290. Christine Yu, Sports Journalist

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Run, Health & Fitness, Women, Inspiration, Runner, Entrepreneur, Sports, Fitness, Health, Running

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

“I’m Chinese American. My parents emigrated here from Hong Kong for college. And stereotypical as it may be, it was like, you could be a doctor, you could be a lawyer, maybe you could go into business. That was my conception of what the possibilities were for your career, for most of my life growing up. Writing never entered into my mind.”

Christine Yu is an award-winning freelance journalist who covers sports, science, and women's health. She's a leading voice in the industry, and is a regular contributor for Runner's World, Women's Running, Outside Magazine, The Washington Post, Well+Good, Women's Health, and more. And soon, she'll officially be a published book author! Christine signed a book deal earlier this year, and is now hard at work on her book about the science behind women in sports, which will be out next year. On this episode, Christine talks about her writing process and about why she's passionate about diving into "taboo topics" instead of avoiding them. Christine lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.

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What you’ll get on this episode:

All about Christine’s new book! (5:00)
How Christine got her start as a journalist (21:30)
Christine shares her running story (48:25)

Stuff we mention on this episode:

“The Biggest Wave Surfed This Year” via The New York Times

“Women Deserve to Run Without Fear,” by Christine Yu for Runner’s World

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0:00.0	This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Aftershocks.
0:04.0	Go to ontherun.aftershocks.com to save 15% on all wireless headphones.
0:09.7	Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show.
0:15.9	I'm your host Allie Feller and every week I talk with inspiring people who lead interesting
0:21.0	lives on the run and beyond.
0:23.4	And while running is the thing that brings us all together, on these episodes, we cover
0:27.4	more than what happens on the run.
0:29.2	We learn the wise behind the runs.
0:32.2	The decisions people have made to get where they are today and how getting sweaty has
0:36.4	factored in.
0:38.0	My guest today is Christine Yu.
0:40.1	I am so lucky to get to call Christina Friend and I am especially lucky to have her as
0:45.7	someone that I so, so, so look up to in the industry.
0:50.2	Christine is an award-winning freelance journalist who covers women's health, fitness and sports
0:55.9	for pretty much every publication on the planet, including Runners World, Women's Running
1:00.2	Outside Magazine, The Washington Post, Welling Good, Women's Health and all the others.
1:04.8	You've surely seen her byline and read her work.
1:08.4	And she has a book coming out, Claps for Christine!
1:12.3	Christine is currently working on a book on the science behind women in sports and as soon
1:17.0	as she shared that very exciting news, I knew I wanted to get her on the show to hear
1:21.6	all about it.
1:23.2	So this was a really fun conversation all about Christine's work, about her writing process
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