Obstacle Running Adventures

Sarah Hetzel took on the Dopey Challenge which is completing all of the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend events!  This consists of the 5K on Thursday, 10K on Friday, half marathon on Saturday, and the marathon on Sunday! We discuss her running background, Disney Favorites, how long she has been wanting to do this multi day event, how it went, and advice to others considering the multi day event!...

Accountability Corner is a podcast created in May 2023 by 3 athletes ( Darren Martin , Morgan Maxwell , and Chris Shipley ) in England who wanted to keep themselves accountable! Darren , Morgan , and Chris have progressed to also helping their listeners stay accountable! Hear us discuss a bit about how they found the sport of OCR, origin of their podcast, how they  feel the UK ranks in Europe as a...

So this is a first for the show and we don't plan to do this often but we are rereleasing an older episode for this week!  This will be done during times where it's difficult to find a guest, continuous time zone issues, life circumstances, etc. This features a rerelease or a reRUN of our first ever episode published January 8th 2017, that's 8 years ago!  Back when there were 4 hosts of the show,...

Every year since 2018 we have started the year off with a round table discussion with other podcasters in the sport of OCR.  In the past we have had Heather Bode , Matt B Davis , Josh Chace , Scott "the Fayne" Knowles , Jason Dupree , Anna Landry , Kim DeVoss , Rich Ryan , Brakken Kraker , and Fran Chiorando ! This year we had Fran Chiorando from OCRWC Podcast, Dave Claxton from OFX Podcast , Scot...

It is clip compilation time of the year again! The second of our two 2024 compilation episodes focuses on the important moments of each episode of the show from this year.  There is also a compilation of all the names of the guests we have had on the show during 2024 to celebrate them as well.  Hopefully this inspires you and starts you off right for a solid 2025 while you listen during your resum...

It is clip compilation time of the year again! The first of our two 2024 compilation episodes focuses on the funny moments, bloopers, jokes, and post credit parts of the show from this year.  Hopefully this brings you some joy or makes you laugh during long holiday travels or a really long run! Start – 6:32 – Intro 6:32 – 12:09 – Quick News 12:09  – 12:53 – Content Preface 12:53 - 5:08:16 - Funny/...

We wanted to get an episode on the Spartan Beast World Championship again this year but it can be pretty difficult with language and time zone barriers! Luckily we heard back from Richard Hynek who we have heard and seen a lot about over the past recent years! We discuss what his athletic background consisted of before obstacle course racing, how he found Spartan Race , the choice to have surgery...

It started off as a quick news story but Mike figured that he would reach out to the local athlete and he is so glad that he did! David Filar ran across the state of Massachusetts and raised over $10,000 for Christmas toys to go to the UMASS Memorial Children's Hospital ! That is what initially caught our attention but we also discuss his running background, the importance of growth outside the co...

It is the end of World's Toughest Mudder coverage time ... for this year! Mike flew down to Florida to help with The OCR Report live stream and to do a whole bunch of podcast coverage.  So much so, that we got 4 episodes out of it, so make sure that you subscribe and follow along to hear more about the best OCR event of the year! For this part four though, it focuses on the bar crawl on Monday whe...

It is still World's Toughest Mudder coverage time! Mike flew down to Florida to help with The OCR Report live stream and to do a whole bunch of podcast coverage.  So much so, that we are hopefully going to get 4 episodes out of it, so make sure that you subscribe and follow along to hear more about the best OCR event of the year! For this part three though, it focuses on the brunch on Monday. You'...

Still World's Toughest Mudder coverage time! Mike flew down to Florida to help with The OCR Report live stream and to do a whole bunch of podcast coverage.  So much so, that we are hopefully going to get 4 episodes out of it, so make sure that you subscribe and follow along to hear more about the best OCR event of the year! For this part two though, it focuses on the event days of Saturday and Sun...

It's World's Toughest Mudder time! Mike flew down to Florida to help with The OCR Report live stream and to do a whole bunch of podcast coverage.  So much so, that we are hopefully going to get 4 episodes out of it, so make sure that you subscribe and follow along to hear more about the best OCR event of the year! For this part one though, it focuses on Friday. Interviews were while athletes were...

