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Strength & Speed podcast focuses on Obstacle Course Racing ( OCR ) improvement by pulling in lessons learned from other sports. Hosted by Pro OCR athlete and Army Special Forces veteran Evan Perperis. Evan is a NSCA-CPT, the author of 8x books on Obstacles Course Racing, with an undergrad from Johns Hopkins and has a Masters from KU. An accomplished OCR athlete with 100+ OCR podiums including winning the team division at the 24 hour long 2018 World’s Toughest Mudder and 2nd place Pro Coed Te ...
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Weekly podcast since 2017 that covers interviews and race recaps from athletes and members of the OCR and running communities primarily in the Northeast! Our focus is to shine a spotlight on incredible athletes, motivate ourselves and other, and to share our love for the sport that has changed our lives!
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From the livestream home of Spartan, Tough Mudder, DEKA, and the OCR World Championships, this is The OCR Report Podcast. The go-to source in the sport for informative and professional interviews about Obstacle Course Racing and Hybrid Fitness Racing. From the home of World’s Toughest Podcast, Obstacle Running Adventures, OCR Talk, and Nitty Gritty Training: The first podcast to focus exclusively on the Elite Racing SPORT of Obstacle Course Racing. Each week we talk about the latest results ...
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Listen to every episode of "30 Podcasts Hath September" on Spotify. Here is a link to a Spotify playlist with every episode of our 30-Day Podcast Event. --- Support The OCR Report by shopping on Amazon! It helps us and doesn't cost you a thing! --- Evan Perperis is the author of "Run If You Can, Destroy If You Must: Tiga Tactics Runner, Walker, and…
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This weekend was OCRWC in Mammoth Lakes, CA and you will totally hear about that ... next week when I have time to schedule an interview with an athlete but it is Tuesday and people are still traveling home! Instead we finally had Kevin "The Mudman" LaPlatney, on the show who has been in the sport since 2010 and has seen a lot of events come and go…
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We had Yaris Cruz on the show once before while doing interviews at OCRWC in 2021, having her on again for her own episode was long overdue! Yaris as an athlete is known to be a force to be wreckoned with whether it be OCR, ninja, or even hybrid racing. We discuss her background in sport before finding OCR (or lack thereof), the importance of menta…
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Use discount code OCRREPORT20 to save 20% on your next Spartan, DEKA, or Tough Mudder event. Listen to every episode of "30 Podcasts Hath September" on Spotify. Here is a link to a Spotify playlist with every episode of our 30-Day Podcast Event. --- Support The OCR Report by shopping on Amazon! It helps us and doesn't cost you a thing! --- Jason Du…
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Evan "Ultra-OCR Man" Perperis gives you a rundown of his books and which one may be right for you. If you are lost in the number of books and what is different about each one, this is a great place to start. Combatives focused Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/greekcombatives Order Dear Grandma Rose: https://amzn.to/3T8sHwg Order Run If You Can, Des…
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Do your customers love fitness? Reach them through advertising with The OCR Report! Contact Will at will@theocrreport.com for more information. Listen to every episode of "30 Podcasts Hath September" on Spotify. Here is a link to a Spotify playlist with every episode of our 30-Day Podcast Event. --- Support The OCR Report by shopping on Amazon! It …
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We have been hearing about Baylen Bean for a while now, after his recent victory at Spartan Pan-American Championships we figured that it would be a perfect time to finally have him on the show! We talk about his athletic background, how he found obstacle course racing, the qualification process to join the elite field, his favorite race distances,…
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Do your customers love fitness? Reach them through advertising with The OCR Report! Contact Will at will@theocrreport.com for more information. Listen to every episode of "30 Podcasts Hath September" on Spotify. Here is a link to a Spotify playlist with every episode of our 30-Day Podcast Event. --- Support The OCR Report by shopping on Amazon! It …
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Do your customers love fitness? Reach them through advertising with The OCR Report! Contact Will at will@theocrreport.com for more information. Listen to every episode of "30 Podcasts Hath September" on Spotify. Here is a link to a Spotify playlist with every episode of our 30-Day Podcast Event. --- Support The OCR Report by shopping on Amazon! It …
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Well, we still can't believe this is the first time that Josh Fiore has gotten his own episode but here we are! Josh has been involved with OCR in the northeast for well over a decade as a weekend warrior, volunteer, motivational speaker, and as an elite. He has been on the show 7 times previous to this (episodes 114, 194, 328, 358, 360, 382, and 4…
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There were some big events that happened this weekend with Tough Mudder Infinity in Pittsburg, the final Conquer the Gauntlet under the Mainprize ownership, the first of the Savage Point Series races in Maryland, and the Spartan European Championships, but we covered the final BoldrDash OCR in Exeter, RI! BoldrDash as a race series had a huge role …
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Support The OCR Report by shopping on Amazon! It helps us and doesn't cost you a thing! --- 2024 will be the debut of the Spartan Sprint and 100 Meter World Championship race. These two new World Championships will be hosted by Hvar, Croatia. Andrej Simatic is the President of OCR Croatia. He joins the show to talk about the growth of OCR in Croati…
