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DCR AidStation

Welcome to the DCR AidStation, your fortnightly bonus nugget of trail running goodness. Fill up your bottles, grab a snack, and take a seat with Matt and Eugene as they run through the hot topics, joined by occasional special guests. dirtchurchradio.substack.com

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71:21

Sam Harvey & Stephen Redfern | Dirt Church Radio...

DCR AidStation ·

2026/01/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia ora e te whānau. Welcome to the second of our DCR Summer Series episodes, where we’ll be bringing you our most popular conversations from 2025. This week, we’ve got a double header, throwing it back to July when Sam Harvey made his DCR three-peat and spoke to Andrew McDowall about (literally) running himself to a standstill as the assist in the worl…

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63:35

Jasmin Paris | Dirt Church Radio Summer Series 001

DCR AidStation ·

2025/12/30

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comPhoto Credit: David Hill Kia ora e te whānau. Welcome to the first of our DCR Summer Series episodes, where we’ll be bringing you our most popular conversations from 2025. Kickin’ it off this week, we are taking it back to March, and episode 318, when Ali and Matt spoke to the one and only Jasmin Paris. Jasmin Paris entered the wider public consciousnes…

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55:25

Damian Watson. Layer Upon Layer Upon Layer | Dirt...

DCR AidStation ·

2025/12/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia 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 travel…

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128:44

The Dirt Church Radio 2025 Spectacle Special

DCR AidStation ·

2025/12/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com Ali P doing what Ali P does, bigging people up. Photo - Uncle Alan Ure 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 packe…

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60:27

Lucy and the Mountain

DCR AidStation ·

2025/12/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comUltra 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…

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4:25

Inside the mind behind the TOUGHEST RACE in the lower...

DCR AidStation ·

2025/11/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia 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 to the WAI, the WUU is…

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87:58

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

DCR AidStation ·

2025/11/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia 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 were 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 abort…

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4:49

When is 90 miles 100 miles? | AidStation 42

DCR AidStation ·

2025/11/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com 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 U…

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82:34

Michael Sutton - Ain’t No Mountain High Enough | Dirt...

DCR AidStation ·

2025/11/04

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comBarefoot and onward to a GRE. Yung Sutton Throwing Down XC StyleKia ora e te whānau. We’re baaaaack and beyond excited to bring to you Matt’s conversation with the most excellent Michael Sutton. The words “mountain,” “trail,” and “ultramarathon” are somewhat interchangeable in the lexicon of the outdoors.

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71:33

Helene Barron- Beyond The Finish Line | Dirt Church...

DCR AidStation ·

2025/10/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia ora e te whānau.Best laid plans and all that…We had a bumper episode lined up for you this week, with a lot of stuff to talk about, and an amazing GRE, that was even before we got to Andrew’s conversation with the mighty Helene Barron. Annoying story short, our entire episode got zoinked by the AWS outage. Perfect. So please enjoy this distilled epi…

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2:11

Shoey-Doo-ey-Do! |AidStation 41

DCR AidStation ·

2025/10/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia ora e te whānau.Even by our standards, this episode of the DCR AidStation is a lot. Future Andrew makes a record number of appearances to preface, foreshadow, recommend, and otherwise act as a lexographical zamboni for Ali and Matt (we all know it is mainly Matt).

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53:20

One Year Of Three People | Aid Station 40

DCR AidStation ·

2025/09/30

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia ora e te whānau.We had a particularly nice time on this week’s AidStation podcast, celebrating one year of Ali and Andrew jumping on board. Matt had the opportunity to ask them a mix of longer-form and quick-fire style questions about the last 12 months, and what they were looking forward to in the next 12 months and beyond.

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4:48

The Good,The Bad & The Ugly | Aid Station 39

DCR AidStation ·

2025/09/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia ora e te whānau. Mistakes were made. The first of many in this week’s episode of the AidStation was Andrew McDowall describing Matt as having a “water off a duck’s back” mentality. This is not true. Especially when the water is the wider response to the Joyline Chepgnego doping saga.That water really sank in. The duck was soaked. Ali, Andrew, and Matt discuss this thorny issue and where responsibility for

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5:25

Hail To The Chief | Aid Station 38

DCR AidStation ·

2025/09/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia ora e te whānau. We make no bones about it. Dirt Church Radio is, was, and always will be Ruth Croft Positive. Over the (at least) 7 times Croft has appeared on DCR, there has always been one constant- a focus on moving forward. Ruth is on par with the best to take the gig, a wonderful human being, and an asset to our sport. The only criminal elemen…

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5:33

For Those About To Rock, We Salute You | Aid Station 37

DCR AidStation ·

2025/08/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia ora e te whānau. It’s that time of year when we start to see the end of winter and the earliest glimpses of spring. Thoughts turn to the new year, big events, and the lead-up to those events. Does one size fit all when it comes to peak months and loading during the macrocycle? This doesn’t even begin to touch on the double-edged sword of Strava and …

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77:22

Phil Gore – To Infinity And Beyond | Dirt Church...

DCR AidStation ·

2025/08/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia ora e te whānau.This week, Ali Pottinger and Andrew McDowall sit down with the one and only Phil Gore. You’ll know Phil from his two epic showdowns with our very own Sam Harvey at Dead Cow Gully — both times pushing themselves to the ragged edges of what we thought humanly possible.

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3:06

The Olympics, Overtraining, and that F*%king Kelpie...

DCR AidStation ·

2025/08/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com A complete psychological breakdown is rarely captured on a heatmap. Yet here we are.Kia ora e te whānau. I mean, the co-hosts of your third favourite trail and ultrarunning podcast haven’t gotten together for a chinwag for a while, and, if the universe has had a say in 2/3rds of our days, things are bound to get chaotic. …

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77:40

Sage Canaday – Any Surface, Any Distance | Dirt...

DCR AidStation ·

2025/07/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia ora e te whānau. This week, Ali and Matt sit down with the legendary Sage Canaday. Since turning pro in 2012, Sage has been a defining presence in the trail and ultrarunning world. With a strong background in road racing and tidy marathon times, he helped usher in a new era of professional athletes in trail running.

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88:21

Maree Connor – Spartathlon, Badwater, and Beyond |...

DCR AidStation ·

2025/07/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comKia ora e te whānau. This week, we’ve got another special edition of the AidStation for you. Ali and Andrew caught up with Australian endurance legend Maree Connor to talk about her amazing ultramarathon career. From the iconic Spartathlon to the punishment of Badwater 135 to the World 24-Hour Championships, Maree has conquered some of the most incredib…

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69:13

Marianne Hogan – The Will to Endure | Dirt Church...

DCR AidStation ·

2025/07/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.comMarianne Hogan – The Will to Endure | Dirt Church Radio 335Ali Pottinger catches up with the mighty Marianne Hogan after her epic third-place finish at this year’s Western States Endurance Run, cementing her as one of trail running’s top talents. We first tried to record before Tarawera Ultra, but life intervened, so we’re thrilled to bring you this conversation now. Marianne shares her journey back from

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