Sarah Hetzel took on the Dopey Challenge which is completing all of the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend events! This consists of the 5K on Thursday, 10K on Friday, half marathon on Saturday, and the marathon on Sunday! We discuss her running background, Disney Favorites, how long she has been wanting to do this multi day event, how it went, and advice to others considering the multi day event! Check Sarah out on social media to follow along with her adventures, and consider helping her out wi...
Jan 27, 2025•59 min
Accountability Corner is a podcast created in May 2023 by 3 athletes ( Darren Martin , Morgan Maxwell , and Chris Shipley ) in England who wanted to keep themselves accountable! Darren , Morgan , and Chris have progressed to also helping their listeners stay accountable! Hear us discuss a bit about how they found the sport of OCR, origin of their podcast, how they feel the UK ranks in Europe as a competitive country in the sport, the impact on local federations, World Obstacle, complicated ruleb...
Jan 19, 2025•1 hr 28 min
So this is a first for the show and we don't plan to do this often but we are rereleasing an older episode for this week! This will be done during times where it's difficult to find a guest, continuous time zone issues, life circumstances, etc. This features a rerelease or a reRUN of our first ever episode published January 8th 2017, that's 8 years ago! Back when there were 4 hosts of the show, it had a different name, and we didn't focus much on elites but more on our own team MStefano Running ...
Jan 13, 2025•49 min
Every year since 2018 we have started the year off with a round table discussion with other podcasters in the sport of OCR. In the past we have had Heather Bode , Matt B Davis , Josh Chace , Scott "the Fayne" Knowles , Jason Dupree , Anna Landry , Kim DeVoss , Rich Ryan , Brakken Kraker , and Fran Chiorando ! This year we had Fran Chiorando from OCRWC Podcast, Dave Claxton from OFX Podcast , Scott "the Fayne" Knowles from I Am A Spartan Podcast , and Jason Dupree from OCR Tech Talk ! We discuss ...
Jan 08, 2025•2 hr 11 min
It is clip compilation time of the year again! The second of our two 2024 compilation episodes focuses on the important moments of each episode of the show from this year. There is also a compilation of all the names of the guests we have had on the show during 2024 to celebrate them as well. Hopefully this inspires you and starts you off right for a solid 2025 while you listen during your resuming work commutes or a really really long run! Start – 3:04 – Intro 3:04 – 5:00 – Quick News 5:00 – 5:...
Jan 01, 2025•6 hr 25 min
It is clip compilation time of the year again! The first of our two 2024 compilation episodes focuses on the funny moments, bloopers, jokes, and post credit parts of the show from this year. Hopefully this brings you some joy or makes you laugh during long holiday travels or a really long run! Start – 6:32 – Intro 6:32 – 12:09 – Quick News 12:09 – 12:53 – Content Preface 12:53 - 5:08:16 - Funny/Bloopers/Jokes/Post Credit Clip Compilation 5:08:16 - End – Outro Next weekend will be the second of o...
Dec 22, 2024•5 hr 11 min
We wanted to get an episode on the Spartan Beast World Championship again this year but it can be pretty difficult with language and time zone barriers! Luckily we heard back from Richard Hynek who we have heard and seen a lot about over the past recent years! We discuss what his athletic background consisted of before obstacle course racing, how he found Spartan Race , the choice to have surgery and the recovery from it, his successful history with the Trifecta World Championship , his more rec...
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 15 min
It started off as a quick news story but Mike figured that he would reach out to the local athlete and he is so glad that he did! David Filar ran across the state of Massachusetts and raised over $10,000 for Christmas toys to go to the UMASS Memorial Children's Hospital ! That is what initially caught our attention but we also discuss his running background, the importance of growth outside the comfort zone, and his career of designing incredible shoes for some well known people! Be sure to dona...
Dec 11, 2024•1 hr 5 min
It is the end of World's Toughest Mudder coverage time ... for this year! Mike flew down to Florida to help with The OCR Report live stream and to do a whole bunch of podcast coverage. So much so, that we got 4 episodes out of it, so make sure that you subscribe and follow along to hear more about the best OCR event of the year! For this part four though, it focuses on the bar crawl on Monday where both the interviewer and interviewees may have been drinking a bit. You'll hear 15 more interviews...
Dec 02, 2024•1 hr 45 min
It is still World's Toughest Mudder coverage time! Mike flew down to Florida to help with The OCR Report live stream and to do a whole bunch of podcast coverage. So much so, that we are hopefully going to get 4 episodes out of it, so make sure that you subscribe and follow along to hear more about the best OCR event of the year! For this part three though, it focuses on the brunch on Monday. You'll hear interviews before the presentation, trimmed down audio from the presentation itself, and inte...
