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Rylan Schadegg has passed away. We will talk with members of the community and share stories and memories of his life in the future, but it is too soon right now.  

  Use discount code OCRREPORT20 to save 20% on your next Spartan, DEKA, or Tough Mudder event. --- Support The OCR Report by shopping on Amazon! It helps us and doesn't cost you a thing! --- Joe De Sena is the CEO of Spartan. Yancy Culp is the Director of DEKA FIT. Joe and Yancy join the show to talk about Spartan Prize Money and the current status on payments.  --- 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! --- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or on our Instagram page, @theocrreport. --- Support the Sport we love! Become an OCR Report Member for less than $5! Subscribe to The OCR Report on YouTube! Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify    

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 Dupree is the host of the OCR Talk podcast and the Director of Video for The OCR Report. If you have watched an OCR live stream in the last four years, you probably have Jason Dupree to thank for it. His tireless work and time invested behind the scenes have made an impact on the sport that very few people truly grasp.    You can learn more about the work he does on our live stream production by listening to his podcast OCR Talk and you can see his handiwork on The OCR Report YouTube Channel. Subscribe today!    --- 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 is Day Twenty-Nine of "30 Podcasts Hath September" from The OCR Report. 30 podcasts in 30 days, one every single day for the month of September. Day Thirty will be tomorrow with a new episode from Obstacle Running Adventures. Tune in all month long! 30 Podcasts Hath September will feature podcast episodes from: Fran and Carlo Get OCR Adjacent Obstacle Running Adventures The OCR Report Podcast OCR Talk Nitty Gritty Training Strength and Speed Travel With Jack Goras World's Toughest Podcast Subscribe to all eight podcasts and listen all month long! --- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or on our Instagram page, @theocrreport. --- Support the Sport we love! Become an OCR Report Member for less than $5! Subscribe to The OCR Report on YouTube! Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify  

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 helps us and doesn't cost you a thing! --- Ian Adamson is the president of World Obstacle and Chair of the obstacle working group for World Pentathlon.   Ian joins the show to talk about Obstacle Racing's inclusion in the 2028 Olympics as part of Pentathlon, the recent FISO World Championships in Costa Rica, the 2025 World Championships in Sweden, and the relationship between OCR, Hybrid Racing, Chase Tag, and Calistenics. --- 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 is Day Twenty-Six of "30 Podcasts Hath September" from The OCR Report. 30 podcasts in 30 days, one every single day for the month of September. Day Twenty-Seven will be tomorrow with a new episode from Fran and Carlo Get OCR Adjacent. Tune in all month long! 30 Podcasts Hath September will feature podcast episodes from: Fran and Carlo Get OCR Adjacent Obstacle Running Adventures The OCR Report Podcast OCR Talk Nitty Gritty Training Strength and Speed Travel With Jack Goras World's Toughest Podcast Subscribe to all eight podcasts and listen all month long! --- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or on our Instagram page, @theocrreport. --- Support the Sport we love! Become an OCR Report Member for less than $5! Subscribe to The OCR Report on YouTube! Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify  

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 helps us and doesn't cost you a thing! --- Franchesa Chiorando and Jason Dupree join the show today for the first episode of "You're So Smart", the first-ever OCR Game Show. The guests are given an OCR topic and have two minutes to make their point. Their competitor then has two minutes to make their point, and then they'll both have one minute to follow up and rebut. Whoever makes their point the best wins the round. Whoever wins the most rounds wins the show and wins a fabulous prize. Franchesa Chiorando hosts the OCRWC Podcast and is the co-host of Fran and Carlo Get OCR Adjacent. Jason Dupree hosts the OCR Talk podcast and is the producer for all the live race content you see on The OCR Report YouTube page. --- 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 is Day Twenty-Two of "30 Podcasts Hath September" from The OCR Report. 30 podcasts in 30 days, one every single day for the month of September. Day Twenty-Three will be tomorrow with a new episode from Obstacle Running Adventures. Tune in all month long! 30 Podcasts Hath September will feature podcast episodes from: Fran and Carlo Get OCR Adjacent Obstacle Running Adventures The OCR Report Podcast OCR Talk Nitty Gritty Training Strength and Speed Travel With Jack Goras World's Toughest Podcast Subscribe to all eight podcasts and listen all month long! --- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or on our Instagram page, @theocrreport. --- Support the Sport we love! Become an OCR Report Member for less than $5! Subscribe to The OCR Report on YouTube! Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify  

