Did you guys see that epic battle for 3rd place at Spartan San Luis Obispo ? We did, and we questioned "who the hell is that guy was with the bleached blonde hair who just beat out Hawk Call ?". Turns out it was someone who we have had our eye on for the past year thanks to The Obstacle Racing Collab , Nic Maszk (pronounced "mask")! We had him on to talk about how he got into the sport, his experience competing at SLO , thoughts on Spartan's spear throw penalty, why he bleached his hair, and muc...
Mar 14, 2022•47 min
Our favorite OCR athletes from Denmark came over to the United States to start their race season! Ida Mathilde Steensgaard has been having a particularly great time by winning both the Spartan Sprint and Super in Jacksonville and then running Savage Race for the first time and winning her axe ! We discuss those two events as well as Red Bull's Conquer the Castle which is on Mike's bucket list to cover as media some day! Ida is sponsored by Red Bull , Inov8 , Garmin , and Virus so consider giving...
Mar 07, 2022•1 hr 6 min
It's been a few years but we were thrilled to have Heather Gollnick back on the show! Heather has been in the sport of OCR for a while now and has been a solid competitor in both the Spartan elite field as well as in the age group waves. We had her on to talk about Jacksonville which was the first of Spartan's new age group series! She coaches both OCR and Triathalon athletes, is a motivational speaker , and has done and continues to do much more ! 0:00 - 2:58 - Intro 2:58 - 10:59 - Quick News 1...
Mar 01, 2022•44 min
We had the wonderful Corinna Coffin on the show again to talk about her plans for 2022 . We talk about her move, Hyrox , DekaFit , Tactical Games , GORUCK Games , and much more! Step your game up and consider hiring her as a nutritionist , keep an eye out for her group program in the future as well! 0:00 - 3:26 - Intro 3:26 - 10:07 - Quick News 10:07 - 10:41 - Content Preface 10:41 - 47:28 - Corinna Coffin Interview 47:28 - End - Outro ____ News Stories: Underdog Fitness Team Urban Savage Race D...
Feb 18, 2022•53 min
Frigus is a snowshoe race put on by The Endurance Society , a Northeast based event company run by Andy Weinberg . Many OCR enthusiasts from back in the day know the importance of Andy but nowadays he is still a solid race director. Speaking of OCR enthusiasts, I was able to have Scott Sweeney call in to talk about his experience at Frigus. Scott is frequently a volunteer coordinator for races like FIT Challenge and Bonefrog . Whether he is participating or playing a crucial role in the event, h...
Feb 14, 2022•24 min
Cole Schwartz is an athlete that we haven't had on the show since 2018, and after seeing his repeated performance at Hyrox including most recently at Chicago I figured that it was definitely time to have him on again! We discuss his entry into the world of hybrid racing, recommendations for first timers attempting a Hyrox, living in Hawaii, and much more! Be sure to check out his YouTube videos with his girlfriend Abi, and a more specific recommendation of his 73 year old grandmother skydiving !...
Feb 07, 2022•50 min
KC Timber Challenge is a venue out in Bonner Springs, KS! If this sounds familiar then you either live in the midwest or remember it from my OCR America 2 days back in 2020 with Evan Perperis and other awesome people ! We had MudGear BOTL Pro Team athlete Thomas Plush on the show to talk about the event, how he got into OCR, his barefoot running, and more! 0:00 - 2:38 - Intro 2:38 - 7:54 - Quick News 7:54 - 8:22 - Content Preface 8:22 - 45:40 - Thomas Plush Interview 45:40 - End - Outro ____ New...
Jan 31, 2022•49 min
We finally had the podfather on the show for his own episode! Hear from Will Hicks from World's Toughest Podcast , The OCR Report , and doggo dad of 3. He is also in charge of the running group in the World's Toughest Mudder Community too! Make sure you follow along with The OCR Report on Instagram because we have been having explosive growth and we don't seem to be slowing down! 0:00 - 3:24 - Intro 3:24 - 6:08 - Quick News 6:08 - 6:46 - Content Preface 6:46 - 56:26 - Will Hicks Interview 56:26 ...
Jan 24, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Winter content is always tough, luckily Newbsanity doesn't care what the hell the weather is outside! They put together their yearly Night Ops event and FIT Challenge joined in to host an ultra event there as well! We had Aliyah Emas , the 3rd place female finisher of the Night Ops event on to review her experience during the dark and cold event! She was the only athlete to podium during this event who isn't a member of Newbsanity so it was interesting to get her thoughts on their permanent cour...
Jan 18, 2022•55 min
This is an idea that Mike has been thinking about for over a year and we decided that our five year anniversary of the show would be a good time for it. We added a spin to it by turning it into a gameshow to make it more interesting ... that would totally be a spoiler but no one reads these anyway right? Also we Are definitely not putting Any of the Answers down here But thanks for reAding this Cryptic note which honestly meAns nothing! In all seriousness please remember to send a picture to us ...
