A few weeks ago Italy hosted the OCR European Championships ! While it can be difficult to have European athletes on the show due to frequent difficulties such as time zones and language barriers, the effort is worth it due to the abundance of talent that they have overseas! This time we had the privilege to speak to Dutch athlete Stijn Lagrand ! He is no stranger to doing well in elite OCR events but this OCR European Championships he took first not only in the short course , but the standard ,...
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Mike was able to return to Citi Field for coverage of the Spartan Stadium (still refuse to say Stadion), only this time he was able to run it as well which he has been wanting to do over a decade now! Without Katelyn helping, coverage ability was more limited but there is still a pretty good episode put together for you with 16 athletes and 6 vendors interviewed along with some start line audio to put you, the listener, in the stadium with us! 0:00 – 4:41 – Intro 4:41 – 7:11 – Quick News 7:11 – ...
Jun 24, 2024•1 hr 3 min
We all know Mike loves a good small local race so we drove down to the Gaylord Gauntlet to experience and cover it for the first time! This race is 3.3 miles long with mud and over 20 obstacles. We knew that the venue was a hospital but we had no idea the extent to which the event has benefitted members of the adaptive community for the past 10 years. In the last decade the Gaylord Gauntlet 5k has raised over $800,000 for the Gaylord Sports Association which provides adaptive sports for individu...
Jun 17, 2024•1 hr 41 min
In the past we interviewed Des Linden when her book "Choosing to Run" and doing so opened up options for future book related interviews! Gwendolyn Bound 's publicist, Brianna Kusilek, reached out to us back in April but it took us a while to find a time to release a potential episode with her. Luckily we made room this week and Katelyn interviewed her for the show! Katelyn and Gwendolyn talk about changing perspective on life, growing older, overcoming adversity, golden retrievers, and much more...
Jun 10, 2024•1 hr 27 min
We had yet another MudGear-Hannibal Race Pro Team athlete on the show, Vivien Tran ! We have been keeping an eye on her as an athlete ever since she joined their team and we have not been disappointed. Some accomplishments are winning a Savage Race Axe, a Spartan Race , doing well in the Spartan US National Series , and achieving podium placements at many local events such as Abominable Snow Race , Mythic Race , and this weekend's ASCO Spartacus Dash ! We discussed how she found the sport, thoug...
Jun 03, 2024•59 min
When Hawk Call started getting into some big Spartan Races a few years ago it got a lot of us who have been in the sport for a long time pretty excited! This is because many of us remember his father Hobie who is almost always in the conversation of who historically is one of the best men in the sport of OCR. Hawk is his own own athlete though, and I didn't want to have him on the show just to talk about his dad. It didn't take long for him to start to make a name for himself though, and it quic...
May 28, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Evan Perperis is no stranger to the show due to his frequent appearances at our favorite OCR event to cover every year (World's Toughest Mudder), as well as our interest in his ultra OCR fundraising efforts over the years! We discuss his milestone of achieving 100 OCR podiums , which podiums stood out to him the most over the years, how the recent Toughest Mudder East went along with the new changes to the team format, Lebenese food, and what he plans to do in both sport and life moving forward!...
May 21, 2024•1 hr 11 min
We have been aware of Noel Medina and his sweat checks for a while now but it was him joining the MudGear-Hannibal Race Pro Team that really got our attention! There wasn't good timing to have him on the show before now but when we saw that he was traveling to the Ultra House in Durango, CO to train with Anthony Kunkle we figured it was a great opportunity to learn more about him and plans moving forward! We discuss how he found the sport of OCR, a bit of his life before, his most memorable acco...
May 13, 2024•1 hr 3 min
We were unsure as to what to do for this week's episode until we saw a post in the Southern Spartans Facebook Group about a guy who had just completed 400 Spartan Races ! His name is Tom Maming and I was excited to reach out to have him on the show to hear more about him, his achievement, and what he has planned for the future. We discuss how he first got into OCR, Pinoy OCR, #eatmorerice, favorite moments in the sport, Buc-ees, favorite venues, and of course his impressive milestone! Follow alo...
May 07, 2024•1 hr 10 min
Once again, we just had the third New England OCR Expo and it is easily the most involved Mike has been! In 2020 we were just vendors with a table, last year Mike helped with getting athletes to show up and give short talks. This year Mike was on the board, attended biweekly meetings for months, and worked to help get more vendors and sponsors out to the event! We are splitting up content from this event into two so we can have an easier week next week and Mike can focus on his own race but in t...
