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Obstacle Running Adventures
by 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.
Episodes
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511. reRun of 42. Panic in the Dark, FIT Challenge's FIT Frills Trail 5k, and Team Mike McNeil with Mike Hastie!
It was a busy week finally starting to enjoy October and I wasn't able to get a time to work for 2 potential interviews so ... time for another rerun! This is from October 22nd 2017 when we first covered Mike's favorite race "Panic in the Dark" which we had been doing since 2013! Their final…
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510. Obstacle Wonderland's HalloWeird 4: In a Pickle with Audio and Interviews!
Obstacle Wonderland had their 4th Halloweird event and it was pickle themed! It was the first time that Mike was able to make it out to their fall event and the second time ever going to an Obstacle Wonderland event with the first being their Boogie Wonderland event back in 2024. We were in New...
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509. Matt Novakovich on Alaska, Spartan Glory Days, Grief, and Return to Killington!
We first met Matt Novakovich back in November of 2014 at the Spartan Race World Championship viewing party just outside of Fenway Park in Boston! We had him on the show back in 2018 on episode 89 when we covered Killington in person by doing finish line interviews. Between him losing his son…
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508. Naticook Challenge 2026 with James Golisano!
Mike has known James Golisano since 2017 when him and Alex met him on the way to WTM in Vegas! He's had his own race called Naticook Challenge and we have been wanting to check it out, it took more than the Nor'easter to keep us from going this year! You'll hear a few seconds of start line audio...
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507. BoldrDash Doggie Dash Returns with Lynn Hall, Katie Callahan, and Hannah Kaiser from NEADS!
BoldrDash was one of the great local races in the northeast which unfortunately came to an end a year or two ago. Luckily she kept the door open for future events for other companies, charities, etc. This is what brought Doggie Dash back, and hopefully it will be the first one that we are able to...
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506. Ultras, DNFs, and Barkley Fall Classic with John Calabrese!
Back in December of last year, a guy reached out about wanting to come on the show to talk about the Barkley Fall Classic in 2026. Once I had the date, I added it to my potential future episodes spreadsheet, and when the time came around, I reached back out to him! John Calbarese comes on the…
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505. Logan Broadbent on Cleveland, Boomerang World Cup, Winning Spartan Northeast USNS, and More!
Over the many years of doing elite interviews there have been some athletes that have risen to the top of Mike's favorites, Logan Broadbent being among them. Katelyn recently saw a post about him winning an ultra and setting a PR on the course and figured that we should have him back on the show....
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504. reRun of 37. Killington Spartan Beast, DNF, and Reach the Beach Ragnar Relay!
We have a few ideas for interviews but we had a pretty busy weekend and didn't get around to doing any of them yet so here is a reRun of episode 37, Killington Spartan Beast, DNF, and Reach the Beach Ragnar Relay! This was originally released on September 17th 2017! Start – 4:46 – Intro 4:46 –...
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503. Kris Rugloski on Life Changes, Mongol Derby Horse Race, and Moving to Canada!
A couple episodes ago during quick news we mentioned the GoFundMe to help lessen the financial impact of Kris Rugloski participating in a endurance horse race in Mongolia! We followed along with her multi-day adventure from her Instagram stories and Mike reached out about potentially having her…
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502. Jeffery Lippert on Earning His Orange Jacket at World's Toughest Mudder!
We thought we were done with World's Toughest Mudder episodes but Mike really wanted to talk to Jeffery Lippert who he missed the entirety of the event weekend and the brunch the following day! To make up for this we had him on for his own episode to learn more about him, his training, what this...
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501. Spartan World Championships 2026! (Part 2: Saturday's Wedding, Ceremony, and Interviews)
After we covered World's Toughest Mudder we went to Paris to experience France for the first time! We then took a train to Geneva, Switzerland and drove down to cover the Spartan Ultra World Championship in Morzine, France! This is part 2 of 2 for our coverage which is everything from Saturday!...
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500. Episode 500 Live with Congratulations Clips, and Shoutout Compilation!
