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302. Nicole Mericle on the OCR Dream Team, Injury Recovery, Returning to Racing, and More!

Obstacle Running Adventures - October 17, 2022 01:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We finally had Nicole Mericle on the show for her own episode!  We talk about her background in rock climbing, her thoughts on progress with the OCR Dream Team, her road to recovery, and her plans to potentially race next weekend in Blue Mountain, Canada! Please support the companies that are ...

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301. OCR World Championships Team Relay Races and 100 Meter Finals with Elites!

Obstacle Running Adventures - October 10, 2022 00:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
This is the final of our 3 episodes covering OCRWC this year! Part 3 focuses on Sunday's Team Relay Races as well as the 100 Meter Semi-Finals and Finals! It begins with the men's relay start line audio with Justin Manning, a bunch of team and individual athlete interviews, a few vendors, and ...

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300. OCR World Championships 15K with Elites and Vendors! (Oh and Episode 300 with Live Intro/Outro and Shoutout Compilation!)

Obstacle Running Adventures - September 29, 2022 21:37 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
This is the second of our 3 episodes covering OCRWC this year! Part 2 focuses on Saturday's 15K and begins with the men and women's start line audio with Justin Manning, a few vendor interviews, a bunch of elite interviews, and then elite podium audio! Since this is the big milestone of epis...

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299. OCR World Championships 3K with Elites and Graham Roberts from NOX!

Obstacle Running Adventures - September 27, 2022 01:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
This is the first of our 3 episodes covering OCRWC this year! Part 1 focuses on Friday's 3K and begins with a recap of the course with Mike and Mark, which is followed by start line audio from the men's and women's race.  There are then 17 interviews with elites following their finish of the 3...

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298. Fran Chiorando from The OCRWC Podcast!

Obstacle Running Adventures - September 19, 2022 01:58 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
One of Mike's favorite new podcasts has been the OCRWC Podcast!  First off, the more podcasts on OCR the better, second it is more likely to have a wider range of athletes on the show due to both the broad nature of the show and the fact that the host is from England! Following the show from ...

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297. Shawn Roberts on Savage Race Series, OCRWC, and More!

Obstacle Running Adventures - September 13, 2022 03:40 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We had Shawn Roberts on the show for the first time!  Mike has occasionally reached out to him throughout the past couple years to congratulate him and offer other words of support and he met him in person and spoke off the mic at OCRWC 2021. Earlier this year he reached back out and said that...

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296. Rylan Schadegg on Winning Spartan North American Championship, Palm Beach Deka FIT, and Faith!

Obstacle Running Adventures - September 05, 2022 02:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Rylan Schadegg won the Spartan North American Championship last weekend in Kelowna located in British Columbia, Canada!  This weekend he won the Palm Beach Deka Fit setting a new record and beating Ryan Kent by seconds! These are pretty impressive accomplishments but only some of the reasons w...

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295. Shaun Stephens-Whale on Spartan North American Championship, Tower Running, and Bear Attacks!

Obstacle Running Adventures - August 30, 2022 02:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Spartan North American Championship was this weekend in Kelowna located in British Columbia, Canada! This is a new venue and it yielded a new podium! Taking 3rd place for the men was Shaun Stephens-Whale, an athlete we have only had on the show once back in 2018 but we remembered him having a...

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294. RuckFest Trail and Games with Elites and Mark Jones!

Obstacle Running Adventures - August 23, 2022 06:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Mike was invited back to cover RuckFest which is a competitive rucking event featuring a trail event, games events, as well as a team krew event.  They are all run by Brandon Welling from TPK Endurance and Mark Jones! This time Mike stepped up and ran the 6.9 mile competitive trail course inst...

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293. Spartan New England Super and Sprint with Elites!

Obstacle Running Adventures - August 15, 2022 01:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Mike went up to Louden, New Hampshire to cover the New England Spartan Super and Sprint.  Since it was the weekend of his 10 year OCR anniversary he figured he would give the course a go as well and he is glad that he did! He was working on the Instagram story for the podcast as well as for T...

