HK4TUC 2025 with Wen Fei Xie, Jo Lodder and Andre Blumberg
The Endurance Asia Podcast
We are joined by Wen Fei Xie and her support crew Jo Lodder to discuss Wen Fei becoming the first women to survive the 2025 edition of Four Trails in 65 hours 20mins.
You can rerun the live tracker of the event here..
We cover:
Wen Fei’s ultra running back ground.. Just check out her amazing Itra profile
How long she planned for
Her warm doing the Grand Sam at HroupK100 3 weeks before
How Wen Fei and Jo planned the challenge strategy and reacted to change in rules
How she executed on the plan around MTR timings
Her eating and sleeping strategy
Jo discusses his HK5in5 fundraising event that won the Endurance Asia award in 2023
What’s next for Wen Fei and Jo inc World Trail Majors for Wen Fei and a charity run from Beijing to Hong Kong for Jo!
We are then joined by challenge director Andre Blumberg at 1:03m..
We discuss:
How this years event went
The smaller group of 15 athletes instead of usual 30
The impact the Four Trails movie has had on the event
What are the plans for 2026
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