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Abby Hall- Growth Through Adversity. Lessons from Injury and Beyond – Dirt Church Radio 307.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com
photo credits- Michael Dunstan
Kia ora e te whanāu.This week on Dirt Church Radio Ali speaks with the mighty Abby Hall. On the start line at the Kosciuszko 100km, Abby Hall was a picture of composure and radiated competence. Hall crushed the course, taking the W and fourth overall in a super impressive 10:43:24. Ali and Abby talk about Abby’s injury and recovery, her growth through this adversity, and her hopes for 2025. Hall, who runs for Adidas Terrex, spent two weeks in Australia, traveling, exploring, and generally falling in love with the place with her good friend Lucy Bartholomew. Ali talks to her about this, and more on this stoke-filled episode of Dirt Church Radio. We’ve also got an amazing Greatest Run Ever for you. As a bonus, Andrew catches up with the inaugural Spectacle winner Emma Timmis for a rundown of this brutal 100 miler. Dirt Church Radio - Best Enjoyed Running
We’ve put this DCR episode into the AidStation podcast feed for free because the original DCR podcast you know and love will always be free. Paid subscribers get the AidStation podcast too.
Paid subscribers can read the rest of the newsletter, including Matt issuing a challenge, a book that tells a surprising story, and a tonne of stokety stokeness in The Stoke. If you haven’t already signed up for a monthly or annual subscription, we’d love to see you in the AidStation crew!
Merch alert!
Rep your 3rd favourite trail and ultra marathon podcast whilst keeping cool and breezy in this technical trucker hat. Pleasing woodland vista, and one size fits most. Out now!
$NZ59.99 plus postage and packaging with a discount for DCR AidStation paid subscribers (who can scroll down for the code).
Available from the DCR website
Our mates at Squadrun have come up with a special four week training trial for listeners of DCR. Now as you’ll know from listening to DCR over the years, Squadrun is the baby of Kerry Suter and Ali Pottinger, and they have coached thousands of runners to success at a bunch of events we love and cherish and if you’ve been to any trail races on either side of the Tasman you’ll have seen the squadrun colours being represented strongly. So, if you want to give it a crack, here’s the link.
Missed out on episodes of the Dirt Church Radio podcast? Listen on your favourite app. There are more than 300 episodes.
And check us out on YouTube!
DCR In The Wild
After a fully sick couple of months, we are hunkering down over the summer.
See you at Tarawera Ultra Trail in February!!!
Ten Things That Runnin’ Taught Me in 2024
In no particular order-
Just when things feel like they can’t get worse, they can get worse
I mean, full of hope and sunshine out the gate, right? But it’s true. I was taught that time and time again over this year. Feel bad? you can always feel worse, and sometimes you might. I Smashed my head on a rock in Wellington at a low point in a race. That sucked and led to four months of nausea and intermittent confusion, whilst dealing with learning a new job and Eugene leaving DCR. As bad as things feel during a race or training, buckle up, they can feel worse.
Just when things feel like they are at their worst, they can get better
yes, the darkest before the dawn etc etc etc. But bugger me if cognitive function returns, training comes right with some focus, you learn to do stuff that you thought you couldn’t and people come into your life at times when you need them the most. Feeling a sense of hope for the future is pretty neat.
Do your strength work, you stupid old b*****d
As I type this my arms are shaking from kettlebell business. I deluded myself for years that “I’m strong” because I’ve been pretty strong at times in my life. But, as they said in Fight Club, “even the Mona Lisa is falling apart”, and yeah. Me too. Do your strength work. It really helps every aspect of your running. And who doesn’t like kettlebells?
Do your strength work and float like this guy. He is probably annoying and doesn’t do any. The rest of you, get to it.
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By DCR AidStationThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com
photo credits- Michael Dunstan
Kia ora e te whanāu.This week on Dirt Church Radio Ali speaks with the mighty Abby Hall. On the start line at the Kosciuszko 100km, Abby Hall was a picture of composure and radiated competence. Hall crushed the course, taking the W and fourth overall in a super impressive 10:43:24. Ali and Abby talk about Abby’s injury and recovery, her growth through this adversity, and her hopes for 2025. Hall, who runs for Adidas Terrex, spent two weeks in Australia, traveling, exploring, and generally falling in love with the place with her good friend Lucy Bartholomew. Ali talks to her about this, and more on this stoke-filled episode of Dirt Church Radio. We’ve also got an amazing Greatest Run Ever for you. As a bonus, Andrew catches up with the inaugural Spectacle winner Emma Timmis for a rundown of this brutal 100 miler. Dirt Church Radio - Best Enjoyed Running
We’ve put this DCR episode into the AidStation podcast feed for free because the original DCR podcast you know and love will always be free. Paid subscribers get the AidStation podcast too.
Paid subscribers can read the rest of the newsletter, including Matt issuing a challenge, a book that tells a surprising story, and a tonne of stokety stokeness in The Stoke. If you haven’t already signed up for a monthly or annual subscription, we’d love to see you in the AidStation crew!
Merch alert!
Rep your 3rd favourite trail and ultra marathon podcast whilst keeping cool and breezy in this technical trucker hat. Pleasing woodland vista, and one size fits most. Out now!
$NZ59.99 plus postage and packaging with a discount for DCR AidStation paid subscribers (who can scroll down for the code).
Available from the DCR website
Our mates at Squadrun have come up with a special four week training trial for listeners of DCR. Now as you’ll know from listening to DCR over the years, Squadrun is the baby of Kerry Suter and Ali Pottinger, and they have coached thousands of runners to success at a bunch of events we love and cherish and if you’ve been to any trail races on either side of the Tasman you’ll have seen the squadrun colours being represented strongly. So, if you want to give it a crack, here’s the link.
Missed out on episodes of the Dirt Church Radio podcast? Listen on your favourite app. There are more than 300 episodes.
And check us out on YouTube!
DCR In The Wild
After a fully sick couple of months, we are hunkering down over the summer.
See you at Tarawera Ultra Trail in February!!!
Ten Things That Runnin’ Taught Me in 2024
In no particular order-
Just when things feel like they can’t get worse, they can get worse
I mean, full of hope and sunshine out the gate, right? But it’s true. I was taught that time and time again over this year. Feel bad? you can always feel worse, and sometimes you might. I Smashed my head on a rock in Wellington at a low point in a race. That sucked and led to four months of nausea and intermittent confusion, whilst dealing with learning a new job and Eugene leaving DCR. As bad as things feel during a race or training, buckle up, they can feel worse.
Just when things feel like they are at their worst, they can get better
yes, the darkest before the dawn etc etc etc. But bugger me if cognitive function returns, training comes right with some focus, you learn to do stuff that you thought you couldn’t and people come into your life at times when you need them the most. Feeling a sense of hope for the future is pretty neat.
Do your strength work, you stupid old b*****d
As I type this my arms are shaking from kettlebell business. I deluded myself for years that “I’m strong” because I’ve been pretty strong at times in my life. But, as they said in Fight Club, “even the Mona Lisa is falling apart”, and yeah. Me too. Do your strength work. It really helps every aspect of your running. And who doesn’t like kettlebells?
Do your strength work and float like this guy. He is probably annoying and doesn’t do any. The rest of you, get to it.