When Mirna first started running, she wasn’t very good at it. The body she has isn’t most people’s image of a “runner’s body”.“It's a fat body. It's definitely a fat body,” Mirna said. “And I have no trouble using that word. And I know that it

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Becoming a Marathoner: Live from New York

Nov 15th, 2019 38m 42s

Over 52,000 people ran the 2019 New York City Marathon. Some were fast, some were less fast, but they all ran the same course, and the same distance, and according to our panel of experts, they were mostly all still nervous, and hoping that the

Tom and Brian Williams: Chasing Ghosts at the Comrades Marathon

Sep 24th, 2019 34m 33s

Before Brian Williams and his son Tom set off to run the Comrades Marathon – an 86.8 kilometer race in South Africa, Brian’s mind was already at the finish. He said, “If we succeed, it'll just be to be the fulfillment of a dream. It'll put to r

Dr. Rachel McKinnon: Fighting For The Right to Ride

Sep 10th, 2019 33m

Most athletes don’t have to fight for the right to compete in the sport they love. The vast majority of us can just sign up and race. For Rachel McKinnon, it’s not that simple. She’s a transgender athlete, one of the first to win a world champi

Laurens ten Dam: Live Slow, Ride Fast

Aug 27th, 2019 22m 49s

“I only won two races in my career and I had a 16-year career, so that would be a shit career if it was about winning for me.” Many cycling fans might be surprised to hear that from Larens ten Dam. In his long career, he finished 9th the Tour d

Susie Chan: Overcoming Injury and Rediscovering Ultra

Aug 13th, 2019 20m 30s

Susie Chan didn’t start running until she was almost 40 years old, but she didn’t waste any time. She went all in, racing ultras like the Marathon Des Sables – a multi-day epic through the Sahara Desert. Surviving cancer only motivated her to p

Rickey Gates: Every Single Street

Jul 30th, 2019 26m 43s

After finishing a 3,000 mile run across the US, Rickey Gates had a strange feeling that he’d missed something. His route showed him a super thin slice of the country and left him with more questions than answers. He had ended in San Francisco,

How did I get here?

Mar 5th, 2019 32m 51s

On this episode of Athletes Unfiltered, we’ll speak to three athletes who asked themselves, “How did I get here?” We’ll introduce you to Mimi Anderson, who was a normal British housewife – until she ran across the Sahara Desert. We’ll speak to

Going Farther Together

Feb 19th, 2019 32m 32s

In this episode, we show how sport can help us overcome self-doubt, help us make new friends and face up to problems we could never overcome alone. We’ll introduce you to Ernest Gagnon, who struggled with his weight, until the cycling community

Getting Better With Age

Feb 5th, 2019 29m 28s

In this episode, we speak with three athletes who are getting better with age. Gene has run 200-milers and has a marathon PR of 2:54:23 - the fastest ever run by a man in his 70’s. Patricia Berthelier learned to ride a bike at 38 and now, in he

Rising From the Ashes

Jan 22nd, 2019 32m 31s

Three stories of people who were faced with overwhelming adversity and how they persevered. We’ll introduce you to a mountain biker who’s rebuilding trails after the California wildfires, an army veteran who battled cancer and a broken femur to

When Everything Turns Upside Down

Jan 8th, 2019 36m 11s

Imagine being a world-class trail runner one moment, and then the next thing you remember is waking up in a hospital bed, surrounded by unfamiliar faces telling you that you may never run again. That’s Hillary Allen’s story, which kicks off our

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Just a Little Warmup

Dec 19th, 2018 1m 29s

In the first season of the new podcast from Strava, Athletes Unfiltered, we’re exploring athlete motivations. We’ll introduce you to a rock drummer who tours the world, but passes up the party so he can get up to ride his bike. We talk with a m

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