Obstacle Racing Media Podcast

Episode 172 - Ella Kociuba burst onto the OCR scene in December of 2011. At just 18 years old, she signed up for the open wave at the Glen Rose Super. She ended up finishing faster than the winning female in the elite heat. In 2012, she began signing up for elite heats and made the podium in her first several races. Her high point of the year was finishing 3rd at the Vermont Beast Championship rac...

Episode 171 - For an appetizer, this episode begins with a brief chat with Mark Ballas from The Green Beret Challenge . Matt sat down with Mark at the end of the most recent GBC. It's a quickie, but a goodie where we learn a lot about the Green Beret Challenge. The main course is with Melinda Spencer (Corssino). Melinda and Matt discuss : What is the WNBF? How does the WNBF differ from from the IF...

Episode 170 - The bio from Bob Babbitt's website will tell you : Bob Babbitt started racing triathlons way back when the earth was still cooling, in the late 1970's. He did his first Ironman Triathlon in 1980 on the island of Oahu and ended up completing five more when the event moved to the Big Island. Despite being incredibly slow at swimming, cycling and running, he has somehow found his way in...

Episode 169 - In this episode, we talk to Sandra and Gary Cantrell. You may know Gary better by his race director alias, Lazarus Lake. We talked to Gary and Sandra right after a screening of The Barkley Documentary, in Atlanta, Georgia a couple of weeks ago. If you know what the Barkley Marathons are, great. If you don't, we'll include a bunch of links below to help fill you in. Either way, enjoy...

Episode 168 - First up, as promised, Amelia and Carlo join Matt for a chat about Superbowl 50. They really planned on no running talk, but then Amelia went and placed 2nd at The Sean O'Brien 100k. That finish gave her a "golden ticket" into one of the most prestigious 100 milers around, Western States. Then, we chat with Andy Weinberg. Andy co-founded The Death Race with Joe DeSena nearly 10 years...

Episode 167 - Jesse Itzler used to leave funny outgoing messages on his answering machine back in college. They were so good , they went viral, the old school way. Pre-Internet, people would tell friends, who would tell friends, who would tell more friends. This led him to a record deal with Delicious Vinyl. To many people, landing a record deal is THE dream. Like, we got a DEAL, MAN! This, howeve...

Episode 166 - For starters, as promised, its 15 minutes with Carlo and Amelia to talk NFL Championship games. Amelia also expands a little on the whole "enjoying dry needling in her butt" that she eluded to on The Tim Ferris Podcast. For those that hate our football chats, you can fast right the heck forward. For those that love them, enjoy. The main course on this episode is Jesse Fulton. Jesse w...

Episode 165 - First up, as promised, its the return of Carlo talking playoff football. He's joined this week by Amelia Boone as she heard we were talking NFL and wanted in. We then have a nice chat with Kyle Railton, better known as Coach from Tough Mudder. He got asked to lead a warm up one morning, and that led to an entire new part of his life. We dig in to find out what he was doing before bei...

Episode 164 - On today's show, we talk to Joe Desena about the Spartan Delta. What is it? Why did he create it? Who is it designed for? How do you earn one? We attempt to answer all of those questions. First up, however, is a new feature which will run from now through SuperBowl 50. Carlo Piscitello joins the show to discuss the previous weekend's NFL playoffs and makes predictions for the upcomin...

Episode 163 - If you have ever attended a Spartan Race, you have most likely had Dustin send you off with his start line speech . Did you know that he wrote that speech and now Spartan has all of their MC's use some version of it? In this episode we learn that Dustin is one of the only current Spartan employees that goes all the way back to 2011. We also learn that he is a self-described nerd, and...

Episode 162 - Scott Jones is an athlete, coach, race director, podcaster and podcast network producer. How the heck does he do it? Today's show is sponsored by Savage Race - 10% off all 2016 locations with code ORM. Udder Mud Run - RUNORM saves you $10 off this awesome, family friendly event! Show Notes Athlete On Fire blogs and podcast . Scott/Athlete on Fire Twitter

Episode 161 - Lindsay Webster's first ever OCR was The 2014 Spartan World Championships, where she surprised everyone (including herself) and came in 4th. In 2015, she cemented herself as one of the most dominating women in the sport. She made the podium at over 20 races this year, finishing first 13 times. For OCR Championship season, she did not slow down, taking 2nd at Spartan Worlds, 1st in OC...

Episode 160 - Dean Karnazes became famous in 2006 for running 50 marathons in 50 days and then writing a book about it. He talks about his "haters", his fans, and how little the rest of the world knows (or doesn't know) about ultra marathons. We also discuss OCR, his involvement with the Men's Health Urbanathlon, book writing, and much more. Today's show is sponsored by Obstacle Guard - Free shipp...

