It took quite a bit of rescheduling but we were finally able to have Mike Strobel on the show! We talk about his background in sport, thoughts and experiences with adventure and hybrid racing, success with both the Spartan US National Series, World's Toughest Mudder, and more! Be sure to follow Mike as he prepares for the Spartan Trifecta World Championship and more! Start – 4:29 – Intro 4:29 – 12:03 – Quick News 12:03 – 12:30 – Content Preface 12:30 – 58:31 - Mike Strobel 58:31 – End – Outro Ne...
Aug 26, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Back to Barre, MA yet again! With the venue being used for Battlefrog , Bonefrog , Savage Race , and Spartan Race , we have gone to over 20 obstacle races there now! This trip we covered the event weekend with some finish line interviews from the Super on Saturday as well as the Teddy Bear Crawl and Sprint on Sunday. We also interviewed some of the vendors that took the time to come out to the event. See time stamps below to see who we talked to! Start – 6:04 – Intro 6:04 – 10:07 – Quick News 10...
Aug 19, 2025•1 hr 13 min
Just like the course prior to midnight, you thought you knew what was in store for you for our World's Toughest Mudder coverage this year! However the COO of Tough Mudder and Spartan makes an appearance similar to the Killa Gorilla reveal! Idk, still workshopping that comparitive joke. Giles answers questions related to staff pressure, course set up, obstacle changes, penalty difficulty, and much more WTM related questions as well as some comments related to owed prize money, the Spartan Ultra W...
Aug 11, 2025•1 hr 31 min
After hearing I Am A Spartan 's episode talking about the Spartan Para Championship down in Orlando, Florida I figured that it would be really cool to hear from an athlete who plans to participate! Katelyn brought up Amy Haskell who we met along with her husband Andy through working on the New England OCR Expo Katelyn talks with Amy Haskell, who is getting ready to participate in the Spartan Para Championship! Amy shares how she has built a team of incredible and supportive athletes to suport he...
Aug 05, 2025•43 min
I had a few things planned that didn't work out yet but I went through my episode plans and bumped a future episode idea up earlier. I have wanted to have Jeff Moulton on the show for his own episode because our paths have crossed at the New England OCR Expo , WTM, and Spartan New Jersey Ultra! He seems like a great guy and I wanted to learn more about him, his history of body building, and hear about his performance training. When he became the owner of a gym in Connecticut it gave us all the m...
Jul 30, 2025•1 hr 30 min
World's Toughest Mudder is more than just the event itself, it continues to the Champion's Brunch run by TMHQ as well as the bar crawl put together by the community on Monday as well! This episode covers the bar crawl with interviews with 15 members of the community as well as some drunk chaos in between! Check out these YouTube videos for more WTM 2025 coverage! All Obstacles Preview WTM Live Stream Hours 1-8 WTM Live Stream Hours 8-16 WTM Live Stream Hours 16-24 WTM Live Award Ceremony WTM 202...
Jul 21, 2025•2 hr 6 min
World's Toughest Mudder is more than just the event itself, it continues to the Champion's Brunch run by TMHQ as well as the bar crawl put together by the community on Monday as well! This episode covers the brunch with interviews with 25 members of the community and audio from the hour and a half ceremony with the removal of a lot of the clapping and lulls in between! Check out these YouTube videos for more WTM 2025 coverage! All Obstacles Preview WTM Live Stream Hours 1-8 WTM Live Stream Hours...
Jul 14, 2025•2 hr 24 min
World's Toughest Mudder has found a great home at Belvoir Castle and as many of you know, this was Katelyn 's first time running it! Episodes with lap by lap pit audio have been a listener favorite feature for the past 8 1/2 years of the show ( WTM 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , Ode to Laz , etc.) and as soon as Katelyn registered for this in November, I knew that we would do it again! In addition to the audio of her experience I also did some interviews with athletes before the race as well as interviews...
Jul 07, 2025•3 hr 48 min
World's Toughest Mudder is tomorrow at Belvoir Castle and as many of you know, this will be Katelyn 's first time running it! We have been really busy with pit set up, OCR Report live stream assistance, and etc so we pivoted to a short discussion episode again, this time released as a rare early Friday release thanks to staying up late and very minimal editing! Check out the below YouTube videos for more WTM coverage! All Obstacles Preview WTM Live Stream Hours 1-8 WTM Live Stream Hours 8-16 WTM...
