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This week we are sitting down and chatting with my friend, veteran and ultra runner Jason Comstock!! Jason was one of the runners we featured in our film "A Long Way From Nowhere" and he's also one of the kindest, most considerate, and empathetic human beings I know. In this episode we dive deeper into what happened on Stage 4 of the 2021 Desert RATS Stage Race and talk about what it was like to return in 2022! Cannot wait for you to listen to this one!! Truly honored to have been able to meet Jason and share his journey and perspective with you all!

This week we are chatting with bike packer, journeyman, and adventurer Jerry Kopack!! In this episode, we follow Jerry's journey from corporate America to founding a hospice to bike touring all across the world. We dive into his perspective on the world and explore what he has learned through this journey. Definitely check out "The World Spins By" which Jerry wrote collecting his thoughts and worldly adventures! Hope you enjoy the episode as much as I did!!

This week we are talking with two of my favorite people on the planet Amy Donaldson Brass and Mikie Pylilo!! Amy and Mikie's journey across the Kokopelli was featured in our film "A Long Way From Nowhere" and on today's episode we sit down and hear about their experiences during that race. We also talk about some parts that didn't make the final edit and get their perspectives on the movie! These two are absolutely amazing!! This episode is full of a lot of laughs! I hope you enjoy!

Very excited to announce the release of our film A LONG WAY FROM NOWHERE available free online at the Audacious Report Youtube Channel!! WATCH THE FILM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0ddwnZ5CEM What compels a person to run 150 miles through the desert at the height of summer? Is it the need for achievement, the competitive instinct, or something more profound—a spiritual need for hardship, for catharsis, and from it, healing? A Long Way From Nowhere highlights ordinary people on an extreme adventure who discover that we often find ourselves not out in the great big yonder.... but from within.  A Long Way From Nowhere is brought to you by Filmmakers Paul Scheuring and Chris Ward - who met on the trail at this event in 2018. Paul has over twenty years of professional filmmaking experience working as a writer, producer, and director, with credits such as the FOX smash TV hit Prison Break, which he created, and the Discovery miniseries Klondike. Chris is a middle school science teacher and first-time direc

This week we are sitting down and chatting with the absolutely incredible athlete Robbie Balenger!!! In 2021, Robbie completed the Colorado Crush, a challenge he created which consisted of running all the events in Leadville (marathon, 50 miler and 100 miler) along with running the entire Colorado Trail and summiting all of the 14ers all in one summer. It is a mind blowing and incredibly hard accomplishment! Robbie and filmmaker Reece Robinson were able to capture all the ups and downs with their excellent film called "Colorado Crush" on their channel "The Audacious Report" (where our film will appear in a few weeks!) In this episode we talk all about that challenge. How did Robbie scare a bear away using the sultry voice of Rod Stewart? In what ways has his view on masculinity changed by taking on giant endurance challenges? What has he discovered by taking on the filmmaking project "Audacious Report" with Reece and what plans do they have for the future of their channel? Truly hope you all enjoy this ep

This week we are chatting with ultra endurance ocean swimmer and rower Cameron Bellamy!! In 2019, Cameron swam across the open ocean for 56+ hours from Barbados to St. Lucia and then followed it up by rowing with a team of five other guys across the treacherous Drake Passage to Antarctica. In this episode, we talk about what it is like to swim for over two days. Where does the mind go? How do you battle the self doubt, the fear, the slow degradation of the body? We also talk about how the body feels after swimming through a swarm of jellyfish, Cameron's charity "Ubunye Challenge" which raises money for early childhood education in rural South Africa and Zimbabwe, how he got into big endurance adventures and what his experience was like rowing the Drake for Discovery Channel's Impossible Row. This one is a can't miss episode!!!! I hope you are completely inspired and awed by Cameron as I am! MORE FROM CAMERON BELLAMY: Support his charity: https://www.ubunyechallenge.com Instagram: https://www.instagra

This week we are chatting with Mathias Eichler about everything from running every single street in his town of Olympia, Washington to taking on the Rim to Rim to Rim at the Grand Canyon!! Mathias is also the host of the Singletrack Podcast, race director at Rock Candy Running, and puts on the Trail Running Film Festival. MORE FROM MATHIAS: Website: https://mathiaseichler.com Podcast: https://singletrack.fm Festival: https://www.trailfilmfest.com Rock Candy Running: http://rockcandyrunning.com

