515 : The Ultra Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I do a retrospective look back at some of the most downloaded and most discussed guests that have appeared on 515 : The Ultra Podcast.   Featured excerpts include: Manmadh Rebba    S4E3 -- Ohana Guest / Moab 240 Finisher :  Ferg Hawke               S3E10 -- Ultramarathon Man  Dede Griesbauer    S3E13 (Part A) -- 2022 World Champions   Arnaud Selukov      S2E3 - Lea...

Send us Fan Mail Ben Peresson and Richard Groome from UMUK join me to talk about their ultra races and share their backgrounds in the sport.    Ben is a “black shirt” Norseman Xtreme racer and Marathon Des Sables finisher.  Richard has taken on The Brutal and rode every stage of the Tour de France with a magazine map as his guide.   Together, they, like many race directors, fell into organizing th...

Send us Fan Mail Rob Gray is a world traveller who has benefited from the transition to remote work.  He describes himself as a Boulder guy from South Africa with a British passport.  We caught up during a two week period that he was home packing to move the family to Phuket, Thailand after returning from competing at the Comrades Marathon in South Africa.  Rob won his first Ultraman race in Flori...

Send us Fan Mail We originally thought Dee Fuller overcame the usual body issues when stressing the body in an ultra event on her way to her second women’s win at UM Australia.   A few days later she went public on Facebook about struggling with an eating disorder leading up to, and while competing this year.  Something I was not aware of when we recorded this conversation. During our conversation...

Send us Fan Mail This is a special episode crossover between 515 : The Ultra Podcast and Fitspeek , hosted by Kevin Heinze.   We recorded this conversation together and are both releasing the same episode to our audiences. We share stories about podcasting and our backgrounds for each other’s audience.  Larry shares breaking Ultra news about new races coming to Whistler, BC in August 2024.  As a b...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Armando Armellini an athlete who has competed at numerous IM events, Epic 5, and 7 Ultraman events since 2016, including 4 consecutive Ultraman’s in 2022.   He is the architect of El Plan (a way to pace 515 distances) and was the first person to attempt to complete all four UM branded races in a single year. Armando lives Aloha, Ohana, and Kokua.  In his day...

Send us Fan Mail In this special release I speak with Steve King who was announcing at the event to get the rundown of what happened over the three days in Noosa this year at UM Australia .  I also speak with Shane Duffy to put a final pin in his record breaking six 515 races in a year.   Each of the champions, Simon Cochrane and Dee Fuller also stop in for a chat about how the race unfolded for e...

Send us Fan Mail UM Australia is the focus of this episode.  I have a chat with race director, Jeff Morris, to preview a few of the 45 athletes who are toeing the line in Noosa this weekend.  Like most 515 races, the line up includes some big names with lofty goals like Richard Thompson and his sub 20 challenge, and some people who are just challenging themselves to complete the distance.   We dis...

Send us Fan Mail Günter Pilz, aka Ultra Pilz, is a three time UltraCzech 515 finisher and a man who creates his own Ultra “Adventures”.   He funds his adventures with his day job as a secondary school teacher in Linz, Austria where he works with a lot of refugee students.   He created a running club at his school to keep those students moving and to share the benefits of sport. From his central Eu...

Send us Fan Mail Alex Luna, one of the many “race directors” of the UB 515 joins me today to speak about the 10 year anniversary of the Ultra 515 race in Ubatuba, Brazil. We discuss the history of the race in Brazil and its connection to the roots in Hawaii with Curtis Tyler .  Alex shares his experience with the sport and the lifelong friendships that have come from it.  Finally we discuss this y...

Send us Fan Mail From Phoenix, Arizona this is your day three race recap of Ultraman Arizona 2023.  Find the Day 1 & 2 Recap here .  Unfortunately, Jen McVeay was busy with her duties as race director and was unable to contribute to this recap. What a day three it was.  It lived up to the hype, producing a new World Record time for the 33 year old Max Kniazev. There will be one more Special Ed...

Send us Fan Mail This is the final Special Edition from Ultraman Arizona for 2023.  In this episode, I catch up with the two winners at the awards night to speak about how they felt about the race. Cynthia Bartus , age 45, from Pennsylvania, is the 2023 women's winner and  Maxsim Kniazev is the NEW WORLD RECORD holder and winner on the men's side. I also speak with Shane Duffy from Austr...

