The Ultra Crewed Podcast
by Jon Cox, Becca Jones
Join run coaches Jon Cox and Becca Jones on an adventure through the highs and lows of ultrarunning and life beyond the miles. With personal stories and real talk, they dive deep into what drives athletes to push their limits on the trails and in life. Whether you’re a seasoned ultrarunner or just curious about the sport, this podcast offers inspiration, laughs, and honest insights for every listener. Tune in for the ultimate trail talk with two passionate voices of the running community. Join us on YouTube www.youtube.com/@midstatemile3725
Episodes
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Running on the Veiny Side of a Snickers
We're back on a Tuesday, because apparently putting out mediocre content on a somewhat consistent basis is the best we can promise. This week, we're recapping our trip to Pinhoti 100, where we had an absolute blast crewing and pacing the Colonel at a fantastic race on a trail we'd prefer never to...
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86- (video) Nobody Cares If You Suck. Do It Anyway
Apparently, “it could always be worse” is a challenge the universe takes personally, because Jon’s dealing with broken brakes, leaking oil, and a race car held together by hope and starting fluid, while Becca’s mourning a devastating mushroom harvest and voluntarily dangling herself into caves...
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Nobody Cares If You Suck. Do It Anyway
Apparently, “it could always be worse” is a challenge the universe takes personally, because Jon’s dealing with broken brakes, leaking oil, and a race car held together by hope and starting fluid, while Becca’s mourning a devastating mushroom harvest and voluntarily dangling herself into caves...
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UPDATED- Big's Backyard: Big Wins, Big Feelings, Bigger Opinions
Team USA just took the Backyard Ultra World Championship, and apparently that wasn't enough to keep the internet from losing its collective shit. This week on The Ultra Crewed Podcast, we're unpacking Big's Backyard from the perspective of people who were actually there, which already puts us…
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84- (video) Wedding Vows, Cave Ropes, and Ultrarunning Drama
This week on the Ultra Crewed Podcast, we're talking about knowing your worth, stepping outside your comfort zone, and why you don't need to prove yourself to anyone. Jon heads north to officiate a family wedding and reflects on the personal growth, confidence, and internal work that prepared him...
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84- Wedding Vows, Cave Ropes, and Ultrarunning Drama
This week on the Ultra Crewed Podcast, we're talking about knowing your worth, stepping outside your comfort zone, and why you don't need to prove yourself to anyone. Jon heads north to officiate a family wedding and reflects on the personal growth, confidence, and internal work that prepared him...
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Littles, Laz & a Dead Coyote in the Truck
We’re back in the Murder Mile Studio after Jon lost a week to a tooth infection, and naturally we ease back into podcasting by complaining about Bucky’s, debating gas-station loyalty, and eventually getting to actual ultrarunning. We dig into Little Dog’s Backyard Ultra, why the backyard format...
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Littles, Laz & a Dead Coyote in the Truck
We’re back in the Murder Mile Studio after Jon lost a week to a tooth infection, and naturally we ease back into podcasting by complaining about Bucky’s, debating gas-station loyalty, and eventually getting to actual ultrarunning. We dig into Little Dog’s Backyard Ultra, why the backyard format...
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82- Buttholes, Buckles & Backyard Ultras
Ultrarunning had itself a week. We start with Camille Herron, OnlyFans, accountability, athlete culture, and the increasingly blurry line between “empowerment” and just putting your ass on the internet for money. Then we finally behave ourselves and talk about actual ultrarunning. One of our...
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82 - Buttholes, Buckles & Backyard Ultras
Ultrarunning had itself a week. We start with Camille Herron, OnlyFans, accountability, athlete culture, and the increasingly blurry line between “empowerment” and just putting your ass on the internet for money. Then we finally behave ourselves and talk about actual ultrarunning. One of our...
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EBV IG Live recording
I will link my PDF on this topic later today. If you're an athlete struggling with what feels like overtraining and complete exhaustion this is worh a listen or read.
