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Ali on the Run Show
Every week on the Ali on the Run Show, I talk with inspiring people who lead interesting lives on the run and beyond. And while running is what brings us all together, on these episodes, we're digging a little deeper. These conversations are about the decisions people have made to get where they are today, and how getting sweaty has factored in. Whether you're on the run toward something great or away from something that's holding you back, join me on this never-ending adventure, and let's all…
Episodes
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734. Emily Mackay's 2024 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials Recap
"That's always my goal: to win. And I always think I can. I have the belief." Emily Mackay is a World Indoor Championships bronze medalist. She's a 3:55.90…
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733. Juliette Whittaker's 2024 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials Recap
"When I crossed the line, I was in so much shock. I kept having to check the board to make sure I was reading it right!" Juliette Whittaker is a college…
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732. Weini Kelati's 2024 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials Recap
"Oh my god, I'm going to the Olympics!" Weini Kelati came into the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team Trials as the American Record Holder in the half marathon…
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731. Kate Grace's 2024 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials Recap
"I don't need to know I'm going to do it, but I need to be open to the idea that I can do it." Let the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team Trials recaps…
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730. Chris Chavez's 2024 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials Recap
"I like to go hard at these events, work myself to the bone, and bring people as much track and field content as they can take." Few people love track and…
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729. Nikki Hiltz & Emma Gee's 2024 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials Recaps
"When I crossed the finish line, it was definitely joy, but I think more than anything, it was relief." Right before the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team…
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728. Keira D'Amato's 2024 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials Recap
"It was a lot of firsts. I'll be 40 in a couple months, and it's not too often that you get firsts to that degree. It was a really cool experience to feel…
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727. Dakotah Lindwurm & Annie Frisbie, Minnesota Distance Elite Teammates & Best Friends
"You get your medal outfit fitted for you, so when you are ideally on the stage, it looks perfect. And when I had it on and they were taking it in a little…
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726. Nikki Hiltz & Emma Gee, Olympic Trials Power Couple
"It was like, 'What if the worst thing happens and I don't make the team?' And then it happened, and my life was fine. And then on the other end of it, last…
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725. Amanda Vestri, Top American at the 2024 New York Mini 10K
"I'm used to having to claw my way to prove myself to the people I need to prove myself to. But now, it's more of a mentality I have: Keep your head down…
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724. Krissy Gear, 2023 U.S. 3000m Steeplechase National Champion
"I'm trying to appreciate the peaks and the valleys — but there's a lot of beauty in the hillside, too." Last year, Krissy Gear stormed on the steeplechase…
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723. Emily Mackay, 2024 World Indoor Championships 1500m Bronze Medalist
"I feel the most confident I've ever been." Emily Mackay is having a heck of a year on the run! The Team New Balance Boston athlete earned a bronze medal at…
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722. Run Your Way with Emma Coburn, LIVE in Brooklyn
"I am scared of outer space, submarines, and remote research laboratories." We're live with Emma Coburn for the fourth time, making this her eighth appearance…
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721. LIVE from the RBC Brooklyn Half Finish Line with Becs Gentry & Zac Clark
"I feel like life should be back to normal. And it's not!" Welcome to the 2024 RBC Brooklyn Half finish line! I was delighted to be one of the guests for a…
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720. It's Been a Year...