Send us Fan Mail Today is a special edition episode for the Ultraman Arizona 2023 race recap of Day 1 and Day 2. Joining me today to bring you the recaps are Assistant Race Director Chris “JB” Holzner and this year’s race announcer Chris Clark. Continue to follow the race and get more information at : Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/ultramanarizona/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Ultram...

Send us Fan Mail I am joined in this episode by Shane Duffy from Australia as my Athlete in Profile for the 2023 Ultraman Arizona race.   This is the second episode released this week, as I also do a Race Preview with UMAZ race director, Jen McVeay and the voice of 515 everywhere, Steve King .  Listen to that episode here. As you will hear in this episode, when Shane starts something new he jumps...

Send us Fan Mail Ultraman Arizona 2023 takes place from March 17 - 19.  I have returning to the podcast, race director, Jen McVeay , and the 515 announcer extraordinaire, Steve King to preview the athletes competing in this year's race.  It is a smaller field with just 3 women and 19 men, but some great athletes will be vying to set the official race records in their respective age groups and...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s Ohana guest, Manmadh Rebba , is a multiple finisher of 515 races and ultramarathons.  His ultra journey has taken him from a company 5k to completing the Moab 240 .  In his day job he works as an architect and project management consultant, and he uses that as a metaphor for his new endurance coaching platform - Re-Design Me .  He wants to help athletes, especially Indian...

Send us Fan Mail Race director of Ultraman Florida , Jen McVeay, and the voice of Ultraman, Steve King join me to preview the athletes attending the 2023 version of the race on February 9 - 11.  We discuss some of the athletes' race resumes and connections to the Ultra family. In the second part of the episode I have a conversation with one of the athletes - Amy Jo Jenkins from Arkansas.  Thi...

Send us Fan Mail Francesco Magisano is my Ultraman Florida athlete in profile.  At ten months old Francesco was diagnosed with eye cancer and by age 16 things went completely dark with blindness for him.  He found his way to sport through Achilles International , a global adaptive sports and advocacy organization serving people with disabilities.  That has led to him working for Achilles as the di...

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Send us Fan Mail For the final episode of this season 515 is offering you a special double episode.  This is Part A. Link to Part B My two Ohana guests today share a number of ideas that have propelled them to the top of the podium in world events in 2022.  They are both in their 50’s; they both believe in doing more than just swimming, biking and running to stay in shape; and they believe the rec...

Send us Fan Mail For the final episode of this season 515 is offering you a special double episode.   This is Part B.   Link to Part A My two Ohana guests today share a number of ideas that have propelled them to the top of the podium in world events in 2022.  They are both in their 50’s; they both believe in doing more than just swimming, biking and running to stay in shape; and they believe the...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s guest, JD Tremblay, discovered that his body was able to sustain the trials of an Ironman (without any effects) when he did his first race, with no training, to check it off the bucket list. This led JD to push the boundaries to see where he would hit the wall.  After competing in two 515 races he jumped at an opportunity to do the Epic5 ten-year-anniversary race – EPIC DE...

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition of the podcast, Steve King files a report on how the events played out for the athletes at the 2022 Ultraman World Championships.  Shout outs and mentions in this episode: Steve King (S1E1) (S1E2) (S1E3) Barry Berg (S1E9)  Ryan Rinear  Dede Griesbauer  Rob Gray  Leanda Cave (S1E8) Steven Keller (S2E10)  Richard Thompson  Jon Greyell  Tara Norton  Antonina R...

Send us Fan Mail It has been 3 long years since the Ohana has had the opportunity to have a family reunion on the big island at the Ultraman World Championships.   Sheryl and Dave Cobb are happy to be hosting 40 athletes from 15 countries at this race once again.  Sheryl gives us the roster of athletes and Steve King joins us to share his insights and statistical knowledge of a field that he says...

Send us Fan Mail Few Canadians have the ultra running resume of my Ohana guest, Ferg Hawke .  He has raced in Western States, Marathon Des Sables, and Badwater .  In triathlon, he represented Canada at the World Triathlon Championships and has competed in Kona for both the Ironman World Championships and the Ultraman World Championships. Ferg has challenged all of the big names in Ultra and made f...