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332. USAOCR with Ian Hosek!

Obstacle Running Adventures - May 15, 2023 01:55 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
There has been a big charge by USAOCR in getting a team together for the potential World Obstacle Championship being put on in Belgium later this year!  Due to this, they reached out asking to come on the show and talk about it. As media we try to stay up to date with what is going on in our n...

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331. Cairn University's Highlander Mudder with Dave Willard!

Obstacle Running Adventures - May 08, 2023 05:43 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Katelyn and I (Mike) first got into OCR back when we were in college and would have loved an event on our campus!  That's what Cairn University is doing with their Highlander Mudder event that they had a couple weekends ago. We reached out to Dave Willard who is the Director of Partnerships fo...

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330. Tri-State Spartan Super and More with Chris Marrone!

Obstacle Running Adventures - April 30, 2023 23:36 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
This weekend was New Jersey's Spartan Tri-State weekend! Mike inititally didn't recognize many of the names of the athletes on the podium from Saturday's Spartan Super but then realized that the first place finisher Chris Marrone was the winner of the Spartan 3K test event in Jacksonville! H...

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329. Spartan Palm Beach 3K Elite Series Race with Adam Beach!

Obstacle Running Adventures - April 25, 2023 02:07 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
The first Spartan 3K series race was this weekend, if you missed it then be sure to watch the live stream here! We had an episode previously with Brett Milks after the 3K test event in Jacksonville and it was the first time that we have started to feel optimistic about Spartan Race making thi...

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328. The Final FIT Challenge OCR with Elites, Ultras, and More!

Obstacle Running Adventures - April 17, 2023 04:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
FIT Challenge has been putting on obstacle course races since 2013 and we have been to almost every single one of them over the years (we just missed the very first one and the one during the extreme heat wave the summer of 2019)! Unfortunately that all comes to an end after this past weekend ...

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327. Gainesville Savage Point Series Race with Ryan Kempson!

Obstacle Running Adventures - April 10, 2023 02:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
The second Savage Point Series race happened this weekend, if you missed it then watch the live stream here! We had Ryan Kempson reach out to us about wanting to come on the show and then realized that despite him being featured in 11 different episodes with in person interviews, he has never ...

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236. Des Linden and Her New Book "Choosing to Run"!

Obstacle Running Adventures - April 03, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
A few months ago we mentioned Des Linden's book "Choosing to Run" being available on preorder in quick news.  We were sent an advanced copy of the book back in February and we really enjoyed it! We were also given the chance to have Des on the show to talk about it.  This is technically our ...

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325. Georgia Savage Point Series Race with Jamie Horianopoulos!

Obstacle Running Adventures - March 28, 2023 02:32 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
The first of the Savage Race point series races took place in Georgia, if you missed it then you can watch the live stream footage here! This was a great opportunity to have Jamie Horianopoulos on the show for her own episode!  She won a boatload of axes by winning Savage Races last year and s...

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324. Savage Race Point Series Hype with Lee Stowell!

Obstacle Running Adventures - March 20, 2023 02:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
With the second ever Savage Race Point Series having its start right around the corner we wanted to have a member of the event team to build up some anticipation for it! Luckily Lee Stowell was the man for the job!  We talk about his background in the sport (which involves working for Battlefr...

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323. The Second New England OCR Expo with Vendors!

Obstacle Running Adventures - March 13, 2023 02:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
The event that we have been talking about for months finally happened and Mike made sure to interview all of the vendors that took the time to come out to it! Katelyn held down the fort at our own vendor table alongside incredible athletes like Javier Escobar, Vanessa Gebhardt, Kelly Sullivan,...

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322. Spartan 3K Test Event in Jacksonville with Brett Milks!

Obstacle Running Adventures - March 06, 2023 01:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We had friend and Patreon supporter of the show Brett Milks on to talk about his experience at the Spartan 3K test event that was held in Jacksonville, Florida! The change of the Spartan series to the 3K format brings a lot of additional changes other than the race distance.  There is also a l...

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321. Possum Jump Adventures with Tracey Brower!

Obstacle Running Adventures - February 27, 2023 02:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Tracy Brower reached out to us asking if we would be interested in having a talk about Adventure Racing.  I immediately remembered the excitement that surrounded Ryan Atkins and Rea Kolbl competing in Eco Challenge a few years ago and how humble Coree Woltering was when we met him shortly after ...

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320. The Return of the New England OCR Expo with Steve "Bacon" Martin!

Obstacle Running Adventures - February 19, 2023 22:49 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
You've heard us talk about it for a while on the show but now we have an episode that goes into more detail about the New England OCR Expo happening on March 11th! Last time we were just vendors for the event but this year Mike has been on the planning committee working alongside this episode'...

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319. The Run Show Boston with Interviews! (Part 2)

Obstacle Running Adventures - February 13, 2023 00:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We were very excited to check out The Run Show in Boston last weekend!  This episode has additional interviews from Saturday and all interviews from Sunday. We were able to get a total of over 50 interviews with vendors, guest speakers, and the event director from Raccoon Events himself!  We g...

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318. The Run Show Boston with Interviews! (Part 1)

Obstacle Running Adventures - February 07, 2023 02:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We have been planning to check out The Run Show in Boston since 2020 when it was first announced!  COVID pushed back the actual event for a few years but this time it actually happened! The coldest temperature of the year couldn't even stop us from going and covering this long awaited event an...

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317. Newbsanity's Night Ops with Winner Nicole Lunder!

