346. Austin Azar on Grit Games, Spartan 3K, World's Toughest Mudder, and Rubix Cubes!
Release Date: 08/21/2023
415. Richard Hynek on Trifecta World Championship, Spartan Beast World Championship, and Much More!
Obstacle Running Adventures
We wanted to get an episode on the again this year but it can be pretty difficult with language and time zone barriers! Luckily we heard back from 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 , the choice to have surgery and the recovery from it, his successful history with the , his more recent podium at the , and much more! Be sure to and ! Start – 4:18 – Intro 4:18 – 8:30 – Quick News 8:30 – 9:17 – Content Preface 9:17 - 1:07:37 - Interview 1:07:37 -...
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414. Running Across Massachusetts, Designing Shoes, and Personal Growth with David Filar!
Obstacle Running Adventures
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! ran across the state of Massachusetts and ! 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 , and support the companies that helped support his goal like , , , and ! Follow on social media and keep an eye out for his documentary to be released! Start – 5:28 – Intro 5:28 –...
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413. World's Toughest Mudder 2024! (Part 4: Bar Crawl Interviews)
Obstacle Running Adventures
It is the end of World's Toughest Mudder coverage time ... for this year! Mike flew down to Florida to help with 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 to wrap up this year's coverage bringing the total number of interviews to over 80! Please share these episodes...
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412. World's Toughest Mudder 2024! (Part 3: Brunch Interviews and Audio)
Obstacle Running Adventures
It is still World's Toughest Mudder coverage time! Mike flew down to Florida to help with 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 interviews after the presentation! All totaling to over 30 interviews again! ! 0:00 – 5:59 – Intro 5:59 – 14:13...
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411. World's Toughest Mudder 2024! (Part 2: Race Day Interviews with Athletes, Volunteers, and Pit Crew)
Obstacle Running Adventures
Still World's Toughest Mudder coverage time! Mike flew down to Florida to help with 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 walked through the course 11pm - 4am to talk to each volunteer out there, and some pit crew were also interviewed! All...
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410. World's Toughest Mudder 2024! (Part 1: Pit Check In and Community Dinner)
Obstacle Running Adventures
It's World's Toughest Mudder time! Mike flew down to Florida to help with 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 – Intro 5:14 – 8:37 – Quick News 8:37 – 9:25 – Content Preface 9:25 - 33:04 - Pit Set Up Interviews (, , , , ,...
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409. Leon Kofoed on Injury Recovery, Intrinsic Goals, Winning OCRWC 3K, and More!
Obstacle Running Adventures
It has been a long time coming but we finally had 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 about so many championships and much more! Be sure to , , as well as alongside ! 0:00 – 4:40 – Intro...
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408. Jack Goras on Photography, Travels, OCR Thoughts, Helping in Ukraine, and More!
Obstacle Running Adventures
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 , 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 was a 24+ hour event, we shared a room at the air bnb, and he hung out at the bar crawl. This was...
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407. Mike Reclaims Title of Ultra Runner at Survival of the FITtest 12 Hour Trail!
Obstacle Running Adventures
A bit of a pivot for this week's episode since Mike had his "A race" of the year, the ! A couple years ago he planned to take on the 30 hour but due to , 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 ultra runner again! So enjoy a look at the inside of my mind, many mistakes when talking, and a few ultra mistakes too! Next week we plan to get back to...
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406. Ja Shua Ried on Athletic Risk, OCRWC, FKTs, and More!
Obstacle Running Adventures
was last weekend in Mammoth Lakes, CA and we wanted to have on for his own episode to talk about his experience! 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 at , his recovery from his shoulder injury in Tahoe, his interest in helping others in the sport, his upcoming FKT in the...
info_outlineAnother episode giving some well deserved love to The Grit Games! Last episode we had Kris Rugloski on the show to talk about her experience and history with this event.
Austin Azar is an athlete that we have only met a couple of times and somehow only once on the show at OCRWC for episode 300 but we have heard great things about him over the years.
We discuss his recent victory at The Grit Games, his experience at the Spartan 3K in Palmerton, being one of the few athletes to reach 100 miles at WTM back in the day, what. he does for work, and more!
Also, if you want to see more of The Grit Games then watch the event's live stream!
0:00 – 3:14 – Intro
3:14 – 7:07 – Quick News
7:07 – 7:49 – Content Preface
7:49 - 42:59 - Austin Azar Interview
42:59 - End – Outro
Next episode we will have something, just not sure what yet!
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