Nicole Mericle may be the fastest woman in OCR.

Nicole is the reigning two-time back-to-back 3k champion of the OCR World Championships. In 2018 she won the Red Bull All In OCR in Oberstdorf, Germany. In 2018 she also placed second in the Spartan Trifecta Championship in Athens, Greece.

This year she has won three of the four Spartan races held so far and she will be on the start line at the first race in the Spartan U.S. Series on February 23 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Nicole is a member of the Spartan Pro Team, and is sponsored by Darn Tough Socks, and AltRed Beet Supplement. She is an ambassador for Salomon Trail Running shoes. (Nicole likes the S/Lab Sense 7 SG.)

Before we talked with Nicole we talked dates and venues for the Spartan Mountain Series and Spartan Stadion Series. We also answer the question: "What is a Stadion?" (Spoiler: It's a distance. Not a location.)

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For more on the Spartan Arizona race be sure to listen to the latest episode of Overcome and Run with Heather Bode.

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• 0:00 Intro and Welcome
• 1:48 World's Toughest Podcast 2.0?
• Let's Talk Some News!
• 3:33 Spartan Arizona Race Results
• 4:53 Mountain Series Dates and Venues
• 6:07 Stadion Series Update
• 6:55 "Stadion" sounds like a made-up word
• 7:47 Stadion Series Dates and Venues
• 8:15 Change in Series Points for 2019
• 11:12 24-Hour Ultra Champs Date and Venue: Åre, Sweden!
• 15:07 FIVE STARS!
• 18:44 About our Guest: Nicole Mericle
• 19:13 Let's go to the phones! with Nicole Mericle

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Spartan Arizona Sprint Results (Feb. 9, 2019)

Elite Men

1. Veejay Jones, 35:17
2. Matt Rock, 36:39
3. Daniel Sorenson, 37:50

Elite Women

1. Nicole Mericle, 37:11
2. Amanda Nadeau, 41:37
3. Ashley Heller, 42:24

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Spartan Arizona Super Results (Feb. 10, 2019)

Elite Men

1. Veejay Jones, 1:06:50
2. Ivan Santana, 1:07:26
3. Nikolaj Dam, 1:10:26

Elite Women

1. Nicole Mericle, 1:14:47
2. Amanda Nadeau, 1:21:04
3. Ashley Heller, 1:25:44

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Welcome to The OCR Report Podcast! 

We are the only podcast to focus exclusively on the Elite SPORT side of Obstacle Course Racing. Each week we talk about who won the latest race, who lost, and what that means for next week's race.

The OCR Report Podcast is hosted by Will Hicks, the host of World's Toughest Podcast, and presented by The OCR Report, home of Overcome and Runwith Heather Bode and Obstacle Running Adventureswith Mike Stefano and Katelyn Ritter.

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