It has been a long time coming but we finally had Leon Kofoed on the show for his own episode! He is one of the more popular social media personalities in the sport and one of the most well known Danish athletes in the sport of OCR.  He was vocal about 2024 being his final year as a full time athlete so we discuss what that looks like, how it felt to take the win at an OCRWC event, his recovery fr...

I have been wanting to do this for a while ... even though I'm not sure him or the others in The OCR Report believed me! It's Jack Goras , the guy behind the camera at pretty much every major OCR that has happened in Europe or North America in the past 5 or so years! We haven't had much time to talk in the past when covering events since we are usually busy doing interviews while he is taking pict...

A bit of a pivot for this week's episode since Mike had his "A race" of the year, the FIT Challenge Survival of the FITtest ! A couple years ago he planned to take on the 30 hour but due to an upcoming wedding , the final and most difficult semester of grad school, and some achilles pain the registration was moved back. This is the raw and pretty unedited (especially since Audacity gave me issues...

OCRWC was last weekend in Mammoth Lakes, CA and we wanted to have Ja Shua Ried on for his own episode to talk about his experience! Ja Shua was a prominent member of the OCR in the northeast before moving to Colorado, we chose him to be one of our sponsored athletes back in episode 300, and he has been Mike's coach for the past few months! Hear us discuss van life out west, his athletic background...

This weekend was OCRWC in Mammoth Lakes, CA and you will totally hear about that ... next week when I have time to schedule an interview with an athlete but it is Tuesday and people are still traveling home! Instead we finally had Kevin "The Mudman" LaPlatney , on the show who has been in the sport since 2010 and has seen a lot of events come and go during his time living on Long Island.  He owned...

We had Yaris Cruz on the show once before while doing interviews at OCRWC in 2021 , having her on again for her own episode was long overdue! Yaris as an athlete is known to be a force to be wreckoned with whether it be OCR, ninja, or even hybrid racing.  We discuss her background in sport before finding OCR (or lack thereof), the importance of mental health as an athlete, how her position as the...

We have been hearing about Baylen Bean for a while now, after his recent victory at Spartan Pan-American Championships we figured that it would be a perfect time to finally have him on the show! We talk about his athletic background, how he found obstacle course racing, the qualification process to join the elite field, his favorite race distances, how his championship event in Seattle went,  how...

Well, we still can't believe this is the first time that Josh Fiore has gotten his own episode but here we are! Josh has been involved with OCR in the northeast for well over a decade as a weekend warrior, volunteer, motivational speaker, and as an elite.  He has been on the show 7 times previous to this (episodes 114 , 194 , 328 , 358 , 360 , 382 , and 401 ) due to seeing him at Spartan Greek Pea...

There were some big events that happened this weekend with Tough Mudder Infinity in Pittsburg , the final Conquer the Gauntlet under the Mainprize ownership , the first of the Savage Point Series races in Maryland , and the Spartan European Championships , but we covered the final BoldrDash OCR in Exeter, RI! BoldrDash as a race series had a huge role to play in our overall OCR history!  It was Mi...

Another huge milestone of the show, hitting 400 Episodes!  Don't quote me on it but I can't think of any other OCR podcasts that have made it this far (other than Obstacle Racing Media) ... yet! We celebrate with a live recording of the intro, the naming of a new "sponsored athlete" some Q&A, audio clips that Katelyn had sneakily asked for congratulating us, some more Q&A, a compilation of times w...

Lots of events happened this weekend so it was difficult to figure out which event to focus on and which particular athlete to have on the show.  I try not to have the same guest on for their own episode too many times, one of the big events had a lot of issues and I'd want to have more of the dust settle before we consider having an athlete on to talk about it. Then Mike saw that Jenny Overstreet...

The New England Spartan Super and Sprint weekend came back to Barre, MA and it felt good to be back!  Most are pretty familiar with the ~10K Super and the ~5K Sprint so those don't need too much description. In addition to taking on both of these events though, we also completed the Teddy Bear Crawl which is a 7am wave where adults crawl the kids course to earn a kids medal and kids could bear cra...

After Evan Perperis interviewed Mike to talk about OCR in the Northeast on Strength and Speed ( listen to episode here ), Mike pulled an uno reverse and asked Evan to come on our show! We have heard of some events that take place in the center of the country but to have a much better idea of the state of the sport in that region it takes someone more local to the area.  With Evan living there for...