We did it! We have recorded, edited, produced, and published 500 episodes! Never missing a week, this took us 9 and a half years! We celebrate as we did last time with an Instagram live (admittedly more last minute than last time), Katelyn surprised me with more messages of support, and I put…
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499. Spartan Ultra World Championships 2026! (Part 1: Friday)
After we covered World's Toughest Mudder we went to Paris to experience France for the first time! We then took a train to Geneva, Switzerland and drove down to cover the Spartan Ultra World Championship in Morzine, France! This is part 1 of 2 for our coverage which is everything from Friday!…
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498. World's Toughest Mudder 2026! (Part 4 Bar Crawl)
World's Toughest Mudder 2026 came and went and there was a lot of excitement captured both on the live stream as well as in our interviews! This is our part 4 of 4 of our WTM coverage and it focuses on everything during the bar crawl! See time stamps below for more information as to who we got on...
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497. World's Toughest Mudder 2026! (Part 3: Brunch Interviews and Audio)
World's Toughest Mudder 2026 came and went and there was a lot of excitement captured both on the live stream as well as in our interviews! This is our part 3 of 4 of our WTM coverage and it focuses on everything during the brunch! See time stamps below for more information but we did interviews...
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496. World's Toughest Mudder 2026! (Part 2: Event Weekend Interviews and Audio with Athletes, Pit Crew, and Volunteers)
World's Toughest Mudder 2026 came and went and there was a lot of excitement captured both on the live stream as well as in our interviews! This is our part 2 of 4 of our WTM coverage and it focuses on everything during the event weekend! See time stamps below for more information but we have pre...
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495. World's Toughest Mudder 2026! (Part 1: Pit Set Up Interviews, and Course Briefing Audio)
World's Toughest Mudder 2026 came and went and there was a lot of excitement captured both on the live stream as well as in our interviews! This is our part 1 of 4 of our WTM coverageand it focuses on everything on Friday before the start of the event weekend! A few interviews with the Tough…
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494. Grant Thompson on Scotland, UKOCR Endurance Series, World's Toughest Mudder, and More!
In preparation for this year's World's Toughest Mudder we had Scottish elite Grant Thompson on the show! We talk about how he found the sport of obstacle course racing, making the switch to run age group and eventually elite, and his history at World's Toughest Mudder! We discuss his country of...
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493. Mike's First Hyrox Experience and Katelyn's Pre-World's Toughest Mudder Thoughts!
We were on vacation in Colorado busy exploring Denver, Colorado Springs, and Manitou Springs and didn't have time for an interview. Instead, Mike and Katelyn do a post race and pre race discussion for New York Hyrox and World's Toughest Mudder respectively! Mike wasn't content with last week's...
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492. Hyrox New York City 2026 with Vendors and Athletes!
This was supposed to be just a race day and not a media day but our potential guest for this weekend needed to reschedule and honestly somtimes Mike can't help himself in doing interviews! This was his first Hyrox event that he had ever gone to and he ran doubles with Joe Rucco from Underdog...
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491. Rise of the Obstacles at Obstacle Wonderland, Super Smash Bros OCR, and More with Mario Valentin!
We planned to return to Obstacle Wonderland to cover their Rise of the Obstacles! It has been 2 years since the last time that we covered their event which was the Boogie Wonderland! Unfortunately we needed to make a change due to travel exhaustion and in preperation for 3 more trips this month!...
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490. reRUN of 138. Bridge to Bridge 12k Run with Angela Melchiori!
We had plans to do an athlete interview this week but language barriers slowed things down a bit. Quick reminder that if you speak another language in addition to English, we would love the help of a translator to reduce the barriers to communication with athletes! Between that and the fact that...
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489. Winning Newbsanity's Mud Gauntlet, Team Wonderland, and More with Jessica Carson!
Since there is a lot of traveling coming up for us soon we ended up not going to cover Newbsanity's Mud Gauntlet like we wanted but we reached out to the women's winner to talk about it! Jessica Carson is on the newer side to OCR but she has been off to an incredible start with winning Spartan...
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488. DEKA STRONG and MILE at Underdog Fitness 2026!
When it comes to DEKA there's one place that we like to go to focus on for coverage and it's Underdog Fitness. There are a bunch of reasons for this: Mike was coached by Kevin Gregory for a while, it's where we did our first DEKA, their athletes are frequently on the podium for DEKA World...
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487. Spartan USNS Northeast Series, Meniscus Tear, and More with Jordan McDougal!
Last episode we had Miranda Kilpinski on the show to talk about her return to obstacle course racing, and her win in New Jersey. Jordan McDougal took the win for the men and had a return to Spartan racing for the first time in a while so I invited him on as well! Jordan talks about what he has…
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486. Spartan USNS Northeast Series, Hydrofoiling, and Exotic Pets with Miranda Kielpinski!
