Kegan drove out from Reno or maybe it was Texas to spend a few days with us in February 2018, coincident with a seminar on Endurance taught by Joe Holmes. He was clearly searching for something, the next step, a new direction, and … aren’t...

Paul Becker is a Producer in VFX/3D, but he prefers the title “Crimson Bashar”. His list of credits in film is mind-blowing. He has watched from close proximity the effects that Mark and Michael’s training philosophy had on set, noting the especially strong transformations that...

Michael, Joe, and Kegan put Mark in the hot seat to discuss his relationship to the bike, how it became a surrogate for climbing, and chasing similarly (sometimes) transformative experiences using a different means. Twelve years ago rehab from shoulder reconstruction was Mark’s impetus to...

Mark, Michael, and Kegan talk about the influence that male bodies seen on the big screen has on the self-esteem of young men, or any males who can’t help but compare themselves to what they see in a movie. This conversation was based on a...

In this episode Mark, Michael and Kegan speak with former professional cyclist and current artist and U.S. Junior National Team Director Billy Innes. Originally from Brooklyn, Billy now calls Menlo Park “home” – that is when he is not living in Europe for a third...

Mark, Kegan, and Michael have a rambling discussion about entitlement, equality, participation trophies and their effect on personal development, how difficult it it to establish Point A and its distance from Point B when setting objectives and planning the means of their achievement. The episode...

Mark recorded this episode with Shawn Kingrey five hours after Shawn won “Death By” variant of the Nightmare Tour fondo/race, which traces the perimeter of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, covering 225 miles and 22,000 feet of climbing in 14 hrs 39 min. The original, 177-mile county...

In this episode Mark confesses to Ross, Nicole Morgenthau, and Joe Holmes about having left the rails to make a Zine unrelated to RAZE, which might be viewed as distraction. He insists it is an utterly necessary, and relevant contribution to the flow of energy...

Mark and Michael speak to Scott Backes, with whom Mark climbed some difficult and beautiful routes back in the day, and who Mark describes as, “The wisest man I know.” Despite living in Minnesota, Scott discovered climbing in the ’70s, devoted himself to it and...

George Briones a former Recon Marine and current Head of Human Performance for Soflete, a company started by current and former SOF personnel to better train the tactical athlete. Soflete was formed to fill a specific void in the fitness industry but has developed into...