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2x World's Toughest Mudder Champion Trevor Cichosz is also a USMC combat veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan. Trevor joins fellow veteran Evan to talk about what he's been doing since WTM, Everest 135, his Olympic level wife, growing family and his new book! Dear Grandma Rose tells the story of the average USMC grunt deployed to war and is availab…
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Are you an OCR Report Member yet? For less than $5 a month you can support the sport we love. We are on the way to our first 2,000 members. Join us today! --- Laura and Kevin Tift are the Owners and race directors of ThunderDash. ThunderDash is a 5k and 10k OCR near San Antonio in Comfort, Texas celebrating it's 10th year. You can learn more at Thu…
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Another huge milestone of the show, hitting 400 Episodes! Don't quote me on it but I can't think of any other OCR podcasts that have made it this far (other than Obstacle Racing Media) ... yet! We celebrate with a live recording of the intro, the naming of a new "sponsored athlete" some Q&A, audio clips that Katelyn had sneakily asked for congratul…
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Are you an OCR Report Member yet? For less than $5 a month you can support the sport we love. We are on the way to our first 2,000 members. Join us today! --- Faye Stenning and Jess O'Connell run Grit Coaching. Faye spent years as an elite OCR athlete at the top of the sport. Jess is an Olympian who competed at Rio in 2016. They are the hosts of th…
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Lots of events happened this weekend so it was difficult to figure out which event to focus on and which particular athlete to have on the show. I try not to have the same guest on for their own episode too many times, one of the big events had a lot of issues and I'd want to have more of the dust settle before we consider having an athlete on to t…
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The New England Spartan Super and Sprint weekend came back to Barre, MA and it felt good to be back! Most are pretty familiar with the ~10K Super and the ~5K Sprint so those don't need too much description. In addition to taking on both of these events though, we also completed the Teddy Bear Crawl which is a 7am wave where adults crawl the kids co…
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Obstacle Running Adventures host Mike Stefano joins Evan "Ultra-OCR Man" Perperis to talk about what's changed in the OCR scene in their respective areas. In this episode Mike talks about the New England OCR scene, what's changed, what remains and where they are headed. If you want to hear Evan's rundown of the Midwest head over and listen to Obsta…
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After Evan Perperis interviewed Mike to talk about OCR in the Northeast on Strength and Speed (listen to episode here), Mike pulled an uno reverse and asked Evan to come on our show! We have heard of some events that take place in the center of the country but to have a much better idea of the state of the sport in that region it takes someone more…
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It's that time for New England to get savage again! Mike woke at 6:15am and drove to Carter and Stevens Farm in Barre, MA to cover the Savage Race Boston and as always he didn't regret it! He interviewed a bunch of elite athletes as well as the vendors who were there to support the event! Savage Race has been one of our favorite OCRs since before t…
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We drove the 3 hours to Greenville, NY to cover the Ultra Viking 8 Hour (Northeast Ultra Cup Finale)/ Final Raid/ whatever we called their last event! The race director Asa Coddington aka OCR Yoda has been a prominant member in the OCR community here in the northeast so it was a big blow that he announced that his last event would been this year. K…
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There was the final race in the Spartan USNS Series but there was also an athlete who ran Savage Chicago who I wanted to have on the show. Mike put it up as a poll and Savage won with 62% (67% at the time he reached out)! Due to this Katelyn reached out and interviewed Kaeley Wynsma who just won Savage Chicago! You may be familiar with Kaeley's nam…
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We had the winner of Spartan Ultra World Championships on the show, Luca Pescollderungg! We talk about his background in the sport, his thoughts on being one of the best climbers in the sport of OCR, his other races that he focuses on, how the Spartan Ultra World Championships went, how he feels being both a World and a European champion, what is n…
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Kevin Thompson is chasing the queen of Charlotte trying to hit all 1st places in races in the North Carolina area for OCR. This MudGear-Hannibal Race Pro is on a hot streak that's taken him through the first half of the year with podiums not only in his home state but also at major events like War X. Evan and Kevin talk about his background, traini…
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This week Katelyn talks to Chennell Berg, the first place female finisher at War X. Chennell talks about her life on her cattle ranch, the evolution of her training, becoming a runner and what her experience was like taking first place at War X last weekend (Spoiler: It was her first ever first place finish). She talks about the importance of havin…
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A few weeks ago Italy hosted the OCR European Championships! While it can be difficult to have European athletes on the show due to frequent difficulties such as time zones and language barriers, the effort is worth it due to the abundance of talent that they have overseas! This time we had the privilege to speak to Dutch athlete Stijn Lagrand! He …