We saw that Miranda Kielpinski won the first of the USNS Northeast Series races in New Jersey (where we planned to be for coverage) and we knew that we needed to reach out to have her back on the show! Miranda engages in a variety of fun outdoor activities such as biking, surfing, and…
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485. Spartan USNS South Series, and Boston Marathon Prep with Luiza Barteldes Farinha!
We reached out to an athlete a month ago after her podium at Jacksonville and invited her on the show, recent weeks have been coverage of local events like the Expo and FIT Challenge so we reconnected for this interview! Luiza Barteldes Farinha talks about her athletic background of being a…
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484. FIT Challenge 2026 with Athletes, Robb McCoy, and Darlene Gaudet!
Back to cover another FIT Challenge but this one was bittersweet! Robb McCoy has stated that he will be stepping away from the events and brand that he founded over a decade ago and that Darlene Gaudet will be taking over but keeping him as an advisor. We are optimistic about the future of FIT...
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483. New England OCR Expo 2026! (Part 2: Table Recordings, Military Panel, and Awards)
Another very successful New England OCR Expo! Mike may be a bit biased because he has been on the board of directors for this event for the past few years but we had the chance to talk to many vendors, athletes, and other participants who back up the claim! There are two parts for this event...
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482. New England OCR Expo 2026! (Part 1: Vendors)
Another very successful New England OCR Expo! Mike may be a bit biased because he has been on the board of directors for this event for the past few years but we had the chance to talk to many vendors, athletes, and other participants who back up the claim! There are two parts planned for this...
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481. Water Safety Issue at Tough Mudder Los Angeles with Jarrod Lumpkin!
Katelyn saw a post in the World's Toughest Mudder community Facebook group concerning water safety at the Lake Elsinore Tough Mudder so we reached out to follow up with the person who posted it! The poster, Jarrod Lumpkin has been running OCR since 2012, has been an active member in the Tough...
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480. Spartan Citi Field 2026 with Elites and Vendors!
We were planning to both run the FIT Challenge's trail race but when we found out that Jason Dupree was flying up to do a race video of the Citi Field Spartan for The OCR Report, Mike knew that he couldn't miss out on that! This was our 4th time covering the Spartan at Citi Field (2018, 2019…
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479. HartFit Elevate OCR Colorado Springs, Team Flatliners, and Havoc at HartFit with Ryan Hart!
Ryan Hart had built up a community, gym, and group of athletes with HartFit in Illinois and Team Flatliners! Now that he has moved to Colorado he has recreated the facility by Colorado Springs where they are putting on an Havoc at HartFit! We discuss how he first found OCR, why he started…
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478. Teddy Bear Crawl Foundation with Mark Haverland!
Katelyn sat down with Mark Haverland to talk about his unconventional journey into fitness and OCR. They dive into his wild idea to bear crawl an entire Spartan Sprint and how what started as a "stupid idea" and challenge quickly grew into something far more meaningful and far bigger than Mark…
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477. Becoming a ParaAthlete, Setting Guinness World Records, Hyrox, and More with Anthony Bryan!
After Katelyn saw a post about a man completing a Hyrox ,she knew she needed to reach out to interview him! Anthony Bryan is a ParaAthlete that has conquered Guiness World Records, the adaptive CrossFit Games, the London Marathon, the ParaOlympics trials and most recently multiple Hyrox events....
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476. reRUN of 114. Spartan Greek Peak Winter Sprint with Elites!
Work has been absolute chaos for Mike while Katelyn gets to enjoy February vacation! We reached out to a few guests but due to availability continuing to be pushed back we needed to fall back to rereleasing a previously released episode. This time on a beloved Winter Spartan Race at Greek Peak in...
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475. Hybrid Racing, Fitfarm, Little Loop Ultra, OFX, and More with Bethany McChesney!
We haven't had Bethany McChesney on the show in a while, when I heard that she is planning a follow up Little Loop Ultra event, I figured it would be a good time to have her back on the show! We talk more in depth about her athletic background, her gym Fitfarm in Strathroy, Ontario, her inclusive...
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474. Abominable Snow Race, World's Toughest Mudder, and More with Sarah Tucker!