"I remember being acutely aware that it was the worst day of my life up to that point, and the world was still going. People were out for runs in Central Park…
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719. Anne Keane, 3-Time Marathoner Living with Stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer
"It's processing all of these emotions that you have with things that you're anticipating you are not going to be able to see. Like my daughter is a year and a…
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718. LIVE at the Eugene Marathon with Emily Halnon, Author of To the Gorge
"One of my favorite things to do when it gets hard is I ask myself the question, 'Is this the story you want to tell today?' I like that question because you…
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717. My 2024 Boston Marathon Experience
"To have Long Live playing while I was standing on this stage feeling really proud of a show I had just done, and hugging so many of you, and feeling like…
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716. LIVE at the 2024 Boston Marathon with Meb Keflezighi
"Whatever you need, I hope you got at least a little of it here today." What an honor and a treat it was to get to host a live show the day before the 2024…
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715. LIVE at the 2024 Boston Marathon with Emma Bates & Jenny Simpson
"It was dark there for a while!" What a treat to get to sit down with Emma Bates and Jenny Simpson three days before the 2024 Boston Marathon. Emma talked…
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714. LIVE at the Boston Marathon with Oofos and Project Pink
"If I have to wash and return your Tupperware, I am now super stressed. I am so worried about the Tupperware." Let the Boston Marathon episodes begin! First…
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713. A Pre-Race Pep Talk from Coach Chris Bennett
"The best way to relax at the starting line is to take a deep breath, and say, 'This is fun as hell.' Doesn't mean it's not scary! Doesn't mean it's gonna be…
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712. Abeo Powder, TrailblazHers Run Co. Co-Founder
"We're leading alongside our community. The three of us made this happen, but there is so much wisdom, so much leadership, so much brilliance within our…
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711. Motherhood Mondays with Laurie & Elly Henes
"Use all of your resources. If people are willing to help, let them help." What's it like when you're one of the best coaches in the NCAA, and your daughter…
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710. Catching Up with Molly Seidel
"I really, truly, in the bottom of my heart want to keep doing this. But I need to figure out what my 'why' is in a more sustainable way rather than just 'I…
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709. Everything You Need to Know About the 2024 Boston Marathon
"Right on Hereford, left on Boylston. It is the place to be. It's special every time." We are less than two weeks away from the 128th running of the world's…
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708. Elizabeth Smart, Child Safety Activist and Marathoner
"It's OK to prioritize time for happiness. Hard times will come. It's really important to know what happiness feels like to you so that when you're in those…
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707. Ask Ali, NYC Half Edition
"I will always show up and do my best, and try to maintain my integrity in the process. I don't always get it right. But I always try." I ran the New York City…
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706. Emily Sisson, LIVE in New York City
"Des is the coolest one out of all of us, and she organized it. So of course if Des organizes a dog party, we're going to go to it... And I think if you went…
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705. Emma Coburn on Life Lately
"I have yet to meet a marg that is too spicy for me." Emma Coburn is an Olympic bronze medalist, a World Champion, a world silver medalist, a 10-time U.S…
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704. LIVE in Richmond with Keira D'Amato
"I hope I can normalize not hitting goals and being OK." We took our finest feathers and poppiest pink outfits to Richmond, VA. Welcome to Ali on the Run Show…
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703. Nikki Hiltz, World Silver Medalist
"Records are always going to be broken, but medals are forever." Nikki Hiltz returns to the Ali on the Run Show for the seventh time — and for the first time…
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702. Run Your Way with Jackie Gaughan
"I think about when I was a kid and I would just go out and run hard and not worry about the result or what was the worst thing that could happen. I run my…
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701. Rachel Schneider Smith, Olympian, Professional Runner, & Mom
"Hands down, the most courageous thing I've ever done is walk into trying to get pregnant and walking through pregnancy after loss." Rachel Schneider Smith…
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700. Jess McClain's 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Recap
"I had the time of my life out there. I soaked it all in." So often, the fourth-place finisher at any given Olympic Trials is the most devastated of the day…
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699. Sara Hall's 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Recap
"This was the happy ending to it all, to all the struggle. But that's life, right? It wasn't how the story ended. But believing it was kept me in it." Sara…
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698. Makenna Myler's 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Recap
"Going into this race, I was like, 'Top 10, that sounds like a really good goal. I can do that. Top 10.' And then when that race started, I was like, 'Holy…
