Chafing the Dream NZ

Kia oraWelcome to another Kiwi American running couple podcast. Mal and Dwayne talk about the past 2 weeks of training updates as the previous episode was all about Nigel breaking 3 in the marathon. Dwayne talks about his recovery from Taupo and interesting side effects from Efudex, a precancerous cream that turned 10 days into misery for him. Also put him back on his training. Mal brings up her skeletal reset that she started as of her last mile series. Mile Series: Dwayne and Mal bring up the vibes of running the series and how fun it was to have the community together. Mal shares her embarrassment running in her sports bra while being 32 weeks pregnant. Dwayne runs 4:53 and Mal ran 6:27 for the final Mile Series wrap up. Mal's brain explodes talking about humidity training. Dwayne explains the relevance that humidity training has ESPECIALLY approaching a kiwi summer in December. After we recorded the episode we heard from Hannah Presswood who has an upcoming Sweat Test on the 5th December. You can book at this link in Whangarei. We also discuss the upcoming Season 2 opener for the Kea Series, Toi's Challenge. We talk about the excitement of the event for the trail running short course community. Get after it y'all!!!! Please check out the Toi's Challenge here. OR if you are more interested in the Kea Series here is their website explaining rules, points allocation ,upcoming events, etc., Finally we close with our Chafing the Coin Collection event. Happening this Sunday the 15th November at 1PM. We are meeting at Putahi Park and cannot wait to see our locals chasing around Whangarei collection coins in 6 different locations. Check out our post here. Alright that's it.Keep chafing your dreammmzzzzz. Mal and Dwayne

Kia ora Welcome to another episode with the Kiwi American Running Duo, this one is special because it's an interview episode. Mal and Dwayne get to sit down with Nigel Gilmour who within 36 hours of recording was buzzing after running his first sub 3 marathon. Mal looooves talking marathon training so we dig into all the topics of his build up. We ask Nigel about his background to running and why he even chose the marathon. We talk about his prior experiences with marathons. He has ONLY raced at the Auckland Marathon running . His current PB of 2:58 was a fun discussion to get to. We discuss any setbacks he had leading up to the race, hence a niggly calve injury. Mal loves breaking down some of his key sessions like the 3x 15 min and 4 x 20min at marathon pace. Interestingly, Dwayne had coached Nigel for this marathon so it was fun picking both their brains about how the lead up went. We breakdown shoe choices, fueling, and race plans. Nigel shares the difficulty of running in a pack but overcoming it after a few bottle pick ups. We close talking about the entirety of the race day and what his future plans are. Nigel seems to have some interest in ultras or maybe cracking another marathon. We will see! If you want to follow along with Nigel here is his strava link: Follow Nigel's Strava hereThanks y'all for the listen. Keep Chafing your dreamzzzzzBYyyyyyyYYYyyyyyeMal and Dwayne

Welcome back to another episode of chafing the dream.This week we give the run down on the lack of running happening in this relationship. The training updates are simple and quick this week until Dwayne actually get's back into some running after his recovery from Taupo 100km dnf.Plus we look into some upcoming races in the northland and Auckland scene. Yes there is lots happening over the next month, most notably is the upcoming Auckland marathon and the Kerikeri half marathon.Hatea Spoooooky chase detailsWe are also getting closer to our own event, the Chafing Coin Collection. It's on the 15th of Nov, and you need a team of 4, two guys and two gals who're up for an adventure. Email us at [email protected] with your entries.Byyyeeeeee

Kia ora haere maiWelcome to another episode with Mal and Dwayne. We start the episode talking about our training. Dwayne’s taper week leading up to Taupo and Mal’s Frihaka plus being plagued with illness. Seems to be a reoccurring issue in this podcast. We dive into the DNF of Dwayne’s race for Taupo 100k. Largely discussing how race week went, race morning, and race day unfolding. His decision of when he knew he was done racing the 100k. His decision to recommit to eventually doing another 100k now that he actually has unfinished business. We talk about crewing, get snippets from Kieran Horne the 2nd place male finisher for the Taupo 70k distance and Amber Silich the first place female and 6th overall for the Taupo 100k. We bring up the new CR for the Taupo 100k set by Cary Carleton running a shocking 7hrs 40min. Mal describes her encounters with local Aster Metcalf noticing that she had a fall. Turns out that fall was 5k into the 50k and she had broken her hand and her neck. YIKES!!! We close reviewing the Chafing the Coin Collection on the 15th November. If interested in the event either DM us on insta and/or email us at [email protected] 

