Hong Kong Trail Running – Details, episodes & analysis

After the summer break, Steve, Elliot and Ryan chat about their summer races, Ryan chats about his win at North Downs 100 and we also discuss upcoming future races in the now busy Hong Kong trail race calendar.

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https://www.centurionrunning.com/races/north-downs-way-100-2024

Co Hosts Steve Pheby & Elliot Froidevaux are joined by John Ellis. He talks about his recent 100 mile challenge of running Key Largo to Key West in Florida, USA, and talks about Zwift and low impact training.

Elliot then talks about the upcoming Trail Running awards and the nominees. Get your vote in by July 10th.

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Thinking of potential overseas races? Fear not, we have you covered! This episode starts with a couple of short interviews, Joshua Davies tells us about Action Asia's stage race in Mongolia, and Dina Bagale then shares his experience running Ultra Trail Australia. We then have a full interview with Steve Brammer and Carol Au-Yeung who ran the Ultra Trail Monte Rosa stage race in Switzerland and Italy. We hope you enjoy their journeys!

We hope you enjoy this lively chat with Samantha Chan as much as we did! Her impressive achievements include an FKT on the Maclehose, and a little jog across the Gobi. Now working as a specialist running trainer, Samantha gave some great tips about motivation, how to approach training, nutrition, and..umm...running.

Our next episode is full of giants. We hear from Ryan 'the hunter' Whelan, Eszter 'the legend' Csillag, Elliot 'Swiss time please' Froidevaux and co-hosted by John Ellis & Steve Pheby.

We talk Western States, North Downs Way 100, Coast to Coast Sweden, UTMB but importantly the race and kayak in Repulse bay. Gripping stuff.

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We catch up with Nikki Han as she talks about coming first female in the ultimate race across Scotland ultra. 356km non stop across Scotland and Nikki recalls waking up a hotel full of guests, minging feet (nothing new) and the joyous weather of a Scottish summer.

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Steve Pheby is joined by Elliot Froidevaux as we chat about what we been doing over the summer whilst races in Hong Kong are in recess.

This is a 2 parter as first we hear from Elliot and Steve about some smaller and large races in Europe before we chat about Ezster and Ryan and a possible conspiracy?

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We meet up and coming Hong Kong runner Jeremy Yeung, the top local finisher at the 2023 Hong Kong 100. Jeremy tells us about his career to date and talks us through his HK100 performance, sharing tips along the way.

This episode we interview the interviewer from Endurance Asia podcast, Scott Pugh where we talk running Singapore, Hardcore 100 and popping blisters for Nikki Hann. Also we have RD for Moontrekker and Lantau snake catcher, William Sargent and yes, Moontrekker is back and in full force!

Link for Moontrekker https://www.barclaysmoontrekker.com/

Link for Endurance Asia https://www.enduranceasia.com/podcast

Dont forget to sign up to Trail Runners Association of Hong Kong at https://www.trahk.org/

This week we speak to Big Boars Backyard last person standing, Chamelia Suhra AKA The Chaminator, known for running 9 Buffaloes 3 times in summer, Everesting Mt Parker in one day and her attempt at 4 Trails.

We also have the RD of Big Boars as well as other classic races in Hong Kong, Race Base, Steve Carr.

We learn about the future of Race Base events and the struggles of Covid restrictions.

Please don't forget to sign up to TRAHK at www.trahk.org