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697. Love on the Run with Best Running Friends Conner Mantz & Clayton Young
"For all the speculators out there, there was no splitting the prize money, no talk about that beforehand, no 'You go first, I go second.' No 'Conner let me…
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696. My 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Marathon Weekend Recap
"Seeing how many people flew down to Florida on a random weekend in February to cheer for total strangers… How cool is that?!" I had the best weekend in…
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695. Dakotah Lindwurm's 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Recap
"I knew months ago that was going to be my caption for that post!" Let the U.S. Olympic Team Trials Marathon recaps begin! First up: Dakotah Lindwurm! The…
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694. Weini Kelati, American Record Holder in the Half Marathon
"As runners, we all deserve to be at the start line — and at the finish line, winning races." Last month, Weini Kelati broke the American record in the half…
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693. Fiona O'Keeffe, 2024 Olympic Marathon Trials Competitor
"I wouldn't say I'm a favorite in a lot of peoples' eyes. But it's the Trials. We're here to select a team. So I'm going to go for it and see what happens."…
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692. The Best Advice We've Ever Received
"Put yourself in a position to get a yes, otherwise it's automatically a no." Need a little pep talk? A little boost? A gentle nudge, or some tough love? I've…
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691. Gabi Rooker, 2:24 Marathoner
"You take what you have and make the most of it." Gabi Rooker was an anti-running competitive gymnast growing up. After college, she began working full-time as…
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690. Chris Chavez, 2:59 Marathoner & Founder of Citius Mag
Chris Chavez has made a living out of being track and field's biggest fan and hype person. And when he's not obsessively covering the sport for Citius Mag…
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689. Everything You Need to Know About the 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials
"This is the race they're going to tell their grandkids about — that they took part in the race to pick the marathon team for the Olympics." We are just three…
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688. Jenny Simpson, Soon-to-be-Marathoner
"I am not wired to do something halfway or to do something for fun. I don't know what that means. Fun for me is going as hard as possible." After nearly two…
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687. The 2024 State of the Ali on the Run Show
"I survived!" It's a tradition! Here on the Ali on the Run Show, we kick off every year with the annual State of the Show episode — a look at the past…
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686. 2023 in Review with Kara Goucher
"If you have that heart of a lion, you will get back there. You just have to have patience." It was a big year for Kara Goucher! Her book, The Longest Race…
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685. Ask Ali, Cancer Edition
"I felt like I was constantly treading water and barely staying afloat. It felt like I was stuck, as everything else just raged on. Time doesn't stop and the…
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684. Emilee Risteen, On Chasing 2:37
"It's not easy to talk about the disappointments. It's not easy to talk about the times that you fall short. Nobody wants to brag about those. It's been hard…
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683. Ask Ali!
"Community is everything. People are everything. I want to stay surrounded by people that I love and that love me. I'm going to mess up in life. I'm not always…
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682. Emily Oster, 3:17 Marathoner
"Whenever we do something that we really invest in and that's hard — and that we're not sure we can do — it's a reminder of the 'we can do hard things' aspect…
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681. Tunde Oyeneyin, Peloton Instructor & New York City Marathoner
"For the first time in my entire life, I was in awe of myself. I was in awe of what I'd accomplished. The marathon was a love letter to myself. For the first…
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680. Randi Zuckerberg, Marathoner & Ultramarathoner
"I am so grateful for the professional experiences that I've had, and so grateful for the incredible men in my life. But I feel like I've been the supporting…
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679. My 2023 New York City Marathon Weekend Recap
"I am not going up on that stage crying, but I don't want to dismiss this moment! I want to take this all in and I want to feel this. It was an incredibly…
Ali on the Run Show678. Run Your Way with Elle Purrier St. Pierre
"So many people asked me if I was going to keep running. And it's like, to me it's just a ridiculous question. You have a kid, what, you have to give up your…
Ali on the Run Show677. LIVE with Ellie Kemper
You know her (from The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). You love her (because she's funny and genuine). She's a marathoner. Ellie Kemper returns to the…
Ali on the Run Show676. Sara Vaughn's 2023 Chicago Marathon Race Recap
"I'm already dreaming about the next one." Sara Vaughn had a good, great, wonderful day at the 2023 Chicago Marathon. She ran a 2:23:24 — that's a three-minute…
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675. Everything You Need to Know About the 2023 TCS New York City Marathon
"At a marathon finish line — especially this marathon finish line — you see the best of humanity." Every year on the first Sunday of November, more than 50,000…