Obstacle Running Adventures

World's Toughest Mudder 2026 came and went and there was a lot of excitement captured both on the live stream as well as in our interviews! This is our part 2 of 4 of our WTM coverage and it focuses on everything during the event weekend! See time stamps below for more information but we have pre race interviews, start line audio, pit crew interviews, volunteer interviews, and interviews after the...

World's Toughest Mudder 2026 came and went and there was a lot of excitement captured both on the live stream as well as in our interviews! This is our part 1 of 4 of our WTM coverageand it focuses on everything on Friday before the start of the event weekend! A few interviews with the Tough Mudder Community, a short announcement, an update on Katelyn's race registration, and the course breifing a...

In preparation for this year's World's Toughest Mudder we had Scottish elite Grant Thompson on the show! We talk about how he found the sport of obstacle course racing, making the switch to run age group and eventually elite, and his history at World's Toughest Mudder! We discuss his country of Scotland, the Tartan Army takeover of Boston, and places worth checking out if you plan to make the trip...

We were on vacation in Colorado busy exploring Denver, Colorado Springs, and Manitou Springs and didn't have time for an interview. Instead, Mike and Katelyn do a post race and pre race discussion for New York Hyrox and World's Toughest Mudder respectively! Mike wasn't content with last week's episode in that he didn't get to talk much about his first Hyrox experience after the event and didn't wa...

This was supposed to be just a race day and not a media day but our potential guest for this weekend needed to reschedule and honestly somtimes Mike can't help himself in doing interviews! This was his first Hyrox event that he had ever gone to and he ran doubles with Joe Rucco from Underdog Fitness ! You'll hear some of Mike's thoughts on the Hyrox event in NYC, many interviews with vendors, and...

We planned to return to Obstacle Wonderland to cover their Rise of the Obstacles !  It has been 2 years since the last time that we covered their event which was the Boogie Wonderland ! Unfortunately we needed to make a change due to travel exhaustion and in preperation for 3 more trips this month! Luckily we were able to have Mario Valentin on the show to talk about his experience at the event! W...

We had plans to do an athlete interview this week but language barriers slowed things down a bit.  Quick reminder that if you speak another language in addition to English, we would love the help of a translator to reduce the barriers to communication with athletes! Between that and the fact that Mike is currently in an uber on the way to the airport at 3:26 AM Friday morning for a work conference...

Since there is a lot of traveling coming up for us soon we ended up not going to cover Newbsanity 's Mud Gauntlet like we wanted but we reached out to the women's winner to talk about it! Jessica Carson is on the newer side to OCR but she has been off to an incredible start with winning Spartan Poconos, doing well at Spartan NJ, and more recently winning Mud Gauntlet ! It isn't often that someone...

When it comes to  DEKA there's one place that we like to go to focus on for coverage and it's Underdog Fitness . There are a  bunch of reasons for this: Mike was coached by Kevin Gregory for a while, it's where we did our first DEKA, their athletes are frequently on the podium for DEKA World Championships every year, and they are some of our favorite people in the sport! We went down Saturday nigh...

Last episode we had Miranda Kilpinski on the show to talk about her return to obstacle course racing, and her win in New Jersey. Jordan McDougal took the win for the men and had a return to Spartan racing for the first time in a while so I invited him on as well! Jordan talks about what he has been doing since we last had him on the show 3 years ago , his torn meniscus , the race itself, plans for...

We saw that Miranda Kielpinski won the first of the USNS Northeast Series races in New Jersey (where we planned to be for coverage) and we knew that we needed to reach out to have her back on the show! Miranda engages in a variety of fun outdoor activities such as biking, surfing, and hydrofoiling (which Mike just learned about for the first time). It was great to see that she has returned to OCR,...

We reached out to an athlete a month ago after her podium at Jacksonville and invited her on the show, recent weeks have been coverage of local events like the Expo and FIT Challenge so we reconnected for this interview! Luiza Barteldes Farinha talks about her athletic background of being a dancer, how she got into elite OCR, being coached by Ryan Atkins , plans to take on the USNS South Series, h...

Back to cover another FIT Challenge but this one was bittersweet!   Robb McCoy has stated that he will be stepping away from the events and brand that he founded over a decade ago and that Darlene Gaudet will be taking over but keeping him as an advisor. We are optimistic about the future of FIT Challenge and are grateful that Robb and some of his team will stay around! We talk to both Robb and Da...