Nov 27, 2024•3 hr 11 min
Still World's Toughest Mudder coverage time! Mike flew down to Florida to help with The OCR Report live stream and to do a whole bunch of podcast coverage. So much so, that we are hopefully going to get 4 episodes out of it, so make sure that you subscribe and follow along to hear more about the best OCR event of the year! For this part two though, it focuses on the event days of Saturday and Sunday. Interviews were done before the race with athletes, interviews and audio were recorded as I walk...
Nov 17, 2024•2 hr 2 min
It's World's Toughest Mudder time! Mike flew down to Florida to help with The OCR Report live stream and to do a whole bunch of podcast coverage. So much so, that we are hopefully going to get 4 episodes out of it, so make sure that you subscribe and follow along to hear more about the best OCR event of the year! For this part one though, it focuses on Friday. Interviews were while athletes were preparing their pit spots and a few more interviews were done at the community dinner! 0:00 – 5:14 – ...
Nov 13, 2024•54 min
It has been a long time coming but we finally had Leon Kofoed on the show for his own episode! He is one of the more popular social media personalities in the sport and one of the most well known Danish athletes in the sport of OCR. He was vocal about 2024 being his final year as a full time athlete so we discuss what that looks like, how it felt to take the win at an OCRWC event, his recovery from his Savage Race injury, the state of the sport in Europe compared to North America, how he feels a...
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 32 min
I have been wanting to do this for a while ... even though I'm not sure him or the others in The OCR Report believed me! It's Jack Goras , the guy behind the camera at pretty much every major OCR that has happened in Europe or North America in the past 5 or so years! We haven't had much time to talk in the past when covering events since we are usually busy doing interviews while he is taking pictures and editing. However we did get to hang out more at World's Toughest Mudder last year since it ...
Oct 29, 2024•1 hr 7 min
A bit of a pivot for this week's episode since Mike had his "A race" of the year, the FIT Challenge Survival of the FITtest ! A couple years ago he planned to take on the 30 hour but due to an upcoming wedding , the final and most difficult semester of grad school, and some achilles pain the registration was moved back. This is the raw and pretty unedited (especially since Audacity gave me issues with the episode and I needed to redo almost everything) journey of me being able to call myself an ...
Oct 21, 2024•54 min
OCRWC was last weekend in Mammoth Lakes, CA and we wanted to have Ja Shua Ried on for his own episode to talk about his experience! Ja Shua was a prominent member of the OCR in the northeast before moving to Colorado, we chose him to be one of our sponsored athletes back in episode 300, and he has been Mike's coach for the past few months! Hear us discuss van life out west, his athletic background, how he found OCR, the thrill of making the world your playground through fitness, his experience a...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 26 min
This weekend was OCRWC in Mammoth Lakes, CA and you will totally hear about that ... next week when I have time to schedule an interview with an athlete but it is Tuesday and people are still traveling home! Instead we finally had Kevin "The Mudman" LaPlatney , on the show who has been in the sport since 2010 and has seen a lot of events come and go during his time living on Long Island. He owned Obstacle Athletics which was a well known OCR gym in the area for many years, and continues to be a ...
Oct 09, 2024•1 hr 19 min
We had Yaris Cruz on the show once before while doing interviews at OCRWC in 2021 , having her on again for her own episode was long overdue! Yaris as an athlete is known to be a force to be wreckoned with whether it be OCR, ninja, or even hybrid racing. We discuss her background in sport before finding OCR (or lack thereof), the importance of mental health as an athlete, how her position as the vice president of Puerto Rico OCR Association has changed her perspective on the sport, her thoughts ...
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr 21 min
We have been hearing about Baylen Bean for a while now, after his recent victory at Spartan Pan-American Championships we figured that it would be a perfect time to finally have him on the show! We talk about his athletic background, how he found obstacle course racing, the qualification process to join the elite field, his favorite race distances, how his championship event in Seattle went, how that ranks in his all time racing accomplishments, potential interest in World's Toughest Mudder in t...
Sep 23, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Well, we still can't believe this is the first time that Josh Fiore has gotten his own episode but here we are! Josh has been involved with OCR in the northeast for well over a decade as a weekend warrior, volunteer, motivational speaker, and as an elite. He has been on the show 7 times previous to this (episodes 114 , 194 , 328 , 358 , 360 , 382 , and 401 ) due to seeing him at Spartan Greek Peak , Kismet Cliff Run , FIT Challenge , World's Toughest Mudder , New England OCR Expo , and BoldrDash...