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292. Mike Stefano's 10 Year OCR Anniversary!

Obstacle Running Adventures - August 07, 2022 20:16 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We have had our eyes on this celebratory moment for a while, had plans, and then of course had plans change! We hoped to have Rob Fournier aka the Muddy Warthog on the show since he was a very influential race reviewer at the time.  However, due to a family crisis he wasn't able to come on the...

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291. City Challenge Race 10 Year Anniversary with Elvi Guzman!

Obstacle Running Adventures - August 01, 2022 00:53 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We had Elvi Guzman on the show to talk about his 10 year anniversary of City Challenge Race! City Challenge Race has great obstacles, epic medals, a huge support system comprised of gyms and teams, and much more going for them!  Their next event in New York City will also have prize money for ...

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290. Ode to Laz Backyard Ultra with Sofia Harnedy!

Obstacle Running Adventures - July 25, 2022 00:31 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We had Sofia Harnedy on the show to talk about her experience at the Ode to Laz Backyard Ultra put on by Tad Mackrowiscz in Holly, MI! Sofia has been a long time supporter of this show, Obstacle Racing Media, OCR Talk, The Running Public, I Am A Spartan Podcast, and those are only what we are ...

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289. Cali Schweikhart on Utah Spartan Ultra, Disordered Eating, Good Pizza, and More!

Obstacle Running Adventures - July 17, 2022 22:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
After 2 years of wanting to have her on the podcast Mike finally pulled the trigger and invited Cali Schweikhart to be a guest on the show! Cali has continued to be vocal with her experiences dealing with disordered eating.  We are all about doing what we can to help reduce the amount of stig...

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288. Boston Savage Race and Blitz with Elites!

Obstacle Running Adventures - July 10, 2022 17:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
It's time to get Savage! Mike and Katelyn drove to Barre, MA to run and cover their Boston event. Mike took on both the Savage and Blitz course with Angela and Jimmie while Katelyn busted some rust with finish line interviews! 0:00 - 3:23 - Intro 3:23 - 10:00 - Quick News 10:00 - 13:10 -...

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287. Samuel "Shades" Koehler on Achromatopsia, Driving Awareness, and More!

Obstacle Running Adventures - July 04, 2022 20:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Samuel Koehler who goes by "Shades" has been on our potential episodes list for about a year now.  In last week's quick news segment we reitterated his recent post explaining the importance to keep your eyes on the road and on the look out for pedestrians. We had heard stories about him and sa...

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286. The Final(?) Indian Mud Run with Miranda Huber!

Obstacle Running Adventures - June 28, 2022 00:10 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Katelyn had the opportunity to interview Miranda Huber! Miranda talked about her her fifth place finish at the Savage Point Series, her experince at The 10th Indian Mud Run and being a member of the MudGear-BOTL Pro Team!   0:00 - 3:00 - Intro 3:00 - 19:35 - Not-so-quick News 19:35 - 20:2...

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285. The Final(?) Bonefrog in New Jersey with Brian Carney!

Obstacle Running Adventures - June 19, 2022 21:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
After hearing that Bonefrog's event season was going to wrap up after their Charlemont, MA and Stanhope, NJ events this year Mike blocked off the weekend for the New Jersey event and registered for the golden trident course! Bonefrog has been around for a while and offers a unique military fee...

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284. Spartan Puebla Beast in Mexico with Alex Walker!

Obstacle Running Adventures - June 14, 2022 03:14 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We were looking for a reason to have Alex Walker back on the show since she has only been on for a couple quick interviews while covering North American Championships back in 2018 and 2019! Seeing her place 3rd at the 3rd Spartan North American Series resulting in her being 3rd on the current ...

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283. OCR Everest, "On Endurance", and More with Evan Perperis!

Obstacle Running Adventures - June 07, 2022 01:19 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Starting with OCR America back in 2016, Evan Perperis has been putting his body through insane ultra OCR challenges every year in order to fundraise, and see what he is capable of! This year it was OCR Everest where he ascended the elevation of Mount Everest (29,029 feet) while taking on Tough...

