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EPISODE BEGINS聽
国产吃瓜黑料 Podcast Theme: From 国产吃瓜黑料 Magazine and PRX, these are Dispatches, stories from our writers in the field.
Peter Frick-Wright (host): Most of the time when you're hearing about an athlete, there's an assumption that you're hearing about them because they've just done something for the first time or the fastest time, or they've come back from an injury no one thought they could come back from. And that's great. But those aren't the only kind of athletes stories. For the last couple of months, the team here at 国产吃瓜黑料 has been working with Strava, the fitness app that tracks your workouts, to identify and tell stories about Strava members for season two of their podcast Athletes Unfiltered.
The show is hosted by Jean Mac, a runner who is about as fast as amateur runners get, but it's a show that's not necessarily about the fastest athletes out there, but people who are confronting that deep down stuff. It's not about winning races or setting records, but why they do what they do, the stuff that everyone grapples with when they know they need to get off the couch and out the door. So today we're bringing you the first story from this season about ultra runner Mirna Valario. Now, if you already know about Myrna, you might be able to guess what this is going, but if you don't, Mirna鈥檚 story is about how running, which is usually so simple can get pretty complicated when you don't look like most runners, especially when you come on the scene and say to everyone, 鈥淚 want to run a marathon and then I want to keep going.鈥 Here's Jean.
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Frick-Wright: That鈥's Jean Mac talking with Mirna Valerio. This is the first episode of season two of Athletes Unfiltered. Find the rest of season two wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was written and produced by Jean Mac and Alex Capitan. Editing by me, Peter Frick-Wright, and Kyle McCall. It was brought to you by Strava, the best app for runners and cyclists with millions of users worldwide.
The 国产吃瓜黑料 Podcast is a production of 国产吃瓜黑料 Integrated Media and PRX. We'll be back next week.