Sep 17, 2024•55 min
There were some big events that happened this weekend with Tough Mudder Infinity in Pittsburg , the final Conquer the Gauntlet under the Mainprize ownership , the first of the Savage Point Series races in Maryland , and the Spartan European Championships , but we covered the final BoldrDash OCR in Exeter, RI! BoldrDash as a race series had a huge role to play in our overall OCR history! It was Mike's 9th ever OCR, and Katelyn's 7th ever OCR back on May 3rd 2014 (video here) . We have also volunt...
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 31 min
Another huge milestone of the show, hitting 400 Episodes! Don't quote me on it but I can't think of any other OCR podcasts that have made it this far (other than Obstacle Racing Media) ... yet! We celebrate with a live recording of the intro, the naming of a new "sponsored athlete" some Q&A, audio clips that Katelyn had sneakily asked for congratulating us, some more Q&A, a compilation of times we were mentioned on other shows, and a live outro! Thank you to everyone who has supported us...
Sep 01, 2024•1 hr 38 min
Lots of events happened this weekend so it was difficult to figure out which event to focus on and which particular athlete to have on the show. I try not to have the same guest on for their own episode too many times, one of the big events had a lot of issues and I'd want to have more of the dust settle before we consider having an athlete on to talk about it. Then Mike saw that Jenny Overstreet won Toughest Mudder Chicago! He first met her at the end of OCR America 2 during the KC Timber Chall...
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 7 min
The New England Spartan Super and Sprint weekend came back to Barre, MA and it felt good to be back! Most are pretty familiar with the ~10K Super and the ~5K Sprint so those don't need too much description. In addition to taking on both of these events though, we also completed the Teddy Bear Crawl which is a 7am wave where adults crawl the kids course to earn a kids medal and kids could bear crawl it to earn a Sprint medal! This event is free but it is recommended to make a donation in order to...
Aug 19, 2024•1 hr 20 min
After Evan Perperis interviewed Mike to talk about OCR in the Northeast on Strength and Speed ( listen to episode here ), Mike pulled an uno reverse and asked Evan to come on our show! We have heard of some events that take place in the center of the country but to have a much better idea of the state of the sport in that region it takes someone more local to the area. With Evan living there for the majority of his OCR career, he was the perfect guest to talk about these events. We discuss 29 di...
Aug 13, 2024•1 hr 10 min
It's that time for New England to get savage again! Mike woke at 6:15am and drove to Carter and Stevens Farm in Barre, MA to cover the Savage Race Boston and as always he didn't regret it! He interviewed a bunch of elite athletes as well as the vendors who were there to support the event! Savage Race has been one of our favorite OCRs since before they even came to New England with us only missing their 2021 and 2023 events. After doing interviews, Mike went out to do the Blitz course for a sweet...
Aug 05, 2024•1 hr 12 min
We drove the 3 hours to Greenville, NY to cover the Ultra Viking 8 Hour (Northeast Ultra Cup Finale)/ Final Raid/ whatever we called their last event ! The race director Asa Coddington aka OCR Yoda has been a prominant member in the OCR community here in the northeast so it was a big blow that he announced that his last event would been this year. Known for very difficult and historic obstacles, interesting penalties, and excellent medals the loss of this race will have a large impact on the spo...
Jul 29, 2024•1 hr 24 min
There was the final race in the Spartan USNS Series but there was also an athlete who ran Savage Chicago who I wanted to have on the show. Mike put it up as a poll and Savage won with 62% (67% at the time he reached out)! Due to this Katelyn reached out and interviewed Kaeley Wynsma who just won Savage Chicago! You may be familiar with Kaeley 's name due to us reading podium results in quick news and honestly this was a big factor in wanting to have her on the show. Technically we interviewed he...
Jul 23, 2024•1 hr 15 min
We had the winner of Spartan Ultra World Championships on the show, Luca Pescollderungg ! We talk about his background in the sport, his thoughts on being one of the best climbers in the sport of OCR, his other races that he focuses on, how the Spartan Ultra World Championships went, how he feels being both a World and a European champion, what is next for him, and much more! Be sure to follow him on Instagram to keep up with his adventures and consider giving his sponsors some love! 0:00 – 5:44...
Jul 15, 2024•41 min
This week Katelyn talks to Chennell Berg , the first place female finisher at War X . Chennell talks about her life on her cattle ranch, the evolution of her training, becoming a runner and what her experience was like taking first place at War X last weekend (Spoiler: It was her first ever first place finish). She talks about the importance of having her mom's support at her OCR events. Chennell also talks about Mothman and the weather phenomenon of Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds. If you're ever in th...
Jul 10, 2024•1 hr 7 min
