Friend of the show Nick Gagnon set out to hike the appalachian trail earlier this year! Many listeners will remember us mentioning both his start and completion in quick news during previous episodes but only patreon supporters knew that I interviewed him back in October! It was great catching up with our Canadian friend and learning about his months long adventure where he perservered through barriers such as weather, overpacking, assault, animals, a couple thousand miles, and a whole lot of el...
Dec 03, 2023•1 hr 39 min
Finishing up our World's Toughest Mudder episodes, we have this last episode focused on the bar crawl on Monday afternoon and night! Check the time stamps below to see the different sections of the episode. You'll hear interviews before a musical performance of Cali Schweikhart singing while Kris Mendoza plays guitar for a couple songs, and more interviews after! For part 1 we had coverage of the community dinner and all sorts of race day interviews and audio so go back and listen to that if you...
Nov 27, 2023•2 hr 9 min
Continuing with our World's Toughest Mudder episodes, we have one focused on the brunch on Monday! Check the time stamps below to see the different sections of the episode. It isn't as long as the last one but it does have a large section of the presentation and awards which you may want to skip. You'll hear interviews before the presentation, the presentation itself (trimmed down), and some interviews after! For part 1 we had coverage of the community dinner and all sorts of race day interviews...
Nov 20, 2023•2 hr 17 min
World's Toughest Mudder came and went but we have you covered to relive the experience for the next few weeks! Check the time stamps below to follow along with this one, because this episode is a big boy! You'll hear some interviews from the community dinner, more interviews on race day before the start, start line audio, interviews and audio from the course, and the same from the pit! For part 1 we have this coverage of the community dinner and all sorts of race day interviews and audio. Part 2...
Nov 13, 2023•3 hr 14 min
Back in Palmerton we were able to meet Manuel Dufaux and interview him between waves at the 3K series race. Now that he won the Spartan North American series we were more than excited to have him on for his own episode! We talk about his motivation to take on the Spartan 3K series, what stood out most for each event in the series, how he felt about winning the series overall, his experience at OCRWC, the importance of recovery as an older athlete, and the sacrifices and focus needed to do well! ...
Nov 05, 2023•1 hr 2 min
World's Toughest Mudder is coming up soon and Mike is wicked excited! If you're also excited for it then this will be a great episode for you because we have Chris Maltbie on the show to talk about the upcoming weekend! Chris is the vice president of product for Tough Mudder/Spartan Race as well as the race director for the most epic 24 hour OCR that we all know as World's Toughest Mudder ! We discuss his background in OCR, changes to the Tough Mudder season this year and if they will affect WTM...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 5 min
With all of the big changes that Spartan has announced regarding the combining of elite and age group waves (if you aren't all caught up there is a great Q and A here ) we figured that it would be good to have an athlete on the show who has strattled the line of age group and elite over the years. We have been wanting to have Cole DeRosa on the show for a while since he is a pretty big name in the competitive community and seems like a genuinely good guy when heard on other shows over the years ...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 11 min
We wanted to have at least one more episode on the OCRWC weekend and we were hoping to have an athlete on the show representing Europe (since there weren't as many as previous years)! Signy Karoline Kolsto is from Norway and has somewhat recently made the jump from age group to elite after having pretty impressive results quickly in the sport. She was in Belgium to compete in the first FISO OCR World Championships but we primarily focus on Spartan Race's OCRWC . She took 7th in the 3K, 5th in th...
Oct 16, 2023•50 min
In the year where there are two OCRWCs I figured it would be great to hear from someone who went to compete in both of them! Ian Hosek has been a prominent member of USAOCR for a while now and he made the trip over to Belgium to compete in the first FISO OCR World Championships . More recently he competed in Spartan Race's OCRWC (man that's going to take some adjusting to) and took 2nd in the 3K, 2nd in the 15K, his men's relay team took 1st, and his coed team also took 1st! We talk about the di...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 13 min
This year may have had FISO's first OCR World Championships but we still love Adventurey's weekend long OCRWC event as well! The past couple of years we have had an episode before the event as a way to build up more anticipation for it, 2021 we had Veejay Jones on the show before event weekend , and last year we had Fran Chiorando on ! Of course there was the news that came out about Spartan Race's aquisition of the event so we figured that Adrian Bijanada would be great to both answer community...