Jun 27, 2025•38 min
World's Toughest Mudder is next weekend at Belvoir Castle and as many of you know, this will be Katelyn 's first time running it! We have been really busy with Katelyn's last week of school, chaos at Mike's job, a wedding on Friday and our travel to England on Saturday so we pivoted to a short discussion episode! The next few weeks will be packed with World's Toughest Mudder episodes so make sure you're subscribed for the best podcast coverage of this event! Start – 4:30 – Intro 4:30 – 6:29 – Qu...
Jun 22, 2025•37 min
World's Toughest Mudder is almost upon us ... which is a very strange thing to say in June since it has always been in either December or November! I met Wil Chung last year at WTM and discussed having him on the show to talk about the venue of Belvoir Castle since he has had a lot of experience there as a prominent member of the European TM community! I also wanted to have Fran Chiorando on as well since she lives with an American and is hyper aware of cultural differences and knows about my in...
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 35 min
We have heard about " Chainsaw Rick " for years but our paths had never crossed before with him mainly racing down south and us primarily running and covering the north. Between him dominating Hildervat podiums and his recent cancer diagnosis , we figured that we should go out of our way to change that! We discuss the reason for his nickname, how he found the sport of OCR, his favorite moments in the sport, how Hildervat has changed over the years, his support of Lionhearts Fitness and the impor...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 36 min
We have done OCR eulogy episodes in the past but never a eulogy episode on OCR podcasts! Mike used his first hand experience, Podchaser , and his own podcast app to find as many podcasts as he could find whether dead or alive. He compiled the show names, descriptions, hosts, how many episodes released, date range of the show, and personal thoughts and experiences where applicable! There are well over 50 OCR podcasts discussed but apologies if we missed some. We are a 2 person team and this took ...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 10 min
With World's Toughest Mudder coming up soon and it being both the first time the event is taking place in Europe as well as Katelyn's first time tackling the event herself, we figured it would be a good time to both selflessly and selfishly have an episode focused on first timer questions! Josh Fiore had been answering first timer questions on the WTM First Timer facebook group so we figured that he would be a great guest due to him being knowledgeable and has shown to take time out of his day t...
May 28, 2025•1 hr 25 min
We admittedly haven't had any episodes covering the US Spartan National so far this year so we looked at the third of four series races which took place in Big Bear and decided to change that! Mike first met Sabrina Buhagiar when doing finish line interviews at Spartan Citi Field last year , he saw her again preparing before we started the Spartan New Jersey Ultra last month! When he saw that she took a podium finish at a Spartan Series race he reached out to have her on the show to be a guest v...
May 19, 2025•42 min
A benefit to reviewing the podiums for a variety of races during quick news each week is that is helps us keep a finger on the pulse of the change in the elite field in the sport! A name that has popped up more frequently and especially recently with the Toughest Mudder Atlanta win was Charity Borne so we reached out to have her on the show and learn more about her! Hear us discuss her being one of 11 kids, her brief background in track, how she found OCR, her love for CrossFit and hybrid racing...
May 12, 2025•1 hr 1 min
When Mike was preparing to run his first Spartan Ultra he reached out to some elites to see who else would be there. Joe Rucco explained that he was going to miss it in order to take on Toughest Mudder Atlanta ... well, he won it! We have had him on the show a few times in the past ranging from hybrid racing to World's Toughest Mudder and Spartan Stadium races but we never had him on for his own episode so we reached out to change that! You'll hear him talk about how he found the sport back in 2...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Part of being a weekly podcast and playing the role of media in a sport means that your own athletic goals need to be put more in the background ( Jason Dupree doing live streams for The OCR Report , Brakken Krakker recording and producing The Running Public , Matt B Davis heading Hybrid Fitness Media , etc.). That being said, there are still a couple challenges left that Mike has been wanting to take on in the sport of OCR. One of them being wanting to try a Spartan Ultra Beast for the past 8 y...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 24 min
The New England OCR Expo returned for its 4th year and it was the second time being at the venue of Ultimate Obstacles ! Katelyn spent the whole time at our table trying to get some more people to follow our social media and subscribe to the show. Mike spent the entire event interviewing all the vendors, some athletes, and plugged into the speakers for the speeches, and awards. The day went by way too fast and there were easily 20+ people who we wish we interviewed to have on the show as well! T...
Apr 20, 2025•1 hr 59 min
The New England OCR Expo returned for its 4th year and it was the second time being at the venue of Ultimate Obstacles ! Katelyn spent the whole time at our table trying to get some more people to follow our social media and subscribe to the show. Mike spent the entire event interviewing all the vendors, some athletes, and plugged into the speakers for the speeches, and awards. The day went by way too fast and there were easily 20+ people who we wish we interviewed to have on the show as well! T...
