220. FIT 'Rock 5 Miler and 5k Trail Race Recap!
Release Date: 03/21/2021
Obstacle Running Adventures
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 and or have extremely unclear futures like and . The videos referenced were our , , , , , , , and so check one, two, or all of them out! 0:00 – 2:31 – Intro 2:31 – 7:54 – Quick News 7:54 – 8:25 – Content Preface 8:25 - 37:32 - Info and Memories of , , , and 37:32 - End – Outro Next episode is hopefully...
info_outline 376. Paul Lachance on 200+ Spartan Races at the Age of 82!Obstacle Running Adventures
recently this caught 's attention for 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, , favorite and least favorite Spartan venues, medical barriers that he has pushed through in his life, how it feels to be embraced by sponsors and the community, how to , plans for the rest of the year...
info_outline 375. Alisa Petrova on Hero Race, Winning Tough Mudder Infinity AlUla, Government Games, and More!Obstacle Running Adventures
We have been wanting to have 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! 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 . In more recent years she has continued to prove herself to be a podium threat at many championship events...
info_outline 374. Hannah Franciosa on Teaching, Training, Jacksonville Spartan Series Race, and More!Obstacle Running Adventures
This week Katelyn sat down with ! They talked about 's exerience both as a special education teacher, as well as a substitute teacher. She shares about being coached by and what a typical training week looks like for her. 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 – 15:45 – Content Preface 15:45 - 56:34 - Interview 56:34 - End – Outro Next episode is maybe going to be with a Tough...
info_outline 373. Grey Betties and Roller Derby with Heather Jo Cox!Obstacle Running Adventures
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 from on the show! We discuss how she found the sport, her background with roller derby as well as body building, and all about the 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 – Quick News 12:47 – 13:06 – Content Preface 13:06 - 46:34 - Interview 46:34 - End – Outro Next episode is likely going to...
info_outline 372. OCR Adaptive Athletes with Andy Reid!Obstacle Running Adventures
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 was the man to have on the show to talk about it. He is the founder of 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 a better future in this sport, the difference between the term adaptive and para-athlete, visable and invisable...
info_outline 371. Sarah Grippi-Snyder on RV Life, MudGear-Hannibal Race Pro Team, and 3GX Mental Performance Training!Obstacle Running Adventures
She has been mentioned by a couple athletes during interviews and has recently been added to the so we were excited to have 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 , and more! 0:00 – 3:44 – Intro 3:44 – 14:21 – Quick News 14:21 – 14:45 – Content Preface 14:45 - 1:20:12 - Interview 1:20:12 - End – Outro Next episode is with who is the founder of ! ____ News Stories: ...
info_outline 370. The Boston Run Show Part 2 with Kelly Roberts, Danny Dreyer, Bad Boy Running, John Kelly, and More!Obstacle Running Adventures
We returned to 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 Danny Dryer, the guys behind Bad Boy Running Podcast, and ultra running athlete John Kelly! With over 30 interviews...
info_outline 369. The Boston Run Show Part 1 with Russel Hoyt, Pete Kostelnick, Coree Woltering, David Barclay, and More!Obstacle Running Adventures
We returned to 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 , , , and crew extraordinaire . We also spoke to the event manager ! With over 20 interviews just in part 1, check the time stamps below to...
info_outline 368. Cassandra Gill on Dealing with Failure, Ice Cream, Podium Success in 2023 and More!Obstacle Running Adventures
After reading her name at least a dozen times when reviewing podiums during quick news last year, we finally had 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 . 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 obstacle course racing, support from fellow athletes, getting through some failures, some of her favorite race memories in 2023, big plans for 2024 and more! 0:00 – 3:42 – Intro 3:42 – 8:32 –...
info_outlineFIT Challenge knows how to put on great events, both trail and OCR. Robb McCoy, the race director, has also learned how to put them on safely amidst a pandemic and helps prove that races can safely happen!
Mike ran both the 5 miler and the 5k options at the Cumberland Monastery and had a great time at the events. Unfortunately there was also a lot of anxiety going into an event for the first time in a while which we also discuss.
0:00 - 2:20 - Intro
2:20 - 14:10 - Quick News
14:10 - 21:04 - FIT Challenge Trail Races Recap
21:04 - End - Outro
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Boston Marathon Registration Opening
Spartan San Antonio Super Podium
Spartan San Antonio Sprint Podium
Rebecca Hammond Matched with Stanford
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