S6E80 - Beyond Pace: Shot of Resilience with Marilyn Cortes

Welcome to season 6 of the Runner’s Round Table. This is the Beyond Pace season and features stories that capture each guest’s favorite running memory. In this episode Stephanie speaks with Marilyn Cortes (@Happygirlinthebackofthepack) about the power of the trail running community, embracing being an athlete and a runner, belonging as a runner regardless of pace, and the running memory that was about celebrating enduring life on and off the run. Please support this podcast with a rating, review, or a share. Until next time, don’t forget to run happy, run strong, and run true to you. To watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/42zUI-x8jIU About Stephanie Diaz: Stephanie is an RRCA (Road Runner’s Club of America) and McMillan Running certified running coach with over 10 years of running experience. Additionally, Stephanie is a yoga teacher with advanced certifications in yoga for athletes, Yoga For All, and Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra. Stephanie believes that to be a runner is to believe in your possibility as a human through movement. Her favorite running distance is the half marathon (13.1 miles/21 kilometers). https://instagram.com/thecookierunner/ https://thecookierunner.net About Marilyn Cortes: Marilyn Cortes is a slow (but happy!) back of the pack trail and ultra runner. She lives in Asheville, NC where she and her husband are raising two awesome kids and a very active rescue hound. She is a geriatric physical therapist and loves to share her running stories with her patients. Marilyn is focused on finding and sharing the joy in ultra running and encouraging back of the pack runners to participate in trail and ultra races. She can be found on Instagram @happygirlinthebackofthepack https://instagram.com/Happygirlinthebackofthepack