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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 6x books on Obstacles Course Racing, with an undergrad from Johns Hopkins and has a Masters from KU. An accomplished OCR athelte with 55+ OCR podiums including winning the team division at the 24 hour long 2018 World’s Toughest Mudder and 2nd place Pro Coed Team at North American Obstacle Course Racing Championship. Visit the team’s website for all things Obstacle Course Racing and multi-sport Fitness: www.teamstrengthspeed.com for articles, BleggMits, OCR books, motivation and more.
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Saturday Jan 28, 2023
S7E2:Rachel Watters Returns from Hannibal Race Kuwait
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Rachel Watters fresh off her win from Hannibal Race Kuwait joins Evan back on the podcast to talk about the experience. The two talk travel, culture, the race itself and fun things they learned during the trip. Plus, Rachel and Evan share their opinion on non-alcoholic beer....
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Episode brought to you by the best anti-chaffing product around, Squirrel's Nut Butter: www.squirrelsnutbutter.com
Music provided by Dino Sinos

Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
S7E1: Hannibal Race Kuwait & FISO/OCR Triple Crown
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Rachel Watters joins Evan excited to take on Hannibal Race in less than a week. Make sure you follow along our social channels (@UltraOCRman @StrengthSpeed @MudGearBOTLProTeam and @Rachel_Fit_Girl) for all the updates. The first half of the episode they talk expectations and Kuwaiti culture, great if you are planning a trip to the Middle East to race for something like Spartan World Championships in 2023.
The second half of the episode they talk about the "OCR Triple Crown", FISO and why they have reservations with the organization along with their events.
Some further date details not included in the podcast:
Reference USAOCR (different than Adventurey's USOCRC):
2016: Organization founded (no events)
2017: Put their label on Spartan Race in Florida
Training camp held in Colorado in December (this is the best thing imo, the organization has done)
2018: Event held Dec 1-2 in Southern California (referenced by Rachel, Evan mistakenly confused Florida event with this one)....again putting their label on a Spartan Race with some unique USAOCR twists
2019: Event held in Oct at Black Diamond Course in Ohio (36 out of 60 athletes received a podium medal, all but 1 female who showed up received a podium medal. Largest AG competition had 12 athletes, next largest 7 athletes)
2020-2022: No events held
FISO (the world organization):
2016: Organization starts (no events)
2017-2018: No world or international events I'm tracking
2019: National events outside the US including Phillipines
Their 1st World Championship event, 100m in Russia
2020-2021: No Events as far as I can tell
2022: No event, they put their label on World's Toughest Mudder, no one at WTM mentioned them at any point during the pre-race briefing or post-race awards brunch
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Music provided by Dino Sinos

Friday Dec 30, 2022
S6E24: 105 miles WR OCR with Rachel Watters
Friday Dec 30, 2022
Friday Dec 30, 2022
MudGear-Battle of the Lions Pro Rachel Watters joins Evan to talk about her 105 mile OCR she complete to raise money for Lionhearts Fitness. Rachel shares the challenges, unexpected change in weather and how she mentally overcame the hurdles to achieve a record setting performance as the most number of OCR miles complete by a female ever.
Pick up a copy of On Endurance here: https://www.teamstrengthspeed.com/on-endurance
Episode brought to you by MudGear. Use code UltraOCRman to save 10% on every order from www.MudGear.com
Music provided by Dino Sinos

Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
S6E23: S&S 2023 Goals
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Athletes from Strength & Speed jump on the call to talk 2023 goals and how they plan on achieving them. Brenna Clavert, AC Hale, Jaeme Simmons, Phillip Hucke and Ryan Ardigo share some big goals. If you are looking at some goals for next year, this episode will give you some ideas as well as how to achieve them. Apply for Dev Team here: https://www.teamstrengthspeed.com/apps/blog/show/50372787-8th-s-s-development-team-now-open- New Year's Resolutions Article: https://www.teamstrengthspeed.com/apps/blog/show/43749159-why-do-new-year-s-resolutions-fail- Sign up for Mythic Race here: https://runsignup.com/Race/MO/Benton/MythicRace2023 Use code UltraOCRman to save 10% on every order from www.MudGear.com Episode brought to you by Yolked, use code Strength20 to save 20% off every order from www.yolked.com Music provided by Dino Sinos

Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
S6E22: Brenna’s Black Friday Deals
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
We found Brenna finally and dragged her back on the podcast! Brenna and Evan do a rundown for the holidays offering some gift suggestions for your athlete family and friends. The two do a full toe to head rundown, talk stocking stuffers and offer some ideas for the OCR athlete that already has "all the stuff". Use this as a guide for Black Friday through Cyber Monday, but don't wait, the deals only last for so long.
Episode brought to you by MudGear-Battle of the Lions Pro Team sponsors.
Music provided by Dino SInos

Friday Nov 18, 2022
S6E21: Ultra-OCR Woman? Rachel Watters 100+ Mile Charity Event
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Friday Nov 18, 2022
MudGear-Battle of the Lions Pro Rachel Watters talks with Evan about her upcoming charity event where she will run 100+ miles to raise money for Lionhearts OCR. The event takes place Thanksgiving weekend at Casa De Garcia event venue. The two talk challenges, plans and expectations as well as touching a little bit on the recent World's Toughest Mudder.
Links referenced in the show:
Event Page and Donation Link: https://lionheartsfitness.com/lionhearts100/
Facebook Event Coverage for Event Day Updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/s/rachel-watters-lionhearts-101/504957408240566/
Episode brought to you by MudGear (use code UltraOCRman to save on every order) and ORORO Heated Apparel (use this link for 10% off)
Music provided by Dino Sinos

Monday Oct 31, 2022
S6E20: The Tactical Games with Zack Wiznowski
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
OCR athlete, ultra-runner and tactical games athlete Zack Wisnowski joins Evan to talk about the Tactical Games and similar events. Zack's an accomplished ultra-athlete who has been involved in the sport since 2010 completing over 300 races! If there's a race, Zack's done it including things like 6x World's Toughest Mudder, Spartan Iceland, OCR World Championships and more. He's also the owner of UltraTraining.Net
Episode brought to you by ORORO heated apparel, use this link to save 10%.
Music provided by Dino Sinos

Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
S6E19: OCRhouse of Horrors
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Filmmaker Bobby Ross and our favorite beer drinking ultra-runner Leaky Hourglass Race director Gary Shaw join Evan for a Halloween specific episode. The three talk about some of their favorite Halloween franchises and why you should (or shouldn't) watch them. The group stays spoiler free for any new movies and even manages to stay spoiler free for many of these movies that came out in the 80s. They even manage to tie in some bizarre links to OCR in the horror movie world.
What do you think of this episode? Did we miss any of your favorites? Should we bring this back next year?
Episode brought to you by Squirrel's Nut Butter...prevent the scariest thing of all during endurance running...horrible chaffing with Squirrel's Nut Butter.
Music provided by Dino Sinos

Monday Oct 10, 2022
S6E18: OCRWC Review with ANW Finalist Kendall Ortez
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
2x American Ninja Warrior finalist, including making it all the way to the National Finals in Las Vegas, Kendall Ortez joins Evan to talk about OCR World Championships. They share their opinion on 3k, 15k, 100m and Team before diving into Kendall's background. A 15x+ podium finisher at major race series like Conquer the Gauntlet and Savage Race as well as a Team Pro Podium at North American OCR Championships, Kendall is used to the longer format of OCR. He talks about his experiences working with Overcoming Obstacles Ministries, a group that brings kids into the sport of OCR/ninja while promoting the gospel.
Learn more about Overcoming Obstacles Ministries: Www.obstacleministry.com
Follow Kendall at: www.instagram.com/kbortez
Episode brought to you by VJ Shoes, the official shoes of the OCR World Championships.
Music by Dino Sinos

Thursday Sep 22, 2022
S6E17: OCRWC Beer Mile?
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Leaky Hourglass Ultra and beer ultra runner joins Evan to talk OCRWC and his plans to do a very unofficial beer mile at the OCR World Championships.
Make sure you check out the Strength & Speed website at: www.teamstrengthspeed.com