S6 EP24: Running Motivation W/ The Mirnavator
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
When you picture a runner’s body, what do you picture? If you tend to only think of a runner as looking one particular way, today’s guest will challenge that stereotype.
In today’s episode, Rachael and Kelsea interview Mirna Valerio, a runner, teacher, and author, who is helping to advocate for more inclusivity of all types in the running space. Listen to the episode to hear what this ultramarathon runner has to say.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- How Mirna has excelled at running
- How she got back into running
- How Mirna started training other women
- The feedback Mirna has gotten from other women about her blog
- Moving your body for the right reasons
- Knowing how to say no
- How women start considering themselves runners
- What the training for a 50k looks like
- Coming back from an injury
- Being at the forefront of a movement
- Mirna’s book
- Where to find Mirna
RELATED LINKS
- Mirna's Website
- Mirna's Book: A Beautiful Work In Progress
- Mirna's Instagram
- The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
- The CVG Nation app, for Android
- Our Fitness FB Group.
- Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
- Constantly Varied Gear's Workout Leggings
- Our Fitness Blog
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I wish more people thought that way because it is. |
| 0:04.9 | It is ingrained in our society that the only reason that people, and I actually |
| 0:10.6 | don't like to use the word exercise, the only reason why people move in intentional ways |
| 0:17.9 | is to work on to try to achieve this aesthetic ideal or that the aspirational |
| 0:24.6 | body type. And, you know, we all have different body types and things. And that is usually not |
| 0:29.6 | possible for most people. And not only is it not possible, but why? Why? Your body is your body. |
| 0:39.4 | The big question is this. |
| 0:43.4 | In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:52.0 | We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:59.1 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out |
| 1:04.7 | and eating well a part of your life. |
| 1:08.3 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. Welcome to the Thick Thighs |
| 1:14.0 | Save Lives podcast. Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:21.7 | And I'm Rachel. Guys. Guys. Stop everything. We have a guest today that, who, she's amazing. |
| 1:34.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:35.5 | She has shaken up an entire industry, and I freaking love a disruptive woman. |
| 1:39.1 | I love a woman that disrupts the industry. |
| 1:43.5 | That is what I live for. |
| 1:45.0 | And wow, like this episode, you guys. |
| 1:48.7 | So we have Merna Valerio. |
| 1:50.7 | And she, if you haven't heard of her already, |
| 1:53.9 | she is like literally an amazing, amazing self-made woman who just one day she started running. |
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