In early March, Mirna Valerio completed the Moab Run the Rockies Stage Race, Half Pint edition--three days of running totaling 33.1 miles and 2,670 feet of vertical gain. It wasn't her biggest ...

Mirna Valerio is an ultramarathoner who runs the "Fat Girl Running" blog. She wants people to know that anyone can be a runner. Valerio gave four tips for people wanting to get into running, no matter ...

Mirna “The Mirnavator” Valerio is a speaker, author, ultra-runner, and influencer who encourages everyone to follow their outdoors and athletic passions, especially if it means breaking barriers.

Few know running like Mirna “the Mirnavator” Valerio. The Brooklyn native began running in 1989, and, over the past several decades, has covered every distance imaginable, from a 1-mile fun run to a ...

Mirna “The Mirnavator” Valerio is a speaker, author, ultra-runner, and influencer who encourages everyone to follow their outdoors and athletic passions, especially if it means breaking barriers.

A runner’s high is something that’s touted for having almost magical, life-altering (or at least day-altering) powers. For many, running a 5km loop feels like an impossibility, but for a subset of ...

Mirna Valerio is a native of Brooklyn, NY, a former educator and cross-country-cycling coach, an ultramarathoner, a cyclist and skier, a DEI facilitator, and the author of the bestselling memoir "A ...

Before 2012’s Steamtown Marathon, held in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mirna Valerio, author of body-positive memoir A Beautiful Work in Progress, had purchased what she initially thought were the ideal ...

I arrived at boarding school on an unbearably humid day in September of 1989, my curiosity about everything I would experience during my years there an untamed fireball. The school required ...

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