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81- (video ) Hard Things Are Easier Than Real Life
Doing hard things doesn’t automatically make you better at life. This week on the Ultra Crewed Podcast, Jon and Becca recap the first Long Mile—a sunset-to-sunrise endurance experience built around movement, growth, community, and creating enough space for people to learn something about…
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81 - Hard Things Are Easier Than Real Life
Doing hard things doesn’t automatically make you better at life. This week on the Ultra Crewed Podcast, Jon and Becca recap the first Long Mile—a sunset-to-sunrise endurance experience built around movement, growth, community, and creating enough space for people to learn something about…
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80 - (video) You Don’t Get to Change the Whole Sport
This week, we’re talking about everything from seasonal transitions, turkey encounters, questionable running apparel, and brutal summer heat to the bigger lessons ultra running keeps teaching us about adaptability, expectations, and community. We get into smarter hot-weather training, why...
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80- You Don’t Get to Change the Whole Sport
This week, we’re talking about everything from seasonal transitions, turkey encounters, questionable running apparel, and brutal summer heat to the bigger lessons ultra running keeps teaching us about adaptability, expectations, and community. We get into smarter hot-weather training, why...
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79- (video) You Trained to Run. Too Bad You’ll Be Walking.
Video - While recapping adventure day we somehow end up putting ultrarunning culture, social media, corporate race greed, personal growth, walking, relationships, and one extremely questionable waterfall decision on trial. We get into who we used to be, who we’ve worked our asses off to become…
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79 - You Trained to Run. Too Bad You’ll Be Walking.
While recapping adventure day we somehow end up putting ultrarunning culture, social media, corporate race greed, personal growth, walking, relationships, and one extremely questionable waterfall decision on trial. We get into who we used to be, who we’ve worked our asses off to become, why being...
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Armchair Quarterbacks of Backyard Running
Apparently being afraid of the dark does not apply when the dark is inside a cave. We talk Murder Cave, river patrol, five headlamps, Fresca, and the kind of relationship support that involves quietly appearing out of the woods looking like a potential threat. Then we get into Mark Dowdle winning...
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Armchair Quarterbacks of Backyard Running
Apparently being afraid of the dark does not apply when the dark is inside a cave. We talk Murder Cave, river patrol, five headlamps, Fresca, and the kind of relationship support that involves quietly appearing out of the woods looking like a potential threat. Then we get into Mark Dowdle winning...
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77- ( video) When the Brand Becomes the Race
This week, we start with poop chutes, oppressive Tennessee heat, horse flies, and the realization that sometimes your best simply is not good enough. Naturally, this becomes a conversation about running shoes, unsolicited advice, credibility, and why having the loudest opinion on the internet…
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77- When the Brand Becomes the Race
This week, we start with poop chutes, oppressive Tennessee heat, horse flies, and the realization that sometimes your best simply is not good enough. Naturally, this becomes a conversation about running shoes, unsolicited advice, credibility, and why having the loudest opinion on the internet…
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76- I Was Told There Would Be Walking
Jon did something Becca enjoys, which is usually how perfectly reasonable weekends become questionable decisions. What was sold as a mostly walkable adventure turned into crawling, loose rock, route-finding, a river, a large spider with dependents, and Jon reconsidering the meaning of words like...
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76 - (video) I Was Told There Would Be Walking
Jon did something Becca enjoys, which is usually how perfectly reasonable weekends become questionable decisions. What was sold as a mostly walkable adventure turned into crawling, loose rock, route-finding, a river, a large spider with dependents, and Jon reconsidering the meaning of words like...
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75 - (video) If You Can’t Scratch Your Own Balls, You Can’t Come Home
The Ultra Crewed Podcast is back in a brand-new studio, complete with a beautiful new sign that is perfectly level on a 130-year-old wall that absolutely is not. This week, Becca survives a “sporty” Kentucky cave trip featuring giant boreholes, cave-adapted crayfish, questionable ladders, fresh...
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75- If You Can’t Scratch Your Own Balls, You Can’t Come Home
The Ultra Crewed Podcast is back and complete with a beautiful new sign that is perfectly level on a 130-year-old wall that absolutely is not. This week, Becca survives a “sporty” Kentucky cave trip featuring giant boreholes, cave-adapted crayfish, questionable ladders, fresh breakdown, a camping...