Kia ora Welcome to another great episode with Mal and Dwayne. We start this episode doing some housekeeping.There is a NEW park run in Northland at Paihia. This park run meets at Waitangi Mountain Bike Park at 8am on Saturday. The first event will go live on the 17th October, so this Saturday! It is pram friendly, no dogs please. Come support our far north runners. We also discuss the Mile Series and updates on how the event ran. We loved the community support and were excited about ~60 participants for the race. Many folks was their first time ever racing a mile! How fun is that.  Please sign up by the night before here. The Mile Week 3. The best part of the episode is Dwayne’s breakdown for Tapupo 100k. We discuss his last 100k race and his current goals for Taupo 100k. We talk about fueling plan, shoes he will wear, the race course, how is training has come together, parts that were setbacks. If you are at the finish line please please day hello to us! We love hearing from other folks that listen to Chafing the Dream. Finally we close talking about Chafing the Coin Collection that will be held on the 15th November, Sunday. This event is a 4-person team event where you will be running.adventuring around Whangarei collecting coins. There will be 6 coins in 6 different locations. You can divide and conquer. We will have killer good Spot Prizes and the winner prizes for the team that collects the coins the fastest. Thanks for all our loyal listeners. We appreciate y’all. Keep chafing your dreamzzzzzzzz. Byyyyyyye 

Kia ora welcome to another episode of Chafing the Dream with Mal and Dwayne. We start with the usual updates of our training runs. Mal gearing up for the Mile Series and Dwayne gearing up for the Taupo 100k (1.5 weeks out). We talk about Mal being 28 weeks pregnant and running/weight lifting. Mal continuing to make little gains in the gym room. Meanwhile Dwayne brings in the down hill speed sessions resulting in some wild DOMS! Mal and Dwayne announce some local PSA starting with Shannon Leigh Litt running an ultra a day for 1,000 days!! It is just wild. We briefly talk about how often we saw her in Whangarei and excited to see what she will be doing next. We recap the Food Alchemist session with Shaun La Franco. We feel it is always good to talk about the importance of nutrition especially optimising your nutrition. Congratulations to Chris and Helen at the Hut HQ doing their first live event with more to come. There are two upcoming events Kerikeri half marathon on 21st November and Chafing the Coin Collection the week before on the 15th November. See y'all at both events :) Keep chafing your dreamzzzzzzzz. Byyyyyyye 

Kia ora Welcome to a funnnn episode of several different voices besides the usual Mal and Dwayne yarning and yarning and yarning away. I don't know if you can tell at this point, but I (Mal) writes the pod description and truly believe nobody even reads this bloody thing. Anyways... Mal and Dwayne do the usual banter of training updates. Mal shares her weight training and speed sessions. She also shares insights from her previous coach in consideration to monitoring heart rate while pregnant. Dwayne updates on his training for the week. He completed 6 x 30 sec uphill and then had plans to do a 30k but cut it short to 20k because the bod wasn't feeling right. Next we get our boi Sam Rout to discuss the vibes of Race Tekapo and how he felt he did on the course. We loved talking about the Kea series, the development of Race Tekapo and potential growth it has for New Zealand Trail Races. Sam shared the terrain of Race Tekapo with the trail conditions. Thanks Sam for giving us your time! We are lucky enough to get two voices memos from our Race Tekapo 50k champs Frances Redmond and Max Yanzick. Both sharing the knowledge about the course and how their training leading up to it has been. Plus some insider plans of what their A races are for the year. Thank you Frances and Max, it was an absolute privilege to hear from you both! We have postponed the Chafing the Coin Collection the 15th November, Sunday. Start collecting your team mates for this event! It will be a fun one with killer good SPOT PRIZES!!! Keep chafing your dreamzzzzz. Byyyyyyeeeee

