World's Toughest Podcast

Elite Week continues with Allison Tai. Allison finished second at World's Toughest Mudder in 2014. In 2017 she won Tougher Mudder Seattle, Toughest Mudder Philly, Toughest Mudder Chicago, and overall first place in the Toughest Mudder Series. She joins us today to talk about her place for WTM 2017 and share some of her tips and tricks for success at the race. If you'd like to hear more from Alliso...

Stefanie Bishop is the women's reigning champion of World's Toughest Mudder. In 2016 she ran 85 miles in 25 hours and 5 minutes on her way to first place.   Stefanie joins us to preview the 2017 race and to share some of her tips on fueling, the mental aspect of the race and to offer advice to first timers at WTM.   All week long we're going to have interviews with the men and women you'll see on...

Amelia Boone is the only woman to win World's Toughest Mudder three times. No other woman has won more than once. After being unable to compete in 2016 due to a leg injury, Amelia has been training this year to run 100 miles and become the first woman to win the coveted 100-Mile Orange Jacket. Last month Amelia suffered an injury at a race. She saw her doctor recently who gave her bad news about c...

Bonus Episode: Toughest Mudder Chicago Recap Rebroadcast   On Saturday, October 28th you can watch Toughest Mudder Chicago on CBS. After you watch the TV show, listen to this episode of the podcast with interviews from the podium.    We talk with Allison Tai (1st-F), Matthew Lister (2nd-M), Zoe Chazen (2nd-F), Tyler Nash (3rd-M), Alex "Chikorita" Roudayna (3rd-F), Kris Mendoza (4th-M), Morgan Mcka...

Molly Kenneth and Jason Nicholson join us today to talk about Jason's story from World's Toughest Mudder 2016. Jason ran 65 miles at WTM 2016, and finished on his feet, but due to a number of mistakes he made, he was in a Las Vegas hospital two days later. Every wrong thing he did is completely preventable, from over hydration to taking pain medication during an ultra-endurance event. We talk abou...

Darth Vader talks about his 89 TM events, and his leg amputation. Darth Vader joins us this episode to talk about his 89 (and counting) Tough Mudder events, his leg amputation, and introducing his daughter to the world of Tough Mudder. Darth (that's his real name. We talk about it) loves to push himself. He's at a Tough Mudder, a half marathon, or a triathlon almost every weekend. Darth had his le...

Tougher Mudder East Regional Race preview episode with Grant Polson   Grant Polson joins us to talk about his story with Tough Mudder. Grant shares several stories including his love for Electroshock Therapy. Every time he goes through EST he tries to do something different, like playing with the wires for Pokemon EST. "Gotta Touch 'em All!" At Tough Mudder NorCal Grant plans to help 100 Mudders t...

Anke Frederich, a WTM vet from Germany joins us this episode, but first we talk about the Tougher Mudder Championship Series and the money that Tough Mudder has been paying out in race purses this year. Will Dean has been making the rounds on the morning news shows promoting his new book "It Takes A Tribe" and we've got audio from three shows. While Dean was talking to Charlie Rose he let somethin...

On today's episode we talk with the only four people to compete in all six Toughest Mudder races this year.   Jim Campbell, Melissa "Sharkbait" Dugan, Sara Knight, and Mark James ran each Toughest Mudder race this year in Los Angeles, Atlanta, the UK, Philadelphia, Whistler, and Chicago.   You want to know which Toughest was the toughest Toughest. We start with each of them telling which of the si...

Toughest Mudder Chicago Podium Interviews   Will talks with every member of the podium from Second to Fifth Place.    This episode is so long it needs a table of contents. What do you think of the two hour plus episodes? Let us know in a review on iTunes or by emailing Will Hicks directly.   Episode 039 Table of Contents 0:00 Intro 0:40 Tough Mudder News 5:45 Toughest Mudder Chicago Start Line Aud...

Toughest Mudder Chicago Recap Episode! The sixth and final Toughest Mudder was held this past weekend in Chicago. Winning for the men was Ryan Atkins and for the women was Allison Tai. In addition to winning Toughest Chicago, Atkins and Tai both won the Toughest Series Championship by having the most milage over their three best Toughest races. We spend some time talking about the men's and women'...

Toughest Mudder Chicago Preview!   Eric Dymesich joins us to talk about his WTM experience and preview the Toughest Mudder Chicago course. Eric is new to the WTM community, with one World's Toughest under his belt. He earned his 50 mile bib in his first trip to Lake Las Vegas. Eric talks about some tips on how to get the brown bib in your first attempt as well as talking about why World's Toughest...

Bonus Episode: Toughest Mudder Philly Rebroadcast   This weekend is Toughest Mudder Philly on CBS. After you watch the TV episode, listen to the podcast episode! This episode was recorded and aired immediately after Toughest Mudder Philly was held a few months ago.    Toughest Mudder Philly is the third Toughest Mudder to be televised, after L.A. and Atlanta, but the fourth Toughest Mudder that wa...