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74 - (video) Three Cop Cars and a Fresca
This week, the Murder Mile Studios accidentally become headquarters for the Big East Fork River Patrol. Jon returns from a long drive to find three police cars in the yard, while Miss Jones explains an entirely reasonable series of events involving trespassers, fishing poles, outstanding…
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74 - Three Cop Cars and a Fresca
This week, the Murder Mile Studios accidentally become headquarters for the Big East Fork River Patrol. Jon returns from a long drive to find three police cars in the yard, while Miss Jones explains an entirely reasonable series of events involving trespassers, fishing poles, outstanding…
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73- A, B, C Goals and Please Prove You Are Human Before Listening to This Episode
This week we’re covering everything from the sacred and highly specific rules of a Becca birthday to dump runs, bacon, roadside water hemlock, zebras, mushroom hunting, prosecco naps, and Jon successfully identifying a mushroom like a man who would now like that achievement entered into the...
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73- (video) A, B, C Goals and Please Prove You Are Human Before Listening to This Episode
This week we’re covering everything from the sacred and highly specific rules of a Becca birthday to dump runs, bacon, roadside water hemlock, zebras, mushroom hunting, prosecco naps, and Jon successfully identifying a mushroom like a man who would now like that achievement entered into the...
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72- (video) Alone Together: Birthdays, Backyards & Becca’s Tight Box
We’re getting unusually honest this week, which is dangerous because we normally protect ourselves with Fresca, profanity, and deeply unnecessary arguments about driving distances. After Jon’s birthday escape to Chattanooga, we talk about what it feels like to build a community while still…
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72- Alone Together: Birthdays, Backyards & Becca’s Tight Box
We’re getting unusually honest this week, which is dangerous because we normally protect ourselves with Fresca, profanity, and deeply unnecessary arguments about driving distances. After Jon’s birthday escape to Chattanooga, we talk about what it feels like to build a community while still…
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71 - Post-Race Blues & Stock Tank Pools (Jon's Birthday Week)
We’re officially post-race, which means we’re pretending to relax while still surrounded by unfinished cleanup, schoolwork, farm chores, and whatever new project Becca has emotionally bonded with this week. This time, it’s a stock tank pool—because nothing says “recovery” like turning a giant…
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71 - Post-Race Blues & Stock Tank Pools (Jon's Birthday Week)
We’re officially post-race, which means we’re pretending to relax while still surrounded by unfinished cleanup, schoolwork, farm chores, and whatever new project Becca has emotionally bonded with this week. This time, it’s a stock tank pool—because nothing says “recovery” like turning a giant…
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70 - (video) It’s Just a Mile, Until It Isn’t
* video We are back in Murder Mile Studios for the official Mid-State Mile debrief, which means we are tired, grateful, mildly unwell, and once again pretending this is a professional operation. This episode is part race recap, part thank-you note, part therapy session, and part warning label for...
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70 - It’s Just a Mile, Until It Isn’t
We are back in Murder Mile Studios for the official Mid-State Mile debrief, which means we are tired, grateful, mildly unwell, and once again pretending this is a professional operation. This episode is part race recap, part thank-you note, part therapy session, and part warning label for anyone...
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69 - (video) It's Episode 69 and You Know What That Means...Giving & Receiving
* Video & not for listening Mid-State Mile is almost here, which means we’re officially in the part where every detail matters and everyone starts checking the weather like it personally owes them money. We’re talking hats, sponsors, porta potties, Fooster joining the race, live documentary…
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69 - It's Episode 69 and You Know What That Means...Giving & Receiving
Mid-State Mile is almost here, which means we’re officially in the part where every detail matters and everyone starts checking the weather like it personally owes them money. We’re talking hats, sponsors, porta potties, Fooster joining the race, live documentary plans, course conditions, and...
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68 - ( Video) Porta-Potties and Personal Growth
*Not for Apple listening We kick things off by putting the raw milk subscription out of its misery, then get into cave talk, race prep, and the kind of pre-event problem solving that makes us stare into the middle distance like haunted farm equipment. JibJab joins the Mid-State Mile lineup as the...
