Endurance stories with trail dirt still attached.
Like a Bigfoot follows Chris Ward through relaxed conversations with runners, cyclists, filmmakers, adventurers, and old friends. The show favors concrete race details, trail logistics, weather problems, and the personal lessons that surface when people choose difficult things on purpose.
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Like a Bigfoot is an outdoor-sports interview show with a strong bias toward people who keep saying yes to long, strange, difficult days. Chris Ward hosts conversations with ultra runners, triathletes, cyclists, bikepackers, filmmakers, parents, and friends who have stories from races, trails, expeditions, and ordinary life around training. The show is casual, but it is not vague. It starts with specifics: Ironman New Zealand, the Speed Project from LA to Vegas, the Arizona Monster 300, the Stagecoach 400, the Congo Nile Trail, weather on winter runs, or the small logistical choice that made a hard event harder. That concreteness gives the interviews their shape. Guests talk through crowded swims, elevation mistakes, chip seal roads, crew strategy, filming in wild places near major cities, and the confidence that comes from doing miserable training before race day. Then the conversation widens. A race story can turn into a discussion of resilience, parenting, coaching, rediscovering health, environmental work, creative work, or why an old fantasy story still matters to someone who loves the outdoors. The show’s warmth comes from familiarity, not polish. Ward often knows the guests, admires them, or has followed their work closely, and that gives the episodes a comfortable looseness. There is plenty of affirmation and joking around, but the interviews still carry useful detail for runners, crews, and adventure-minded listeners. Practical advice sits next to digressions. Race planning can share space with filmmaking, weather, family schedules, or a trail-side mistake that becomes funny after the fact. The result is less like a formal sports program and more like a knowledgeable friend pulling up a chair after a long run. It is especially good when a guest explains how they handled discomfort in the moment. Like a Bigfoot treats endurance as a way into perspective rather than as a scoreboard. The show respects big efforts, but it is more interested in what people learn while doing them.
Made for: For trail runners, ultra-curious athletes, bikepackers, triathletes, crews, and outdoor people who like practical race talk mixed with personal stories. It also suits listeners drawn to filmmaking, weather, training, and the mental side of long efforts.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by keeping endurance conversations grounded in route details, gear problems, weather, crew logistics, and lived experience. Its interviews feel loose and friendly while still delivering useful insight from people who have actually been out there.
Interviews with incredible people about Adventure, Motivation, Mindset, Positivity, Endurance, Health, Perseverance, and Possibility
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Like a Bigfoot turns endurance feats into candid conversations about preparation, uncertainty, and the reasons people keep choosing hard adventures.
Chris Ward treats endurance sport as a lived experience, pairing accounts of difficult races and expeditions with questions about judgment, preparation, and motivation.
Chris Ward makes a 35-degree rain run sound like homework your next race will collect.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A candid endurance episode where New Zealand scenery, rough climbs, chip seal, and race-day mistakes shape the story.
Like a Bigfoot's conversation with Kaitlyn Carlton works best as a grounded look at where endurance racing rubs up against a life in filmmaking, acting, directing, and producing.
Ray Zahab makes listening feel like the hard-won center of mentorship, parenting, and perspective.
Ray Zahab returns to the tricky arithmetic of ambition, family life, and the roles adults take on while young athletes are finding their footing.
A warm Rwanda-centered bikepacking conversation about village paths, mountain gorillas, and the people encountered along the way.
Bikepacking becomes a doorway into the wider world, as Ryan Van Duzer talks about travel that moves through unfamiliar places and into everyday encounters with the people who live there.
A practical running conversation about weather, gear, and learning from rough conditions.
Andrew's conversation sits in the practical space where weather and running meet: cold rain, shifting conditions, and the uncertainty that comes with race day.
A Kokopelli Trail bike FKT becomes a conversation about racing past prediction.
Like a Bigfoot's conversation with Hannah Otto turns her Kokopelli Trail FKT by bike into a broader look at what changes when an athlete stops treating prediction as a ceiling.
Diana Carmela turns a parking-lot panic attack into a clear-eyed reflection on pressure, endurance, and creative effort.
This Bigfoot Replays episode follows author, long-distance hiker, and fellow podcaster Diana Carmela as she turns one ugly afternoon into a clear study of accumulating pressure.
Bruised stories, blunt talk, real recovery.
Endurance performance, tested past the easy answers.
Swimrun detail with community warmth.
Dyana Carmella says the trail mattered because "the people really, really made that adventure what it was."
Host Chris Ward interviews professional cyclist Hannah Otto about setting the Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the Kokopelli Trail in 11 hours and 15 minutes.
Chris Ward celebrates the 8th anniversary of his podcast by reflecting on his life through adventure and endurance races with his wife Lindsey.
Like a Bigfoot #443 pairs Chris Ward with Kaitlyn Carlton to cover the Speed Project, Route 66 Ultra, and her first Ironman in Taupo, New Zealand.
Like a Bigfoot #442 centers on Ray Zahab’s family balance, youth sports, and a Chile expedition that moved from the Atacama Desert to Ojos del Salado.
Chris Ward reconnects with old friend Jason Sudduth to discuss his ecology work, health journey, and a deep dive into Lord of the Rings.
Chris Ward interviews his childhood friend Jake Reed, a kinesiology professor, about practical training advice for lifelong athletes.
Interview with ultra-cyclist and filmmaker Gregg Dunham about his bikepacking films and upcoming project on the Stage Coach 400 ultra-cycling event.
Ryan Van Duzer tells Chris Ward that he has "never owned a car in my life" and rides everywhere from Boulder to "across continents." He says bikepacking works because it combines "pedal powered" travel, camping "under the stars," and the simple act of moving through weather and elevation.
Experienced ultramarathoners Thomas Mullins and Mike Farrell share advice with first-time Arizona 300 runner Jared McLean and his crew member Cammy Gage.
Chris Ward talks with Columbus meteorologist Andrew Buck Michael, who also hosts Weathering the Run and has nearly 75 episodes behind him.
Host looks back at a favorite episode featuring author and hiker Dyana Carmella discussing her book and podcast.
Chris Ward interviews Micah Ferrell and Thomas Mullins about their dirtbag camping lifestyle and adventures in Colorado.
Chris Ward interviews therapist Kate Ringwood about the unique struggles athletes face, including identity loss after retirement or injury.