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The Running for Real Podcast

Mikah Meyer: A Walk in the Park. ALL the Parks. - R4R 394

The Running for Real Podcast

Tina Muir

Sports, Running, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Mikah Meyer is the first person to experience all 419 U.S. National Park Service sites in a single journey. He also made a different kind of history along the way, becoming the first openly gay man featured in an outdoors recreation campaign, for REI. Now he advocates for greater inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community in the outdoor space. His documentary short film, "Echoes in the Canyon," will have its world premiere later this month.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Running For Real, a global community with a shared love and curiosity for running.

0:15.0

Together we reconnect with the reasons why we love to run

0:20.0

and discover ways it helps us become better people.

0:23.0

Whether it's the quiet moments of a morning run while the rest of the world still sleeps,

0:28.0

or befriending the strangers next to you at the start line of a race,

0:31.0

we are here to connect with others who see running as the common

0:34.8

thread that leaves our lives together. Come join me, Tina Muir, as I talk with people

0:39.8

from all walks of life, united by a love of running.

0:44.7

Hello my friends and welcome to episode 394 of the Running for All podcast.

0:52.3

Thank you for joining me today. I'm excited that you are here and whether this is your first time of being here,

0:57.0

whether you've been here for 394 various times. I'm excited to welcome you back. I appreciate your support and those of you who have

1:05.7

gone to leave a review of becoming a sustainable runner on Amazon or on Goodreads I just

1:10.1

want to give an extra shout out to you. I'm sure that as many of you listening

1:13.6

because you are my most loyal and appreciated people out there who really do make me

1:18.7

feel special and appreciated and I just want to thank you for that. Now today I would like to introduce you to one of my friends who was the first person to visit all 400 plus National Park sites.

1:32.0

You're going to get to hear a lot about that journey, that

1:34.3

experience today. He was also the first openly gay man featured in an outdoor

1:39.0

recreation campaign and he has done a lot in the space to make sure that others feel included feel

1:47.4

like they are welcomed into the space including creating outdoor safe space

1:51.1

which you're going to hear a bit about today. He's a keynote

1:54.0

speaker as I learned in this episode he's also an accomplished singer. So there's so

1:58.6

much to learn from my friend Mike Amaya and I am really excited to introduce you to him. We are going to talk about all kinds of fun things today and go deeper than he has in other episodes when he's talked about these topics.

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