Like a Bigfoot

This week we are chatting with the incredible Hoka One One athlete Pete Kostelnick. In 2016 Pete ran from San Francisco to New York City in 42 days, 6 hours and 30 minutes, shattering the previous record set in 1980. That's an average of 72 miles each day! He also holds the fastest time for Badwater 135 which is commonly known as one of the hardest endurance races in the world as it traverses Deat...

This week's Like a Bigfoot Podcast features stories from some of my fellow racers from the Desert RATS stage race. These folks are absolutely amazing athletes and incredible human beings with stories that are intense, motivating, and will hopefully inspire you to step up to your own challenges. It was great to reconnect because, after our experience traversing the desert, we bonded into a tight kn...

This week’s episode is my race report from Gemini Adventures Desert RATS stage race. Desert RATS is a 6 day stage race on the Kokopelli Trail from Fruita, Colorado to Moab, Utah. This was one of my absolute favorite adventures I have ever experienced and I am extremely excited to share this race report for the special episode 100 of the podcast!! Throughout this episode, I recap the event to my bu...

This week we welcome TJ Anderson back to the show! TJ is the author of "The Art of Health Hacking" and this week we chat about a wide variety of topics including how to empower people to better health, the best way to communicate, TJ's methods on recovering from an injury, and why we should all seek to ask more questions of ourselves. I hope you guys enjoy the show and be sure to check out TJ's bo...

We are one week out from the Desert RATS Kokopelli Stage Race- a 6 day run through the desert- and this week I'm chatting with fellow racer and all around AWESOME guy Phil Pinti. When it comes to stage races, neither Phil or I have any experience which means one week out we cannot be any more excited and nervous! When you break the race down into the most simplistic terms, it seems fairly straight...

This week we are continuing our chat with Travis Steffen about his experiences in a wide variety of athletic endeavors. In this episode we dig into his late teens/ early twenties when he was fighting MMA, a time I've never really heard him speak in depth about. Every time Travis is on the show I always learn something new and fascinating about him and this week is no different! When he was 17 he u...

On this week's episode of the podcast I got to sit down in my back yard and enjoy a conversation with one of my best buddies Brandon Swett. Brandon was previously on episode 9 of the show discussing his experience at a 10 day silent meditation retreat (I highly suggest you check out that one!) This week we chat about a wide variety of topics: Heroism, Swimming, Canoeing in Maine, and why I can't w...

This week I was lucky enough to sit down and pick the brain of sports psychologist, author, speaker and athlete Scott Welle! We chat about a wide variety of topics all based around achieving peak performance. Scott shares tips and tricks for forming a healthy mindset and explains how to push through difficult times, both in training and in competition. We also chat about his experiences as an Iron...

On this week's episode of the podcast I got the opportunity to chat with endurance coach and mountain athlete Travis Macy. Travis is an experienced adventure athlete who has participated (and won) a wide variety of events . He's competed in elite adventure races all around the world, 100 mile ultra marathons and ultra endurance mountain biking events. He is also the author of the Ultra Mindset one...

This week I'm very excited to welcome ultra runner and writer Cory Reese to the podcast. First of all, Cory recently finished running a 100 miler on the deck of a cruse ship! That's 16 laps per mile- 1,600 laps around and around and around the same teeny tiny track, fueling on an endless supply from the ice cream machine as he took on some self-imposed suffering. All the while overlooking people l...

This week I'm joined by Gemini Adventures race director Reid Delman to talk all things Desert RATS Stage Race, race directing, and the mindset needed to power through big time endurance events. ......and cage fighting! Reid is a wonderful race director inspired by his own experiences to design events that push participants beyond what they think is possible. He has organized all sorts of different...

This week's guest is ultrarunner, dad extraordinaire, beer lover, and Iowan Brad Dains. Brad is a midwesterner spreading awesomeness by helping introduce Iowans to the joys of ultrarunning. Specifically, we talk all about the Booneville Backyards Ultra, a race Brad co-directs. Booneville is a special race near Des Moines that allows runners to explore the beauty of my home state Iowa. It also is s...

This week's episode is an extremely powerful example of the power of perseverance, gratitude, and a "learning how to suffer" mindset. Maudie Jordan is a wonderful, incredibly positive, and completely badass mountain athlete from the Pacific Northwest. She has completed multiple 100 milers, climbed numerous mountains, and spends her times exploring all sorts of wild areas. In this episode, she shar...

