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Obstacle Running Adventures

MStefano Running

MStefano Running is a group of friends that went outside their comfort zone in 2012 and started training to run in fun runs as well as mud runs and other events. We urge others to get off the couch and go for a run or even a walk. Exercise is great for the mind and body. We hope you enjoy listening to our adventures and consider trying one for yourself.

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01:35:34

440. Chainsaw Rick on Hildervat, Lionhearts Fitness,...

Obstacle Running Adventures ·

2025/06/10

We have heard about "Chainsaw Rick" for years but our paths had never crossed before with him mainly racing down south and us primarily running and covering the north. Between him dominating Hildervat podiums and his recent cancer diagnosis, we figured that we should go out of our way to change that! We discuss the reason for his nickname, how he found the sport of OCR, his favorite moments in the sport, how Hildervat has changed over the years, his support of Lionhearts Fitness and the importance

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01:10:05

439. OCR Podcast Eulogy: Remembering the Dead...

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2025/06/02

We have done OCR eulogy episodes in the past but never a eulogy episode on OCR podcasts! Mike used his first hand experience, Podchaser, 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

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01:24:36

438. World's Toughest Mudder First Timer Questions...

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2025/05/28

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

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437. Sabrina Buhagiar on the Spartan US National...

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2025/05/19

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 Sabrina Buhagiar when doing finish line interviews at Spartan Citi Field last year, 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

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01:01:24

436. Charity Borne on Hybrid Racing, Inspiring...

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2025/05/12

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 Charity Borne 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,

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01:07:10

435. Joe Rucco on Hybrid Racing, Winning Toughest...

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2025/05/06

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 hybrid racing to World's Toughest Mudder and Spartan Stadium races 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

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01:24:12

434. Mike's First DNF and reRUN of 17. Tri-State...

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2025/04/30

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 (Jason Dupree doing live streams for The OCR Report, Brakken Krakker recording and producing The Running Public, Matt B Davis heading Hybrid Fitness Media, 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,

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01:59:08

433. New England OCR Expo 2025! (Part 2: Athletes,...

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2025/04/20

The New England OCR Expo returned for its 4th year and it was the second time being at the venue of Ultimate Obstacles! 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

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02:22:27

432. New England OCR Expo 2025! (Part 1: Vendors)

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2025/04/14

The New England OCR Expo returned for its 4th year and it was the second time being at the venue of Ultimate Obstacles! 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

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49:42

431. The Return of FIT Challenge with Athletes and...

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2025/04/07

FIT Challenge 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 New England OCR Expo 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

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430. reRUN of 117. BoldrDash WinterDash with Lynn...

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2025/04/01

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

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01:01:19

429. Bermuda Triple Challenge with Michael Kantor and...

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2025/03/25

Many years ago we remember the Burmuda Triple Challenge being advertized on Obstacle Racing Media's podcast. When we found out that a friend was doing it this year, we were surprised to realize that it was still around! This friend was Michael Kantor who went down to take on the events with his girlfriend Shannon Woodill. We figured that if we didn't know it was still around then many others wouldn't as well, so we decided to have them on show to talk about it! We talk about their background in

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01:14:38

428. "Sober Up: Spartan Style" with Author Tara...

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2025/03/17

"If we want more books written about the sport, we need to buy books written about the sport" is a phrase that Mike and many others have repeated for years regarding OCR! Due to this we have had a few authors on the show ranging from Des Linden to Gwendolyn Bounds! Tara Pipia reached out to us about her book "Sober Up: Spartan Style" which was published in December of last year! As described on the website, the book "sheds light on how Spartan Race and DEKA, Spartan’s partner sport, have

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01:30:08

427. Boston Run Show and Outdoor Expo! (Part 2)

Obstacle Running Adventures ·

2025/03/10

We have covered the Boston Run Show for the past couple years. This year, it combined with the Boston Outdoor Expo! We weren't sure if we were going to go and cover it this year since it was later in the year than usual and events are starting up but we made the trip and booked a hotel to just cover Saturday. Even though we just covered one day of the event we were able to get over 60 interviews causing us to split everything into part 1 and part 2 episodes. Check the time stamps below to see who

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01:32:40

426. Boston Run Show and Outdoor Expo! (Part 1)

Obstacle Running Adventures ·

2025/03/04

We have covered the Boston Run Show for the past couple years. This year, it combined with the Boston Outdoor Expo! We weren't sure if we were going to go and cover it this year since it was later in the year than usual and events are starting up but we made the trip and booked a hotel to just cover Saturday. Even though we just covered one day of the event we were able to get over 60 interviews causing us to split everything into part 1 and part 2 episodes. Check the time stamps below to see who

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01:21:57

425. The First DEKA ATLAS with Underdog Fitness!

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2025/02/25

Mike and Katelyn did their first DEKA event at Underdog Fitness in Wallingford, CT to support Kevin "Bubbles the Clowne" Gregory and his wife and co-owner Jess! Not only was Kevin a coach for Mike for about a year but Underdog Fitness is known to be a prominent gym in the DEKA community. Due to both of those reasons, Mike wanted to continue his support for the gym by driving down to Hartford, CT and covering the first official DEKA ATLAS! You'll hear from some athletes who competed in the DEKA

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01:07:29

424. Christian Brown-Johnson on Hannibal Race, Hybrid...

Obstacle Running Adventures ·

2025/02/20

We have had Evan Perperis on the show multiple times and he frequently traveled to compete at Hannibal Race, and we had Rachel Watters on to talk about her first time traveling and competing at the event. This year Christian Brown-Johnson went for the first time and did well in both the 8K and 300 meter races! I wanted to have CBJ on for his own episode to hear about his first experience flying and competing in Hannibal Race in Kuwait. We discuss how it feels to join the MudGear Hannibal Race Pro

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58:47

423. Winning West Coast Spartans, Carrying Kayaks,...

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2025/02/10

In the last episode (and a few before that), we kept talking about having an athlete on the show who we've mentioned a lot in Quick News because she's always popping up on the podium! We finally reached out to Chloe Melikian, who's been a major podium contender at West Coast Spartan Races. We chat about her athletic background, her thoughts on changes in the sport, the shifts in the Spartan Elite series, how the SoCal race went, the kayak carry obstacle, the importance of the community at her gym,

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46:43

422. reRun of 4. Blizzard Blast with Fred Smith!

Obstacle Running Adventures ·

2025/02/04

We planned to finally give Abominable Snow Race some well deserved attention with a couple guests but we were unable to find a time that worked out after 2 attempts at rescheduling. So after panicking for a while Mike resorted to another reRun episode, this time reairing our 4th episode which originally came out on January 29th, 2017! Long ago when OCR was still doing well in the Northeast of the US we had winter snow races with both Blizzard Blast in Massachusetts and Spartan Greek Peak in New

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421. The Disney Dopey Challenge with Sarah Hetzel!

Obstacle Running Adventures ·

2025/01/27

Sarah 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

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