Another very successful New England OCR Expo ! Mike may be a bit biased because he has been on the board of directors for this event for the past few years but we had the chance to talk to many vendors, athletes, and other participants who back up the claim! There are two parts for this event coverage yet again and this second part focuses on the those that recorded at our table, announcements and...

Another very successful New England OCR Expo ! Mike may be a bit biased because he has been on the board of directors for this event for the past few years but we had the chance to talk to many vendors, athletes, and other participants who back up the claim! There are two parts planned for this coverage yet again and this part focuses on the vendors.  We made a switch from previous years and Mike...

Katelyn saw a post in the World's Toughest Mudder community Facebook group concerning water safety at the Lake Elsinore Tough Mudder so we reached out to follow up with the person who posted it! The poster, Jarrod Lumpkin has been running OCR since 2012, has been an active member in the Tough Mudder community, and is shooting for a total of 100 Tough Mudders! We talk about how he first found OCR,...

We were planning to both run the FIT Challenge's trail race but when we found out that Jason Dupree was flying up to do a race video of the  Citi Field Spartan for The OCR Report , Mike knew that he couldn't miss out on that! This was our 4th time covering the Spartan at Citi Field ( 2018 , 2019 , 2024 ) and it is a special venue for us because it is where we first started the live coverage aspect...

Ryan Hart had built up a community, gym, and group of athletes with HartFit in Illinois and Team Flatliners! Now that he has moved to Colorado he has recreated the facility by Colorado Springs where they  are putting on an Havoc at HartFit !  We discuss how he first found OCR, why he started HartFit , how Team Flatliners came about, the sport has changing over the years, the move to Colorado, adap...

Katelyn sat down with Mark Haverland to talk about his unconventional journey into fitness and OCR. They dive into his wild idea to bear crawl an entire Spartan Sprint and how what started as a "stupid idea" and challenge quickly grew into something far more meaningful and far bigger than Mark ever expected! Mark also shares details about upcoming events supporting the Teddy Bear Crawl Foundation...

After Katelyn saw  a post about a man completing a Hyrox ,she knew she needed to reach out to interview him!   Anthony Bryan is a ParaAthlete that has conquered Guiness World Records, the adaptive CrossFit Games, the London Marathon, the ParaOlympics trials and most recently multiple Hyrox events. Hear his story, his mindset for overcoming obstacles and how he is impacting the world around him! Be...

Work has been absolute chaos for Mike while Katelyn gets to enjoy February vacation! We reached out to a few guests but due to availability continuing to be pushed back we needed to fall back to rereleasing a previously released episode.  This time on a beloved Winter Spartan Race at Greek Peak in New York! This was the one year that we were able to make it and pretty sure the second to last one t...

We haven't had Bethany McChesney on the show in a while, when I heard that she is planning a follow up Little Loop Ultra event , I figured it would be a good time to have her back on the show! We talk more in depth about her athletic background, her gym Fitfarm in Strathroy, Ontario , her inclusive ultra event , Obstacle Fitness X Podcast which she hosts with Dave Claxton , and much more! Be sure...

Somehow we have never had Sarah Tucker on the show, this week we remedy that! Our paths crossed with Sarah at World's Toughest Mudder in both 2023 as well as 2024 but she inadvertently dodged the mic at both events.  She joined the MudGear Hannibal Race Pro Team and has been doing very well with elite events in the US! More recently she took 2nd place at the Abominable Snow Race in Lake Geneva, Wi...

Robert B Foster has had an impact on the OCR community in a few different ways! He first got into the sport in 2011, started training with his RBF Fitness clients and building them up to a goal of completing an event, and more recently being our main man on the mic for the  New England OCR Expo ! We had him on the show to talk about his training, recent knee surgery, and of course his book and pod...

We had Nick Gagnon on the show for hiking the Appalachian Trail back in 2023 and he seemed interested in taking on another hiking challenge in the future. Now that he finished the Pacific Crest Trail we figured it was time to have him back on the show! We talk about the preperation for the multi-month hike, dangers of animals and weather, towns and areas that stood out on the route, how it compare...