A weekend running retreat for the LGBTQ+ trail running community hosted by Out Trails & Aspire Running. Making Outdoor Spaces More Queer & Inclusive Want to adventure in and around the North Cascades this autumn? Are you looking to celebrate the outdoors with an uplifting community of LGBTQ+ athletes? If so, you came to the… Read more »
Trail running is a predominantly white, male-dominated sport, yet an increasing number of voices in our community have been making concerted efforts to diversify and unite our sport. A few examples from the past year include, Addie Bracy hosting an LGBTQ running retreat at Mount Saint Helens, collegiate athlete Nicholas Turco founding the Colorado Athletics… Read more »
An Open Letter To The Trail And Ultra Running Community on Non Binary Inclusion November 14, 2022 Trail running is a sport home to nature enthusiasts and dirt lovers, adventure seekers and rock scramblers. The “trail community” is in constant high praise, often described as strangers who quickly become best friends, competitors who will always… Read more »
“Whenever I do die, I want to know that I didn’t kick the can down the road and didn’t wait for the right time. I made the time every year.” -Mikah Meyer. Mikah Meyer is the change he wants to see in the world. Meyer, American travel journalist and gay rights advocate, has become the… Read more »
A weekend retreat for the LGBTQ+ trail running community Hosted by Out Trails & Aspire Running. Making Outdoor Spaces More Queer & Inclusive – To run is to experience and express freedom, curiosity, and joy in the outdoors. On trails, we liberate our hearts, our minds and become part of a tribe of humans who… Read more »
Nicholas Turco, twenty-three year old trail runner and recent Summa Cum Laude graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder, is following up his senior research project on the sports climate for LGBTQ+ student-athletes in the NCAA with a scholarship program that will increase LGBTQ+ inclusion in college sports. The scholarship, known as The Colorado Athletics… Read more »
The Barr Trail Mountain Race (BTMR) is launching an initiative with several elite Colorado trail runners to promote LGBTQ+ inclusion and empowerment in our sport. As part of the initiative, BTMR will highlight LGBTQ+ inclusion on social media and will have several giveaways to support the establishment of a local chapter of OUTRun in the… Read more »
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