Chafing the Dream NZ

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What another secret special episode with our Muscle Mania crew Bree Monaghan "Baby Bagel" and Nathan Ryken "The Viking". Dwayne and Mal were lucky enough to sit down with the two of them and talk about recovery.
We start opening about how training has been for all four of us and our newest goalzzzz to create a triathlon team. Boys vs. Girls!
We then get straight into asking Nathan about how he got his diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder . What his training is looking like currently and how he has shifted his goals.
We switch to discussing Bree's recovery from her concussion in August. She seems to have been doing very well making a full recovery from the concussion with no post head injury symptoms.
Finally we make sure our listeners know about our code "chafingthedream" for 20% off the upcoming Beach to Basin race and Parihaka half marathon. Both our local events supporting Sport Northland. You can sign up here for Beach to Basin.
Enjoy and leave a comment for mailbag questions, words of encouragement to Nathan and Bree, or any insights you had listening to this episode.
Please.... keep chafing your dreams not your armpits.

Morena Dawn Patrol- if you do listen when we drop our episode at 5am every Wednesday ;)

We start with the usual banter and training updates from Dwayne and Mal. Feel free to comment about your own training, we love hearing from our listeners!!

The bulk of this episode is where we have the honour to talk to Denika about her recent racing experience for World XC Champs. She gives us the inside scoop for what it was like to represent NZ internationally. We are super proud to have her represent Northland and can't wait to see how she gets after it for the ending of her track season. Follow along with Denika's story on her instagram.
Finally we announce our two winners for giveaways! Dori and Johnny have been so kind to participate in our giveaway. These two lucky humans have landed a free entry to our local Beach To Basin 10k on the 15th March 2026.
If you missed our giveaway no worries we still have a deal for you! For 20% off Beach to Basin use our code "chafingthedream".

Haere mai
Welcome to another episode, this one exclusively with Dwayne and Mal. We start the episode talking about our training updates and the usual realities of having a toddler who is sick, meaning sleepless nights blah blah blah.
Dwayne also spends some time exploring alternative nutrition options for his cheap as chips budget.
Mal discusses her recent letter from her Sports Doctor regarding osteopenia. We discuss briefly breastfeeding amenorrhea (no this is not diahhrea...) which means when a breastfeeding mother does not menstruate while breastfeeding. This then results an increase in bone injury! Hence what happened to Mal over the past year and a half.
We close with two free entry give aways to our local Beach to Basin on the 15th March 2026 in Whangarei, NZ. Please enter our giveaway by either posting on your instagram story a photo of you running and tag us @chafingthedreamnz. Or by commenting below on Spotify.

Keep chafing your dream.

Haere ra

Haere mai to Chafing the Dream
Wow, this is a special episode and we want to say a special thank you to Bradley, TrailRunningNZ newsletter. We couldn't have done it without him. Seriously! We are so lucky.

Okay on with it. So Dwayne drove down to Rotovegas to first and foremost crew for our local legend, Sam Rout. THEN snag interviews off the following top male and female finishers. Apologies for not being able to get more of the 100k female finishers, or any for that matter. It was like wet soup out there. Or so we've been told.

The following list is the upcoming interviews on this pod:
50k Females
1) Robyn Lesh
2) Jemima Cooper
4) Hannah Wall
7) Emily Hawgood

50k Males
1) Samuel Macaulay
2) Charlie Hamilton
3) Sam Rout

102k Males
2) Jacob Banta
3) Max Yanzick
10) Leonard Terry

Thanks for the listen y'all. We are lucky to have you as our listeners. Keep listening for some free entries to our local races in Northland.

Haere ra

Haere mai
Episode 27 is here and get ready for some rambling. The first 15 minutes is Dwayne and Mal discussing our thoughts on shoe sponsors, money in trail running (or lack thereof ), and other random bits and bobs.
Dwayne was lucky enough to snag a quick pre-race interview from Sam Rout, ranked 3rd currently for the 50k at Tarawera but more importantly our local northland rep. We are stoked to have him race in Rotovegas and already know he will smash it. Boys a beast, especially on dem hills.
After the interview we review the top athletes for the 50k race of Tarawera for male and female race. Dwayne will be down in Rotovegas this weekend trying to support our local legend, Sam Rout as well as get some short clips of the athletes.
Happy trails y'all and keep chafing your dreamzzzz.
Mal and Dwayne