EP18
Ewegene Tan -Durian And Race Organizing
Ewegene Tan is the founder and race director of the Malaysia Mountain Trail Festival a trail running race that is held in his hometown of Taiping, Perak, Malaysia each year. He is also a very good friend who i raced with for the Dragonsback race in Wales in 2019 covering over 320kms of rough Welsh Mountains together. We also trained for this race together in Sagada so you can say we that we know each other very very well.
This year has been particularly difficult for our trail racing industry with all our events being cancelled and having to differ participants as well as offer refunds on entries it has been a year of trials for both of us with the prospect of having almost no income coming into our organizations. We talk about the work that we do as race organizers and the sometimes under appreciated amount of time we actually put in in order to prepare for the races we organize.
We also chat about his new passion during the beginning of this Pandemic -Durian and how he and a group of his friends in Taiping went about buying and selling Durian on the streets of their town and all the learning they got along the way.
From being a lawyer working in a multinational firm to running the family fabric and logistics business to race organizing and more recently becoming a Durian trader -Ewegene for me epitomizes someone who is an eternal student always wanting to learn and try new things and it is this range of experiences as well as eventual expertise that has made him successful at almost everything he puts his mind to. The MMTF in just 3 years is now one of the most successful trail races in Malaysia and is the only race to be allowed to use "Malaysia" in its name and of course during the Dragonsback in 2019 i can say i would never have finished that race without him shepherding me to the finish line on the last day.
Thank you for this conversation my friend.
You can find Ewegene Tan on the following platforms:
Instagram: @ewegene13 https://www.instagram.com/ewegene13/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ewegene13
Malaysia Mountain Trail Festival: https://www.facebook.com/malaysiamountaintrailfestival/
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