S08E01 - Franklin Mountains & 2026 overage Plans

Jason crewed two guys (Brad Parnell and Patrick Bethoney) in running the 100 mile distance at the Blood Root Ultra, which takes place at the birthplace of Spartan on Joe de Sena's farm in Pittsfield, Vermont. The guys recap the experience on their drive out of the mountains.

Jason discusses the final race in the Spartan US - South National Series and the struggle of covering the race in the rain. You can watch the race coverage here: https://www.youtube.com/live/BYjcq0bDVcs?si=8UQdj0KkJKcwPCCD

I went to New York to run Citi Field. Myself and Tyler Movsessian rabbited the elites, and then I ran the course with Mike Stefano of ‪@obstaclerunningadventures6355‬ This particular race, since I only had two rabbits I did a full race edit with those two cameras and the five Mevo cameras that I put out around the course. I go into some detail about the editing process as I edited the whole race in a few hours. Check out the elite coverage here: https://www.youtube.com/live/JRfi-k5N...

I ran a 55k trail race in the Franklin Mountains, near El Paso, TX. I give a race recap and then talk about our OCR coverage plans for the year.

Catching up on unreleased material, the first 5 minutes is from the airbnb after the second day of DEKA WC. The rest of the episode is on the drive to the airport from Savage Florida. You can watch all of the DEKA Elite Live Coverage here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyK0g0eIg3RXriIl3Ksbv1wvM-p2RFutG&si=YjEhJLqBmbNdiYqj You can watch the live replay of Savage Florida here: https://www.youtube.com/live/QLwfIx7D1EQ?si=snbYsiuGVZ9FGPHq 

Jason recaps the final race of the Canadian series as well his experience running the Beast the day before. The episode ends with a quick retelling of a tree accident on the way to the airport and a reminder about our limited time on earth.

Jason catches up on the ride back from Mammoth Lakes after covering the Spartan Super World Champs.  The OCR Report provides the most obstacle course race coverage in the world. Please consider helping us be able to continue to bring all of this race coverage to you by joining our pateron.  http://patreon.com/theocrreport  

One of OCR Talk's original co-host, Anna Landry, now Anna Wesner, returns to recap her and Jason's 100 miler attempts at Sangre de Cristo just outside of Westcliff, Colorado. Sangre de Cristo Trail Festival is part of the Human Potential Running Series. You can find more about their events here: https://humanpotentialrunning.com/

After two back to back weekends I recap the Spartan Pan Am Champs from Seattle and then follow up with some discussion of the Trifecta World Champs in West Virginia.