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 helps us and doesn't cost you a thing! --- Mike Stefano and Katelyn Ritter host the Obstacle Running Adventures podcast. They have uploaded a new episode every single week for the past 400 weeks. That's over seven and a half years! Mike and Katelyn join us to talk about their show, the sport of OCR, and the inside scoop on podcasting in general. You can listen to their show Obstacle Running Adventures on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you find your podcasts. Special shout-out from Mike to the New England OCR Expo. Check it out! --- 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 is Day Nineteen of "30 Podcasts Hath September" from The OCR Report. 30 podcasts in 30 days, one every single day for the month of September. Day Twenty will be tomorrow with a new episode from Fran and Carlo Get OCR Adjacent. Tune in all month long! 30 Podcasts Hath September will feature podcast episodes from: Fran and Carlo Get OCR Adjacent Obstacle Running Adventures The OCR Report Podcast OCR Talk Nitty Gritty Training Strength and Speed Travel With Jack Goras World's Toughest Podcast Subscribe to all eight podcasts and listen all month long! --- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or on our Instagram page, @theocrreport. --- Support the Sport we love! Become an OCR Report Member for less than $5! Subscribe to The OCR Report on YouTube! Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify  

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 Hiker Guide to Self-Defense". The book comes out on September 30th and is available now for presale on Amazon.com. Evan has written eight books on Obstacle Course Racing and multiple articles at The OCR Report.com. We are thrilled to welcome him and the Strength & Speed podcast to The OCR Report. You can learn more about Evan at the Strength & Speed website or his Instagram page. You can support Evan at his Combatives Patreon page. --- 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 is Day Fifteen of "30 Podcasts Hath September" from The OCR Report. 30 podcasts in 30 days, one every single day for the month of September. Day Sixteen will be tomorrow with a new episode from Obstacle Running Adventures. Tune in all month long! 30 Podcasts Hath September will feature podcast episodes from: Fran and Carlo Get OCR Adjacent Obstacle Running Adventures The OCR Report Podcast OCR Talk Nitty Gritty Training Strength and Speed Travel With Jack Goras World's Toughest Podcast Subscribe to all eight podcasts and listen all month long! --- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or on our Instagram page, @theocrreport. --- Support the Sport we love! Become an OCR Report Member for less than $5! Subscribe to The OCR Report on YouTube! Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify  

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 Croatia and offer a look at what the upcoming races could mean to the sport in his country. You can follow OCR Croatia on Instagram at @ocrcroatia --- 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 is Day Eight of "30 Podcasts Hath September" from The OCR Report. 30 podcasts in 30 days, one every single day for the month of September. Day Nine will be tomorrow with a new episode from Obstacle Running Adventures. Tune in all month long! 30 Podcasts Hath September will feature podcast episodes from: Fran and Carlo Get OCR Adjacent Obstacle Running Adventures The OCR Report Podcast OCR Talk Nitty Gritty Training Strength and Speed Travel With Jack Goras World's Toughest Podcast Subscribe to all eight podcasts and listen all month long! --- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or on our Instagram page, @theocrreport. --- Support the Sport we love! Become an OCR Report Member for less than $5! Subscribe to The OCR Report on YouTube! Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify  

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 Thunderdash.com. --- Support The OCR Report by shopping on Amazon! It helps us and doesn't cost you a thing! --- This is Day Five of "30 Podcasts Hath September" from The OCR Report. 30 podcasts in 30 days, one every single day for the month of September. Day Six will be tomorrow with a new episode from Fran and Carlo get OCR Adjacent. Tune in all month long! 30 Podcasts Hath September will feature podcast episodes from: Fran and Carlo Get OCR Adjacent Obstacle Running Adventures The OCR Report Podcast OCR Talk Nitty Gritty Training Strength and Speed Travel With Jack Goras World's Toughest Podcast Subscribe to all eight podcasts and listen all month long! --- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or on our Instagram page, @theocrreport. --- Support the Sport we love! Become an OCR Report Member for less than $5! Subscribe to The OCR Report on YouTube! Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify  