Will is back from his family vacation and has a lot of news to get caught up on before he talks Tough Mudder 5k with Jay Ruggiero. Big items in the news we talk about are the new Toughest Mudder TV shows on CBS, the location of WTM 2018 and the new category this year at WTM: National Team. Will also does a little speculation on the future of co-ed teams at World's Toughest Mudder. Jay Ruggerio is...

Elite Pit Crewing with Gina Estrada.   We talked with Gina Estrada about working Pit Crew for Toughest Mudder and World's Toughest Mudder. Gina has worked pit for Team Four Eyes, Amelia Boone, Ryan Atkins, Austin Azar, Trevor Cichosz, Lindsay Webster, Allison Tai and more. Will got to watch Gina work a bit in Atlanta. When one of her athletes would come in she would feed them, handle their gear, a...

Bonus Episode: Toughest Mudder Atlanta Rebroadcast   This weekend is Toughest Mudder Atlanta on CBS. After you watch the TV episode, listen to the podcast episode! This episode was recorded and aired immediately after Toughest Mudder Atlanta was held a few months ago. We talk about the experience on the course and have a conversation with Allison Tai about her experience getting second place.   Wh...

Running 75 miles at 200 pounds or better: Clydesdales and Athenas with Chris Betcher   Chris Betcher ran 75 miles at World's Toughest Mudder in 2016. That's great, but what makes it exceptional is he did it as a Clydesdale, a guy that weighs more than 200 pounds. (Don't worry ladies. There's a category for you too. Athenas are women who weigh more than 150 pounds.)   Chris wrote about his experien...

Bonus episode: Toughest Mudder L.A. Rebroadcast   This weekend is Toughest Mudder L.A. on CBS. After you watch the TV episode, listen to the podcast episode! This episode was recorded and aired immediately after Toughest Mudder L.A. was held a few months ago. Josh Cox and Will talked about their experience on the course together. Josh and Will "ran" their last lap together.   What do you think abo...

WTM Training: Nitty Gritty Details with Yancy Culp   This is the second half-ish of our conversation with Yancy Culp. Yancy gets into the details of training for World's Toughest Mudder with numbers and stats and more information than you can shake a stick at.    Don't forget Toughest Mudder L.A. is on CBS this weekend. Watch it with your friends.    If you'd like to join the World's Toughest Podc...

Yancy Culp stops by to talk about training for World's Toughest Mudder.  Yancy trains many of the top athletes in OCR and Tough Mudder, including Morgan Mckay, Allison Tai, Glenn Racz, Matt Novakovich, and Rose Wetzel. Yancy has reached 50 miles both times he ran World's Toughest Mudder and talks about how to train to reach that goal for yourself. This is the first part of our conversation. The se...

Tough Mudder X preview with Morgan Mckay! Morgan Mckay is competing this weekend at Tough Mudder X, the inaugural One Mile Tough Mudder course. Tough Mudder X is what would happen if Tough Mudder and CrossFit got together and had an adorable little competitive baby. And if that baby had a $25,000 prize for first place. Morgan talks us through the course and tells us what to expect, and how she exp...

Austin Azar joins us to talk about his 40 mile performance at Canada's Toughest Mudder. Austin finished in 5th place, four seconds behind Matthew Hanson in 4th and one minute ahead of Trevor Cichosz in 6th. Austin finished 2nd to Trevor's 1st at WTM 2016 and 3rd to Trevor's 1st at Toughest Philly. Even though it wasn't the top of the podium, Will asked Austin how it felt to finally beat Trevor.  ...

Canada's Toughest Mudder Recap Part 2: Elite Edition   On today's episode we talk with four of the Elite Contenders to come out of Canada's Toughest Mudder.   KC Northup finished fourth among the ladies with 30 miles. KC finished fourth in Atlanta at her first Toughest Mudder before a disappointing DNF at her second in Philadelphia. KC talks about her path from success to disappointment and back t...

Toughest Mudder Canada Recap. We're going guest free today. We're going to talk with the elites and the regular joes of Toughest Mudder Whistler in the next few episodes, but today is all about the stats, the results, and the numbers behind Canada's Toughest Mudder. Here are your Canada's Toughest Mudder winners: For the men: Ryan Atkins in first with 45 miles in 8:11 Robert Killian in second with...

Toughest Mudder Whistler Preview with PJ Catalano Toughest Canada weather report is at 14:10. If you want to get straight to PJ, skip to 20:35. PJ and Will talk about Toughest Whistler at 47:55 Will opens the episode with news from the world of Tough Mudder including the release of the Holy Grail Leaderboard . All of your milage from the Tough Mudder competitive series is logged and you are ranked...