Episode 14 features our second on-the-run interview—a revealing conversation between host David Willey and Achilles NYC runners Brooke Danielson and Melissa Blume. Brooke guides Mel, who is legally blind, throughout the run just like she will in the TCS New York City Marathon. You'll hear how Brooke goes about keeping Mel safe—although that's not all she does—and appreciate how grit, fearlessness and friendship make difficult things not just possible, but worth doing in the first place.

In this episode, we enter into the world of Obstacle Course Racing. First, Amelia Boone perhaps the best-known and most decorated obstacle-course racer in the world opens up about her eating disorder, body image and what she learned during her layoff. Also, Nicole Mericle, who won the World Championships. She talks about what drew her into the sport, why she now loves it, and also about living in and training out of the customized van she currently calls home.

Pole-vaulters are among the most remarkable—and, unfortunately, obscure—athletes in the world. And Katie Nageotte is one of the best. She is a two-time national champion, with a PR of 16' 1 ¼", and she has high hopes for this year's IAAF Track & Field World Championships. She opens up about her career ups and downs, the difference between fake and real confidence, and why her sport is so hard but rewarding & even addictive. Plus: It's National Honey Month. Hear why honey is such an ideal fuel for athletes.

Jared Ward is one of America's best marathoners. He finished sixth in the Rio Olympics and ran 2:09 in Boston, and he has high hopes for the TCS New York City Marathon and the upcoming Olympic Trials. He shares his secrets for optimizing his training, nutrition, pacing and mental game so that you, too, might run 26.2 better than ever. Plus: Part 2 of our RAGBRAI series on the weeklong cycling pilgrimage across Iowa.

Brian Reynolds lost both his legs to a childhood illness—and then his athletic career began. Now 31, he holds the world record in the half marathon (1:18:42) and once held it for the marathon (his PR is 3:03:22). But he's more than just a great athlete. He is remarkably resilient, grounded and optimistic. He talks to host David Willey about all the good that has come from his medical nightmare and about the challenges that he, and other amputee athletes, face in order to compete. 

Also, this episode features our first field-reported segment. It captures the unique experience of taking part in one of the most challenging, idiosyncratic sporting events in America— RAGBRAI, a weeklong cycling pilgrimage of sorts across the entire state of Iowa. Honey Stinger is the official nutrition sponsor of RAGBRAI, although it's not a race. It's a ride—but not in the way one normally goes out for a ride.

Axel Merckx is cycling royalty, the son of the legendary Eddy Merckx, who was nicknamed "the Cannibal" for his relentless competitiveness and is widely regarded as the greatest rider in history. Axel aspired to be a soccer start when he was young and got a relatively late start in the family business. But he was quite successful in his own right as a professional cyclist. He rode in 8 Tours de France (some with Lance Armstrong on Team Motorola in the 1990s), won a stage of the Giro d' Italia and earned an Olympic bronze medal for his native Belgium in 2004. Today, as the owner and director of Team Hagens Berman Axeon, he helps prepare young cyclists for success at his sport's highest level. In this fascinating and wide-ranging interview, Axel shares what makes a great cyclist, and what he says was his proudest achievement as a pro (it's not the Olympic medal) as well as his darkest moment on the bike, when he had to drop out of the Tour de France while climbing the grueling Alpe d'Huez. He reflects on the extraordinary innovations in sports nutrition since he rode while eating sandwiches, and reveals what he learned about motivation from Armstrong and how he applies those secrets with his team. He also recalls, in vivid detail, the punishing rides he suffered through with his father, who remained the Cannibal even with his young son. Finally, Axel touches on an issue front and center for a lot of riders: safety. You'll hear how he handles the increasingly frequent and sometimes hostile encounters with cars in British Columbia, where he lives and rides, mostly recreationally. Even if you're not a cyclist, this conversation will give you some insights for building an inspiring and maybe, in some small way, a legendary athletic life for yourself.