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 the Nitty Gritty Training podcast, a part of The OCR Report family of podcasts. Each week they deliver Training Tuesday to The OCR Report on Instagram and each month they host a Training AMA where they answer your fitness and training questions live on Instagram. You can learn more about them and Grit Coaching at Gritcoaching.net. --- Support The OCR Report by shopping on Amazon! It helps us and doesn't cost you a thing! --- This is Day One of "30 Podcasts Hath September" from The OCR Report. 30 podcasts in 30 days, one every single day for the month of September. Day Two will be tomorrow with a new episode from Obstacle Running Adventures. Tune in all month long! 30 Podcasts Hath September will feature podcast episodes from: Fran and Carlo Get OCR Adjacent Obstacle Running Adventures The OCR Report Podcast OCR Talk Nitty Gritty Training Strength and Speed Travel With Jack Goras World's Toughest Podcast Subscribe to all eight podcasts and listen all month long! --- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or on our Instagram page, @theocrreport. --- Support the Sport we love! Become an OCR Report Member for less than $5! Subscribe to The OCR Report on YouTube! Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify  

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 a story from Joe about how he used to wait for the school bus at a local funeral home where he saw a new dead body every. single. day. --- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or on our Instagram page, @theocrreport. --- Support the Sport we love! Become an OCR Report Member for less than $5! Subscribe to The OCR Report on YouTube! Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify  

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 Book. The OCR Report is the official live stream home of DEKA. You can watch the full race only on The OCR Report YouTube channel. --- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or on our Instagram page, @theocrreport. --- Support the Sport we love! Become an OCR Report Member for less than $5! Subscribe to The OCR Report on YouTube! Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Send Will Hicks a text Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify  

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! --- Nicole Mericle is four-time OCR World Champion. After a two-year recovery from injury, she won the first race in the 2023 Spartan North American Elite Series last month and 3rd Place at DEKA Anaheim a few weeks ago. This past weekend Nicole finished 6th at the second race in the Spartan NAES, in Big Bear California. After making it through the two preliminary heats and qualifying for the finals, Nicole did not participate in the final 3k race. There has been a lot of chatter online about why Nicole did not race in the Big Bear Finals. She joins The OCR Report Podcast to set the record straight.  Nicole is sponsored by Sur PhytoPerformance, Pro-Tec Athletics, and Honey Stinger. --- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or on our Instagram page, @theocrreport. --- Support the Sport we love! Become an OCR Report Member for less than $5! Subscribe to The OCR Report on YouTube! Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Send Will Hicks a text Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify  

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! --- Veejay Jones is a two-time OCRWC World Champion in the 3k Division. He won the first race in the 2023 Spartan North American Elite Series and this past weekend he won the 4th race in the 2023 DEKA Series, at Socal. Veejay joins the show to talk about those two big wins and his race plans for the rest of 2023. He also shares some surprising news about his race plans for 2024. Veejay opens up about his competitive nature and how he wrestles with whether that hyper-competitiveness is a good or bad thing. Veejay is sponsored by Venga CBD. You can watch Veejay win DEKA Socal and Spartan Palm Beach on The OCR Report YouTube channel. DEKA Socal Livestream only on The OCR Report   Spartan Palm Beach 3k Livestream only on The OCR Report --- Let us know in a review on Apple Podcasts or on our Instagram page, @theocrreport. --- Support the Sport we love! Become an OCR Report Member for less than $5! Subscribe to The OCR Report on YouTube! Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Send Will Hicks a text Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify  

Spartan Games Season Two debuts on March 24th! Christine De La Rosa-Stotz is the Head of Media for Spartan and joins us for a behind-the-scenes look. Christine tells us about how they made the decision to bring back Spartan Games, what we can expect from Season Two, and "What about Spartan Games Season Three?". Episode One of Season Two of Spartan Games debuts on March 24th. You can watch on Outside TV, Spartan TV, and Spartan's YouTube Channel. Be sure to follow The OCR Report on Instagram for Spartan Games results, recaps, and interviews. --- Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Send Will Hicks a text Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify

Rea Kolbl is the two-time defending Spartan Ultra World Champion. She also won World's Toughest Mudder twice and is tied for the women's record with most miles at a WTM with 90 miles. Rea grew up in Slovenia. She moved away when she was 19 but still visits her family regularly. Last year Spartan held their first race in Slovenia and they will be back for a Trifecta weekend May 21-22, 2022 in Kranjska Gore, Slovenia. Rea is hosting a small group of Spartan runners for the week before the race on a guided tour of Rea's favorite spots in the country leading up to race weekend. The cost of the trip is €2,000 euros, or about $2,200 US. That investment includes everything except airfare and daily lunches. If you would like to be a part of the trip, reach out to Rea on her Instagram page at @reakolbl Rea and Will talk about Slovenia, Rea's Olympic dreams in SkiMo (Ski Mountaineering) and her thoughts on Russia's war against Ukraine. Rea is sponsored by Spring Energy, Ascent Protein, onX Backcountry and Dynafit. You can follow her on Instagram at @reakolbl. --- Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Send Will Hicks a text Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify

Kevin Gregory is a podium-winning Spartan athlete, a gym owner, and a physical trainer. He also likes to run races while wearing a "Bubbles the Clowne" mask. Kevin joins the show to talk about the new Age Group-focused Spartan US National Series. He talks about the venues and what racers can expect at each one. He also talks about training and how to know you are ready to make the leap from the Open Waves up to Age Group. You can follow Kevin on Instagram at @bubblestheclowne. You can follow his gym at @underdog_fitnessct. --- Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Send Will Hicks a text Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify

Ryan Kent is the 2022 HYROX North American Champion. He won the title this weekend by beating Hunter McIntyre, Rich Ryan, and the rest of the field at the HYROX North American Championships in Chicago. Ryan talks about his race, what he had to sacrifice to make the leap from contender to champion, and how having a wife and son has given him less time to train, but also given him focus in that training time. --- Follow The OCR Report on Instagram Send Will Hicks a text Leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts Rate the show on Spotify

A quick message from Will: "Hey, shoot me a text at (619) 485-2726. Who do you think will win the last US National Series race of the year? Veejay Jones or Ryan Atkins? Call your shot before the race on Sunday. - Rea Kolbl has never lost a race longer than eight hours. She won the 24-hour Spartan Ultra World Championship in Telluride this past weekend. She ran 120 kilometers (75 miles) in 23:59 to win her fourth 24-hour championship since 2017.  She is one of only two women to win the Spartan Ultra Championship and World's Toughest Mudder. She is the only person to win them both wire-to-wire, and she holds the women's record for most miles at WTM (tied with Amelia Boone) and the Spartan Ultra Championship. Rea Kolbl is the greatest women's endurance OCR athlete ever. Rea joins us to talk about her race in Telluride, how she was able to pull off the win, and how to have a pre-race conversation with your loved ones when they volunteer to pit for you at a 24-hour race. "I'm not going to be at my best, but I want you to know I still love you." - Do you enjoy the show? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know! - Follow The OCR Report on Instagram for: Course Maps Race Results The OCR Moneyboard OCR News New Podcast Episode notifications And much more. @theocrreport on Instagram - Send Will a text anytime: (619) 485-2726

A quick message from Will: "Hey, shoot me a text at (619) 485-2726. Let me know what you think about this episode with Lindsay or anything else OCR-related. Also, I just finished Squid Game and need to talk about that also." - Lindsay Webster is the 2021 OCR World Champion in both the 3k and 15k. She won both races last weekend at OCRWC in Stratton, Vermont. This is her fifth 15k World Championship and her second 3k World Championship. She is also the 2021 Spartan US Champion due to her dominating performance in the 2021 Spartan US National Series. Lindsay has won the Spartan US National Series every year since it began in 2016. She was also part of the first-place team that won World's Toughest Mudder in 2018. Lindsay joins us to talk about her recent wins at the OCRWC, what it was like racing separate events from her husband for the first time ever, and she addresses the retirement rumors that popped up over the weekend in Vermont. Is Lindsay Webster retiring? Skip to 31:20 to hear the answer straight from her. - Do you like hearing from Lindsay? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know. - Follow The OCR Report on Instagram for: Course Maps Race Results The OCR Moneyboard OCR News New Podcast Episode notifications And much more. @theocrreport on Instagram - Send Will a text anytime: (619) 485-2726