Chafing the Dream NZ

Kia ora, haere mai We welcome Janet Mundell, one of Mal's close running friends from Wenatchee, WA along to this pod. We start off having a yarn about Janet and Mal's friendship, Janets experience with running both collegiately and post partum running, and the local trails + scenery of Central Washington. Dwayne indulges on the discovery of Anne Audain, a kiwi professional runner from the 80's and 90's who ran and won Spokane Bloomsday 7 times! We do a quick shoutout to our kiwi gal, Denika Clooney of whom finished 55th at the Worlds Cross Country.

This episode is dropping in Kelloggs, Idaho. Whoa! Dwayne and Mal cover the usual updates of training, running in cold weather, shoe scan at Fleet Feet, updates of trail running shtufffff, and a shoutout to our kiwi gal Denika Clooney racing this weekend in Tallahasse, Florida. We have teased about an upcoming race giveaway for the Northland 100. More to come in future episodes! Thanks for all your loyalty and welcome to the New Year of 2026!

Welcome to, or welcome back to the Chafing the Dream Podcast.In this episode we cover the usual training updates and some unfortunate illnesses over Christmas. Also I ask Mal to talk about her time in Arizona as a high school athlete and what that entails. Lastly we do a quick checkup on our accountability arsehole victim, Dan!Enjoy

In this episode, we talk about our training and Dwayne's first impressions of running in the Arizona desert, dodging cactus and kicking rocks.Mal also talks more about her bone stress recovery and returning to the trails she begun her running on.Lastly but most importantly we sit down with Bree Monaghan to ask her about what it takes to train for and compete in the world duathlon champs in Spain, how she qualified for the champs. And how a skiing concession after her event has affected her training and life, what recovering from a concussion takes.For questions or comments email us at [email protected] or simply leave a comment on this episode.

In this episode Dwayne sits down with Mike Lee after a long run in the northland heat and humidity to talk about how Mike started running and some of his past results and future goals.But before that we share some hacks on how to travel with an 18 month old, cover some quick training updates and talk about the parkrun relay that Dwayne ran on Saturday. Watch it here Then we chat a little about the return of the Ring of Fire race in March next year.Finally we once again hold Dan accountable for his once a week parkrun.Thanks for listening y'all and cheers. See ya on the northern hemisphere for our next episode!!!