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New podcast. We’ve got Caitlynn talking about Grit Games plus Mintra with some HYROX updates.
Learn about The Grit Games through Caitlynn plus Mintra with some Hyrox updates.
Does AI know OCR?
Mythic Race is the Midwest's newest obstacle course race!
Come run in support of local and national non-profits with our 5k or 5 hour options.
Over 25 challenging and unique obstacles await on this OCR World Championships qualifying course.
Use code ORM for $10 off! Register through the link in their bio!
Latest YouTube video is with of . We attempt to answer all of the current burning questions. Link in bio takes you to our channel.
HYROX qualification updates with Mintra Tilly.
https://youtu.be/mtyDWNTZYrI
back in Championship form. She dominated the women’s field today for the Euro Champs. did an extra lap and fought her way back to third after a .r had a shoe malfunction.
We’ve got the one and only .haase grabbing coverage for us over for Hyrox Euro Champs. Check out our stories for the up close and personal action.
Hopped on a call with all of the U.S. women going to HYROX Euro Champs. This clip is with Lauren Weeks, Dr. Alandra Greenlee, and Meg Jacoby. The entire podcast will be up later this week and includes Terra Jackson. https://youtu.be/KAy5DJuNYck
It’s official. The Jacksonville will be your first chance to attempt the new 3K Format. Spartan hinted at this months ago and today made it official. These are Friday afternoon events and will include the new laser guns. Who will we see in Jax - The Home Of OCR since 2020??
joins us for Chapter 2 to discuss the dawn of Spartan Race as a professional sport. We cover what it was like for an “elite” athlete in the early years of professional obstacle course racing.
Today’s show is sponsored by . Use code ORM23 for a discount at all 2023 locations.
Ian Kay joins to talk about the 2023 World’s Toughest Mudder video.
This is part 1. We’ll have part 2 up tomorrow to discuss World Obstacle announcement and more.
A weekly news show with Matt B Davis and special guests discussing items of the week for Spartan Race, Tough Mudder, and all other OCR-related news.
https://www.obstacleracingmedia.com/ocr-news/ocr-weekly-show-jan-1-2023/
Ian Kay joins to talk about the 2023 World's Toughest Mudder video.
Now through January 8th, is running a New Years Resolution special. Use code RMNYE23 at sign up and get a free Rugged Maniac cooler bag.
Closing the year with our mini-doc on World's Toughest Mudder. Watch in on your big screen if you can :)
World’s Toughest Mudder is considered the hardest 100-mile race. This film focuses on 3 participants who competed in the deepest women’s field to date.Over 2...
The World's Toughest Mudder mini-doc is almost done.
Let's go over the Spartan Elite series!
Spartan Race Qualifications video - https://youtu.be/8qiHuXZrYucSpartan ZenDesk - https://spartanrace.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/9579878760599-Champions...
The Triple Crown no one asked for?
Anyone can do the elite heats (again). Also, super easy to qualify for championship races. Watch this clip for more info.
Spartan Race released its 2023 qualifications. This video will teach us how to sign up for an elite wave. Also, how to qualify for regional and world champio...
It's time to get Rugged! Use code ORM23 when registering for your 2023 Rugged Maniac 5K Obstacle Race event to get $5 off. With 25+ obstacles and a rockin’ after-party, you’ll test your limits while having as much fun as a kid on a playground.
DeeJay Fox – 1st Place Male – 105 Miles
Anthony Kunkel – Sprint Lap Winner - 65 Miles
Cali Schweikhart – 8th Place Female – 70 Miles
Chris Maltbie – Race Director
Kris Rugloski – 1st place woman – 100 Miles
Today’s show is sponsored by Rugged Maniac – Our Black Friday deal is here! Use code BF22 and get 20% off any 2023 Rugged Maniac event. We’ve turned down the prices so you can turn up the fun! BUT HURRY – the savings are only available until November 28 at 11:59 pm.
https://www.obstacleracingmedia.com/podcast/worlds-toughest-mudder-2022-part-3/
Fox, Kunkel, Schweikhart, Maltbie, Rugloski
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The 2023 Adventurey OCR World Championship is taking place October 5-8, 2023 near Mammoth Lakes, California.