Oct 01, 2023•44 min
Admittedly, we were unsure how the first FISO OCR Championships would go after their history of not being able to put on a world championship event for years. That being said the number of incredible athletes that showed up to Belgium to compete made this an incredible World Championship event! When looking through the results Gian Maria Savani stood out as both the winner of the short course, runner up of the standard course, and an athlete that we didn't know as much about. We reached out to h...
Sep 24, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Many of the OCR community from back in the day remember Dustin Dorough ! Fast talker, excellent motivational speeches, and tearaway shorts ring a bell? He's worked for Spartan Race, Terrain Race, Bonefrog, and more over the years so we start off briefly touching on his history in OCR. For more of an in depth discussion though we recommend OCRWC Podcast's episode with him here! Much more recently Dustin completed an epic adventure journeying from the United Kingdom to Iraq on his motorcyle for a ...
Sep 19, 2023•2 hr 3 min
Spartan Race had their Kids World Championship in the Bahamas this year but there didn't seem to be much talk about it. Athletes regardless of their age work hard to do what they do so we reached out to one of the winners of the weekend! Savanna Salinas won for the girls 12-14 age group and has a pretty impressive background in ninja! She completed her first half marathon at the age of 6 and her first triathalon at the age of 5! Despite these extensive accomplishments she remains humble and we w...
Sep 11, 2023•53 min
This weekend saw the return of Bonefrog and we wanted to hear more about it! The winner for the women was Melia Ochsner so we quickly reached out to her! We discuss the behind-the-scenes influence she has with the obstacles from American Ninja Warrior, her opinions on Star Wars (the newly released Disney+ shows and the OG movies), her last minute decision to signup for Bonefrog and her strategy for racing with friends - first lap for competition and the second lap is for fun. We didn't realize i...
Sep 05, 2023•55 min
Lisa Musacchio is a name that has been mentioned on the show often when reviewing podiums in our quick news segment! We only more recently noticed just how dominant she has been with her winning the Palmerton Spartan Super and Sprint , Asheville Spartan Super and Sprint , as well as the West Virginia Spartan Beast all in the past couple months! We discuss her progression as an athlete, her full time job as a teacher, thoughts on trying a Savage Race, how she uses music in her training, the impor...
Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Another episode giving some well deserved love to The Grit Games ! Last episode we had Kris Rugloski on the show to talk about her experience and history with this event . Austin Azar is an athlete that we have only met a couple of times and somehow only once on the show at OCRWC for episode 300 but we have heard great things about him over the years. We discuss his recent victory at The Grit Games, his experience at the Spartan 3K in Palmerton, being one of the few athletes to reach 100 miles a...
Aug 21, 2023•49 min
The Grit Games just had their 6th event and this year it got a lot more eyes on it than in the past due to the increase in prize money, a stacked field of athletes, and the ability to watch the event via a live stream ! Kris Rugloski has participated in each and every one of their events and has been crowned the champion every time. The additional competition this year didn't do anything to change it this year as she finished with a perfect score of 400! 0:00 – 2:51 – Intro 2:51 – 10:49 – Quick ...
Aug 17, 2023•55 min
Spartan didn't build much hype up around it, but the Spartan Pan American Championship was this weekend down in Mexico! We invited Angel Quintero to be our guest on the show as the second place finisher in the 3K and the winner of the Beast the following day. There was a lot of talk about the lack of competition in Mexico but I wanted to have the chance to have Angel on the podcast to explain his thoughts on it! We discuss his background in the sport, the races that meant the most to him over th...
Aug 08, 2023•1 hr 34 min
We had MudGear-Hannibal Race Pro Team member Rachel Watters on the show for her own episode! We have heard great things about Rachel for a while before we had the opportunity to finally meet her in person when covering RuckFest in person last year ! There was no shortage of things to talk to her about but we primarily focus on her trip to Kuwait for Hannibal Race , her 105 mile OCR challenge done to fundraise for Lionheart Fitness , her experience at the Chicago Savage Series Race where she plac...
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr 40 min
Mike and Katelyn took the drive down to Palmerton, Pennsylvania to cover the most stacked Spartan race that they have ever been to (also to visit Scranton which The Office was based on)! This was also the first time meeting a lot of these Spartan athletes and staff as well which was great because the big series races don't come to the northeast like they used to. Check below to see what athletes we had on the show and around what time to find them! 0:00 – 2:57 – Intro 2:57 – 9:53 – Quick News 9:...
