377. OCR Events Eulogy: Remembering Warrior Dash, Rugged Maniac, Terrain Race, and Bonefrog!
Release Date: 03/26/2024
419. reRUN of 1. Welcome to the Podcast! (Pilot)
Obstacle Running Adventures
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 ! Hope you enjoy and we will be back to our regular scheduled programming next week! Start – 5:36 –...
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418. 2024 OCR Podcaster Roundtable Chat with Fran Chiorando, Dave Claxton, Scott Knowles, and Jason Dupree!
Obstacle Running Adventures
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 , , , , , , , , , and ! This year we had from Podcast, from , from , and from ! We discuss our thoughts on the Spartan and Savage series in the United States, the sport in Europe as well as Canada, changes to the competitive waves, east and west coast age group series, the new Spartan Super Championships, the next OCRWC being in 2025, World Obstacle, 3 band system, mandatory obstacle completion, World's Toughest Mudder, favorite moments...
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417. 2024 Recap Compilation - Lessons Learned and Things Remembered!
Obstacle Running Adventures
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 – 5:40 – Content Preface 5:40 - 14:58 - Name Clip Compilation 14:58 -...
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416. 2024 Recap Compilation – Bloopers, Jokes, Good Times, Oh My!
Obstacle Running Adventures
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 our two end of year recap compilation episodes covering all of the...
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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 (, , , , ,...
info_outlineWe 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 Warrior Dash and Rugged Maniac or have extremely unclear futures like Terrain Race and Bonefrog.
The videos referenced were our 2014 Rugged Maniac, 2016 Warrior Dash, 2016 Rugged Maniac, 2017 Warrior Dash, 2017 Rugged Maniac, 2018 Bonefrog, 2019 Terrain Race, and 2019 Rugged Maniac 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 Warrior Dash, Rugged Maniac, Terrain Race, and Bonefrog
37:32 - End – Outro
Next episode is hopefully something that we have been wanting to do again for a while!
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72. Terrain Race New England with Elites, Bonefrog New England, and NAMI Walk! (2018)
76. Bonefrog New Jersey! (2018)
82. Bonefrog New York! (2018)
87. OCR Events Eulogy: Remembering Battlefrog, Superhero Scramble, Spartan Cruise and Many More!
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