Dispatches: This Is What a Runner Looks Like
b'When Mirna Valerio first began running ultramarathons, she immediately got a lot of attention, but not for the reasons you might expect. Because of her body size, she didn\\u2019t fit the accepted image of a long-distance runner. Her story isn\\u2019t about an average athlete trying to get better. It\\u2019s about what happens when people assume that someone can\\u2019t possibly be an athlete because of the way she looks\\u2014and then how they how they react when she takes on enormous challenges and finds a way to keep going and going. This episode kicks off the second season of the Athletes Unfiltered podcast from Strava.'