Episode 159 - It's the conclusion of World's Toughest Mudder 2015. We start you off with a little treat from the past. A snippet from Amelia Boone just days after winning her first WTM Crown back in 2012. Then after a convo with Christian Griffith from his 5th Lap, we head straight into Sunday morning/afternoon interviews with Ben GreenfieldDeanna BleggJuliana Sproles Jimmy From BearFace Ryan Atki...

Episode 158 - On today's show we bring you the 2nd installment of audio coverage from World's Toughest Mudder. We begin with a Thanksgiving leftover that should have been on Part One as we talked to Joshua "Cox" Cox and Carlo(s) Piscitello prior to the race beginning. We then dive deep into the race already in progress as we follow: Team WolfPackYancy CulpApril HartwigTrevor CichoszAllison TaiChad...

Episode 157 - Today's episode features two interviews that are not directly OCR related. First up is Jason Green. Jason talks about how going on a long run touched his soul and ignited a passion within him. Out of that passion he set out to create races for skaters, punk rockers, beer drinkers, and other fun people he wasn't finding in most running communities. Next up is Matt "Bear" Novakovich. A...

Episode 156 - The coverage of WTM that you have come to count on from the podcast. It's our 4th year in a row talking to as many people as we can get to in the time allotted at World's Toughest Mudder This year's Part I is Saturday interviews with the following people prior to the race, er challenge, starting. (In order of appearance) Will DeanAmelia BooneJunyong PakJosue StephensRobert KillianBen...

Episode 155 - A true pioneer and visionary of the running industry, Jeff founded the first specialty running store, has written 29 books, and trained hundreds of thousands of runners using his run/walk methods. Jeff sat down with Matt, and gave him advice on hamstring issues as he, himself has not had a running injury in 37 years. Jeff also discussing his latest breakthroughs about mental training...

Episode 154 - Christian Griffith does not do anything quietly or half-assed. When Matt met Christian in 2012, Christian was already living what most consider a "pretty good life". He had a well paying job at an ad agency in which he could dress how he wanted, and travel to races all over the world on any given week. That was not enough for him and in April of this year, he moved from Atlanta to Ja...

Episode 153 - In this episode, we talk to Michael Wardian. Go to his Athlinks and his Ultrasignup page in the show notes to get a glimpse of the volume of races that he runs. (and how well he performs!) In this conversation, we attack such burning questions as: How does he do so many darn races and can you race too much? Which costume and treadmill records are important to him? What are his exerci...

Episode 152 - Our OCR World Championships 2015 podcast coverage continues from last Saturday afternoon. First up, the start of The Journeyman Heat aka "Meet the Spahtens" starring Paul Jones, Sandy "Mama Hen" Rhee and Mario "The Speedo Guy" We then move on to a chat with the world champion, Jon Albon, having had several hours to drink in his victory. The next portion is a casual chat with my new m...

Episode 151 - Part I of our 2015 OCR World Championships coverage includes interviews with top finishers :Jon Albon, Ryan Atkins, Cody Moat, Lindsay Webster, Claude Godbout, Robert Killian, KK Paul, Rose Wetzel, and Hobie Call. We continue the finish line interviews with Peter Norris, Marc "The Muddy Highlander" Leinster, Michael Breese, Alena Dawn, Julie Johnston, Greg Kawanishi, Simon Weig, and...

Episode 150 - Last weekend, the 2015 Warrior Dash World Championships were held in Pulaski, TN. In this episode we talk to the following finishers. Max King 1st (Also 2014 Champ)Joshua McAdams 2ndBrett Hales 3rdHobie Call 4thCody Moat 6thRyan Atkins 12thYuri Force 13th Bridget Franek 1stKimber Mattox 2nd (2014 Champion)KK Paul 3rdAllison Morgan 4thMary Ballinger 5thRachel Corvington 8thCorinna Cof...

Episode 149 - On today's show we have some hot off the press interviews with the top finishers of the 2015 Spartan World Championships from Lake Tahoe. Robert Killian was introduced to most of us with his 3rd place finish on the televised Spartan race from Palmerton, a few weeks ago. In this episode, we learn about how his previous experience prepared him for success, and how he learned to beat th...

Episode 148 - First up is Eddie Yanick. Eddie is for the most part, a regular dude. He recently went all Forest Gump and ran across the state of Texas as part of the Race Across The USA. He enjoyed it so much, he thought he'd ride his bike across Texas a short time later. Part 2 of the show is a chat with Yancy Culp and Keith Allen. Yancy is the founder of Yancy Camp, where Yancy trains OCR athlet...