Apr 29, 2024•1 hr 16 min
It's the third New England OCR Expo that has been put on and it is easily the most involved Mike has been! In 2020 we were just vendors with a table, last year Mike helped with getting athletes to show up and give short talks. This year Mike was on the board, attended biweekly meetings for months, and worked to help get more vendors and sponsors out to the event! We are splitting up content from this event into two so we can have an easier week next week and Mike can focus on his own race but in...
Apr 22, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Mike finally traveled to New York to participate in and cover Obstacle Wonderland's Boogie Wonderland Event ! Wanting to both support a small northeast race and get some good mileage in, Mike registered for the 6 hour race. He ran 3 laps, interviewed the 3 hour finisher athletes with some midrace brain fog, ran another lap, interviewed the 6 hour finisher athletes while freezing in the windy cold on and off rain, the DJ , Gabe Capobianchi , Asa Coddington , and then recorded a personal recap whi...
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr 55 min
Back in the day Spartan Stadium races were our favorite to both run and cover as media. We remember seeing a large man in a clown mask doing well at most of the events that we went to. Over more recent years Kevin Gregory/Bubbles the Clowne has grown to be even more of a threat in the hybrid racing scene! Kevin has also become a friend of the show, as well as Mike 's coach for about a year. Mike vowed that his first hybrid fitness race would be at his gym Underdog Fitness in Wallingford, CT ! It...
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 27 min
just a totAlly normal ePisode, Really nothIng to see here. compLetely normal! 0:00 – 6:56 – Intro 6:56 – 14:07 – Quick News 14:07 – 14:13 – Content Preface 14:13 - 15:23 - Interview with Timber and Appa 15:23 - End – Outro Next episode is planned to be coverage of the Deka Strong at Underdog Fitness, home of Kevin Gregory aka Bubbles the Clowne (well not actual home but you know what we mean)! ____ News Stories: Switch Away from Google Podcasts before April 2024 New England OCR Expo on April 20t...
Apr 02, 2024•23 min
We haven't done one of these episodes in a while, and we were totally okay with that! With recent changes in the industry (unfortunately most being negative), we wanted to have an episode where we share our thoughts and feelings on some events that are not with us anymore like Warrior Dash and Rugged Maniac or have extremely unclear futures like Terrain Race and Bonefrog . The videos referenced were our 2014 Rugged Maniac , 2016 Warrior Dash , 2016 Rugged Maniac , 2017 Warrior Dash , 2017 Rugged...
Mar 26, 2024•44 min
Paul Lachance recently ran his 200th Spartan Race at the age of 82 this caught The OCR Report 's attention for a post which then caught our eye for a potential episode. We were excited to reach out to him both for the impressive accomplishment, and because he represents a unique age demographic who take on OCR. Older OCR athletes have always been inspirational to us but we haven't had an episode focus on it before. We discuss how he found obstacle course racing, his family's military background ...
Mar 18, 2024•57 min
We have been wanting to have Alisa Petrova on the show for a while now with us first reaching out to her back in December 2022 to talk about the Spartan World Championships that year! Her being 9 hours ahead of us made it pretty difficult to plan a good time to record but it was worth recording at 5am our time to finally have her on the show! Alisa talks about how she wasn't medically allowed to engage in sports at a young age but eventually got into speed walking and later became involved with ...
Mar 10, 2024•57 min
This week Katelyn sat down with Hannah Franciosa ! They talked about Hannah 's exerience both as a special education teacher, as well as a substitute teacher. She shares about being coached by Kirk DeWindt and what a typical training week looks like for her. Hannah also discusses her experinces with completing ultras, marathons, rucks, hurricane heats, and her recent podium at the first race of the Spartan US National Series in Jacksonville! 0:00 – 3:36 – Intro 3:36 – 13:51 – Quick News 13:51 – ...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Another episode idea from my episode ideas list was to focus on another demographic in the sport that deserves more attention and support and to do this we had Heather Jo Cox from Grey Betties on the show! We discuss how she found the sport, her background with roller derby as well as body building, and all about the Grey Betties which is a team created for 40+ year old women in sport to both create a community and help reduce intimidation at the start line! 0:00 – 5:00 – Intro 5:00 – 12:47 – Qu...
Feb 27, 2024•51 min
Something that we have had on our potential future episode list for a long time is an episode on adaptive athletes in the sport of OCR. Once I started looking, it seemed like Andy Reid was the man to have on the show to talk about it. He is the founder of OCR Adaptive Athletes and has created a community on facebook to suport each other and to reach out to various countries around to world to try and get their events to be more inclusive! We discuss what it means to be a pioneer in helping pave ...
