129. LIVE at the United Airlines NYC Half
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
"Start stuff. If you believe in something, just start it." —Mary Wittenberg
It was an honor to host this live show at New York Road Runners the day before the United Airlines NYC Half. I was joined by four exemplary leaders in the running community: Mary Wittenberg, former NYRR and Virgin Sport president and CEO; Christine Burke, VP of Strategic Partnerships and Runner Products at NYRR; Leigh Anne Sharek, co-founder of Brooklyn Track Club; and Carly Gill, a 2:47 marathoner and one of the women behind Runner Braids. These women candidly shared their stories of success, failure, and what it's like to feel shaken to your core or rattled with insecurity. They talked about starting movements, social media, FOMO, and dealing with injury, and we talked about how to make running more inclusive. We wrapped it all up with a very special audience-participation-required edition of the Sprint to the Finish.
Thanks to New York Road Runners for sponsoring and hosting this live show, which took place at the NYRR RUNCENTER Featuring the New Balance Run Hub. Go to nyrr.org/runcenter for a full calendar of FREE events like the Ali on the Run Show LIVE event, plus group fitness classes, themed group runs, course strategy sessions, and book signings.
What you'll get on this episode:
- The significant moments in women's running that have most inspired the women on the panel (4:00)
- On getting into running at a young age, and whether it was discouraged or encouraged (7:30)
- Running as an individual pursuit vs. team sport (11:00)
- On pink at women's races (14:00)
- How do we make running more diverse and inclusive? (21:00)
- On insecurities and failures (28:30)
- Reflecting on the running industry and ourselves as runners (36:00)
- What do we wish men understood about being a female runner? (46:00)
- The downsides of social media in the running world, and falling into the comparison trap (49:10)
- What's next for everyone? (54:00)
- A very special Sprint to the Finish (56:45)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by New York Roadrunners. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host, Alley Feller, and I am so sore! |
| 0:14.7 | I'm fresh off-running my first postpartum race, the United Airlines, New York City Half-Marathon, |
| 0:20.1 | and it was amazing. But not just the race itself, the entire weekend was top-notch. |
| 0:26.6 | I was honored to host a live recording of this podcast the day before the race at the New York |
| 0:31.4 | Roadrunners Run Center, featuring the New Balance Run Hub. And I was doubly honored, |
| 0:36.7 | doubly honored? Is that a phrase that exists? I was doubly honored to get to take part in this |
| 0:42.4 | conversation with four incredible leaders in the running community. No further intro needed, |
| 0:47.9 | if you couldn't join us in person, here is the live show in all its unedited glory. |
| 0:57.0 | All right, so now to the main event here. We... Alley is a... I just read your bio, and I really |
| 1:06.2 | liked it. A freelance writer, editor, podcaster, and she... I love her differentiation of her |
| 1:13.9 | two main focuses right now, which is a human mom of Annie, who's in the audience. Hello, Annie. |
| 1:19.2 | How are you? Yeah. Look at that wave. And a dog mom to Ellie. So, no, she's not here, |
| 1:27.6 | unfortunately. But let's give a very warm round of applause to Alley Feller. |
| 1:36.2 | Thank you, sir. I always like when Annie and Ellie get worked their way into things I'm doing. |
| 1:41.6 | Thank you all for being here. Let me see again who's running tomorrow. |
| 1:45.6 | Amazing. I love this. Okay, great. And I see that we've got a couple men holding it down in here. |
| 1:51.2 | I love that. Okay, so amazing panel today. This is going to be such a great inspiring hour. I promise |
| 1:56.9 | that you will all whether you're running tomorrow or not. You're going to leave here having laughed |
| 2:00.8 | at least once and feeling super inspired, empowered, and uplifted for the rest of your day weekend |
| 2:07.6 | and life, bold claims. Okay, let's bring out our amazing panel of women. Mary Wittenberg, |
| 2:13.6 | come and join us. Mary is the former CEO of both New York Roadrunners and VirginSport. |
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