Obstacle Racing Media Podcast

Episode 181 -Jason is a doctor/obstacle racer who wrote a blog post that began this way:

I’m a lung doc and have spent more hours than I can count studying cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology. T…

Episode 180 - Tough Mudder announced several changes to this year's team competition at World's Toughest Mudder. We got Nolan Kombol on the phone as quickly as we could. Nolan's been with Tough Mudde…

Episode 178 - Carrie Tollefsen appears on this episode to talk about about training, how to make running seem interesting on television, and the joys of milkshakes and PB&J.

We also learn about her j…

Episode 177 -  On today's show we talk with Matt Booth (Specialty Store Sales Rep) and Zach Gray (Product Testing Coordinator) for Mizuno.

Having never owned a pair of Mizunos, your fearless host Mat…

Episode 176 - We first met Joel before his second World's Toughest Mudder, back in November of  2012. Earlier that year, he had his first attempt at The Barkley Marathon where he successfully complet…

Episode 175 - On today's program, we attempt to answer that burning OCR question:

What exactly is a race director and what does he do?

We spoke with two members of the Spartan Race Team at the March …

Episode 172 - Ella Kociuba burst onto the OCR scene in December of 2011. At just 18 years old, she signed up for the open wave at the Glen Rose Super. She ended up finishing faster than the winning f…

Episode 171 - For an appetizer, this episode begins with a brief chat with Mark Ballas from The Green Beret Challenge. Matt sat down with Mark at the end of the most recent GBC. It's a quickie, but a…

Episode 170 - The bio from Bob Babbitt's website will tell you :

Bob Babbitt started racing triathlons way back when the earth was still cooling, in the late 1970's. He did his first Ironman Triathl…

Episode 169 - In this episode, we talk to Sandra and Gary Cantrell. You may know Gary better by his race director alias, Lazarus Lake.

We talked to Gary and Sandra right after a screening of The Bark…

Episode 168 - First up, as promised, Amelia and Carlo join Matt for a chat about Superbowl 50. They really planned on no running talk, but then Amelia went and placed 2nd at The Sean O'Brien 100k. Th…

Episode 167 - Jesse Itzler used to leave funny outgoing messages on his answering machine back in college. They were so good , they went viral, the old school way. Pre-Internet, people would tell fri…

Episode 166 - For starters, as promised, its 15 minutes with Carlo and Amelia to talk NFL Championship games.  Amelia also expands a little on the whole "enjoying dry needling in her butt" that she e…

Episode 165 - First up, as promised, its the return of Carlo talking playoff football. He's joined this week by Amelia Boone as she heard we were talking NFL and wanted in.

We then have a nice chat w…

Episode 164 - On today's show, we talk to Joe Desena about the Spartan Delta.

What is it? Why did he create it? Who is it designed for? How do you earn one?

We attempt to answer all of those question…

Episode 163 - If you have ever attended a Spartan Race, you have most likely had Dustin send you off with his start line speech. Did you know that he wrote that speech and now Spartan has all of thei…

Episode 162 - Scott Jones is an athlete, coach, race director, podcaster and podcast network producer.

How the heck does he do it?

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