transformation from zero to pro in a short 2 year period.
How it came to be: her story of transformation.
Who inspi…
Andy Dubois is the founder of Mile 27 a coaching company that advises a lot of the very top ultra runners in Asia Pacific inc Jeri Chua, Alessandro Sherpa, John Ellis, Ryan Whelan, Ryan Blair and Nor…
The Hong Kong 4 Trails Ultra Challenge is a 298km ultra across Hong Kong’s 4 long trails with an accumulative elevation of 14,500m. Taking place over Chinese New Year, athletes race the clock to star…
As the 2020 Asia Trail Master series gets underway, we sat down with one of their principal photographers. Ipoh (Malaysia) born and raised, William Cheang has shot ultra trail running events all acro…
This week Scott and Ric catch up to discuss the Everesting Bukit Timah challenge for the charity Free to Run. Scott is then joined (21:10) by the Executive Director of the charity, Taylor Smith, to …
In our interview with Alessandro, we talk about:
Alessandro’s background in mountain biking in Italy and how he grew up racing competitively before falling out of love with the sport.
How he moved to A…
This week on the Endurance Asia Podcast we’re joined by the winners of the Unofficial Oxfam Trailwalker, Gone Running Joint Dynamics:
Veronika Vadovicova
Ryan Whelan
John Ellis
They tell us a bit about t…
Arseny Chernov is the founder of Food Buddy an endurance nutrition coaching company and has a diploma of nutrition science as well as being an ironman athlete and tech professional.
Engage with Foodbu…
Our very first guest on the pod, the legend that is Tomo-San is back.
Tomokazu Ihara is on a mission to complete 100 Miles 100 Times. You can find out more about this project - as well as the coachi…
“Health and fitness are not the same thing”
Ben Pulham is the founder of Coached, a Singapore-based testing lab and - surprise - coaching service for athletes of all stripes. A fo…
Aussie athlete Bern Dornom is one of Asia Pacific’s - if not the world’s - top adventure racers. She’s on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/berndornom/?hl=en.
in our chat with Bern we t…