Feb 20, 2024•1 hr 17 min
She has been mentioned by a couple athletes during interviews and has recently been added to the MudGear-Hannibal Race Pro Team so we were excited to have Sarah Grippi-Snyder on the show! She is pretty new to the sport but has had a great start in both obstacle course racing as well as hybrid racing. We discuss her life traveling in an RV, how she feels about joining a pro team in the sport, and her business of 3GX Mental Performance Training , and more! 0:00 – 3:44 – Intro 3:44 – 14:21 – Quick ...
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr 24 min
We returned to The Boston Run Show expo for the second time! Just like last year, we are splitting all of our interviews into two episodes due to how much audio there is, and how much of a break we deserve for working this hard covering such a large and exciting event! In this part 2 we have every vendor and speaker who we interviewed on Sunday. These ranged from many small and big vendors and sponsors who were present as well as the head of the Badass Lady Gang Kelly Roberts, ChiRunning founder...
Jan 30, 2024•2 hr 13 min
We returned to The Boston Run Show expo for the second time! Just like last year, we are splitting all of our interviews into two episodes due to how much audio there is, and how much of a break we deserve for working this hard covering such a large and exciting event! In part one we have every vendor and speaker who we interviewed on Saturday. These ranged from many small and big vendors and sponsors who were present as well as some impressive athletes like Scott Jenkins , Pete Kostelnick , Cor...
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr 49 min
After reading her name at least a dozen times when reviewing podiums during quick news last year, we finally had Cassandra Gill on the show! She is fairly new to the sport but has found some pretty great success in the sport lately which led to her making the top 5 of Jack Bauer's post highlighting the leaderboard of elite Spartan Race podiums across 2023 . She is also both an animal, and a serious ice cream lover so she is one of our people! We discuss her athletic background, how she found obs...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 2 min
We are very proud of the number of guests that we have had on the show over the years. A big name in the sport of obstacle course racing that we hadn't gotten around to yet was Garfield Griffiths though! With the news of him no longer being a race director over at Spartan Race, effectively ending his 12 year old career of race directing for brands such as Battlefrog, Savage Race, OCRWC, and Spartan itself, we figured that it would be a good time to reach out and have him on! We talk about the ch...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 3 min
First episode of the year is our annual roundtable chat with other podcasters in the sport! This year we have Dave Claxton returning from OFX Podcast , Jason Dupree brought back OCR Talk so he joins, and newcomer to the roundtable is Fran Chiorando from The OCRWC Podcast ! We discuss the Spartan 3K format, Spartan competitive wave format changes, no more free race photos from Spartan or Tough Mudder, Tough Mudder Infinity in Saudi Arabia, FISO's OCR World Championships, judging in hybrid racing,...
Jan 07, 2024•1 hr 52 min
It's the end of the year which means it is time for our two massive 2023 compilation episodes! This is the second and it has clips of the most important moments of the show, biggest news stories, quotes read, and a compilation of names of everyone who has been on the show this year! It's a long one so it may take a while to finish but we appreciate however much you end up listening. We hope it is a great way to put a bow on 2023, and you enjoy the highlights of the year! 0:00 – 2:54 – Intro 2:54...
Dec 31, 2023•6 hr 12 min
It's the end of the year which means it is time for our two massive 2023 compilation episodes! This is the first and it has clips of the funniest moments of the show, memes described, jokes told, post credit audio you may have missed, and all that fun stuff this year! It's a long one so it may take a while to finish but we appreciate however much you end up listening. We hope it makes you smile and keeps you company during long holiday travel or several long runs! 0:00 – 2:44 – Intro 2:44 – 8:33...
Dec 23, 2023•4 hr 59 min
For our last regular episode of the year we wanted to have a guest on to talk about the Spartan World Championships in Abu Dhabi! We wanted a foreign athlete on the show but were worried about potential language barriers. When we saw that Nikolaj Dam took third place in the beast, was on the Danish team with Ida and Leon who took third, and participated in the 3K we were excited to reach out to him! We discuss his start in OCR, his successful weekend in Abu Dhabi, thoughts on the 3K format, adve...
Dec 18, 2023•1 hr 25 min
This week we going hybrid and are giving some love to the Deka World Championships in Texas that happened last weekend! While hybrid racing isn't a focus for this show or a big passion for us personally, we wanted to switch gears for a bit and hear more about this big long weekend event. Kevin Gregory not only won the Deka Strong but also won 4 different team events with one of them creating a new world record ! He has an extensive history in obstacle course racing but has really found his niche...
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 32 min
