[Athlete Profile] Ross MacDonald – UK
OCR Europe has managed to catch up with Dirty Dozen winner Ross ‘Silver’ MacDonald, a nickname which is swiftly losing meaning. Ross is an experienced OCR athlete and to say that he is pretty handy at...
View Article[Athlete Profile] Joda Quigley – SCO
OCR Europe brings you an athlete profile of yet another great Scottish OCR athlete, ‘The Scottish Blonde Pocket Rocket’. I first met Joda Quigley at a Tartan Warrior training event in 2014 and I got...
View Article[Athlete Profile] Henrik Poulsen – Denmark
Tell us a bit about yourself and your fitness background? I am 32 years old and I work as a school teacher, soccer coach and Les Mills BodyPump instructor. My training is a mix of running and...
View Article[Athlete Profile] Freya Martin – UK
Despite the mass participation of women in OCR I still felt like I wasn’t hearing enough about the best female athletes, which is amazing when you consider that athletes like Freya Martin are competing...
View Article[Athlete Profile] Scott Brown – Scotland
Sometimes I meet or talk to an athlete and I think to myself, how do they do that? Scott Brown is certainly one of those. When he finished 27th at World’s Toughest Mudder in 2014, I was inspired. On...
View ArticleSpartan Pro Team Athlete Ryan Kent
American and Canadian OCR has always made me think of Atkins and Pak, but Ryan Kent appeared on my radar at the Spartan Race World Championships where he took 8th place, and I’m still amazed that I...
View ArticleAthlete Profile with Dean Lockyer from OCR Europe
Tell us a bit about yourself and your fitness background? Let me start this off by saying I’m not much of an “athlete” so can we change the title to “average bloke profile” lol ;-). I was basically a...
View Article[Athlete Profile] John Denovan – Scotland
Tell us a bit about yourself and your fitness background? I’ve always had a love of sport and fitness from an early age. I was the youngest graded Jui Jitsu student in Scotland at one point then I...
View ArticleInterview with OCR Athlete Adam Mangan
Adam Mangan is a four-season OCR competitor and one of many athletes who have migrated from trail running, or added OCR to their trail experience. Whilst he is close to hitting the ‘older’ age category...
View ArticleMeet Mari Weider, The Norwegian OCR Shieldmaiden
Last year I had the privilege to meet a wonderful couple and truly amazing OCR athletes Mari and Martin Weider at the Nordic Sprint event in Malmö, Sweden. Mari also runs the Norwegian equivalent to...
View ArticleOCR Europe Revisted Claude Godbout To See How She Is Getting On
In 2014, OCR Europe interviewed Canadian OCR athlete Claude Godbout, an interview you can read here. OCR Europe has revisited Claude to see how she is getting on. Tell us a bit about yourself and your...
View ArticleInterview with Dita Kotoulova Czech National representing GB
If you’re part of the OCR community you are bound to recognise Dita Kotoulova, if not by face, by formidable reputation. Dita has taken not only the female division by storm, but the whole OCR world;...
View ArticleMeet Brakken ‘The Kraken’ Kraker
Resilient. Incredible. Inspiring. Charismatic. Driven. These are all words that could be used to describe the man behind the name ‘Brakken Kraker’, a distinguished Spartan athlete with a thirst for...
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