Obstacle Running Adventures

Another weekend, another event!  It feels good to be running trail races and OCR again! This weekend Mike volunteered at BoldrDash Winter Dash at the "Wannabe" Destroyer obstacle and had a great time cheering on participants.  Towards the end of the event he set out to sweep the 5 mile course which is when the heavens opened and it rained like it hasn't in months. You'll hear a quick interview wit...

FIT Challenge knows how to put on great events, both trail and OCR.  Robb McCoy, the race director, has also learned how to put them on safely amidst a pandemic and helps prove that races can safely happen! Mike ran both the 5 miler and the 5k options at the Cumberland Monastery and had a great time at the events.  Unfortunately there was also a lot of anxiety going into an event for the first tim...

Rat Race has been putting on incredible events in Europe for years and Mike has specifically had an eye on their Dirty Weekend since it began! This is just one style of the many that they have been putting together. Now Rat Race USA is starting up with plans to bring similar adventures to Americans!  Their site isn't up yet since this is all relatively new but you should join their Facebook Group...

We had kept our eyes on Hildervat 's first event last year and they were able to host a successful event during the pandemic! Since their inaugural race was so successful, elites from all over North America have signed up to conquer the Jacksonville Beach Battle on May 22-23!  Show some love to this local OCR by liking them on Facebook , following them on Instagram , and registering for one of the...

It's another year for another one of Evan Perperis ' Ultra OCR Challenges !  This time he decided to take on a version of his OCRmill while wearing a hypoxic generator which effects the oxygen that he will breathe for the full 6 hours of his event, OCRmill 21,000 Feet ! Listen to hear how you can support the fundraising efforts , participate in the virtual event , or cheer him on as he faces off a...

Diversity in sports!  Basketball, football, and soccer all have it but why doesn't OCR, triathlon, or other endurance sports?  This is what the Overcome All Obstacles Foundation aims to change! Elite start lines at obstacle course races are objectively monochromatic which is a massive challenge when it comes to drawing a more diverse group of athletes to it!   Max Fennell , Rea Kolbl , and Ian Hos...

It's a very different type of episode this week as it is more of a video game review!   Ring Fit Adventure is an RPG where you use exercises to traverse across worlds and defeat monsters.  It teaches you great fitness and nutrition tips while providing a serious workout! Mike has been playing this game for the past 50 days and intends to keep playing it.  Is it something you should try?  What was...

Mike reached out to Dan Inglis, the president of The Colonial Road Runners , to have him on to talk about the running group.  Mike has been a member for the past few years but hasn't really had much of a chance to get to know the new president so this was a great conversation to get to know him better. This is one of our wicked local focused episodes but we really think that there is a lot to take...

We had the pleasure of having Mike Apfelberg, the president of The United Way of Greater Nashua  on our show to talk about Virtual Blizzard Blast ! Are you tired of all the similar virtual races like we are?  That's fine, this is a much more unique version geared to help their local community.  Odd are that you may not specifically live in southern New Hampshire but there are still ways that you c...

We needed to make a last minute switch since our original guest became unavailable and that's when Victor slid into our DMs! Victor Quezada is someone that we have heard about throughout the years but never had the chance to talk to, so this turned into an excellent opportunity to get to know him better!   He also partnered up with Whoop so see if he can hook you up so you can join his OCR group!...

Katelyn spoke to fellow New Jerseyan, Cole Crosby ! Cole just completed the New Jersey Point2Point FKT. The New Jersey Point2Point started in High Point State Park and ended at Cape May Point State Park (in case you were wondering these points are over 197 miles apart). 0:00 - 3:10 - Intro 3:10 - 6:20 - Quick News 6:20 - 6:38 - Content Preface 6:38 - 47:50 - Interview with Cole Crosby 47:50 - End...

We were interested in learning more about The Obstacle Racing Collab, so we had fellow podcast host Rich Ryan on. We talked to him about being an athlete, his podcast (The Reinforced Running Podcast), as well as his hopes with this new collaboration with up and coming OCR athletes! Don't forget to support Rich Ryan's podcast, Reinforced Running Podcast and his new collaboration, The Obstacle Racin...

Mike hosted another OCR Podcaster Roundtable Chat! This time with Jason Dupree and Anna Landry (from OCR Talk), Josh Chace (from ORM's Davis and Chace), Scott "The Fayne" Knowles (from I am a Spartan) and Kim DeVoss (from OCR Coven). We talked about some 2020 OCR topics, like Spartan buying Tough Mudder, The Spartan Games and prize money coming back to WTM! We also set goals for the upcoming year!...