This week we are catching back up with three of our previous Like a Bigfoot guests: Ryan Chukuske, Jason Sudduth, and Jennifer Mabus. Ryan recently finished his Bigfoot 200 book "Bigfoot 200: Because, you know, why the **** not?" and is preparing it for publication. Jason randomly called me last Friday and told me he's camping in Hungry Mother State Park (actual name) and is running a trail marath...

If you've listened to recent episodes, I've mentioned that I'm signed up for the Desert RATS stage race. This big crazy 6 day run from Fruita, Colorado to Moab, Utah this June. Leading up to the event, a few episodes of the show will be devoted to helping me prepare for what will be the most difficult thing I've ever taken on. On this week's episode my friend and frequent Like a Bigfootian Brady M...

his week we are welcoming Adam Casey back on the show. If you have yet to listen to the first two episodes with Adam, I highly suggests going back and checking those out. He's a fascinating dude, a great story teller, and has been incredibly open about his life experiences. Adam continues from where his story left off- discovering that he had a brutal form of cancer- stage four lymphoma and progre...

This week we are chatting with adventure athlete Richard Kresser. You will be absolutely blown away with what he has accomplished: first place at the Bigfoot 200, 2nd place at Arrowhead 135, finished the Moab 240 (yes...two hundred and forty freaking miles), second in the triple crown of 200s, along with a handful of other ultra marathons. The episode starts with me being very perplexed by the Arr...

(Cover Photo by Josh Perez) This week I was lucky enough to have Brendan Leonard and Jayson Sime come over and chat with me about their excellent film "How to Run 100 Miles". We recorded this "live" in studio....aka outside on the porch in my back yard (It was a 60 degree day and this is an outdoor podcast...so I thought "what the heck?") If you have not seen the film, do yourself a favor and chec...

This week I'm incredibly excited to chat with author, speaker, family man, and incredibly nice guy Mitch Matthews! Almost two years ago I listened to my buddy Calvin Johannsen on Mitch's podcast "Dream. Think. Do." talking about his 14ers project. I checked out a few more episodes of the show and completely connected with Mitch's advice about going after big, intimidating goals and his dream to "I...

Today the always fascinating Travis Steffen is back to the podcast. If you haven't listened to the previous episodes, Travis is one of my absolute best friends in the whole world. He's also one of the wisest, strangest, most successful and genuine people I know. I never know what to expect when we do a podcast. This week as I sat at my kitchen table, watching him put his hair up in a 'Manbun' I th...

On this week's episode "Plantriotic" Jackson Foster shares wisdom he's gained from his years adventuring through the world on his bike. Currently, he's on a journey riding his bike all the way from Alaska to Argentina, spreading goodness, experiencing the power of the present moment, and embracing all the adventures along the way. This interview was recorded during a brief break in his tour as he...

This week we are catching up with previous guest and all around awesome guy Bill Sycalik!! Since we last spoke, Bill has wrapped up running a marathon in all of the continental U.S. National Parks as well as the parks in Hawaii, U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa. Now he's preparing to level up as he is working out details for the extremely challenging and remote parks of Alaska. He's also de...

This week we are celebrating our brand new logo design by revisiting special moments from episodes #1-40! For new listeners this episode will give you an idea of what the Like a Bigfoot podcast is all about and for long-time listeners this episode will let you return to some of the stories from a variety of our guests. I've organized the clips into 4 categories that show what you can expect from t...

Mikah Meyer is on a journey of a lifetime. He's taking on a road trip that is bringing him to all corners of the country and he is checking off all of the 417 National Parks managed sites along the way. As he's traveled over the last few years his project has transformed as he's discovered a bigger purpose; increasing the LGBT inclusion in the outdoor industry. Mikah's story is beyond inspiring. T...

Super stoked this week to catch up with one of my favorite returning guests Candice Burt!! Candice is the race director of a few teeny tiny events......oh wait, she puts together extremely mind boggling 200 mile races??.....excuse me, did you say TWO HUNDRED FREAKING MILE RACES!! Through her company Destination Trails she has established the Tahoe 200, Bigfoot 200, and the Moab 240 as some of the...