Apr 14, 2025•2 hr 22 min
FIT Challenge had their final obstacle course race in 2023 but later announced that they would making a return in 2025! It was unfortunately the same day that we had scheduled the New England OCR Expo but we have been running his events since 2014 and it was going to take more than it being a double event coverage day to keep us from supporting New England's most beloved and award winning event and of course Robb himself. We were only able to stay for a couple hours in the morning (7:45-9:45) bu...
Apr 07, 2025•50 min
We have been busy and didn't get the chance to do anything fun for April Fools this year, there also weren't any events that grabbed our attention that we could've done an episode on (other than maybe British OCR 3K Championship but time zone differences make it difficult)! Due to this we are releasing our third reRUN rerelease episode on the first April Fool's episode that we ever released. The first half is actual coverage of an event that is unfortunately no longer around but you'll know the ...
Apr 01, 2025•55 min
Many years ago we remember the Burmuda Triple Challenge being advertized on Obstacle Racing Media 's podcast. When we found out that a friend was doing it this year, we were surprised to realize that it was still around! This friend was Michael Kantor who went down to take on the events with his girlfriend Shannon Woodill . We figured that if we didn't know it was still around then many others wouldn't as well, so we decided to have them on show to talk about it! We talk about their background i...
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 1 min
"If we want more books written about the sport, we need to buy books written about the sport" is a phrase that Mike and many others have repeated for years regarding OCR! Due to this we have had a few authors on the show ranging from Des Linden to Gwendolyn Bounds ! Tara Pipia reached out to us about her book "Sober Up: Spartan Style" which was published in December of last year! As described on the website, the book "sheds light on how Spartan Race and DEKA, Spartan's partner sport, have reconn...
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 15 min
We have covered the Boston Run Show for the past couple years. This year, it combined with the Boston Outdoor Expo ! We weren't sure if we were going to go and cover it this year since it was later in the year than usual and events are starting up but we made the trip and booked a hotel to just cover Saturday. Even though we just covered one day of the event we were able to get over 60 interviews causing us to split everything into part 1 and part 2 episodes. Check the time stamps below to see w...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 30 min
We have covered the Boston Run Show for the past couple years. This year, it combined with the Boston Outdoor Expo ! We weren't sure if we were going to go and cover it this year since it was later in the year than usual and events are starting up but we made the trip and booked a hotel to just cover Saturday. Even though we just covered one day of the event we were able to get over 60 interviews causing us to split everything into part 1 and part 2 episodes. Check the time stamps below to see w...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 33 min
Mike and Katelyn did their first DEKA event at Underdog Fitness in Wallingford, CT to support Kevin "Bubbles the Clowne" Gregory and his wife and co-owner Jess ! Not only was Kevin a coach for Mike for about a year but Underdog Fitness is known to be a prominent gym in the DEKA community. Due to both of those reasons, Mike wanted to continue his support for the gym by driving down to Hartford, CT and covering the first official DEKA ATLAS ! You'll hear from some athletes who competed in the DEKA...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 22 min
We have had Evan Perperis on the show multiple times and he frequently traveled to compete at Hannibal Race , and we had Rachel Watters on to talk about her first time traveling and competing at the event . This year Christian Brown-Johnson went for the first time and did well in both the 8K and 300 meter races! I wanted to have CBJ on for his own episode to hear about his first experience flying and competing in Hannibal Race in Kuwait. We discuss how it feels to join the MudGear Hannibal Race ...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 7 min
In the last episode (and a few before that), we kept talking about having an athlete on the show who we've mentioned a lot in Quick News because she's always popping up on the podium! We finally reached out to Chloe Melikian , who's been a major podium contender at West Coast Spartan Races. We chat about her athletic background, her thoughts on changes in the sport, the shifts in the Spartan Elite series, how the SoCal race went, the kayak carry obstacle, the importance of the community at her g...
Feb 10, 2025•59 min
We planned to finally give Abominable Snow Race some well deserved attention with a couple guests but we were unable to find a time that worked out after 2 attempts at rescheduling. So after panicking for a while Mike resorted to another reRun episode, this time reairing our 4th episode which originally came out on January 29th, 2017! Long ago when OCR was still doing well in the Northeast of the US we had winter snow races with both Blizzard Blast in Massachusetts and Spartan Greek Peak in New ...
Feb 04, 2025•47 min