This is the 5th location for the event. The first two years of this event took place at King’s Domain in Ohio, USA in 2014-15. In 2016-17, OCRWC moved to Blue Mountain, outside of Toronto. The weekend moved to England near Kelvedon Hatch for the 2018-19 World Championships. It was scheduled for Stratton, Vermont back in the USA for 2020, but was canceled due to the Pandemic. The race did take place in Stratton in 2021 and 2022.
There is a video on our Youtube page with some additional insight about next year’s event.
Join us in a few hours!
Let's find out where we are going next year!
Our apologies. We thought it was mean old Joe. Turns out those crusty old dragons Dave Watson and Dave Castro have been fighting it out for supremacy behind the scenes of the final location for next year’s championship. We do think it’s down to The Red Keep and Narnia. Belize was clearly bu****it.
Mean old Joe told us we def can’t announce until tomorrow. But he did say it’s one of these choices for sure.
1. Belize
2. Not Tahoe
3. Mars
4. Narnia
5. The Red Keep
Remember when and working together was unthinkable?
This collaboration may be equally as shocking to the community. We'll have interviews with Adrian from and Joe from up as soon as possible.
The 2023 OCRWC Added to Spartan Unbreakable Pass. Spartan Race and Adventurey to Collaborate.
New York, NY, November 25, 2022 – Adventurey, producers of obstacle course racing’s independent world championship, and Spartan Race, the world’s largest endurance brand, have reached an agreement to support the Obstacle Course Racing World Championships and include the 2023 event in Spartan’s Unbreakable Pass.
In a historic moment for obstacle course racing, Spartan and Adventurey will collaborate to produce, enhance, and market the 2023 event across both of their respective audiences. Through this partnership, both brands will remain independent but will work together on numerous fronts to further develop the OCRWC and unify the sport of obstacle course racing.
Entry to the 2023 OCRWC will also be available to holders of Spartan’s Unbreakable Pass, Spartan’s first truly global pass that offers holders access to the world’s most epic trails, OCR races, fitness challenges, and cultural experiences.
“Our sport is only as strong as the community on which it is built,” said Adrian Bijanada, Adventurey CEO & Founder. “I’ve long admired Spartan’s efforts to move our sport forward and it’s clear that now is the time for all obstacle course racing stakeholders to work together in support of our sport’s future.”
“We all worked very hard the last 20 years to design, iterate, and finally create a new sport. It is important we all work together to continue to grow it,” said Joe De Sena, Spartan CEO & Founder.
As part of the collaboration, both Adventurey and Spartan will invite other race organizations to collaborate on the 2023 OCRWC with the aim of highlighting some of the best and most unique obstacle course races in the world.
The dates and location of the 2023 OCRWC will be revealed on Monday, November 28th.
Monday interviews begin in bed on Monday Morning with Jeff Marier, then we move on to The Brunch for
Scott The Fayne Knowles (and LeeAnn) – I Am A Spartan Podcast
Heather Olson – 5th place female. 1st place AG. 1st place Athena.
Melissa Dugan – Sharkbait
Jenny Overstreet – 3rd place female – 90 85 miles.
Mark Gaudet – 2nd place male – 105 miles.
Part III will have 2022 Male Winner Deejay Fox, Anthony Kunkle, Cali Schweikhart, Hanna Carta, and the full Race Director interview with Chris Maltbie so stay tuned for that!
Find this and ALL episodes through the link in bio!
https://www.obstacleracingmedia.com/podcast/worlds-toughest-mudder-2022-part-2/
The interviews begin in bed on Monday morning with Jeff Marier, then we move on to The Brunch…
The Rugged Maniac 5K Obstacle Race Black Friday deal is here! Use code BF22 and get 20% off any 2023 Rugged Maniac event. They’ve turned down the prices so you can turn up the fun! BUT HURRY – the savings are only available until November 28 at 11:59 pm.
Rich Ryan comes flying in fresh off being crowned the DekaFit World Champion!
A weekly news show with Matt B. Davis and special guests discussing items of the week for Spartan Race, Tough Mudder, and all other OCR-related news.
https://www.obstacleracingmedia.com/podcast/ocr-weekly-show-nov-21-2022/
The one and true Deka World Champ?
Ian Floyd just did World’s Toughest Mudder. We talked about that plus Pentathlon updates and Savage Series. Also, Matt had a food slip.
