Episode 49: The Door Has Conditions: Racism, the WNBA, and Who Feels Safe on Our Trails

This one's a deeper episode, and I'm not dancing around it. A few seconds of a basketball play turned into a suspension, death threats, and racial slurs aimed at Alyssa Thomas... and it says everything about how black women get treated in the spaces they built. I'm connecting what just happened in the WNBA to what I see at every trail race start line, because representation isn't a feel-good word. It's about who feels safe showing up at all. And white women, I'm talking to us... we have a job to do.What actually happened between Alyssa Thomas and Caitlin Clark (the real play, not the screenshots)Why the league punished the noise instead of the play, and what message that sendsThe "angry black woman" label, and who gets called an enforcer insteadWhat a young black girl learns when nobody on the course looks like herReal actions to take... starting small, speaking up, and getting uncomfortableThe trail community brags about doing hard things. This is one of them.Links & Resources for This EpisodeFollow me on InstagramVisit my website: www.sunrisetrailscoaching.comWant to work together? Learn about 1:1 CoachingFree guide: What’s In My Pack? Download hereVideo of AT/CC incidentAT speaks about threatsRunning While Black by Alison Mariella DésirSay More About That And Other Ways to Speak Up, Push Back, and Advocate for Yourself and Others by Amber CabralBlack runners to follow:Mirna ValerioLatoya SnellKathrin Baeza