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446. World's Toughest Mudder 2025 (Part 4: Bar Crawl Interviews)
Monday, July 21, 2025 • Duration 02:05:44
World's Toughest Mudder is more than just the event itself, it continues to the Champion's Brunch run by TMHQ as well as the bar crawl put together by the community on Monday as well!
This episode covers the bar crawl with interviews with 15 members of the community as well as some drunk chaos in between!
Check out these YouTube videos for more WTM 2025 coverage!
445. World's Toughest Mudder 2025! (Part 3: British Brunch Interviews and Audio)
Monday, July 14, 2025 • Duration 02:23:59
World's Toughest Mudder is more than just the event itself, it continues to the Champion's Brunch run by TMHQ as well as the bar crawl put together by the community on Monday as well!
This episode covers the brunch with interviews with 25 members of the community and audio from the hour and a half ceremony with the removal of a lot of the clapping and lulls in between!
Check out these YouTube videos for more WTM 2025 coverage!
The next 1-2 weeks will be packed with World's Toughest Mudder episodes so make sure you're subscribed for the best podcast coverage of this event!
Start – 2:59 – Intro
2:59 – 7:59 – Quick News
7:59 – 8:59 – Content Preface
8:59 – 1:08:58 - Interviews Before: Steve, Maxine and Joanne, Michael Schjott, Ed, James, and Darryl, Annabell and Derrick, Rock Weigan, , raffle announcement, , , and Liz Schlegel, and , , , and
444. World's Toughest Mudder 2025! (Part 2: Event Day Audio, Interviews, and Katelyn's Pit Audio)
Episodes with lap by lap pit audio have been a listener favorite feature for the past 8 1/2 years of the show (WTM 2017, 2018, 2019, Ode to Laz, etc.) and as soon as Katelyn registered for this in November, I knew that we would do it again!
In addition to the audio of her experience I also did some interviews with athletes before the race as well as interviews with almost every volunteer on course and some athletes out on course in the middle of the night (1:30am-6am) helping, walking, or running!
Check out these YouTube videos for more WTM coverage!
We have been really busy with pit set up, OCR Report live stream assistance, and etc so we pivoted to a short discussion episode again, this time released as a rare early Friday release thanks to staying up late and very minimal editing!
Check out the below YouTube videos for more WTM coverage!
We have been really busy with Katelyn's last week of school, chaos at Mike's job, a wedding on Friday and our travel to England on Saturday so we pivoted to a short discussion episode!
The next few weeks will be packed with World's Toughest Mudder episodes so make sure you're subscribed for the best podcast coverage of this event!
Next weekend we are either doing the episode on the book that we got back in March or there is a first timer to running WTM that we may reach out to about an interview!
441. World's Toughest Mudder in UK Prep with Wil Chung and Fran Chiorando!
Monday, June 16, 2025 • Duration 01:35:00
World's Toughest Mudder is almost upon us ... which is a very strange thing to say in June since it has always been in either December or November!
I met Wil Chung last year at WTM and discussed having him on the show to talk about the venue of Belvoir Castle since he has had a lot of experience there as a prominent member of the European TM community! I also wanted to have Fran Chiorando on as well since she lives with an American and is hyper aware of cultural differences and knows about my interest in trying new snacks!
Next weekend we are either doing the episode on the book that we got back in March or there is a first timer to running WTM that we may reach out to about an interview!
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440. Chainsaw Rick on Hildervat, Lionhearts Fitness, Cancer, and More!
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 • Duration 01:35:34
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 of their work, how he is handling his cancer diagnosis and much more!
439. OCR Podcast Eulogy: Remembering the Dead Podcasts of Our Sport!
Monday, June 2, 2025 • Duration 01:10:05
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 pretty decent amount of time to put together. See the shows mentioned in the time stamps below!
438. World's Toughest Mudder First Timer Questions with Josh Fiore!
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 • Duration 01:24:36
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 insights about training, race preparation, and how to stay positive during all 25.5 hours of World's Toughest Mudder!
Start – 4:02 – Intro
4:02 – 17:06 – Quick News
17:06 – 18:11 – Content Preface
18:11 – 1:20:15 - Josh Fiore Interview
1:20:15 – End – Outro
Next weekend we aren't sure who we will have on the show yet but Mike has an idea that is proving to be pretty timely!
437. Sabrina Buhagiar on the Spartan US National Series and Preparing for Spartan Ultra and Trifecta World Championships!
Monday, May 19, 2025 • Duration 42:23
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 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 went for her, as well as her preparation for two Spartan Championship weekends later this year!
Next weekend we will be releasing interviews from the bar crawl at Klubhaus by the Bierkeller, and depending on a few factors either an interview with Giles Chater or we will start our Savage Race Boston coverage!
1:10:27 – 1:58:16 - Katelyn's Pit Audio from Lap 1-5 (5-25 Miles)
1:58:16 – 2:30:42 - Interviews with Volunteers and Athletes On Course (Start to Kiss of Mud featuring Scott and Marianne Wilson)
2:30:42 – 2:39:51 - Katelyn's Pit Audio from Lap 6 (30 Miles)
2:39:51 – 3:24:22 - Interviews with Volunteers and Athletes On Course (Funky Monkey to Finish featuring Melisssa Linden and Cory Edwards)
3:24:22 – 3:42:51 - Katelyn's Pit Audio from Lap 7-8 (35-40 Miles)
3:42:51 – End – Outro
Next weekend we will be releasing the British champion's brunch interviews and audio, the following episode will be bar crawl interviews, and depending on a few factors either an interview with Giles Chater or we will start our Savage Race Boston coverage!
Next weekend we are hopefully getting to that interview with the author that we have been talking about for the past few months or an interview with a guest that Mike has a sudden interest in!
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