What is your image of an athlete? How does that image impact your involvement in sports or outdoor recreation? How does that image effect the way you think about or interact with others?
Mirna Valerio is a former educator and cross-country coach, ultramarathoner, cyclist and newish skier, DEI practitioner, and author of the memoir, A Beautiful Work in Progress. While training for her first marathon, Mirna created the blog Fatgirlrunning to describe her experiences as a larger woman in a world of thinner endurance athletes. Join us in September to hear Mirna’s story and to explore questions about who is an athlete, how we are impacted by stereotypes and media depictions of athletes, and steps we can each take to make recreation in Bristol safer and more positive for ourselves and others.
This is a FREE EVENT - please register below.
Mirna Valerio has been featured in the WSJ, Runner’s World, on NBC Nightly News, CNN, and in the viral REI-produced documentary short, The Mirnavator. Her writing has been featured in Women’s Running Magazine, Self Magazine Online, Outside Online, and Runner's World Magazine. In 2018 she was chosen as a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, and in early 2020 appeared on the Kelly Clarkson Show and Access Daily, and most recently was featured on the Today Show. Her partners include LLBean, Lululemon, and InsideTracker. A native of Brooklyn, NY, Mirna currently lives and trains in Vermont and is wholeheartedly enamored and obsessed with downhill skiing.
To learn more about Mirna, visit her website HERE
In collaboration with & special thanks to: BFit & The Bristol Recreation Club, Inc.