Somehow we have never had Sarah Tucker on the show, this week we remedy that! Our paths crossed with Sarah at World's Toughest Mudder in both 2023 as well as 2024 but she inadvertently dodged the mic at both events. She joined the MudGear Hannibal Race Pro Team and has been doing very well with...
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473. RBF Fitness and "Shut Up and GRIND" with Robert B. Foster!
Robert B Foster has had an impact on the OCR community in a few different ways! He first got into the sport in 2011, started training with his RBF Fitness clients and building them up to a goal of completing an event, and more recently being our main man on the mic for the New England OCR Expo!…
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472. Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail with Nick Gagnon!
We had Nick Gagnon on the show for hiking the Appalachian Trail back in 2023 and he seemed interested in taking on another hiking challenge in the future. Now that he finished the Pacific Crest Trail we figured it was time to have him back on the show! We talk about the preperation for the...
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471. UKOCR, Championship Events, Antarctica OCR, and More with Becky Neal!
We have been looking for some extreme events to talk about on the show and when we saw that the first OCR was taking place in Antarctica after previous cancellations, we were excited to do an episode on it! Now that Mike listens to the shows that the UKOCR podcast releases, he heard that one of…
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470. 2025 OCR Podcaster Roundtable Chat with Scott Knowles, Fran Chiorando, Jason Dupree, and Dave Claxton!
To start every new year we have hosted a roundtable of other podcasters in the sport! This year we had Scott "the Fayne" Knowles from I Am A Spartan Podcast, Fran Chiorando from Fran and Carlo Get OCR Adjacent, Jason Dupree from OCR Tech Talk, and Dave Claxton from OFX Podcast! We discuss our...
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469. 2025 Recap Compilation – Lessons Learned and Things Remembered!
Since 2017 I have tortured myself every year by getting clips from all 50 regular episodes and for important, funny, and name compilations. This recap episode is all of the important moments, and name clips from 2025. All clips are in order from when they were aired and are seperated by a brief...
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468. 2025 Recap Compilation – Bloopers, Jokes, Good Times, Oh My!
Since 2017 I have tortured myself every year by getting clips from all 50 regular episodes and for important, funny, and name compilations. This recap episode is all of the funny moments, bloopers, jokes, and post credit clips from 2025. All clips are in order from when they were aired and are...
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467. Christian Brown-Johnson on his Guinness World Record Setting Project 5077!
A couple episodes ago we mentioned how Christian Brown-Johnson successfully achieved the World Record for fastest cumulative 50Ks on all 7 continents in 7 days! Before that, when he was on the show back in February to talk about Hannibal Race he hinted to this challenge. We discuss what made him...
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466. Brooklyn Nichols on Winning the DEKA World Championship in FIT, MILE, and STRONG!
DEKA World Championships took place in Fort Lauderdale, FL this past weekend and while we focus on being an OCR podcast, this event has my interest every year! Since we didn't fly down to cover it in person (someday!), we looked for an athlete to have on the show to talk about their experience.…
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465. Taco Bell 50K with MaryJane Osuji!
We talked about the Taco Bell 50K in Colorado as a quick news story but then another one happened in Washington DC and I wanted to have someone on the show to talk about it! Carlo Piscitello noticed that MaryJane Osuji was taking on the challenge and suggested that she would be a good potential...
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464. Kristopher Mendoza on His Return to OCR, Anesthesia, Colorado, and More!
Katelyn talks to Kris Mendoza about his first place finish at the SLO CAL Spartan Ultra. His potential return to OCR - including the Killington Ultra and World's Toughest Mudder. They talk about his journey to becoming a dental anesthesiologist. Katelyn also asks Kris a round of rapid fire...
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463. Operation Rucksgiving with Erica Jackman!
Katelyn talks with Erica Jackman as she prepares to host her first ever chapter of Rucksgiving in Providence, Rhode Island! Listen to Erica and Katelyn talk about the importance of supporting local food banks and giving back to communities. Erica shares tips about Rucking and even gives a sneak...
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462. Mark Jones on DEKA Ruck, Oscar Mike, and 24 Hour Rucking World Record!
It has been a while since we've had the man who got us into rucking on the show and Jason Dupree was talking about how he would be live streaming his 24 hour rucking world record attempt! I reached out to Mark Jones after his success because I wanted to catch up with him to talk about his adding...
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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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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...
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