421. The Disney Dopey Challenge with Sarah Hetzel!
Release Date: 01/27/2025
Obstacle Running Adventures
We have done OCR eulogy episodes in the past but never a eulogy episode on OCR podcasts! Mike used his first hand experience, , 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 a pretty decent amount of time to put together. See the shows mentioned in the time stamps...
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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 to try to help those who are preparing to take on this ultra OCR! Josh shares his experinces and...
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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 when doing , 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 via an interview. We discuss her athletic background being swimming, how she found the sport of obstacle course racing, how this and the previous two series races...
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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 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, her domination with Toughest Mudder, thoughts on WTM and more! Start – 3:30 – Intro 3:30 – 10:10 –...
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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 to and 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 2012, his love for both hybrid racing and OCR, how he balances his family life and training, winning Toughest Mudder Atlanta, a slight injury he...
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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 ( doing , recording and producing , heading , 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 years, now just called the Spartan Ultra. Katelyn wanted to do an episode interviewing Mike about his first Spartan Ultra experience, he figured that it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting as him doing...
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The returned for its 4th year and it was the second time being at the venue of ! 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! This episode is part 2 of 2 and has the announcement, speeches, awards, and about 9 more interviews! Start – 3:45 – Intro...
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The returned for its 4th year and it was the second time being at the venue of ! 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! This episode is part 1 of 2 and mostly has vendors interviews (see time stamps for specifics) while part 2 will have the ...
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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 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) but we were able to talk to a variety of athletes as well as Robb McCoy the race director. Start – 3:46 – Intro 3:46 –...
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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 April Fool's part when you get to it ... or maybe not! This fooled a few people back...
info_outlineSarah Hetzel took on the Dopey Challenge which is completing all of the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend events! This consists of the 5K on Thursday, 10K on Friday, half marathon on Saturday, and the marathon on Sunday!
We discuss her running background, Disney Favorites, how long she has been wanting to do this multi day event, how it went, and advice to others considering the multi day event!
Check Sarah out on social media to follow along with her adventures, and consider helping her out with her Amazon Wish List, it's tough out there for teachers!
Start – 2:52 – Intro
2:52 – 8:26 – Quick News
8:26 – 9:02 – Content Preface
9:02 – 54:16 - Sarah Hetzel Interview
54:16 – End – Outro
Next weekend we are unsure what we will cover yet but we have planned the majority of the episodes for 2025!
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