The Trail Runners Experience
Welcome to The Trail Runners Experience. Conversations about trail running by trail runners. Includes training tips/advice and personal race experiences. Hosted by Daniel Farrugia and Ashley Druve
Episodes
Lara Hamilton is an Australian distance runner, producer/vocalist, and digital growth hacker who discovered her passion for trail running while training as a nordic and cross-country skier. She was part of the Boise State University Track/XC Team from 2019 to 2021 but now focuses on trail-based sports. Lara has traveled the world for both sport and adventure and has found a balance between her trail running pursuits and her success...
He's a runner, rock climber, sailor, sea kayaker, back country skier and all round outdoors-man and he also happens to be a really awesome guy and now he is the 2023 Australian Mountain Running Champion. His name is Fraser Darcy and he joins the podcast live from the unofficial capital of the majestic Flinders Ranges, Quorn, South Australia. We talk about Fraser's outstanding running performances and how his love for the ou...
Trail runner Matt Allbeury joins the podcast for an excellent chat about his most audacious running goal - running 1000kms in 30 days through the Swiss Alps from Zurich to Trieste as part of his Project Alp Run where he is supporting Trees For The Future - an organisation that aims to 'break the cycle of hunger, poverty, and environmental destruction' by planting trees and reestablishing landscapes in developing communities...
In today's Sidejog we take a "walk" down memory lane and talk about the most popular sport in the Western World throughout the 1900s - Pedestrianism.
Music by The Mountain - 'Funky Burger' (Pixabay)
Welcome to part 2 of the Toby Durnall Experience. Listen to episode #75 for part 1.
Toby rejoins the podcast almost a year after his first appearance to talk all about Marathon De Sables and UTMB. No spoilers. Just listen to the episode to hear from a very inspiring man!
Dannielle Vanderhuel joins the podcast to talk about that wonderful and crazy sport called trail running. Her recent success shows that she's pretty damn good at it too. Dannielle has numerous wins under her belt including Yurrebilla, Five Peaks and Run Adelaide Hundred just to name a few. It was awesome fun talking with Dannielle. Hope you enjoy.
And I know there is no such thing as a 'bubbling metropolis'.... I'm human :)
Nathan Pearce runs into this episode of the Trail Runners Experience at break-neck speed and makes history by becoming the fastest athlete to ever grace the ears of TRE listeners. Fresh from his run scintillating run at the Golden ticket race at the World Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, NSW, Nathan unpacks his training and racing starting from humble beginnings at Little Athletics to the heady heights of racing at the Worl...
Kate rejoins the podcast as we launch this new side project of the Trail Runners Experience called 'Sidejog'. It is a fun informal look at the world of running. In this episode we discuss the greatest marathon cheat of all time - Rosie Ruiz.
Enjoy!
Credits:
Music by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/the_mountain-3616498/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_co...
Join me as I dive into the world of mountain running with Melbourne based coach, Steve Brennan. Steve is a highly experienced runner and coaches a squad of seriously fast runners. Together we discuss the similarities and differences between various disciplines, from cross country to Fell running to marathon running to mountain and sky running. Steve lays out some coaching gold with some excellent training tips to become a better hi...
After a very long hiatus, The Trail Runners Experience is back featuring new interviews! This season will take on a new approach with most of the interviewees being athletes who are coached by me (Coach Daniel Farrugia) so that you the listener may gain an insight into what it takes to prepare for endurance races of all kinds.
The Toby Durnall Experience Part 1
In this first part we learn about Toby. We find out how he came to be a...
Sonja Jansen returns to the podcast after her blistering world class run at the 2021 Adelaide 24 hour where she covered more than 233km for a huge outright win, female course record and fell just 5km short of the national record. Listen in as we discuss the last few months of her incredible running career and find out what it takes to run with such class and humility while juggling work, family and lockdown.
In this special episode I catch up with two of my athletes, Matthew and Tamas after they recently completed the monumental Irrational S.O.U.T.H 200 miler. Both men ran, walked and crawled from Murray Bridge to Clare in South Australia in cold wet conditions over 320 kilometres. In this coaching catch-up, we discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of this huge effort and find out what worked and didn't work with regards to training p...
Ben Hockings - the Great Uncle of trail running in South Australia - returns to The Trail Runners Experience to discuss his Race Directing career, his new and unique ultra series (The Ultra Hard Series), the reasons why he has decided to hang up the race directing hat and running in general. Ben has a wide range of interests when it comes to running so we went for a bit of an exploration of those interests in this conversation. Enj...
Rebecca Hunt returns to the podcast 50 episodes after her first appearance on the Trail Runners Experience, this time as host of her very own awesome podcast called Tales From The Midpack. In this special crossover episode we discuss all things 2020 and give a thumbs up or thumbs down to various running related gear or experiences. Have a listen to this episode and then go listen to Rebecca's excellent podcast where you will hear c...
Brett from Adelaide Trail Runners joins the podcast to talk about this newly formed venture that aims to bring some new and interesting events to the Adelaide area. The Summer Trail Series (created by Ben Hockings of Ultra Runners SA) is the first exciting event to take place and Brett speaks of his excitement and nervousness at launching this fantastic trail running enterprise. Listen in to hear about the varied and interesting co...
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