Overcome and Run

In this episode, we are live at the Spartan Race Championship Series in Seattle. We talk with Faye Stenning, Mark Batres, Robert Killian, Nicole Mericle, Ryan Atkins and Lindsay Webster about their race and what they thought of the course and competition. Additionally, Heather and I talk about our experience during the race, what we thought of the course, and the comparison between the Championship Series races and your average weekend Spartan.

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Evan Perperis sent us his book "Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing" to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.

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In this episode we talk to Lindsay Webster about Toughest Mudder, her training, and her goals for this season.

Lindsay shares with us her experience at the Toughest Mudder West. We talk about how she was able to do so well, and the course not being anything like she imagined. She talks about how she really likes the Toughest Mudder platform and that she plans on running as many Toughest events as she can this year.

She talks with us about balancing her training for endurance events, but maintaining speed for events like Spartan Race, as she plans on running as many of the Spartan Championship Series races as she can as well.

Lastly, she talks a bit about her burpee showdown with Faye Stenning from Spartan World Championship last year.

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Evan Perperis sent us his book "Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing" to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.

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In this episode of The Coach Pain Experience, Coach talks about learning to love yourself. He shares with us his experience with someone who was clearly lacking love for themselves and how Coach helped him find it again. He reminds us that if you don't have love for yourself, when you are done with the race, and everyone goes home, you still have to face yourself in the mirror.

Enjoy this weekly dose of motivation and let Coach show you how to love yourself again.

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Evan Perperis sent us his book "Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing" to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.

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In our second episode of the Coach Pain Experience, Coach Pain and Heather discuss the topic of failure: what it means, how it affects us, and why it's important.

It's a topic that we not only encounter in the OCR world, but also in our everyday life, and it's a topic that Coach Pain is very passionate about. He goes into detail about why failing is learning, and why we should never settle even when we conquer failure.

If you're needing an extra dose of motivation, this is the episode!

Heather talks with Cindy Lynch, experienced marathon/ultra marathon runner, elite OCR competitor, and owner of the running apparel company Runningskirts. Cindy shares with us how she got started with OCR and what makes them different from the marathons and ultras she has faced before. She talks about the challenges she faced with OCR, and how she manages to maintain an elite performance while running her company and making time for her family. Lastly we talk about her company Runningskirts: how it was born, what it provides, and the new brand Runderlust.

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In our first full episode of the Coach Pain Experience, Coach and I talk with OCR athlete Justin Hammond about keeping your eyes forward and not worrying about what's behind you.

Justin trains under Coach Pain, and is consistently on the heels of the top competitors. One issue he has been facing is being too concerned about the racers behind him, which has led to some less than desirable finishes at recent races. Coach talks about how to keep your eye on the goal in front of you, not only in your race, but in life as well. He talks about training to achieve your goals and takes a second to talk to Justin's wife about her contribution to his success.

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Evan Perperis sent us his book "Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing" to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.

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Today Heather and I talk about our experience at the first ever Toughest Mudder in Los Angeles. We take you through the rules you'd need to know for running a Toughest Mudder, the new obstacles, and the course itself.

We also cover the gear we used, specifically our wet suites provided by Xterra Wetsuits as well as what we saw others doing on the course. Lastly we take you through the elite race, and some lessons learned for us and for Tough Mudder from this event.

We just partnered with Icebug to get you a discount on your next pair! Use head over to Icebug.com and use code OVERCEOME10 to save 10%!

Evan Perperis sent us his book "Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing" to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.

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Coach Pain and I debut our new weekly segment "The Coach Pain Experience" where we take your questions about training, motivation and anything else that will help you live a healthier life.

We talk about why we started this new segment, why it's important to us and what the format will be. This will be an interactive show, so we want your tweets, Facebook messages and emails! You can find Overcome and Run on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. You can find Coach Pain on Facebook, coachpain.net or email him at [email protected].

We just partnered with Icebug to get you a discount on your next pair! Use head over to Icebug.com and use code OVERCEOME10 to save 10%!

Evan Perperis sent us his book "Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing" to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.

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In this episode, I talk to Josh Stryde, elite OCR competitor and author of the book Nutrition for the OCR Athlete: Laying out the details and strategies to help remove the guess work from your diet.

We start out talking about the paleo diet and being a fat adapted endurance athlete. We move on to talking about eating the appropriate foods to build glycogen for longer races and what's best to eat for races like World's Toughest Mudder. We also cover goal setting and how to plan your meals to meet your goals, how you should ease into a new meal plan or diet, how to break through a plateau and research-based nutrition vs. current fads.

Josh goes on to talk about how sleep plays into your weight loss and training. and a good rule of thumb for the amount of water you should be consuming on an average day.

Evan Perperis sent us his book "Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing" to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.

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In this episode Heather talks to Joe DeSena, owner of Spartan Race. Joe shares some news with us that hasn't been put out officially from Spartan Race yet.

Joe explains how and why they were selected to host the U.S. National OCR Championships in Florida. He shares additional details about what Spartan Race brings to the table for the race and what their plan is for the race. Unfortunately, he wouldn't tell us who the Race Director or Course Designer will be, that information is being held Top Secret till the race in April.

We talk about his goal of getting OCR into the Olympics. I accidentally gave Joe the idea for scales for the bucket brigade, good luck everyone who will now have to be sure that they full their buckets past the holes.

Lastly, I ask Joe about Shirtgate and he had a pretty great answer. I didn't expect the answer or the reveal that he had on the show. You will have to listen to the end to hear this one!

Evan Perperis sent us his book "Strength & Speed's Guide to Elite Obstacle Course Racing" to check out. We will read it and get back to you with some additional details. In the meantime, head on over to teamstrengthspeed.com and check out their new podcast or order the book.

Make sure you are following everything we are doing by taking a look at our Instagram, Facebook and joining our mailing list!