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The Mirnavator
Trail Runner
|September/October 2018
MIRNA VALERIO CONFRONTS STEREOTYPES WITH EVERY STEP
Mirna Valerio (aka “The Mirnavator”) has been writing her “Fat Girl Running” blog, about being an “active larger girl in a thinner world,” since 2011, but it wasn’t until recently that the popularity of her blog, and her voice, has skyrocketed. Valerio has been interviewed for Runner’s World, People, The Huffington Post, NBC Nightly News and National Geographic (just to name a few), and now writes for Women’s Health magazine. An ultrarunner, high-school Spanish teacher and cross country coach, Valerio recently authored a book, A Beautiful Work in Progress.
This story is from the September/October 2018 edition of Trail Runner.
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