Mikah, a singer, speaker, travel journalist and LGBTQ rights advocate, is completing a 210-mile, 38-day “Run Across Minnesota” to promote diversity and inclusion in the outdoors through his “Outdoor Safe Space” project. His route is following the highways and back roads of southwestern Minnesota, the historic Luce Line Trail and includes a stretch of the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon course before reaching its conclusion at the Wisconsin border in Stillwater on October 11 at 5pm. ~ Twin Cities in Motion, The Connection Runners Enewsletter

Tune in virtually via live stream or join this World Record setting, full-time adventurer (and Minneapolis-resident) Mikah Meyer as he completes this challenge on the Stillwater Historic Lift Bridge.

If you’d like to run the Final 1 Mile of the 200+ mile #RunAcrossMN, meet out front of Len’s Family Foods. Be prepared at 5pm to run with Mikah Forest-Gump-Style to the finish line! FREE parking available at First United Methodist Church Stillwater (lower or upper lots): 813 Myrtle St W, Stillwater, MN 55082

The #RunAcrossMN is launching the “Outside Safe Space” program that helps LGBTQ+ people feel welcome in rural/outdoor areas traditionally less-friendly than urban spaces.