Jan 09, 2022•49 min
Another year another podcaster round table! I found this to be a fitting way to end the year and go into the new OCR season with some hopes and goals. This year we have Matt B Davis from Obstacle Racing Media , Scott "The Fayne" Knowles from I Am A Spartan Podcast , Dave Claxton from The OFX Podcast , and Rich Ryan from Reinforced Running ! Be sure to check out all of their shows as well, we all are doing our best to provide quality content for the sport that we love! 0:00 - 2:07 - Intro 2:07 - ...
Jan 02, 2022•1 hr 56 min
Here is the second of our two crazy long recap compilation episodes! Mike relistened to the 50 regular episodes of 2021 and cut the funny and the important moments from the show this year. These have all been organized into chronological order so yeah, think around 200 hours put into these two episodes so please give this some love by sending it to your friends for their long holiday or end of year drives or runs! This second one is focused on the important moments which include big news, quotes...
Dec 27, 2021•5 hr
Here is the first of our two crazy long recap compilation episodes! Mike relistened to the 50 regular episodes of 2021 and cut the funny and the important moments from the show this year. These have all been organized into chronological order so yeah, think around 200 hours put into these two episodes so please give this some love by sending it to your friends for their long holiday or end of year drives or runs! This first one is focused on the funny moments which include bloopers, post credit ...
Dec 21, 2021•4 hr 44 min
Our last regular episode of the year! We weren't sure what we were going to cover for this episode so we figured that we would do a simple recap of the two races that we did this weekend! Saturday we drove an hour and a half to get to the Roseland Christmas Run in Woodstock, CT and Sunday we drove 2 hours for Yule Light Up the Night in Louden, NH. 7 hours of driving this weekend for small races ... priorities! Also, to reward those who listen to this admittedly underwhelming episode (they can't ...
Dec 13, 2021•26 min
Our final episode on World's Toughest Mudder. This part 4 comprises of interviews that I did with the women's and men's winner for the event! I interviewed Katie and Mark 2 weeks ago so I'm really excited to finally release it! You can train with Katie at Knight Time Training and Mark at MGB Racing ! Please go back and listen to part 1, 2, and 3 ... pretty please! Look below for links of related episodes! Also, please give us some love and nominate/vote for us , it would mean the world to us to ...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Oh boy, we are really breaking these episodes up! This WTM episode is all interviews during the bar crawl on Monday after the brunch ceremony. Please go back and listen to part 1 and part 2 if you haven't already! Part 4 with Katie Knight and Mark Batres will be out next weekend! 0:00 - 2:26 - Intro 2:26 - 4:54 - Quick News 4:54 - 5:30 - Content Preface 5:30 - 1:34:47 - Bar Crawl Interviews: Jason Dupree , David Hayes, Matt B Davis , Kim DeVoss , Chris Mikolajewski , JaLisa James , Will Hicks , ...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 39 min
More World's Toughest Mudder content coming to your ears! Originally I wasn't sure if we were going to get 2 full episodes due to showing up to the event late but thanks to working extremely hard it is looking like we will be getting 3! This is part 2 of 3 for our WTM coverage this year. This episode covers Brunch. We have interviews before the presentation, audio of the presentation, and interviews after the presentation. Next episode will have the hour and a half of bar crawl interviews as wel...
Nov 21, 2021•2 hr 15 min
Despite the world throwing as much as it could in the way, Mike made it out to World's Toughest Mudder! Unfortunately, he needed to fly out Saturday afternoon instead of Wednesday night as originally planned but it was still worth it! This is part 1 of 2 for our WTM coverage this year. This episode covers from midnight (halfway through the event) to the end. Next episode will have the brunch audio as well as a crap ton of interviews from the brunch and the bar crawl! Also shout out to the people...
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr 26 min
Mike went down to New Jersey to do his first rucking event since Tough Ruck 26.2 back in 2016. This event was Ruck: Beta which is potentially the start of something big from race directors Mark Jones and Brendon Welling! Mike finished his short course of the trail, interviewed ruck trail participants, a talk with a Reign employee, recorded audio of the ruck games explanation, ruck game participant interviews, and an interview with the race directors! Keep an eye out for RuckFest and TPK events i...
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Katelyn spoke with the first place women finisher at the Citizens Bank Park Spartan Race, Annie Schiller ! Katelyn and Annie talked about her successes with Spartan Race, her gym , and her personal training! 0:00 - 3:28 - Intro 3:28 - 11:10 - Quick News 11:10 - 11:33 - Content Preface 11:33 - 28:29 - Annie Schiller Interview 28:29 - End - Outro ____ News Stories: Ryan Kempson Wedding Rescinded Spartan Games Invite Earl Rusty Adams Death Yancy Camp's 1000th Workout CTG Pro Team now Mud Gear BOTL ...
