344. Angel Quintero on the Competitive Field in OCR, Glory Days of the Sport, and Pan American Championship!
Release Date: 08/08/2023
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Finishing up our 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! . This part 3 has interviews from the bar crawl where I, along with many community members got pretty drunk! 0:00 – 2:10 – Intro 2:10 – 8:53 – Quick News 8:53 – 10:20 – Content Preface 10:20 - 51:57 - Interviews Before Musical...
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Continuing with our 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! . This part 2 is this episode all about the brunch featuring audio from the presentation as well as many interviews with members of the community. Part 3 will have interviews from the...
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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 will be all about the brunch featuring audio from the presentation as well as many interviews with members of...
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Back in Palmerton we were able to meet 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! 0:00 – 3:30 – Intro 3:30 – 10:37 – Quick News 10:37 – 11:42 – Content Preface 11:42 - 56:53 - ...
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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 ! We discuss his background in OCR, changes to the Tough Mudder season this year and if they will affect WTM, some information about WTM including a cryptic obstacle run down, and much more! 0:00 – 7:45 – Intro 7:45 – 12:10 – Quick News...
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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 ) 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 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 like and ! We discuss his background in the sport of OCR, his extensive military service, thoughts on competition and staying in...
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We wanted to have at least one more episode on the weekend and we were hoping to have an athlete on the show representing Europe (since there weren't as many as previous years)! 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 but we primarily focus on Spartan Race's . She took 7th in the 3K, 5th in the 15K, her coed team took 2nd on the relay, and then she closed out the weekend by winning the 100 meter course! 0:00 – 2:58 – Intro 2:58 – 10:40 –...
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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! has been a prominent member of for a while now and he made the trip over to Belgium to compete in . More recently he competed in Spartan Race's (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 differences between the two events, how he feels about his recent success in Mammoth Lakes, his feelings on the Tough Mudder Infinity in Saudi Arabia, and...
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This year may have had but we still love 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, , and ! Of course there was the news that came out about Spartan Race's aquisition of the event so we figured that would be great to both answer community questions and build some excitement up for what will assuredly be an excellent weekend! We discuss what brought about this change, his role in the event weekend moving forward, the history of water obstacles in Adventurey's previous events, and much more! 0:00 – 2:26...
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Admittedly, we were unsure how the first 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 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 have him on the show to hear more about him and were thrilled to have him as this week's guest! We discussed how he got into...
info_outlineSpartan 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 the years, his thoughts on the state of the sport now, hopes for the future of OCR, and of course his very successful weekend!
A huge thank you to Chriz Scherf for taking the time to be the translator for the interview!
0:00 – 2:57 – Intro
2:57 – 8:36 – Quick News
8:36 – 9:39 – Content Preface
9:39 - 1:28:29 - Angel Quintero Interview
1:28:29 - End – Outro
Next episode we will be doing an episode on one of the many ideas that Mike has!
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