Mary Cain LIVE: How the Running Community Can Support Each Other - R4R 257

The Running for Real Podcast

Tina Muir

Sports, Running, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation with Mary, we go beyond touching on her Nike Oregon Project experience and her New York Time Article, I was the Fastest Girl in America Until I joined Nike. We get to learn from Mary about how she found a new relationship with running and how we can all be a little gentler on ourselves. We hear about her new non-profit, Atlalanta NYC that she’s launching, while working with Tracksmith and the New York Road Runners. We hear Mary’s wise wisdom on life, the future of running, and being yourself.

In this episode we cover…

Atlalanta NYC, Mary’s latest creation– the first professional team in New York City. It’s the first of it’s kind doing community service work within the broader New York City area, serving as mentors to younger female girls and bringing on a team of professional women to help make the sport a better place for everybody.

Outcome-based models of success versus growth-based models of success. Thinking about our lives and running with a growth mindset instead of being attached to an outcome allows us to blossom as individuals.

On the importance of being okay with change. “It's okay for things to change with time. We're all learning, we're all growing in, our society is changing with time. Change is a really beautiful and positive thing and growth should never be treated as a dangerous thing.”

Her analogy of pretending to run with an egg in your hand will help you feel more relaxed and help you be a better runner. The more you hold on tight and clench your fist, the more likely you’re going to break and burn out early. She shares the key is to relax and hold it gently for the majority of your race, then on the last 400 meters you can drop the egg and finish strong.

Mary’s interview was so special in that it was such an intimate atmosphere for a live podcast and she really embodies what Running for Real stands for, being real and being yourself.

Resources:

Mary Cain IG

Atlalanta NYC

Rich Roll and Mary Cain

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Running for Real podcast, where each week we bring you a conversation designed
0:10.6	to help you create positive change in your life, community and planet.
0:15.9	It's a collective of conversations about running the climate emergency and social justice.
0:25.8	One for real is for the brave, for those with courage and vulnerability, united by our
0:30.8	love of running, we're driving momentum towards some of the really tough challenges we're
0:35.7	facing as humanity.
0:38.4	So come join me, Tina Muir and let's get started.
0:47.6	Hello my friends, welcome to episode 257 of the Running for Real podcast.
0:53.8	Thank you for joining me today, I'm excited you are here.
0:57.5	This is a really, really special one and I'm glad you get to be a part of it.
1:02.4	I'm glad to be honest, I managed to figure out the technical end of recording a podcast
1:09.4	without anyone, any technical podcast audio people around.
1:16.6	It was a little bit stressful, have to admit, but also we managed it, Maria and I.
1:23.0	I was fortunate that Maria was able to come with me on this trip that you're going to
1:27.3	probably be hearing quite a lot about already have been over the last few weeks.
1:32.2	And today I'm excited to bring the first of two episodes recorded live in New York.
1:38.2	This one was recorded in Beacon, New York with the one and only Mary Kane.
1:43.5	And you know by now, well most of you would say no about Mary Kane, I mean her name was
1:49.0	definitely known across not just the running world across the fitness world,
1:53.4	but across the entire world with her op-ed in the New York Times.
1:57.0	Speaking out about the emotional abuse that she suffered at the Nike Oregon project,
2:03.1	it was that New York Times op-ed that was called, I think it was I was the fastest girl in America
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