In this episode we are chatting with ultrarunner Emily Keddie about her experiences taking on incredibly long races like the Moab 240 and Tahoe 200! We also discuss the Snowman Race- an incredibly difficult stage race that she was invited to race by His Majesty the King of Bhutan. Then we dive into her future plans at the Cocodona 250 and discuss the challenges she faces in her journey as an elite athlete. Emily is very open about her struggles with the Imposter Syndrome and we explore how we all face it in different aspects of life. I really enjoyed chatting with Emily and I hope you all are inspired by her and her journey! MORE FROM EMILY: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilyin.thewild/

This week we are chatting with Gemini Adventures Race Director Reid Delman!! In this episode, Reid and I celebrate their Desert RATS Trail Running Festival becoming a part of the UTMB World Series races and discuss how they are approaching that change. We also dive into how and why he started Gemini Adventures, tales from Dadmode, and Reid shares his passion for wrestling while he was growing up! Reid is AWESOME and I've been really happy to get to know him and to take on a bunch of his races over the years!

This week we are sitting down with ultra runner and coach Brian Passenti to talk about all things Leadville and Moab 240!!! Brian is an incredible athlete who has really embraced the LOOOOOOONG distances over the past decade or so. In this episode we hear about his experiences running MULTIPLE Leadville 100s and Moab 240s along with how he wound up in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, his mountain lion encounter on Mt. Sopris, and how he balances being an athlete/coach with his regular job and family life. Hope you all enjoy the episode!!! I’m taking away a lot of inspiration from Brian and can’t wait to see him at future races!! MORE FROM BRIAN: https://www.instagram.com/passentiontherun/?hl=en Coaching: https://www.altitudeendurancecoaching.com

I really enjoy people who bring their own unique and creative perspective to adventures in the outdoors. They fully embrace their individuality and find interesting ways to express what it feels like to be pushing their limits in really beautiful places. It’s that expression of these adventures that always fascinates me. This week we are chatting with adventurer and artist Kelly Halpin about the overlap between art and exploration. Kelly is a fantastic artist and an inspiring ultra endurance athlete living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming at the foot of the Tetons. She has taken on countless epic adventures in the mountains including multiple WURLs- Wasatch Ultimate Ridge Linkup (which truly must be one of the hardest challenges out there) and Grand Teton Picnics- Triathlon combining cycling from Jackson Hole, swimming across Jenny Lake, summiting the Grand Teton and then doing everything in reverse. In this episode we talk about both of those huge challenges, how her journey as an artist and adventure have co-exi

This week we are chatting with an adventurer Sunny Stroeer!! "Sunny is a free spirit and adventurer. A Harvard MBA and hard-charging strategy consultant in her twenties, she turned her back on material possessions and career shortly after turning 30 in order to live in an Astrovan so she could run and climb full-time instead." (Sunnystroeer.com) In this episode we talk all about her adventures fast packing the Hayduke Trail, one of the absolute hardest thru hikes in the world! She also shares stories from the Iditarod Trail Invitation and talks about why she absolutely loves that event. Sunny is out there exploring her limits in the back country through all sorts of sports and I am honored to have her on the show and hope to have her back for a future episode! Enjoy!! MORE FROM SUNNY STROEER: Website: http://www.sunnystroeer.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sstroeer/?hl=en AWExpeditions: https://awexpeditions.org

This week I am joined by my lovely wife Lindsey Ward to record a quick episode before the year ends! We chat about our trip to Iceland, Purpose Anxiety and in the outro I share what I learned from my social media break and my plan for more healthy, intentional use for 2023. Hope you all enjoy and that you have had a wonderful year!!

This week we are sitting down and chatting with adventurer, filmmaker, and professor Jerod Foster. (Come to think of it...those three descriptors make this dude sound like the Texas version of Indiana Jones!) In this episode we chat all things filmmaking, storytelling, bikepacking and creativity. Jerod created a course at Texas Tech called Adventure Media where he takes students bike packing all of Spring Break with the purpose of coming out of the desert with a film that they all collaborated on. The class is an amazing concept and I am very excited to share this episode with you! Really enjoyed hearing about Jerod's perspective and experiences as an adventurer and storyteller. (SIDE NOTE: On top of Jerod being a great interview, I am very proud of the Outro at the end of this one. I really wanted to dive in and talk about what art means to me, why I think it's an important pursuit, and how I've connected to it over the years. When art touches your soul, it stays with you forever and I truly feel like we

I can't believe it took this long to chat about Pack Burro Racing!! The unique sport where donkeys and their runners take on the trails! "We run with our burros. There’s no riding in this sport. This is NOT just a foot race. Even the fastest racer can be humbled by his running partner - equus asinus."- Western Pack Burro Association I've had the opportunity to join today's guest, the AWESOME Micky Sederburg, and some animals from the Wild American Burro farm a couple times for a burro run. It was an experience of a lifetime!! In this episode, we talk about that experience and Micky helps us understand this unique offshoot of ultra running! You should try burro racing if you ever get a chance. It is an amazing time that will change how you think of trail running!