It's time for our second of two 2020 recap episodes!   If you missed part one with our funny moments then check it out here ! 2020 has been a strange year that likely won't be remembered well but we hope that this episode provides some great life lessons from our show so you can leave 2020 better than you went into it! Why are we so confident in our show this year? We have had athletes such as Bra...

It's time for our first of two 2020 recap episodes! 2020 has been a strange year that likely won't be remembered well but we hope that this episode brings a smile to your face!  It is a compilation of the moments in our show this year that we thought were funny! 0:00 - 2:10 - Intro 2:10 - 8:27 - Quick News 8:27 - 9:00 - Content Preface 9:00 - 3:38:00 - 2020 Funny Moment Clips 3:38:00 - End - Outro...

Mike is usually pretty grumpy but he decided to try something new called optimism and looking on the bright side!  With this new lens, Mike and Katelyn look back over at the shit show that was 2020 and identify somewhat hidden great things that happened this year! 0:00 - 2:52 - Intro 2:52 - 14:34 - Not Quick News 14:34 - 15:28 - Content Preface and Disclaimer 15:28 - 24:08 - The Bright Side of 202...

We finally had a chance to speak with Rebecca Hammond, Harvard MD and elite OCR athlete!  We wanted to have her on early on in the pandemic but everyone else seemed to have had the same idea.  We figured we would save our questions for the next time that we saw her at a race but little did we know that this pandemic was going to take a long time and we still aren't out of it yet! 0:00 - 2:05 - Int...

We couldn't get the time to work out for a Quarantine Qorner live video earlier this year but we reached back out to Kirk about coming on our regular show as a guest! Kirk DeWindt is someone who we admittedly didn't know as much about before listening to The Running Public .  Quickly thereafter, he became one of our favorites for his determination through training, assistance in breaking down comp...

We weren't able to go and cover FIT Challenge in person due to it being out of state (where we can't go because of COVID) but we did get to have the women's winner Meg Julian on the show! Meg is one of our favorite athletes in the Northeast, she is pretty consistent as a podium threat, proud Newbsanity member, and always great when we get to chat with her.  0:00 - 1:50 - Intro 1:50 - 8:56 - Quick...

With Virtual World's Toughest Mudder happening last weekend we wanted to have someone from the event on to talk about it.  Mike and Katelyn also had an unrelated talk about how they never really had the chance to actually talk with one of the event Zoom hosts Carlo Piscitello despite being in a group message with him for the past year. It was a slight pivot but we were super excited to finally hav...

Virtual World's Toughest Mudder was this weekend!  We couldn't get too excited for the event but the news about 2021 WTM got us pumped up and Katelyn figured that we should talk about some WTM memories from 2017-2019! 0:00 - 2:21 - Intro 2:21 - 6:45 - Quick News 6:45 - 7:25 - Content Preface 7:25 - 30:13 - World's Toughest Mudder Memories 30:13 - End - Outro First Down Syndrome Ironman Virtual Wor...

We hit episode 200 without missing a single weekend!  We have put a mind blowing amount of hours into this show and felt that we should celebrate it in the same way that we did for episode 100 back on October 2nd 2018, by doing it live! Live content is very different from how we usually record so the setup was a bit distracting for us.  We didn't edit the episode to keep the live feeling while lis...

We all know that OCRWC in Stratton, VT was cancelled this year.  I, like many many others was upset by this but figured that we could celebrate OCRWC and all the work that Adrian and his team do in a different way! I reached out to Adrian Bijanada to come on the show so we could discuss his athletic background, the history of OCRWC, highlights over the years, as well as important lessons that he h...

We have wanted to have Kim DeVoss (host of the podcast OCR Coven) on our show ever since she released her very first episode back in July. However, we wanted her to build up a backlog of episodes (so you can binge her show now) before we had her on our show!  0:00 - 1:59 - Intro 1:59 - 7:20 - Quick News 7:20 - 7:47 - Content Preface 7:47 - 48:42 - Kim DeVoss Interview 48:42 - End - Outro Bigs Back...

Listen to hear some old familiar voices - Javier Escobar, Josh Chace and Michael Stefano! Javier Escobar ran (and finished in fourth place) in the 8k and Josh Chace and Mike ran the 25k! Mike also had the opportunity to interview Race Director, Dave Hooper!  0:00 - 3:40 - Intro 3:40 - 9:53 - Quick News 9:53 - 10:30 - Content Preface 10:30 - 40:18 - Interviews 40:18 - End - Outro New Tough Mudder P...