Jul 24, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Last weekend was the Savage Chicago Point Series Race and there was a face on the podium that we (and likely many others) did not recognize! Noah Buschur was the athlete to place 3rd behind Shawn Roberts and Ryan Kempson! Not only is he talented in OCR (and making us feel old), but he is also an artist, ninja, and has experience with mini horses! 0:00 – 4:38 – Intro 4:38 – 14:25 – Quick News 14:25 – 15:00 – Content Preface 15:00 - 51:04 - Noah Buschur Interview 51:04 - End – Outro Next episode w...
Jul 18, 2023•55 min
A couple weeks ago we mentioned it on quick news but since James Golisano is a good friend of the show we figured we would have him on to talk about his Go Fund Me . This isn't something we do often but we figured that it'd be a good way and try to help! James opened up Monadnock Ninja back in 2020 and helped form a local community of youth ninjas. With very little notice he was told that the building that he had been renting was going to be sold so him and his equiptment don't really have anywh...
Jul 10, 2023•55 min
Any longtime listener knows how much we value local OCR. One of our favorite event organizers in the northeast is Newbsanity due to the incredible community that they have built up and the fact that it is one of the best permanent courses that we have ever experienced in our years in the sport. Newbsanity put on their first Last Man Standing event and we had Esther Frustino on the show to talk about how she tied for first place woman! 0:00 – 4:18 – Intro 4:18 – 8:04 – Quick News 8:04 – 8:26 – Co...
Jul 03, 2023•52 min
We had Kaci Monroe on the show to talk about her previous experience with Spartan Race, her recent podium at a Savage Point Series Race, and much more! Kaci is someone who we have wanted to have on the show for a few years now. We are a weekly show so there are only 52 episodes in a year which sounds like a lot but isn't that many when you see how we plan out our year of coverage with all the events we cover. We had a weekend prepared for a Savage Ohio finisher and Kaci placed 2nd which is her h...
Jun 27, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Last weekend was massive for the sport of OCR in Europe! There was both Spartan European Championship as well as OCR European Championships . We followed the latter more closely and were excited to find a guest to come on the show and talk about it. Jesse de Heer finished first for the short course, second on the standard course, and his team Hang On placed first for the men's relay race! Having a pretty excellent finish in all events we figured that he would be a great guest to have on the show...
Jun 19, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Annie Dube was frequently found on the podium in some pretty big events, and is still a member of the OCR Dream Team . Unfortunately with Spartan Race drastically changing the format of their series we have been robbed from seeing her and many other athletes compete lately. She did jump into her first Savage Race in Charlotte, NC last weekend and won by about 8 minutes so we had her on to discuss her experience with a different race series. We also talk about when athletes should make the decisi...
Jun 12, 2023•1 hr 1 min
There are a lot of incredible events that don't get the love they deserve, I would put Goliathon towards the top of that list. We weren't able to go down to the event due to the aforementioned house construction but I looked through the results for a potential guest. I saw that there was only one athlete who reached the status of David this year (which is a pretty damn big deal). Isaac Waychoff was that athlete so I reached out to him about coming on the show! It was great hearing about his gymn...
Jun 06, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Going back towards the beginning of the sport Rose Wetzel was often seen on the podiums, fast forward a decade to now and Rose continues to be competitive in the elite field! We have had her on the show a few times before for NorAM and OCRWC finish line interviews but it's easy to say that she very much deserved her own episode! We discuss what it has been like seeing the sport change over the years, what keeps her involved in OCR, the balance of being both a mother and an athlete, thoughts on t...
May 30, 2023•1 hr 24 min
This was a huge weekend for elite OCR athletes! Savage Race Maryland ( live stream here ) and Spartan Big Bear 3K ( live stream here ) both happened, and there was no shortage of athletes to talk to. This week we decided to have Jordan McDougal on the show to talk about his experience at the Maryland Savage Race which is the third of their point series! Jordan is someone whose name we recognized from reading podiums over the years and we were grateful to have him on the show to learn more about ...
May 24, 2023•41 min
There has been a big charge by USAOCR in getting a team together for the potential World Obstacle Championship being put on in Belgium later this year! Due to this, they reached out asking to come on the show and talk about it. As media we try to stay up to date with what is going on in our niche sport. Unfortunately USAOCR has been a bit of a blind spot in our knowledge so this was a helpful interview with Ian Hosek for ourselves as well in learning what is going on, why it's happening, and the...
May 15, 2023•48 min
