Purpose
The miles are the entry point. The stories are the point.
Blame It On Ultrarunning exists to explore what happens when an extreme sport gets tangled up with an actual human life.
Not just finish times. Not just training blocks. Not just podiums, gear, or race-day strategy. The show goes after the bigger stories: obsession and identity, failure and reinvention, community and loneliness, suffering and absurdity, spiritual breakthroughs, terrible decisions, hard-earned wisdom, and the strange ways ultrarunning can tear a life apart and put it back together differently.
Mission
Tell the stories polished running media usually leaves out.
Blame It On Ultrarunning creates candid, curious conversations with runners and the people around the sport. The goal is simple: get beyond the résumé and find the story underneath it.
Guests do not need to be famous, elite, victorious, polished, inspirational, or even certain what the hell they learned. They need to have something real to say.
No rules does not mean no standards. It means no script forcing every conversation to sound like every other running podcast.
Philosophy
Curiosity over convention. Truth over polish. People over performance.
Raw, not manufactured
The best stories rarely arrive clean, linear, inspirational, or ready for somebody's highlight reel.
Human, not heroic
A buckle can matter. So can a DNF, a breakdown, a comeback, a friendship, a scar, or realizing the race was never really the point.
Profound and ridiculous
Ultrarunning can be spiritual, brutal, hilarious, beautiful, stupid, and transcendent before breakfast. We make room for all of it.
Founder & Host
Eric Steele
Blame It On Ultrarunning was founded and is hosted by Wichita, Kansas ultrarunner, race director, writer, organizer, and endurance storyteller Eric Steele.
Steele has spent more than three decades inside ultrarunning. His experience spans 70-plus ultras and seven 100-mile finishes, including Leadville, along with Badwater 135; founding the Kansas Ultrarunners Society in the 1990s; helping build the grassroots Kansas ultra scene; directing races; writing about the sport; and later building Epic Ultras.
That history matters here not because this is a nostalgia show, but because Blame It On Ultrarunning comes from somebody who has lived the sport from multiple sides and still thinks the people are more interesting than the results sheet.
Coming Soon
The full podcast site is on the way.
Episodes, guests, show notes, transcripts, stories, listening links, and whatever else this thing mutates into will be added as Blame It On Ultrarunning launches.