Mikey Mitch | Ultra-Running TikTok Star on his Balance with Training & Raving, Running 100 Miles, & Finding his Overall Purpose
Convos Over Cold Brew with Emma Abrahamson
Emma Abrahamson
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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In this episode Emma sits down with Mikey Mitch, the TikToker sponsored by On who loves to ultra-run and rave based in Boulder, CO. They talk about how he got into ultra-running, moving to Colorado, starting a TikTok, finding purpose with his platform, the similarities between raving and ultra-running and so much more. Follow Mikey on TikTok at @mikey.mitch and on Instagram at @mikey.mitch!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up fellas welcome back to commas over cold brew with me your host Emma Aver Hanson today |
| 0:05.9 | I'm so excited to have on my friend Mikey Mitch |
| 0:08.9 | I'm sure you guys have seen him on TikTok. He is the crazy man that runs up mountains and chugs beer at the top |
| 0:14.7 | And then goes and raves at night and then does it all again right the next morning |
| 0:18.8 | So honestly, I just needed to have him on the podcast to pick his brain about how he does that and just learn a little bit more about him |
| 0:25.1 | So I hope you guys enjoyed today's conversation |
| 0:30.0 | All right, Mikey Mitch on the podcast. I'm excited to have you on um to start off |
| 0:51.0 | Do you want to just like give us a little bit of a rundown of like who you are and what you're about? |
| 0:55.7 | Yeah, absolutely. Um, so my name is Michael Mark Mitchell actually from Minneton, come Minnesota. We got all the alliteration there, but um |
| 1:07.9 | Uh, so just starting off with like my running career and everything um I started running when I was in seventh grade um and I never looked back |
| 1:17.9 | So um I went to run for Lehigh University in Pennsylvania um where I went to originally start running like 800s |
| 1:26.7 | I was a mid-distance runner and I ended up running five haze in 10k's by the end of that |
| 1:31.4 | And I think a lot of that was due to COVID when I started running just a ton because of |
| 1:36.9 | Everyone was just cooped up all the time not able to do anything and then um I moved to Colorado |
| 1:42.7 | And I got hooked on running ultra's and a lot of that has come from my background my love of nature |
| 1:49.5 | With just backpacking and mountain climbing and doing just a lot of um stuff in the mountains |
| 1:55.1 | As well as I think that the ultra community and the way that ultra races are like the kind of person that it takes to do so |
| 2:04.3 | It's right at my alley because it's kind of kind of crazy running a hundred miles with one sitting |
| 2:10.1 | And you're just going through the night and day with like |
| 2:13.6 | Basically no reward the end just the only reward is |
| 2:17.6 | You finishing and you accomplishing it so um |
| 2:22.2 | I just really am passionate about the running community and especially the ultra community and the outdoors community and |
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