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Bad Boy Running

Ep 131 - Challenging running stereotypes with Mirna Valerio

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

Runner, Sports, Leisure, Fitness, Ultramarathon, Marathon, Health & Fitness, Running Injuries, Running, Hobbies, Ultrarunning

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2018

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail Wow, we've got an inspiring episode today on BBR. Allie joins David to speak with National Geographic Adventurer of the Year and ultrarunner Mirna Valerio, who is helping redefine what being an athlete means. Despite enduring body shaming and racism, her message spread through her blog Fat Girl Running and she has inspired others with her running achievements in some of the toughest events in the US running and ultrarunning calendar. In this episode, you'll discover: How Davi...

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0:00.0

Fuck you, buddy.

0:03.2

They're bad, they're boys, and occasionally they talk about running.

0:08.8

Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running podcast with your host, Jody Rainsford and David Heller.

0:15.2

Come back.

0:18.3

Baby, come back.

0:19.8

But a bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye bye I must admit I was a clown to be messing around

0:26.6

but that doesn't mean that you have to leave town

0:30.5

Come back bye bye bye bye bye bye bye hello

0:36.4

David Hellard are you well odd Did you like that? I did like that. Have you been thinking that up for some time? I've been writing it for a while. I've got four co-writers, and I'm paying a lot of money to publishers just for that song. I've got to try and come up. Ali Bailey, from where do you, Haley? That's nice. It's like old English, isn't it? Yeah, that's what I'm going for. We've already done introductions. Classically trained, obviously, classically. Beautiful. Well, we, this is another weird one. It seems we say that a lot on the podcast, don't we? Yeah, they're always weird, but this is even weirder because I'm here today.

1:12.5

But not even that, but we, we were, so we're going to be speaking to Merna later, who is

1:18.8

just one of the most charismatic, flamboyant, just amazing guests. And at the time, I think

1:26.3

the plan was, we'd record it. And then Jody

1:29.1

and I would do an intro outro. And then it's just not happened. So we're now several weeks on.

1:37.4

It's fun because we're going back. We're going back in time. It's like,

1:41.1

d lilloo, dilloo, back in time. Back in time. Yeah. And it makes even less sense that we don't

1:47.0

remember necessarily everything. I did listen to it a couple of days ago, just to bring myself up to

1:52.2

speed again. But how could you forget? How could you forget? It was the best ever.

1:57.4

Well, I remember the overarching themes, but it's the little details that maybe if perhaps you'd buy a little bit.

2:05.2

But anyway, welcome to the podcast.

2:06.6

I'm to Bad Boy Running.

2:08.1

This is, if you haven't listened before, I think we're probably going to get quite a few new American listeners, potentially, because Merner's got such a huge following.

2:16.4

But we are roughly a running podcast often at times,

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