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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