Episode 26 | Mauricio Díaz

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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"And then at that same point, I was running and I found out that running was just the best vehicle and the best way and medium to know a place—and eventually, also [to] get to know yourself."Really enjoyed sitting down with Mauricio Díaz this week for a conversation that had nothing to do with training, racing, or current issues that exist within the sport. Instead, we talked about running as it relates to adventure and exploration while serving as a cultural common denominator around the world.Díaz is the VP of marketing for Aire Libre, a company out of Mexico City he accidentally co-founded with a couple of his friends that creates immersive weeklong running experiences that are partly athletic, but mostly cultural, extremely educational, and undoubtedly transformative.In this episode, we talked about the importance of culture and storytelling, and how those two elements are at the center of everything Aire Libre does, from the content they create to the experiences they cultivate. Díaz describes the group's initial adventure—56 miles through the Sonoran Desert in northwestern Mexico—along with some of the other culturally focused and socially conscious follow-ups he's led, such as running along the Arizona-Mexico border to explore the land of the Tohono O’odham nation, and many other stories that I think will pique your interest and may even get you to view running through a slightly different lens.Music and editing for this episode of the morning shakeout podcast by John Isaac at BaresRecords.comComplete show notes here: https://www.themorningshakeout.com/podcast-episode-26-with-mauricio-diaz/Sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday morning: www.themorningshakeout.com/subscribe/Support the morning shakeout on Patreon: www.patreon.com/themorningshakeout

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0:00.0	And then I found out that
0:04.0	I was running and then I found out that running was just the best vehicle and the best way in medium to
0:10.0	know a place and eventually also get to know yourself. What's up everybody? Welcome to episode 26 of the Morning Shake Out
0:25.7	Podcast as always. I'm your host Mario Freoli and this week I am chatting with
0:31.4	Marizio Diaz and he is not someone that I expect you'll know or a name that I think you'll recognize
0:38.0	but Maritzio is doing some pretty cool stuff in the running space and I'm excited to share more of that with all of you.
0:44.7	Maritio along with a few of his friends accidentally co-founded a company that they call
0:49.3	Aire-Libre out of Mexico City and what Areleibre is is a project that aims to connect people with
0:57.2	indigenous populations and their land through the vehicle of running. Really it's a
1:01.8	socially conscious running experience that is
1:04.3	part athletic, mostly cultural, extremely educational, and undoubtedly
1:09.5	transformative. Maritzio was recently in San Francisco, he dialed me up. We got together for a run,
1:14.8	sat down afterward and he told me all kinds of wild stories that I think you will get a kick out of.
1:20.8	So without further ado, please enjoy my conversation with Maritzio Diaz. We are rolling after launching a great trail run here in Marin County.
1:44.6	Moritzia Diaz, welcome to the morning shakeout podcast.
1:47.4	Thank you, Mario.
1:48.8	This was, well this is a very good experience.
1:52.8	It's from just a sandwich I had to the trails we just ran.
1:58.0	And it's been very real and that's what we always strive strive and look for now a lot of my
2:04.7	listeners aren't going to recognize your name so why don't you tell them a little bit
2:10.0	about who you are and what you do? Sure.
2:13.0	And so, again, I'm Marliso Diaz,
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