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Season 3, Episode 17: Runners Should Protect Public Lands. Here’s How.

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August 21st, 2024

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1:20 Buzz and Zoë break down the post-Olympics hype, and discuss whether or not trail running should be an Olympic sport, and what it would mean to see trail elevated to the world stage. 

14:32 Zoë interviews Vic Thasiah, founder and President of Runners For Public Lands. They discuss why Vic founded RPL and what all runners can do to better protect public lands and be better environmental stewards. 

44:01 Buzz interviews Reid Delman, Race Director of the Desert Rats Trail Running Festival by UTMB about how his event has changed, and how it has stayed the same since being acquired by UTMB.

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One thought on "Season 3, Episode 17: Runners Should Protect Public Lands. Here’s How."

  1. Raymond F says:

    Yes! Vic and the R4PL crew are absolutely wonderful. Grateful to have gone on runs with them and to be able to cheer them on from afar when I am unavailable.

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