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282. Matthew Gill on Newbsanity's Mud Gauntlet, Savage Series, and Toughest Mudder Philly!

Obstacle Running Adventures - May 29, 2022 22:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
When a name keeps popping up on podiums it starts to stand out, especially when we read podiums every week!  This is how Mike noticed Matthew Gill. He took second at Newbsanity's Mud Gauntlet as well as second  at Toughest Philedelphia the following week.  It wasn't until after we reached out ...

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281. The Final Wason Pond Pounder with David Veale!

Obstacle Running Adventures - May 23, 2022 03:12 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Mike has been aware of the Wason Pond Pounder for many years and we registered for their final event (planned for 2020) back in 2019!  Of course 2020 was a rough year for events to say the least and their event was postponed again in 2021 due to picking dates that would have been difficult for a...

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280. Kris Rugloski on Hyrox World Championships and Spartan Big Bear!

Obstacle Running Adventures - May 17, 2022 03:13 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Very excited to have Kris Rugloski on the show again, this time longer than a few minutes! She had a phenomenal weekend which included winning the Hyrox World Championships in Las Vegas and then traveling to Big Bear to place third and achieve her first Spartan North American Elite Series pod...

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279. We Watched Spartan Games Season 2 So You Don't Need To!

Obstacle Running Adventures - May 10, 2022 01:46 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We had plans with a great OCR athlete to have them on the show for a Mother's Day episode!  Got a bunch of questions together that I have been coming up with over the years for her/him and was good to go ... but never heard back on Sunday.  So then we extended our availability for Monday ... and...

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278. GORUCK Games with Jarrett Newby!

Obstacle Running Adventures - May 01, 2022 23:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We were torn on what to have this episode focus on.  We intended to have someone call in from the Tri-State Spartan weekend but Mike was much more interested in the GORUCK Games after following it closely last weekend.  Luckily the results of our Instagram poll helped direct our decision! Jarr...

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277. Michael Wardian is Running Across America!

Obstacle Running Adventures - April 25, 2022 02:14 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We had Michael Wardian on the show for the first time!  Our paths have crossed a few times before on the Spartan Cruise and an Ultra Virus Virtual Race but we haven't had a good opportunity to have him on the mic before.  Starting on May 1st he will be running from West Sacramento, CA to Ocean...

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276. Derti Development with Kati and Brian Turcotte!

Obstacle Running Adventures - April 18, 2022 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Katelyn spoke with Kati and Brian Turcotte from Derti Development in Northwood, NH. Listen to hear more about Derti Development's permanant obstacle course which is built on over nine acres of land. You will also hear about their most unique obstacles and  their obstacles with 3-4 difficulty lev...

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275. The Penultimate FIT Challenge with Elites and Ultras!

Obstacle Running Adventures - April 11, 2022 00:05 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Mike woke up at 6am to get to the start of the second to last FIT Challenge OCR event!  He may have missed the start but he was able to get interviews with the mandatory elite wave finishers, socialize with great people, run a lap with Angela and Jimmie, volunteer on the course, take down the ob...

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274. Crazy AF News with Matt B Davis!

Obstacle Running Adventures - April 04, 2022 02:04 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
We weren't sure what we would be doing for this weekend's episode but Matt B Davis from Obstacle Racing Media texted us and said that he wanted to call in.  What he had to say though, well that's for you to listen to and find out! 0:00 - 2:19 - Intro 2:19 - 3:15 - Quick News 3:15 - 3:36 - ...

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273. Spartan Games, Alabama WTM, Kyle McLaughlin Stepping Down, and Spartan Athletes Want Money!

Obstacle Running Adventures - March 28, 2022 01:08 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
Another rough week in OCR due to the poor reception of the first episode of the Spartan Games, the formal venue announcement of World's Toughest Mudder being in Alabama, the news of Kyle McLaughlin stepping down as the president of Tough Mudder, and Spartan athletes still demanding their prize m...

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