Social Sport

Aubrey Wall is a semi-professional triathlete and former synchronized swimmer who resides in Bozeman, Montana. After a severe eating disorder ended her synchronized swimming career, Aubrey entered into an Intensive Outpatient Recovery Program, where she spent close to a year healing her relationship with food and her body. But, after finishing her recovery program, she realized there was little to no community or support around how to maintain a healthy relationship with movement, food and her body outside of strict eating disorder treatment. This led Aubrey to start her own business, Training for Body Acceptance, where she is the lead Body Confidence Coach and provides group and one-on-one coaching packages to individuals wanting to unlearn diet culture, discover food freedom and build an empowered self-image. Outside of her work, she enjoys mountain biking and trail running with her fiancé JP and dog Hank, drinking coffee and pomelos, connecting with friends, traveling, and endurance racing.

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NOlympics LA seeks to stop the 2028 Olympics and the harm that it accelerates: displacement, militarization, and the erosion of democracy.This interview is with two NOlympics LA organizers, Albert Corado and Kendall Kaufman.

Albert Corado is an LA native who started organizing after his sister, Mely, was shot and killed by LAPD at the Trader Joe's in Silverlake, California. He found his way to NOlympics through his outreach to the unhoused.. Around the start of pandemic, he and some friends started another organization called People's City Council, which messages around rent cancellation and defunding of the police.

Kendall Kaufman graduated in June from UCLA with a Bachelor's in Civil Engineering and Urban & Regional Studies. She was involved with the UCLA triathlon team all four years of college and was the External Vice President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers chapter at UCLA, as well as the Safe Parking Initiative on campus. She now organizes with Ground Game LA and NOlympics LA and is on two committees with the North Westwood Neighborhood Council (Transportation & Safety and Community Health & Homelessness).

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The Womxn Run the Vote Relay, by Oiselle and Run 4 All Women, is a virtual relay from Atlanta, Georgia to Washington, DC. on September 21st-27th, 2020. Teams of 15-20 will virtually cover the 680-mile journey, learn about Civil Rights historic sites and people, and raise money for Black Voters Matter, an organization dedicated to increasing power in marginalized, predominantly Black communities. Registration includes an exclusive invitation to a virtual event featuring LaTosha Brown, Co-Founder of Black Voters Matter, on September 22nd (National Voter Registration Day).

Learn more about Women Run the Vote Relay and register: https://www.oiselle.com/pages/womxn-run-the-vote-relay

Donate to Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/donate/

Discussed in this episode:

--Run 4 All Women

--Oiselle

--Barbara Rose Johns Powell, high school civil rights activist

--Greensboro Sit-in

--1977 International Women's Year Torch Relay

--Angela Davis

--Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, by Bell Hooks

--Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown

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--Instagram: @keshia.ro

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--Instagram: @run4allwomen

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--Instagram: @blackvotersmtr

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Vanessa Foerster is a Mental Endurance Coach for triathletes and the founder of the Diversify Triathlon Movement. In both avenues, Vanessa strives to be an example of what's possible, on and off the racecourse.  She believes that in order to reach our true potential, we must train our brains like we train our bodies.  Her project to diversify triathlon stems from the desire to make start lines as colorful as the world around us.

In this episode, we talk mostly about the powerful Diversify Triathlon Movement, which launched in June. We also talk about Vanessa's mental endurance coaching, and how it relates to sport and life!

--Learn more about Diversify Triathlon Movement (DTM) and donate: https://www.diversifytriathlonmovement.com

Discussed in this episode:

--Vanessa's mental endurance coaching

--Components of mental endurance coaching (including but not limited to): race anxiety, giving up on yourself, keeping your goals small

--Kona (Ironman World Championships) 

--Fund Her Tri, Inc.

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--Instagram: @vanessafayefoerster

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A native of rural Iowa, Adam attended Grinnell College, double-majored in Economics and Mandarin Chinese, and participated in varsity track and cross-country. A graduate of the University of Utah’s Master of City and Metropolitan Planning Program, he specialized in ecological planning and interdisciplinary sustainability. He currently serves as the International Dark Sky Places Program Manager at the International Dark-Sky Association and lives deep in the Sonoran Desert in Tucson, AZ. When not at work, Adam is an avid runner, outdoorsman, disillusioned Minnesota professional sports fan, craft beer aficionado, and the lead singer/guitarist of a punk rock band, Bikini Shark. In 2020, he was one of the first three openly-queer athletes (along with Matt Llano and Megan Youngren) to compete in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials.

