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This weekend is the Spartan Race World Championships. Jack Bauer and Will Hicks have a special two-part preview of the athletes to watch.  First up: The Men. Jon Albon is the defending champion and Jack and Will both think he will defend his title. Other men to watch include Johnny Luma-Lima, Ryan Woods, and Ryan Atkins. --- Ready to make your own predictions on the race? Go to YancyCamp.com and c...

The final race of the 2019 Spartan Race US Championship Series is in the books and Ryan Atkins and Lindsay Webster have once again won the title of Spartan US Champion. This is the fourth consecutive US Series Championship for Lindsay Webster. Webster has won the title every year since the series was introduced in 2016. This is the second US Series title for Ryan Atkins. Atkins also won the inaugu...

This weekend is the final race in the 2019 Spartan US Championship Series. Jack Bauer and I talk about Ryan Atkins' dominance and pick a winner between Lindsay Webster and Nicole Mericle on this week's The OCR Report podcast. Jack and Will talk about the race and what to expect from the top men and women runners this weekend. Jack is in anguish over having too many good male athletes to pick from...

The OCR European Championships were recently held in Gdynia, Poland. On the same weekend, the Spartan European Championships were held in Alleghe, Italy. The best OCR racers in Europe had to choose which of the two championship races to attend. --- 0:37 Intro 2:28 OCR Euro Champs: 6k Men's Results 4:36 OCR Euro Champs: 6k Women's Results 6:03 Age Groupers beating the elites? 10:56 OCR Euro Champs:...

Johnny Luna-Lima had the race of his life this weekend at Spartan Big Bear. He beat Ryan Atkins and the field for his first win of the 2019 Spartan US Series Championship and his first podium at a US Spartan Race ever. With his second-place finish Ryan Atkins has all but guaranteed he will win the 2019 Spartan US Championship when the final points are totaled after the upcoming final race in the s...

This weekend is the fourth of the five races in the Spartan US Championship Series. Jack Bauer and Will Hicks discuss the standings and who they expect to win the race this weekend in Big Bear. Three men have risen to the top of the field in the series points race. Ryan Atkins, Ryan Kempson, and Ryan Kent all need to win Big Bear or at least place high to remain in the hunt. On the women's side it...

Spartan Seattle is the third race in the 2019 US Championship Series. Ryan Kempson and Nicole Mericle lead in points after two races. Jack Bauer and Will Hicks break down this weekend's action as well as predicting the top five men and top five women this week in Seattle. --- Welcome to The OCR Report Podcast!  We are the only podcast to focus exclusively on the Elite SPORT side of Obstacle Course...

This weekend kicks off the 2019 Spartan Stadion Series with the Stadion Race at Citi Field in New York City. Jack Bauer and Will Hicks break down the series and tell you who to keep your eye on as the series unfolds. --- Welcome to The OCR Report Podcast!  We are the only podcast to focus exclusively on the Elite SPORT side of Obstacle Course Racing. Each week we talk about who won the latest race...

This weekend is the second race in the Spartan US Championship Series. If Ryan Kempson and Nicole Mericle repeat their first place finish from Jacksonville they will be in strong position to win the entire five-race series. Jack Bauer and Will Hicks break down the athletes and what to expect from the race this weekend. Look forward to a muddy, sloppy race in Alabama. --- 0:00 Intro Let's talk some...

Jack Bauer joins us to recap the wild first race in the Spartan U.S. Championship Series from Jacksonville, Florida. Ryan Kempson and Nicole Mericle took the win in the first race of the 2019 series and have a strong position going into the second race of the series in Alabama.  Ryan Woods finished in second place but suffered a controversial disqualification and then an unprecedented reinstatemen...

The Spartan US Championship series starts this weekend and we talked with Jack Bauer about what we can expect this year. Be sure to follow us on Instagram , Twitter , and Facebook this weekend to watch the race as it happens. Jack says to expect more dominance from the three-man combo of Ryan Woods, Ryan Atkins, and Robert Killian and look for Mark Batres to join those men in the upper group of ma...

The 2019 Spartan US Championship Series kicks off this weekend in Jacksonville, Florida. Ryan Woods and Lindsay Webster will be there to defend their 2018 series wins. Be sure to follow us on Instagram , Twitter , and Facebook this weekend to watch the race as it happens. --- Ryan Woods won the 2018 title by holding off Ryan Atkins by one place in the final race of the series. One of his series wi...

Nicole Mericle may be the fastest woman in OCR. Nicole is the reigning two-time back-to-back 3k champion of the OCR World Championships. In 2018 she won the Red Bull All In OCR in Oberstdorf, Germany. In 2018 she also placed second in the Spartan Trifecta Championship in Athens, Greece. This year she has won three of the four Spartan races held so far and she will be on the start line at the first...

The 2019 OCR season is underway! The first race of the year was Spartan Socal and the big winners were Veejay Jones, Nell Rojas, and Nicole Mericle. Spartan Socal Super Results Elite Men Veejay Jones, 1:02:27 Nikolaj Dam, 1:02:46 Kirk Dewindt, 1:03:39 Elite Women Nell Rojas, 1:10:37 Nicole Mericle, 1:11:48 Natalie Miano, 1:15:24 --- Spartan Socal Sprint Results Elite Men Veejay Jones, 27:33 Nikola...

Amelia Boone and Kris Mendoza join us to talk about the recent announcement that Tough Mudder will no longer offer prize money to top finishers at World's Toughest Mudder and their other races. Amelia Boone is a Spartan Race world champion and a three-time champion of World's Toughest Mudder. She has been a part of the OCR community since running in the very first WTM in 2011. With her TV commerci...

Tough Mudder announced they will eliminate all cash prizes for all their race brands in 2019. This includes TMX, Tougher Mudder, Toughest Mudder, and World's Toughest Mudder. We talked with two-time women's champion Rea Kolbl to see what she thought of the decision and if she would defend her title as women's champion at World's Toughest Mudder. Rea WILL NOT race World's Toughest Mudder this year....

Jack Bauer joins Will Hicks again to discuss the women's field for the 2019 Spartan season. Last year there were five women who dominated the Spartan US Series. Jack says this year there will be six women fighting for the podium each week. The six women to watch this year are Lindsay Webster, Faye Stenning, Rea Kolbl, Alyssa Hawley, Nicole Mericle, and newcomer Rebecca Hammond. Jack also talks abo...

Jack Bauer joins Will Hicks to discuss the men's field for the 2019 Spartan season. Topics include the first race of the year in Socal, the US Championship Series and the point structure for 2019 and the 2019 Spartan Race World Championship at Lake Tahoe, California. Jack says the top men to watch this year in the Spartan US Series are Ryan Woods, Ryan Atkins, and Robert Killian. When Championship...

From the home of World's Toughest Podcast, Overcome and Run, and Obstacle Running Adventures: The first podcast to focus exclusively on the Elite Racing SPORT of Obstacle Course Racing. Each week we talk about the latest results from Spartan Race, Tough Mudder, and other elite OCRs.   Who won? Who lost? And what does that mean for next week's race? Join us on The OCR Report Podcast.   Subscribe no...