Episode 8 features an interview with Jeremy McGhee, a multi-sport paraplegic athlete. Jeremy talks about why continuing to be an athlete is so important and life affirming, what he struggles with most in his day-to-day athletic life and what sport he misses most. He shares the complex nature of motivation and his comparatively simple secret to push through anything. Jeremy also describes the high-tech mountain bike that enables him to continue riding on remote, demanding terrain and discusses what he would like able-bodied athletes to know about para athletes. This conversation will inspire you and, perhaps, get you to think about your own challenges a little differently.

Ultra runner Clare Gallagher talked with host David Willey just 10 days after her huge win at Western States, a 100-mile endurance run in California.

The Western States race is regarded as one of the world's toughest tests of human endurance. It begins in Squaw Valley, California, near Lake Tahoe, and ends on a high school track in the town of Auburn. Races this long and grueling usually aren't dramatic but this year's race was different.

Clare was in the lead and running confidently until mile 93, when Brittany Peterson caught her, seemingly out of nowhere, just before the final aid station. The runners emerged in a dead heat with about six miles to go, ridiculously high stakes for a 100-mile race. Clare covered the home stretch, winning by 11 minutes and finishing in 17:23:25, the second-fastest time ever.

Clare talks about the six mile effort in detail in the interview and also provides a rare peek behind the curtain at some of the lesser-known aspects of Western States—the personal interactions between runners out on the course, the post-race interview scrum, where finishers struggle to remain upright while providing soundbites they may or may not remember the next day and even into the "pee tent" where top finishers get mandatory drug tests under less-than-solitary circumstances.

Besides Clare's win at Western States, she and David talk about her environmental activism, how climate change may be impacting endurance running as a sport and her unorthodox pre-race taper.

Nathan Collier, an endurance mountain-bike racer and member of the Honey Stinger/Bontrager Team, tells host David Wiley that he never thought about becoming a professional mountain-biker when he was younger. As a self-described fat kid with low self-esteem, Nathan stumbled upon the sport randomly after his brother stole his bike and rode it in a race.

In 2008, two years out of college and living in his hometown of Rock Island, Illinois, Nathan rode the same bike in that same race and not only won the Novice category, but, won the entire race series. He then got serious about the sport and quit his job, moved to Colorado and turned pro in 2014.

Endurance mountain-bike races are typically anywhere from 50 to 100 miles. They are not to be confused with "enduro" which are mountain-bike races where only the descents are timed. In endurance racing, the clock is running the entire time. It takes pro rides like Nathan 6 to 8 hours to finish.

Nathan, who is 37, trains hard usually towing his 4-year-old son, Nolan behind. Nathan talks openly about how difficult it was to become a new father while still competing as an elite athlete, and also about where the fine line is between dedication and addiction. But Nathan insists that becoming a father has made him a better athlete, and he has lots of great advice for juggling work, family, training and high-level competition and all the other demands of a modern athletic life.

In the second segment of this episode, Honey Stinger's Isaac Madsen spoke with a range of athletes at the GoPro Mountain Games in Vail, Colorado. He talked to Hive athletes about their nutrition strategies for before, during and after the race.

Episode 5 features Hive Gold Athlete and world-class wrestler Jenna Burkert. Jenna, who is 26, is remarkably energetic and forthcoming. She talks with host David Willey about mental toughness, fear and unstoppability.

Burkert started wrestling when she was 6 years old, before there was even a path for girls into the sport. Jenna created her own path and went on to become a national champion and qualify for several world championships. And, that's not it, thanks in part to her; Women's wrestling became an Olympic sport in 2004.

Now women's wrestling is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. There are currently 58 college teams and an even bigger push to add more collegiate and high school programs across the country.

Jenna is not only an elite wrestler but is also a Unit Supply Specialist based in Colorado Springs, and is part of the Army's World Class Athlete Program.

Even if you've never wrestled or watched wrestling, you will come away from this conversation feeling inspired to knock down whatever obstacles stand between you and your goals, whatever they may be.