This week Mal and Dwayne share their recent training progress, Mal has an updated lift program which she is very excited about and Dwayne is staring down the barrel of the Taupo 100km in a little over 3 weeks.They also go over the recent results from the local half marathon, as well as Dwayne's experience running as the 1:40 pacer.Lastly the up coming mile series has both Dwayne and Mal very excited. And it's not just that Mal is excited to hear a measurement in the imperial units. The track has a special place in her heart and she's hoping more people will discover this passion. So hold on to your earbuds as this might turn into a track podcast for a few weeks.If you want to sign up to race The Mile you can do so here: https://hatea.run/event/the-mile/Entry closes 4th Oct.Keep chafing your dreeeaaaamz

Haere mai welcome to a special episode with Mal, no Dwayne because he doesn't have a vagina. Mal sits down with her running kiwi mama friend, Helen. Helen Newson is a 24-hour National NZ Champs, founder of His & Hers Events which runs Kings Backyard Ultra and Northland 100, Chris and Helen have recently opened their very own specialty running and outdoor store called The Hut HQ in Whangarei. Mal and Helen discuss some real talk conversation around pregnancy and running, my experience of 1st versus 2nd pregnancy running journey, postpartum running and journey, the shock of newborn life, recovering, breastfeeding, shatting blood, the 6-week post partum return is complete bullsheeeeeet and what it really can look like. I can't help myself but bring up my usual ranty topics about bone health pre and post pregnancy, breastfeeding amennorhea, and RED-S. WARNING: This episode could be triggering to some because we do dive into either pre or postnatal depression. We have a giveaway of hot pink buff socks. If you made it this far and you are a female and want some hot pink socks be the first to leave a comment titling "I LOVE BUFF SOCKS!"

Kia ora haere maiWelcome to a fun jam packed episode. Dwayne and Mal do the usual unpacking training updates. Mal shares her usual weight lifting program that she has been very consistent at and her slow mileage uptick. Dwayne talks about his longest run so far for the the 100k Taupo training, a 50k out to Glenbervie and back. Mal and Dwayne go on a tangent about mixing electrolytes and water, Dwayne becomes a scientist discussing this and Mal gets lost in the weeds. We discuss the upcoming local Whangarei Half Marathon race this Sunday. We then have a slight cameo with our daughter Poppy and end up recording the rest of the episode the next evening. We start off talking about Ali Anderson running a sub 3-hour marathon 32 weeks pregnant. Which is wild and impressive! There is an upcoming mile series starting 7th October for a 5-week series. It will be held at the Trigg Stadium, Park Avenue in Whangarei. The only track in Whangarei! This mile series is going to be so fun. We are excited to be apart of this. Mal can’t wait to see what she can rip on the track being hapu. It is a great open event that is inclusive and for truly anyone that wants to test themselves and their speed. The Kea series is a 8 mountain and iconic races held across New Zealand. Here is the schedule for Kea Series Season 2 and link to the announcement https://kearun.nz/2026/09/06/summer-of-epic-nz-trail-events-headline-kea-series-2/:Toi’s Challenge – Whakatane Sunday 15th November 2026Kinisi Rise and Shine Treble Cone – Wanaka Saturday 16th January 2027The Goat – Ohakune Saturday 23rd January 2027Xterra Wellington (including NZ Short Trail Champs) – Saturday 27th February 2027Motatapu UDC Finance Miner’s Trail – Arrowtown Saturday 6th March 20273 Peaks – Dunedin Sunday 14th March 2027Mauao King and Queen of The Mountain – Mount Maunganui Saturday 24th AprilNelson Mountain Running Festival (incl. NZ Mountain Running Champs [Uphill]) – Uphill Only on Saturday 8th and Classic on Sunday 9th of May 2027Keep chafing your dreams. Thank you all you loyal listeners <3 Mal and Dwayne