Nov 02, 2021•34 min
We had planned to cover the 24 Hour FIT Trail Ultra but due to some event confusion, none of the runners were still out by the time Mike and Katelyn showed up! We pivoted though and Katelyn got interviews at the FIT Frills Trail Race while Mike was running the multilap course! Race Director Robb McCoy stated that this will be the final year for the Trailfecta Series so this is unfortunately the final FIT Frills event! 0:00 - 3:34 - Intro 3:34 - 10:44 - Quick News 10:44 - 13:40 - Content Preface ...
Oct 25, 2021•35 min
We did it! We finally had Ryan Woods on the show after missing him in New Jersey at a Spartan Race, again at North American OCR Championships in Vermont, and World's Toughest Mudder in Atlanta, GA! We discuss his profession as a chiropractor, his thoughts on Spartan penalties and the emotional toll that it takes, as well as addressing the rumors about him retiring from obstacle course racing! 0:00 - 2:24 - Intro 2:24 - 9:35 - Quick News 9:35 - 10:00 - Content Preface 10:00 - 1:02:16 - Ryan Woods...
Oct 16, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Obstacle Course Racing World Championships was two weeks ago but we are still just as excited to release even more content from the amazing weekend! This episode has many more interviews with about 35 more incredible people that made the event so epic! This episode is part three and covers Sunday with the the team races and the 100 meter finals. Make sure you listen to the previous 2 episodes that cover Friday and Saturday ! 0:00 - 3:08 - Intro 3:08 - 13:48 - Quick News 13:48 - 16:46 - Content P...
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr 34 min
Obstacle Course Racing World Championships was a week ago but we are still just as excited to release more content from the amazing weekend! This episode has 20 more interviews with some of the incredible people that made the event so epic! This episode is part two and covers Saturday with the 15K World Championship event, look forward to part 3 focused on Sunday next weekend! Apologies for the audio quality issues in the intro (our mic unplugged during the long recording). Also, Mike realizes t...
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr 55 min
Obstacle Course Racing World Championships happened and it was amazing! Mike went so hard with interviewing and collecting event audio that we may have enough content for 3 episodes which has only been done once before, for World's Toughest Mudder 2019! This episode is just part one and covers the 3K World Championship event, stay tuned for the upcoming episodes with even more interviews with incredible people! Oh and Katelyn and Mike are now engaged so there is a little bit of that in here for ...
Sep 28, 2021•1 hr 46 min
Obstacle Course Racing World Championships is next weekend! I'm excited and I figured what better way to build excitement on the show than to have one of the best OCR athletes in the world on to talk about it. Veejay Jones was my first choice as he is someone who I have only had the privilege of talking to at previous NorAm events and he is both easy to talk to and likely to do very well in the upcoming 3k. He also put some solid work into his Black Forest OCR training facility . This was record...
Sep 15, 2021•52 min
There were a lot of big races this weekend, the biggest of which being Spartan Killington in Vermont. We didn't want this to overshadow Tough Mudder 's first Infinite Hero Honor Challenge event though! Luckily we were able to have Carissa on the show to talk about her experience at the first of these events! 0:00 - 2:34 - Intro 2:34 - 11:04 - Quick News 11:04 - 11:30 - Content Preface 11:30 - 35:10 - Infinite Hero Interview 35:10 - End - Outro ____ News Stories: Rea Kolbl's World Record in Slove...
Sep 14, 2021•39 min
Finish at the 50 5k snuck up on us so we didn't get media passes and cover the event like we did last time so this is more of a simple recap episode! We also talk more about personal stuff as well in case you are curious how life is going for us more in depth than our brief intros. 0:00 - 3:26 - Intro 3:26 - 8:06 - Quick News 8:06 - 8:37 - Content Preface 8:37 - 14:34 - Finish at the 50 5k Recap 14:34 - 20:31 - Catching Up with Katelyn and Mike 20:31 - End - Outro ____ News Stories: Samuel Heber...
Sep 05, 2021•25 min
Mike and Katelyn had a wedding to go to in Philadelphia ... on a Sunday. Due to this it was difficult to get an episode out in a timely manner. Luckily, we had friend of the show Michael Kantor call in to talk about his experience at Muddy Buffalo , an event that Mike has had his eye on for the past few years! 0:00 - 2:49 - Intro 2:49 - 10:46 - Quick News 10:46 - 11:13 - Content Preface 11:13 - 27:00 - Interview with Michael Kantor 27:00 - End - Outro ____ News Stories: Javier Escobar Relationsh...
Sep 01, 2021•31 min
Mike's most anticipated local OCR event finally happened! FIT Challenge and Newbsanity teamed up and created an OCR Extravaganza that appears to have a bright future! We drove about 5 and a half hours to get to Binghamton, NY and as expected it was worth it! In addition to running a lap of both courses Mike got close to 20 interviews with people who made the event as special as it was! Be sure to follow and support FIT Challenge and Newbsanity as they are two of the remaining local Northeast OCR...
Aug 22, 2021•1 hr 47 min