Obstacle Running Adventures - January 29, 2023 23:26 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We had Nicole Lunder on the show to talk about her win at last weekend's Night Ops which was put on by Newbsanity! Nicole is fairly new to the sport of obstacle course racing so in addition to talking about Newbsanity's Night Ops we talk about her experiences at Savage Race, OCRWC, and more ...

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316. Ulrikke Evensen on Spartan World Championships, World's Toughest Mudder, and More!

Obstacle Running Adventures - January 23, 2023 00:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
With this show being based out of the United States it's easy to focus on who we have in North America.  When it comes to the sport as a whole though it's a massive disservice to the excellent athletes over in Europe! Trying to get better at this we are really excited to have Ulrikke Evensen o...

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315. Coach Dave Robinson on Goal Setting, Reducing Negative Self Talk, and Breathwork!

Obstacle Running Adventures - January 16, 2023 00:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Back in August Mike heard an episode of Reinforced Running with a guest that got his attention, years before that he heard him for the first time on I Am A Spartan Podcast! Now we finally had the chance to have Dave Robinson on our show!  We focus on how to set goals in a way that we are mor...

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314. Frozen Clam Obstaplunge Audio and Interviews!

Obstacle Running Adventures - January 09, 2023 01:32 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
For the new year we did an event that Mike has had an eye on for years, the Frozen Clam Obstaplunge! We were also able to make an episode out of it with event audio and interviews with a few participants as well as the CEO of Mentor Rhode Island Jo-Anne Schofield, the fund development manager ...

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313. 2022 OCR Podcaster Roundtable Chat with Dave Claxton, Scott Knowles, and Brakken Kraker!

Obstacle Running Adventures - January 01, 2023 23:06 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Another year, another round table chat with fellow OCR podcasters! This is the fifth year in a row where we have done this, the members frequently change but it's a good way to have fun, get fresh ideas, and help awareness that there are other great shows out there! In the past we have had H...

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312. 2022 Recap Compilation - Lessons Learned and Things Remembered!

Obstacle Running Adventures - December 27, 2022 01:22 - 5 hours ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
It's that recap compilation time of year again! This is the second of two episodes and it focuses on the clips of the most important moments of the show with guests, quotes, and a celebration of each and every guest that we had on the show this year! Go back and check out last episode which...

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311. 2022 Recap Compilation - Bloopers, Jokes, Good Times, Oh My!

Obstacle Running Adventures - December 19, 2022 00:05 - 5 hours ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
It's that recap compilation time of year again! This is the first of two episodes and it focuses on the funny moments, the bloopers and of course Katelyn's end of episode jokes.  This episode is guaranteed to make you laugh or your money back! ... Also, if you are paying to get these episodes ...

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310. Applying for the Spartan Winter Death Race with Brandon Welling!

Obstacle Running Adventures - December 13, 2022 03:15 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Brandon Welling is an endurance athlete who has a long history of impressive accomplishments!  He is one of two heads of TPK Endurance which has been putting on trail and endurance races since 2016! This is part of his application for the upcoming Spartan Winter Death Race which is to be held ...

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309. Deka World Championships with Terra Jackson!

Obstacle Running Adventures - December 05, 2022 02:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We are going hybrid on this episode with Terra Jackson! Since we weren't able to cover the Deka World Championships in person we knew we needed at least one episode to give it some love.  Following the results Mike immediately knew that he wanted Terra as the guest. Terra took 1st in Deka Fi...

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308. World's Toughest Mudder with Mark Gaudet and First Woman to Hit 100 Miles Kris Rugloski!

Obstacle Running Adventures - November 28, 2022 02:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
This is the second of two episodes on World's Toughest Mudder. Click here for part one.  For this episode we have Mark Gaudet and Kris Rugloski! Mark won the Spartan Ultra World Championships in Telluride last year and has an extensive military background.  Both of these add up to a pretty st...

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307. World's Toughest Mudder with Tyler Veerman and New Champion DJ Fox!

Obstacle Running Adventures - November 21, 2022 01:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We were planning for this and next episode to be on Deka World Championships but unfortunately there were a trifecta of reasons that stopped us from being in Atlantic City to cover it live! Instead, we plan to have two episodes on World's Toughest Mudder (released earlier than planned).  For t...

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306. The One Where We Say "Absolutely I Do"!

Obstacle Running Adventures - November 18, 2022 02:39 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Who would have thought that 5 years and 11 months into our show we would have such a special episode 306?! You listeners have come to know us pretty well and we figured that it was only fair to involve you in our wedding in one way or another! Being miked up for our ceremony was non-nogotiab...

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305. Preparing for a First World's Toughest Mudder with Anthony Kunkel and Michael Lopez!

Obstacle Running Adventures - November 08, 2022 04:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Making up for last week's lack of a guest we are having something of a double feature which we usually don't do in a single episode! First off we have Anthony Kunkel who runs the UltraHouse in Durango, Colorado.  He is a well known athlete in the running world but OCR has not been his main foc...

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304. Our Thoughts on the Spartan Race News!

Obstacle Running Adventures - November 01, 2022 00:37 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Ghosted by a guest again!  Hopefully now that Halloween is over we can be done with the ghosts and get back to some high quality episodes!  If you're still here and listening we love your faces! We used this opportunity to talk about our thoughts on the 3 big Spartan race news stories.  We got...

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303. Spartan Dallas Ultra Recap with Angela Bowers! (Potential Venue for World's Toughest Mudder 2023?)

Obstacle Running Adventures - October 25, 2022 01:53 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We needed to pivot from our original gameplan so hard that I may have sprained a metaphorical ankle. Anyway, instead of hearing from an elite athlete who competed at the big Spartan Race in Blue Mountain (because we were ghosted ... spooky!) we turned to our trusty friend Angela who is always...

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