Discussed in this episode:

--Grinnell college in Iowa, and Salty's background as a DIII athlete: http://pioneers2.grinnell.edu/roster.aspx?rp_id=2603

--OTQ= Olympic Trials Qualifier

--Unique Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying stories: https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/g30446573/2020-olympic-marathon-trials-qualifiers/?slide=13

--The large number of  women who qualified for the Olympic Marathon trials: http://www.marathonguide.com/news/exclusives/2020USAOlympicTeamTrialsMarathon/

--Sports illustrated letter that Salty found in high school, written by Phil Taylor: https://vault.si.com/vault/1008482#&gid=ci0258c0baf002278a&pid=1008482---088---image

--Desert Solstice 24 Hour Track Invitational: https://www.aravaiparunning.com/desert-solstice/

More on Salty:

--Runner's World Article: https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a27103397/adam-dalton-olympic-marathon-trials-qualifier/

--Des Moines Register Interview: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/triathlon/2020/02/22/mile-posts-marathon-trials-q-a-former-grinnell-college-mason-city-newman-runner-adam-dalton/4848691002/

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--Instagram: @runindamc 

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Carolyn Su is a native Texan, the daughter of Taiwanese-immigrant parents. She formerly practiced as a Registered Dietitian, and she and her family currently live in the Boston-area, where she is on staff as the Women's Ministry Coordinator at her church. Carolyn advocates for racial representation and equity in running, through writing weekly story features of BIPOC runners on the IG account she created, @DiverseWeRun. Carolyn says, "I view my life as a platform for advocacy, whether it's for people groups, women, or those who have historically been marginalized. We all have a responsibility to use our voice for the voiceless, and to leave the world a better place than when we entered it."

Discussed in this episode:

--Cultural context in understanding disorder discussions

--The myth of colorblindness

--Code-switching

--Jumping into anti-racism work (sprint versus doing this work for the long-haul)

--@DiverseWeRun Panel: Inclusion and Safety as a BIPOC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VazGz2PakKo&feature=youtu.be&autoplay=1&mute=0

--Cancel culture (canceling someones personhood versus holding hope that people can change)

--Ali on the Run Show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ali-on-the-run-show/id1204523870

--Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (note: Carolyn’s sound cut out when she was talking about this book, so she gave a longer, even more glowing description than what was caught on the recording): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29430746-heavy

--Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52845775-minor-feelings

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--Instagram: @diversewerun @irunforglory 

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--Twitter: @emmamzimm

Renee Hutchens is from the Diné (Navajo) Tribe and is an advocate for Native lands, public health and environmental issues, land conservation, and social justice for Indigenous peoples. She advocates for these issues by combining her culture’s rich oral tradition of storytelling with photography, film, writing, social media, and mixed media artwork. At the heart of her storytelling is her relationship with the land because it is inseparable from the Diné way of life, their culture, and traditions. This is why mountain biking is more than a sport she’s passionate about, it is one of the ways she maintains this necessary connection. 

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Victoria Jackson is a sports historian and Clinical Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University. She writes and speaks about the intersection of sport and society, exploring how the games we play and watch tell us much about the communities in which we live. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Slate, Letras Libres (Mexico), Epoca (Brazil), and The Independent (UK), and she is a frequent podcast, radio, TV, and documentary film commentator. She was a cross country and track and field athlete for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and ASU, the NCAA national champion in the 10,000 meters, and a professional runner endorsed by Nike; and she is forever a runner.

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Rosalie Fish is a young woman from the Muckleshoot Reservation in Auburn, Washington. She is a member of the Cowlitz and Muckleshoot Tribes and a competitive runner who races for the countless missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW). In the spring of 2019, Rosalie qualified for 4 events in the Class 1B Washington State Track Meet, painted a red handprint over her mouth, and dedicated each race to a missing or murdered indigenous woman from her reservation. She would go on to win 3 events, and come in 2nd in the 4th. Rosalie has since taken her activism to the college level, as she balances school and collegiate running with traveling and speaking about MMIW and other injustices against native people. 

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