Ep. 108 ~ Mental Health and the Outdoors
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 146 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode tackles the important topic of mental health and the outdoors told by this years Adventure Media Course. Long time listeners will be very familiar with Adventure Media by now, but for the uninitiated it is a course at Texas Tech University. Each year as part of their class project the professors scheme up a bikepacking trip and a media objective for the students to complete. This year the students did the Billy the Kid and Smokey Bear Route and their assignment was to vlog about their personal experience, with a focus on mental health and the outdoors.
Read the full article and check out a gallery of images from the trip at www.BikesorDeath.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | getting in this class and being able to talk to people about like my mental health and being |
| 0:04.6 | able to just get out of my mind like my mind space and just forget about the world and forget |
| 0:12.0 | about all the craziness has just helped me so much. Howdy friends and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | And on this week's episode, we are going to be talking about mental health and the outdoors. |
| 0:28.6 | It's a topic that is very personal to me. It's important to me. |
| 0:32.6 | And it was the focus of this year's adventure media class that I just got back from. |
| 0:39.4 | Many of you all will be familiar with the adventure media course taught by Jared Foster and Justin Keen over at Texas Tech University. |
| 0:48.2 | This was my third year to go on a trip with the students. |
| 0:52.8 | And then it's the fourth episode we've done, |
| 0:55.5 | because we did an episode during the pandemic in 2020. And obviously there was no trip for me |
| 1:03.3 | to go on. But you are probably very familiar with Adventure Media. This year, the course is tasked with the assignment of being present with their own mental health as they take on this challenge. |
| 1:18.6 | And the challenge this year was riding 100 miles in the Lincoln National Forest right outside of Ruidoso, New Mexico. |
| 1:28.3 | So in this episode, we're going to be talking about the trip, |
| 1:31.3 | and we are going to be talking a lot about mental health and how it pertains to the outdoors and how the outdoors and cycling can be a tool in our lives to help manage our mental health. |
| 1:48.1 | This episode is a little bit different than ones that we typically do, but different is good. |
| 1:56.1 | Embrace new things, people. And I hope that, I hope you enjoy this episode and I hope that you get value out of |
| 2:02.3 | this episode but before we get to it let's take a moment to thank everybody who made this episode |
| 2:09.1 | possible as you know gas prices are insane inflation is insane in the membrane and bikes for |
| 2:16.9 | death is definitely feeling the pinch. |
| 2:18.6 | I know probably a lot of you all feel the pinch as well. |
| 2:21.6 | So we appreciate very much everybody who can help make these episodes possible. |
| 2:26.9 | Starting with our latest batch of patrons that have signed up since the last episode, |
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