452. World's Toughest Mudder, Rally in the Valley, and Underdog Fitness with AJ Golik!

Author: Michael Stefano, Katelyn Ritter, AJ Golik,
Published: Wed 03 Sep 2025
Episode Link: http://mstefanorunning.libsyn.com/452-worlds-toughest-mudder-rally-in-the-valley-and-underdog-fitness-with-aj-golik

We first met AJ Golik when we both taking on our first DEKA and covering the event at Underdog Fitness last year and more recently saw him at Belvoir Castle when he took on World's Toughest Mudder as a team with Kevin Gregory!

Katelyn and AJ discuss his experience at World’s Toughest Mudder, both as a competitor and as a friend of the event’s winner. AJ then shares about his time competing at Rally in the Valley, a multi-day, multi-event weekend held in West Virginia. The conversation then shifts to the challenges of making friends as adults and the importance of finding a community. They wrap up their conversation by manifesting goals for 2026 and AJ answers an oddly specific Long Island question cue Piano Man!

Start – 4:50 – Intro

4:50 – 9:06 – Quick News

9:06 – 10:28 – Content Preface

10:28 – 2:23:10 - AJ Golik

2:23:10 – End – Outro

Next weekend we will be either the long awaited book interview or elites to discuss the late Spartan payment issues, or Trifecta World Championship, or something else entirely!

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