Michael Clemons: The Unofficial Mayor of Louisville Running - R4R 357
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Michael Clemons, a.k.a. The Mayor of Louisville Running, has valuable advice for anyone who wants to get involved on the operations side of the running industry. He speaks from experience; he owns and operates his own race management company, the Louisville Running Company, and has worked operations for many US road races, including the 2022 World Athletics Championships, the New York City, Houston and Chicago Marathons, and the US Marathon Olympic Team Trials. He’s currently the Finish Line Manager for the Chicago Marathon, and has just been elected to the Board of Directors of Running USA.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Running for Real, a global community with a shared love and curiosity for running. |
| 0:14.1 | Together, we reconnect with the reasons why we love to run and discover ways it helps |
| 0:21.6 | us become better people, whether it's the quiet moments of a morning run while the |
| 0:26.1 | rest of the world still sleeps or befriending the strangers next to you at the |
| 0:29.8 | start line of a race. We are here to connect with others who see running as the common thread |
| 0:35.1 | that weaves our lives together. Come join me, Tina Muir, as I talk with people from all walks |
| 0:40.6 | of life, united by a love of running. |
| 0:47.4 | Hello my friends, welcome to episode 357 of the Running for Real podcast. Thank you for joining |
| 0:53.2 | me today. I'm excited that you are here, and this doesn't happen very often, but today I have |
| 0:59.4 | an episode that was just recorded a few days ago. So you get a bit more up today in the moment |
| 1:05.9 | conversation. Last week I did get to spend lots of time with my guest today, and today you get |
| 1:12.0 | to hear us catch up once again. This starts off very conversational, but also ends up going into |
| 1:17.6 | some deeper topics that I think are very important. If you've ever thought about or wondered whether |
| 1:24.3 | you could get involved with it, race somehow, if it's like a dream of yours to be more involved |
| 1:29.0 | with racing on the industry side, some great advice for you here, and just a wonderful human being |
| 1:36.2 | who I'm very excited to share his story. So I would like to welcome Michael Clemens to the show. |
| 1:42.9 | Michael is the founder of Louisville, I should say, Louisville, as you are going to hear us talk |
| 1:47.9 | about today, running company, which he founded in 2019. He has done a lot of race management |
| 1:55.4 | services. He is the finish line manager for many of the races that you're going to hear about, |
| 2:01.0 | and many, many of you probably have run in. You're going to get to hear more about his journey. He |
| 2:06.5 | was also elected to the running USA Board of Directors as was I a few days ago, and he also won an |
| 2:15.4 | award recently. So Michael is doing big things, and I'm really excited to bring him to the show. |
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