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68 - Porta-Potties and Personal Growth
We kick things off by putting the raw milk subscription out of its misery, then get into cave talk, race prep, and the kind of pre-event problem solving that makes us stare into the middle distance like haunted farm equipment. JibJab joins the Mid-State Mile lineup as the porta-potty sponsor…
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The Lost Episode - Video
We had recorded this before Mark & Harvey told us they wanted to do a social media announcement about them running Mid-State. So here is that unreleased episode.
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The Lost Episode
We had recorded this before Mark & Harvey told us they wanted to do a social media announcement about them running Mid-State. So here is that unreleased episode.
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67- (video) Cruel Jewel, Vagus Nerves, and Parking Lot Felonies
* Not for Apple listening Our weekend started with promise, a conservative plan, good weather, and even a rattlesnake encounter, because Georgia likes to add side quests. Then my race turned sideways when post-viral vagus nerve issues made swallowing, drinking, fueling, and generally existing…
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67- Cruel Jewel, Vagus Nerves, and Parking Lot Felonies
Our weekend started with promise, a conservative plan, good weather, and even a rattlesnake encounter, because Georgia likes to add side quests. Then my race turned sideways when post-viral vagus nerve issues made swallowing, drinking, fueling, and generally existing like a normal mammal...
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66 - (video) Water Totes, Backyard Legends, and the Cruel Jewel Queen
*VIDEO Not for Apple listening We start with the kind of enormous race announcement only true professionals would lead with: Mid-State Mile has officially entered the water tote era. Yes, a 275-gallon tote. Yes, it required a country drive, cash, accessories, and somehow ice cream. This is event...
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66 - Water Totes, Backyard Legends, and the Cruel Jewel Queen
We start with the kind of enormous race announcement only true professionals would lead with: Mid-State Mile has officially entered the water tote era. Yes, a 275-gallon tote. Yes, it required a country drive, cash, accessories, and somehow ice cream. This is event logistics, but with more...
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65 -(video) Training Checks Your Body Can’t Cash
*NOT for Apple Listening Jon and Becca kick things off with Home Depot parking lot tension, Walmart aisle rage, and the ongoing reality that some humans should not be released into public before coffee. From there, they dig into Mid-State Mile prep, arena upgrades, shaky foundations, training...
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65 - Training Checks Your Body Can’t Cash
Jon and Becca kick things off with Home Depot parking lot tension, Walmart aisle rage, and the ongoing reality that some humans should not be released into public before coffee. From there, they dig into Mid-State Mile prep, arena upgrades, shaky foundations, training mistakes, overdrawn energy...
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64- (video) Gold Level Sponsor, Brown Level Emergency
* Not for audio listening Jon and Becca sit down for a tired evening episode after a week of dead cars, derailed plans, and questionable productivity. They dig into post-race food expectations, the outrage of finishing after cutoff and still wanting a sandwich, Becca’s official stance against…
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64- Gold Level Sponsor, Brown Level Emergency
Jon and Becca sit down for a tired evening episode after a week of dead cars, derailed plans, and questionable productivity. They dig into post-race food expectations, the outrage of finishing after cutoff and still wanting a sandwich, Becca’s official stance against food trucks, and why eating a...
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63 - (*video) Ultra Opinions and Fresca Logistics
This is what happens when Jon and Becca sit down to discuss ultrarunning and immediately get distracted by beavers, groundhogs, AI, gender politics, bad race math, and the highly sensitive issue of proper Fresca placement in the fridge. Somewhere in there, they also share legitimately useful…
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About this show
Join run coaches Jon Cox and Becca Jones on an adventure through the highs and lows of ultrarunning and life beyond the miles. With personal stories and real talk, they dive deep into what drives athletes to push their limits on the trails and in life. Whether you’re a seasoned ultrarunner or just curious about the sport, this podcast offers inspiration, laughs, and honest insights for every listener. Tune in for the ultimate trail talk with two passionate voices of the running community. Join us on YouTube www.youtube.com/@midstatemile3725
Hosted by
Jon Cox, Becca Jones