Ep. 260: Obstacle Racing Unpacked - Margaret Schlachter
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
What is obstacle racing? Check this out. Racing that is not just about a run or a bike or any other single skill. This is about full-body strength with the challenges of a ninja warrior and the stamina of a marathoner. This is not just going, but going under and over and through…. Margaret Schlachter does a great job of unpacking this sport AND she provides a great example of how one can escape the traditional 8 to 5 to live an adventure sport focused life. It is called Spartan Racing, Tough Mudder Racing, and more. But in the end, it is a full body challenge for those who are not afraid to get dirty. Pretty tough stuff!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the adventure sports podcast brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:22.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:25.6 | Episode 260, Margaret Schlockder on Obstacle Racing. |
| 0:31.6 | Music Hey, friends, remember to join the Adventure Sports podcast membership site. In so doing, you help to support |
| 0:57.9 | the show, which helps us a ton, and you also get amazing discounts and all sorts of guided |
| 1:04.9 | adventures, adventure gear, outdoors gear, backpacking gear, you name it, it's there. |
| 1:12.6 | Go check it out at members.adventuresportspodcast.com or go to our main website, |
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| 1:23.8 | Thank you very much and enjoy the show. |
| 1:37.1 | Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. This is your host, Kurt Lindville. |
| 1:46.6 | Today I have a obstacle racer with us, Margaret Schlockter, and she started obstacle racing way back in the very beginning of the sport, and she is the expert. Matter of fact, she was in a standard corporate career |
| 1:52.5 | and found herself kind of choking on it like some people do, and she started obstacle racing, |
| 1:57.6 | and it changed her whole life. Now she is full-time obstacle racing focused person. |
| 2:03.2 | So Margaret, we're excited to have you on the show here. |
| 2:06.0 | Well, thanks so much for having me, Kurt. I'm excited and hopefully I know I'm a little bit off |
| 2:13.3 | the deviation of some of your past guests, So hopefully I'm bringing obstacle racing to some more |
| 2:20.6 | listeners. Oh yeah. So obstacle racing is very adventurous and a ton of fun. And like you just |
| 2:27.7 | mentioned, you're soon to be doing your first adventure race. And I think the two are kind of linked in a |
| 2:33.0 | lot of ways. We'll get into that a little |
| 2:34.3 | bit more. But first, more on your background. You started out in high school being very athletic. |
| 2:39.7 | You were an alpine ski racer. And you even attended a special school just for alpine ski racers. |
| 2:45.6 | But then it ended up that this obstacle racing was what really caught your attention. |
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