A weekly news show with Matt B. Davis and special guests discussing items of the week for Spartan Race, Tough Mudder, and all other OCR-related news.
https://www.obstacleracingmedia.com/podcast/ocr-weekly-show-november-14-2022/
Ian Floyd just did World’s Toughest Mudder. We talked about that plus Pentathlon updates and Savage Series. Also,…
While many of you have been hanging out in the Alabama mud. and made announcements about their upcoming 2023 series. Link in bio takes you to our YouTube for the latest.
The rest of the story.
Race Director Chris Maltbie answers World's Toughest Mudder questions about Katie Knight, Jenny Overstreet, Medical DQs, and more.Subscribe - http://bit.ly/C...
Latest video is up. https://youtu.be/uOqH1o31aBY
Guess what OCR fam? You can’t always judge a dude by his ball hugging shorts. Had a great chat with this morning. I look forward to bringing it to you as a part of a ton of interviews from this weekend’s .
2022 Champion 2022 World’s Toughest Mudder Champion. First woman to get 100 miles. We are living in the Kris Rugloski era.
We’ve got your prescription Mudders.
10th year of coverage. Favorite Event Of The Year!
This will be the 10th year of live coverage for World’s Toughest Mudder! In 2012, we were the…
I took this picture in the middle of the night on November 16/17, 2013 at Raceway Park, New Jersey. 25 year old was headed out on his 60 mile lap for World’s Toughest Mudder. He was ahead of the 2011 and 2012 winner JungYong Pak and showed zero signs of slowing down.
I couldn’t believe he was still going so fast, and that he was beating “our champion” Pak. When I occasionally caught him between laps at his tent, I would try to figure out who the hell he was and what kept him going. He would just smile and dig into a can of peaches and say something very nonchalantly about how he felt good and was enjoying himself.
He wasn’t being cocky, this was just how his day was going. He had already put in the hard work and done the math on how to beat Pak, and here he was executing that plan.
He ended up stopping at 20 laps and 100 miles at 11:00am. He had time for another lap, but he had already secured the win and would finish a full lap ahead of Pak.
The next year, the event moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and he won the event again. It went on like this for quite a while. Every November, the question became “What category is Atkins in, and can he be beaten”
The rest of his WTM resume looks like this:
2013 Winner male
2014 Winner male
2015 Winner 4 man team
2016 Winner 2 man team
2017 Winner male
2018 Winner 4 “man” team (with his wife Lindsay)
So the short answer to that question is “No”. He never lost.
We will most likely never see an endurance athlete in this sport have this kind of dominance again. What a pleasure he has been to watch. I will miss it not seeing him in the middle of the night this year. Maybe one year, he’ll come back.
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Hot off the press! Excerpt with Tough Mudder CEO Giles Chater. Should I post the whole thing or just answer the obligatory "I don't have time to watch it, what did he say?"
A 39 foot slide!!!!! What in the holy mudder is going on. 2022 World’s Toughest Mudder Map is out. Lots of into at https://toughmudder.com/wtm/. We’ll be posting some more details this week as well.
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This is the new test for potential 5th discipline to replace riding in Olympic Pentathlon. Link in bio to YouTube to see a full test run of UIPM ninja/OCR course.
Say hi to Kris Ridiculous. Her goal was “top 5 - both races”. @krisrugloski beat the best in the world @hyroxworld Champs on Saturday in Las Vegas. Less than 12 hours later, she comes in 3rd at @spartanrace national series race in Big Bear, California.
Top men at mile 2.5. Women on next post.
@huntthesheriff wins convincingly. Here’s his thoughts almost immediately after. If you missed the live stream, you can still watch the replay of @hyroxworld champs. Link in bio. #hyroxworld #hyroxworldchamps
@krisrugloski got a personal best and beat the best women in the world. Your new @hyroxworld Champion just earned $16,000. #hyroxworld #hyrox #hyroxworldchampionships
Live live live. Hit the link in bio for the stream of @hyroxworld Champs!
@reinforced_running_rich @dr0p_the_hammer @sarahkholti arrive at @hyroxworld Championships. Big day tomorrow!
