The Benefits (and Drawbacks) of Adult Beginner-ness, With Mirna Valerio

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Everyone knows it’s important to try new things, but combating that internal voice, which begs us to stay within our comfort zone ain’t easy—even for a professional tryer of new things like Mirna Valerio. Known on the internet as The Mirnavator, Mirna knows what she’s talking about. She took up running in her late 30s, then road marathons, then trail marathons, then ultramarathons. Then she took up cycling. Then mountain biking. And, as she rounds in on 50, Mirna is committed to be coming an expert skier. And every step of the way, Mirna has faced the internal voice, and the external voices of internet trolls who find fault in how she does it and who she is. How Mirna learned to deal with these voices is a lot more interesting than simply silencing them, and it’s a good bit of inspiration for anyone looking to expand their experiences outside.

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1:06.5	I was going to ski on the bunny slope, but it's closed.
1:09.9	Oh, here's what you do. Hop on this lift. Oh, God. You're going to take it to the top. Same ski on the bunny slope, but it's closed. Oh, here's what you do.
1:11.1	Hop on this lift. Oh, God. You're going to take it to the top. Same thing as the bunny slope.
1:15.3	Feel like I know, I know where this story is going. And I'm so scared.
1:20.3	So I'm getting my big wedge and I make my big right turn. I'm seeing all these five-year-olds, maybe four-year-olds, maybe three-year-olds, just skipping by.
1:27.7	Oh, okay, fine.
1:28.7	I'm fine.
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1:32.0	I was not okay.
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