Dakota Jones | Live Your Values
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Dakota Jones is an ultrarunner living in Bozeman, MT. Dakota is one of the best athletes of the last decade in the sport, with an amazing list of athletic accomplishments from some of the sport's most important races. At 31 years old, Dakota is now studying mechanical engineering at Montana State University with the goal of applying that education towards a career in environmentalism. In addition, Dakota runs the Footprints Running Camp, which endeavors to develop leaders in environmental and social justice. We talk all about Dakota's career, his education, his values driven approach to sport, his upcoming race at Hardrock and Freetrail's new sponsorship of the Footprints Running Camp. Footprints is releasing a film about the 2021 camp on Sunday 12/19 on YouTube.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, season's greetings. Welcome back to the free trail podcast. Of course, I am Dylan Bowman and I am always so happy |
| 0:22.9 | to have you here. Hope everybody is getting excited for the holiday season. This is going to be a longer |
| 0:30.7 | intro, but bear with me. We have a couple awesome announcements to share. So stick tight for a second. |
| 0:36.9 | Today, our guest is one of my personal |
| 0:39.0 | favorite athletes ever on the circuit. And somebody I have known since he was just a teenager, |
| 0:44.8 | the great Dakota Jones finally joins us for a long and really enjoyable conversation. |
| 0:52.2 | Dakota should need no introduction to most of you. He has been one of |
| 0:55.5 | the best athletes in the sport for the past dozen years and now still only 31 years old. Dakota |
| 1:03.6 | has a ton of great perspective about the sport, about his position in it, and generally how to use trail running to have a broader |
| 1:14.2 | impact on the world. I have wanted to have Dakota on the show ever since I first started this |
| 1:20.3 | podcast a couple of years ago. But the reason we chose to do it now is because Dakota is releasing |
| 1:26.8 | a short film this coming weekend on Sunday |
| 1:30.6 | about the Footprints Trail Running Camp, which he founded and which will celebrate its second |
| 1:37.7 | edition coming up next July in 2022 in Silverton, Colorado. For those unfamiliar, the footprints trail running camp endeavors to develop the next generation |
| 1:49.8 | of leaders in environmentalism and social justice. |
| 1:53.9 | It is a week-long trail running camp, yes, but it's also an educational workshop, |
| 2:00.5 | complete with talented mentors and guest speakers |
| 2:04.3 | to help these awesome ambitious campers brainstorm environmental projects that they will then |
| 2:13.5 | take home and implement in their local communities and that will hopefully have a unique, |
| 2:19.3 | positive impact where they live. The film is premiering this coming Sunday at 12 noon |
| 2:25.3 | Mountain Time on the Footprints YouTube channel. You will find a link to that YouTube channel |
| 2:30.3 | in the show notes. It's brand new. So go over there and smash the subscribe button so that you |
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