Sound Up: Adrian from OCR World Championships spoke to us about the recent announcements from World Obstacle. Listen in to hear what he told us. #ocrwc #ocr #spartanrace #toughmudder #savagerace #obstaclerace #obstacle #ocrtraining
@cscoffin13 discusses keeping points a mystery at the GORUCK Games. What are your thoughts on this aspect of competition? #goruckgames
@rachel_fit_girl and her last round of grappling at @sandlotjax #GoRuckGames. We’ve got a full hour with Rachel up on our podcast right now with Dave and Matt. Lots more podcast and videos to come from this event. #Goruck #womensWrestling #wrestling #fitnesscompetitor #fitnesscompetition #girlfights #girlfight #savagerace #roguefitness #obstacleracingmedia
Go watch our stories! @_tamarashawn is our woman on the ground this morning for @sandlotjax #goruckgames. She’s got course views and interviews and behind the scenes stuff!
@ryanatkinsdiet, @cscoffin13, and @woddoc talk about The Hero Within Challenge. The event included shooting at targets, which was a first for The Spartan Games. Find this and all videos through the link in bio. #ocr #spartan #spartanrace #spartangames2
Breaking: Abu Dhabi location reveal for @spartanrace World Championship. Link in bio takes you to YouTube for the rest of this video.
Breaking News. @bonefrog_ will be putting on its last races this year.
@vjshoesusa arrived. Here is an unboxing preview of the XTRM 2. #shoeporn #ocrshoes #trailrunning #bestgripontheplanet #whatareyoudoingwiththatcamera
@spartanrace announces new distance and new (sort of) venue for Abu Dhabi World Championships. Will a shorter distance plus staying in hotels give you a reason to go this year? #spartangames #spartanrace #spartanworldchampionship
Do a @spartanrace they said. It will be fun they said. @iamtarynterrell versus @spartan video will be up soon.
@fayestenning_ocr wins 30 mile race in NYC called #OSR30. In true ultra/ocr fashion, she got lost and put in some extra miles @orchardstreetrunners. PS 1st woman, 3rd overall. Cover photo: @edbrookline.
Spartan Games Season 2 Episode 1 Sneak Peak. A little Atkins, a lot of Watson. Stay tuned for the big premiere Episode tomorrow night at 8pm EST. #spartangames #spartangames2 #spartangamesseason2
Spartan Games Season 2. We are about to see endurance versus strength versus speed versus shooting and more. @woddoc told us his thoughts on how the event organizers did overall. Stay tuned for more interviews when the show airs tomorrow.
Latest YouTube video has @spartanrace 2022 medals and shirts review. Link in bio takes you there.
Pro Wrestler @iamtarynterrell joined us today at the @spartanrace Super in Conyers, Georgia. She’ll be back at it tomorrow for the Sprint. Check out our stories today for most obstacles in the meantime.
“I don’t remember him complaining after he won.”- @veejay_jones on @ryanatkinsdiet recent post. More to come from our interview this morning with several @spartanrace SLO podium athletes.
“The farm is unrelenting.” Did you watch @realjoedesena and @drlarapence on the first episode of No Retreat on @cnbc last night? Many of you reading this have spent some in Pittfsfield on that farm. What are your thoughts on episode 1.
Sound up. Lindsay Webster is the greatest female obstacle racer of all time. She goes out the reigning @spartanrace World Champion and @ocrwc World Champion. It will be a long time before we see another woman as dominant. She told us she’s not done for good but OCR will no longer be her full time sport. We were fortunate enough to talk to her after @ryanatkinsdiet suggested she try The Spartan Killington Beast Championship in 2014. Enjoy this moment in history.
Athletes have “an unlimited ceiling in earning potential” if they push race tickets, merch and nutrition. @spartanrace wants to be more transparent so they’ve published the zoom meeting they had with @realdjwatson, @trailmasterhammond and @donnyjensen from last week. Get there through the link in our bio on Instagram. Is this a good deal? Let us know your thoughts
Origin stories : @poptartsus and @arboone11. We talked to attorney, Amelia Boone about Spartan contracts this morning. We also learned some valuable information about her pre race obsession.
@yancyculp explains a new @deka.fit product. Do you need more DEKA in your life? Want to do just some of the DEKAZONES with two friends? Then DEKA 358 may be for you!
@spartanracecanada Race Director Bear Bertrand announces the venue for the Quebec Trifecta weekend. #spartanrace #Spartanracecanada #OCR