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Mike was able to return to Citi Field for coverage of the Spartan Stadium (still refuse to say Stadion), only this time he was able to run it as well which he has been wanting to do over a decade now! Without Katelyn helping, coverage ability was more limited but there is still a pretty good episode put together for you with 16 athletes and 6 vendo…
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Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt Jon Jordan returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Keep Rolling. He shares insights and lessons learned from a lifetime in martial arts and what it is like to become a new author. Plus, Evan and Jon talk about what it was like to be announcers for the Victory Week Tournament and the two discuss modern uses …
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We all know Mike loves a good small local race so we drove down to the Gaylord Gauntlet to experience and cover it for the first time! This race is 3.3 miles long with mud and over 20 obstacles. We knew that the venue was a hospital but we had no idea the extent to which the event has benefitted members of the adaptive community for the past 10 yea…
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In the past we interviewed Des Linden when her book "Choosing to Run" and doing so opened up options for future book related interviews! Gwendolyn Bound's publicist, Brianna Kusilek, reached out to us back in April but it took us a while to find a time to release a potential episode with her. Luckily we made room this week and Katelyn interviewed h…
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We had yet another MudGear-Hannibal Race Pro Team athlete on the show, Vivien Tran! We have been keeping an eye on her as an athlete ever since she joined their team and we have not been disappointed. Some accomplishments are winning a Savage Race Axe, a Spartan Race, doing well in the Spartan US National Series, and achieving podium placements at …
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A quick solo episode with Evan talking about three local branded OCRs that exceeded expectations. He talks Hazelwood OCR The Mosh (part of the Hydra series with Mythic Race), Murder Creek Mud Run (Phoenix branded OCR In Alabama) and KC Timber Challenge. All found thanks to OCR Buddy (download the app via your app store and check out www.ocrbuddy.co…
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When Hawk Call started getting into some big Spartan Races a few years ago it got a lot of us who have been in the sport for a long time pretty excited! This is because many of us remember his father Hobie who is almost always in the conversation of who historically is one of the best men in the sport of OCR. Hawk is his own own athlete though, and…
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Team 100x Podiums, the winners of Toughest Mudder East (Philadelphia) hop on the line to talk about what was new at 2024's first Toughest Mudder. The team consisting of 2x 100 mile WTM finisher Christian Brown Johnson, multi-time Toughest Mudder team champion Chris "Miko" Mikojewlski and Toughest Mudder individual podium finisher Ryan Ardigo talk w…
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Evan Perperis is no stranger to the show due to his frequent appearances at our favorite OCR event to cover every year (World's Toughest Mudder), as well as our interest in his ultra OCR fundraising efforts over the years! We discuss his milestone of achieving 100 OCR podiums, which podiums stood out to him the most over the years, how the recent T…
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Are you an OCR Report Member yet? For less than $5 a month you can support the sport we love. We are on the way to our first 2,000 members. Join us today! --- Joe De Sena is the President of Spartan. Joe joins Will Hicks to talk about Spartan School through 2Hr Learning. While they were talking, OCR in the Olympics came up, and they wrapped up with…
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We have been aware of Noel Medina and his sweat checks for a while now but it was him joining the MudGear-Hannibal Race Pro Team that really got our attention! There wasn't good timing to have him on the show before now but when we saw that he was traveling to the Ultra House in Durango, CO to train with Anthony Kunkle we figured it was a great opp…
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Are you an OCR Report Member yet? For less than $5 a month you can support the sport we love. We are on the way to our first 2,000 members. Join us today! --- This past weekend there was controversy at the finish line of DEKA Norcal. The Director of DEKA, Yancy Culp joins us to talk about the finish line and the resulting updates to the DEKA Rule B…
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We were unsure as to what to do for this week's episode until we saw a post in the Southern Spartans Facebook Group about a guy who had just completed 400 Spartan Races! His name is Tom Maming and I was excited to reach out to have him on the show to hear more about him, his achievement, and what he has planned for the future. We discuss how he fir…
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Evan "Ultra-OCR" Man Perperis talks about the future of Strength & Speed deep diving a little more into what is OCR? What is Pammachon Combatives? and what is Orthodox Christianity? Learn a little outside your normal comfort lane in this episode that explores some of the future of Strength & Speed. Use code Strength20 to save 20% from www.yolked.co…
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Once again, we just had the third New England OCR Expo and it is easily the most involved Mike has been! In 2020 we were just vendors with a table, last year Mike helped with getting athletes to show up and give short talks. This year Mike was on the board, attended biweekly meetings for months, and worked to help get more vendors and sponsors out …
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