Deep in the Himalayas lies the country of Bhutan, one of the world’s only carbon-negative countries. And yet it is a place of major impact from the terrible effects of climate change. As glaciers melt high up in the mountains, small villages are being washed away in horrifying glacier lake outburst floods (essentially, giant lakes formed from melting glaciers overflow, sending a massive rush of water down valley wiping out everything in it’s path). Enter The Snowman Race. Created by His Majesty the King of Bhutan, this effort to raise awareness of this crisis is a five day stage race through the mountains giving athletes a first hand look at the effects of this crisis. Over 126 miles, an average elevation over 14,000feet and climbing to heights at nearly 18,000 feet this is TRULY one of the most difficult athletic events in the world. Joining some of the world’s best mountain athletes, on a personal invite from the King, a Pacific Northwest FKT master Ashly Winchester headed out to the Himalayas to take

It's finally here...the episode EVERYONE was clamoring for!! Wait...I mean no one....no one was probably asking for this... Except me! This is a spiritual sequel to one of my personal favorite episodes of the podcast "Travis Steffen's Ultimate Guide to Sports Movies" (episode 228) where we are once again rejoined with movie connoisseur Travis Steffen and our buddy Brandon Swett to chat all about the movies that we love. In this episode we talk through a bunch of categories based on a variety of adventure films. Plane crash survival movies, ridiculous wilderness action films, best movie featuring a man-eating animal, "is Indiana Jones actually good at leading expeditions?", along with much much more!!! And lots of camping talk. Hope you all get a few laughs as this episode is simply meant to bring a smile to your face and remind you of some awesome movies to check out to wrap up your year!! Enjoy!! (As always the views and opinions expressed by one Travis Steffen do not reflect the views and opinions of

This week I am very excited to chat with the creators of the website "The Town Bicycle" to promote and highlight women in cycling, Alexandera Houchin, Katie Strempke and Eszter Horanyi!! All three are incredible athletes, storytellers, and awesome humans that started the website as a way to highlight stories that weren't being told in their sport. The Town Bicycle is an excellent adventure site that is focused on "producing journalism, creative writing, and photography driven by women in the bike community" with the ultimate goal to "share the stories of people and their bikes." Eszter and Alexandera are two of my favorite podcast guests of all time and I was beyond honored to meet Katie. This episode was super fun to hear their perspectives on bikepacking, adventure and storytelling. Alexandera was fresh off of completing the 800 mile Arizona Trail Race in which Eszter was documenting and Katie was supporting. We also talk about Katie's "yo-yo" of the Colorado Trail and her epic sufferfest on the Tour Div

This week we are chatting with my friend Seth Caroll about what it was like to run his very first marathon last spring!! We also chat about misadventures while canoeing the Boundary Waters in Northern Minnesota and his experiences playing Rugby…aka the greatest sport of all time! In other words, this one is the most Like a Bigfooty Like a Bigfoot Podcast of all time. Hope you all enjoy!!

This week we are chatting with awesome human Sabrina White!! I’ve been looking forward to this one since she returned from her big trip to Mongolia last summer. She had planned on a HUGE bikepacking tour of the Mongolian wilderness, trained for months, dialed in all of her gear and even shipped a giant mountain bike halfway across the world. In other words, she was focused on this adventure for over a year. And then she threw all of her well laid plans out the window. After flying out there and spending a week as a traveler Sabrina found a way to have a deeper purpose and sense of fulfillment. This is a really interesting conversation to have on an adventure podcast. When do we decide to throw out our plan? What do we discover when we intentionally don’t accomplish a huge feat of endurance? Is there more out there for us then reaching an athletic goal? I am very very excited for you to listen in as we dive into some topics that we haven’t previously explored on this show!!! Can’t wait for you to listen