Mike Heard and I met when I joined the Board of Directors for Beyond Monumental, the organization behind the CNO Indianapolis Monumental Marathon.
During this episode, sponsored by Foot Levelers and Previnex, we talk about:
- How Mike ended up on the Board of Directors for Beyond Monumental and is now set to be the next President of the Board come January
- Spending time in the midwest (Michigan, Ohio and Indiana) and on the East Coast
- What it means to have an Air Force scholarship
- Working at the Pentagon in Washington D.C.
- Sporting growing up
- How he did some road races in college but didn’t run his first full marathon until he was 43
- Meeting his wife, Cheryl, on a blind date while at Purdue
- Qualifying for and running the Boston Marathon (and getting passed by a hamburger)
- Doing all of the World Major Marathons: Boston, New York, Berlin, Chicago, Tokyo, London
- Running with the Michael J. Fox Foundation at New York since his wife, Cheryl, has Parkinson’s
- Running the Monumental Marathon after running the Chicago Marathon in the same year - and only with a 30 second time difference
- Using Marathon Tours for the logistics of some of his races
- How he was supposed to get his sixth star at Tokyo in 2020… when it was canceled, and then canceled again in 2021 and 2022
- The story behind his Purdue running singlet
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