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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com
Kia ora e te whānau. On this episode of the DCR AidStation Podcast, Matt and Ali Pottinger reflect on a manic couple of weeks of trans-Tasman travel between Coast to Kosci and Ultra Trail Kosciuszko The topic of climate change is discussed (as it’s a nice, easy, non-controversial one) and how races and racers will manage in the future with increasingly extreme weather. We rip through our Ultra Trail Kosciuszko content including the most hilarious and unspeakable trail story we’ve ever heard, Courtesy of the legendary Ben Berriman. Dirt Church Radio—Best Enjoyed Running.
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 290 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 getting in the trails and enjoying Christmas with our whānau.
See you at Tarawera Ultra Trail in February!!!
Essay
2024
I stood on the finish line of Ultra Trail Kosciuszko the other weekend, giddy from a combination of being up all night having fun, knowing that we were in the last 45 minutes of the event before the 100mile/100km cut-off and that in the words of a person very dear to me “wwwwweeeeee’d made it”.
Then I saw a person that I had not seen for a few years, someone who I’d been very close to (and I guess in my heart still am). It was great to see them, and then I asked how they were and their eyes welled up. Things are tough for this human, like..really tough. I listened, offered them that I had no wise advice, kissed them on the head and told them that I was sorry. We then laughed a bit at the absurdity of it all and thought about what Winston Churchill said about when you are going through hell to just keep going. And whilst yep, Winnie was right on that point I reflect that 2024 has been super tough for a lot of reasons for many of us.
Part of our whole schtick as runners is how resilient we are. I’ll be the first person to relentlessly poke fun at the far end of the resilience industrial complex (STAY HARD) but yeah, we are, as a group, pretty tough and cool. We put up with a lot.
That interaction seemed to sum up 2024 for me. Seeing someone super cool and then seeing that they’ve had a metaphorical poke in the eye.
For me, 2024 has had its challenges. If not for the reason that my recollections of it from July to October were pretty fuzzy. It has sucked having a head injury and recovering from that took more patience than I thought I had. Couple that with working in a health system that feels like it is being burnt to the ground from the inside, and having to navigate a massive change at Dirt Church Radio I’ve come to the end feeling a little jaded. 2024 was the year I felt the saddest, most anxious, and for a lot, most confused I’ve been.
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By DCR AidStationThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dirtchurchradio.substack.com
Kia ora e te whānau. On this episode of the DCR AidStation Podcast, Matt and Ali Pottinger reflect on a manic couple of weeks of trans-Tasman travel between Coast to Kosci and Ultra Trail Kosciuszko The topic of climate change is discussed (as it’s a nice, easy, non-controversial one) and how races and racers will manage in the future with increasingly extreme weather. We rip through our Ultra Trail Kosciuszko content including the most hilarious and unspeakable trail story we’ve ever heard, Courtesy of the legendary Ben Berriman. Dirt Church Radio—Best Enjoyed Running.
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 290 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 getting in the trails and enjoying Christmas with our whānau.
See you at Tarawera Ultra Trail in February!!!
Essay
2024
I stood on the finish line of Ultra Trail Kosciuszko the other weekend, giddy from a combination of being up all night having fun, knowing that we were in the last 45 minutes of the event before the 100mile/100km cut-off and that in the words of a person very dear to me “wwwwweeeeee’d made it”.
Then I saw a person that I had not seen for a few years, someone who I’d been very close to (and I guess in my heart still am). It was great to see them, and then I asked how they were and their eyes welled up. Things are tough for this human, like..really tough. I listened, offered them that I had no wise advice, kissed them on the head and told them that I was sorry. We then laughed a bit at the absurdity of it all and thought about what Winston Churchill said about when you are going through hell to just keep going. And whilst yep, Winnie was right on that point I reflect that 2024 has been super tough for a lot of reasons for many of us.
Part of our whole schtick as runners is how resilient we are. I’ll be the first person to relentlessly poke fun at the far end of the resilience industrial complex (STAY HARD) but yeah, we are, as a group, pretty tough and cool. We put up with a lot.
That interaction seemed to sum up 2024 for me. Seeing someone super cool and then seeing that they’ve had a metaphorical poke in the eye.
For me, 2024 has had its challenges. If not for the reason that my recollections of it from July to October were pretty fuzzy. It has sucked having a head injury and recovering from that took more patience than I thought I had. Couple that with working in a health system that feels like it is being burnt to the ground from the inside, and having to navigate a massive change at Dirt Church Radio I’ve come to the end feeling a little jaded. 2024 was the year I felt the saddest, most anxious, and for a lot, most confused I’ve been.