Episodes

Scott Jones and Henry Abbott explore the importance of outdoor play, the evolution of sports, and the significance of injury prevention in athletics. They share personal anecdotes about their childhood adventures and parentin...

On this episode, Dr. Scott Frey discusses his journey from academia to the world of sports science, focusing on the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and athlete performance. He emphasizes the importance of understandin...

In this engaging conversation, Scott and Cassidy Randall explore the world of freelance writing, the impact of AI on creativity, and the adventures that inspire Cassidy's work. They discuss the challenges of the writing indu...

Our guest, Jenn Pattee, is an ultra runner and entrepreneur who took on the challenge of riding the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route from Canada to Mexico. Seeing how much the sport of running can open up opportunities for a...

Scott had a great chat with Susie Chan on all things adventure, life, and running From her book blurb: Susie Chan is an icon of endurance running. Since taking up running at the age of 35, she has completed the legendary Mara...

Whether you are training for the Olympics or your own big goals, having coaches and people in your corner that want the best for you on the field or trail is important. One of Scott's former athletes shares her journey with ...

Four women are coming together to train for, plan, and fundraise so they can compete in an epic row from Monterey, California to Hawai. That's thousands of miles on a high tech row boat, rowing in teams of two for 2 hours at ...

I had a chance to interview Phil Parsons the day before he embarks on the 444 mile Natchez Trace effort. The Natchez Trace is a 444-mile stretch of road that begins in Nashville and ends in Natchez, MS . To date, no one holds...

After spending time doing hards things and getting others to do and succeed at hard things, we wanted to bring an event that combined the skills we learn doing these things with leadership skills that can help in work, sport,...

We had the chance to talk to Luke Tuttle of Ultra Running Destinations . He uses the site to review trails and events all over the world. On this episode we got to talk about some of the amazing locales and adventures Luke h...

Joe Uhan is an athlete, coach, medical professional and writer based in California after bouncing around and learning as much as he could in the physical therapy and performance worlds. We had a great talk about injury preven...

Join Scott and Ian Sharman as they talk about all things running, coaching, training, and more. Ian owns Sharman Ultra , a long time partner of Becoming Ultra . They get to talking about the business of online coaching and ...

Kelsey Pfendler and Jennifer Hofer are one half of Team Hericane. A crew of four rowers setting off to row across the Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii in May of 2024. It was a great conversation and we will definitel...

Bailey and Katie met on Season 10 of the Becoming Ultra project and became fast friends. Today's show is a dive into why they both live a certain lifestyle when it comes to food and where we get our food. More than the ligh...

Early success in race directing led to 9 of the craziest work year of Scott and his wife, Lauren's lives. The lessons learned are seared from the stress but they wouldn't trade it for anything. On the show today Scott share...

Today Scott talks about the skill he sees in his son to just keep going, even if it isn't fast. The time he got blackmailed from his own web designer who pulled their website until he was paid. Oh man, that one was rough. S...

On this episode Scott gives some love to his boys who are showing some legit discipline in the mountains of Colorado this winter. The story of the 7 mile 5k on the California coast. A shoutout to a client running in the Swe...

Katie and Bailey met through a project called Becoming Ultra where runners train for their first ultra distance race. They became fast friends and now are as tight as friends come. They tackled their first 100 mile race rec...

Today we bring on one of Scott's friends and clients and share their origin story (it's a good one) and talk about how leadership and training for hard things have so many parallels! Shout outs to clients doing big things li...

Running 135 miles in some of the most extreme conditions is hard enough but when Liza Howard could only chew on ice chips and nothing else for the last 55 miles she found a way to make it tougher. Runners from all over the w...

Dre Baldwin is back to share his story. Dre might be one of the only pro basketball players I know that quit the sport cold turkey. He decided he didn't want his identity wrapped into only being a basketball player and pivo...

Scott gets to talk with Shawn Livingston about his life and running. Shawn's life from early sports to military and now, ultra runner, has plenty of lessons about addiction, family, and perseverance.

Ty Carter got the itch to race as a young man and tells his story of how he made it all the way to the highest level of his sport. He shares some great training sets and what you shouldn't say to an athlete just because the...

Scott hangs out with old college buddies who came together this last year to train and coach a high school hoops team (Cave Spring HS) out of Roanoke, Virginia to a state championship. We talk about the specifics of the trai...