204. Love on the Run Week with Aisha Praught & Will Leer

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Run, Health & Fitness, Women, Inspiration, Runner, Entrepreneur, Sports, Fitness, Health, Running

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

"When talking about running, it’s where we have to be the most delicate with each other."

We're celebrating love all week long on the Ali on the Run Show: Welcome to Love on the Run Week! Today, we're kicking things off with professional middle-distance runners Aisha Praught and Will Leer, who live and train in Boulder, CO.

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What you’ll get on this episode:

How Aisha and Will met (3:15)
How Will proposed (7:30)
On Aisha and Will’s competitive sides (11:30)
Why Aisha and Will moved from Oregon to Boulder, and how they made the decision (15:30)
Why Will and Aisha don’t do workouts together (21:30)
How Will and Aisha set goals individually and together (30:40)
The impact Gabe Grunewald’s passing has had on both Will and Aisha (41:00)

What we mention on this episode:

Aisha Praught Leer on Episode 197 of the Ali on the Run Show

"No Sacrifices for Aisha Praught Leer," by Erin Strout for Women's Running

Brave Like Gabe Foundation

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0:00.0	Love on the Run Week on the Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Generation You Can.
0:05.1	Go to generationucan.com and use code on the run for 20% off your order and free shipping.
0:16.2	Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller and I love love.
0:22.2	People make fun of Valentine's Day. They say it's cheesy, it's a hallmark holiday,
0:27.3	it's all pink, and glitter, and chocolates, and yeah, exactly what's not to love about all of that.
0:35.3	Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I love celebrating love of all kinds and that's what we're
0:42.2	celebrating all week here on the Alley on the Run Show. This is Love on the Run Week. We've got
0:48.7	five episodes on tap taking us right up to Valentine's Day at the end of the week. And this week has
0:55.2	an all-star lineup of professional running couples talking about their relationships, their
1:00.5	love stories, and whether or not they still like each other when they're six miles into an eight-mile
1:06.3	tempo run. It's light, it's fun, it's relatable. We're kicking off the series today with Aisha
1:13.2	Pratt and Will Lear. Aisha and Will live and train in Boulder, Colorado. Aisha was actually on the show
1:19.4	recently. We referenced that episode a bunch of times here. So if you haven't listened to it yet,
1:24.8	Aisha was on episode 197, the first episode of 2020. Aisha is a professional middle distance
1:32.1	runner for Under Armour, and she trains alongside Emma Coburn under the direction of Emma's husband,
1:37.6	Joe Bosshard. And Will is also a middle distance runner whose professional resume includes a
1:43.4	three-fifty-one mile. That's three minutes and 51 seconds. To run a mile, I drive slower than that.
1:52.0	Aisha and Will told me that nothing was off limits for this conversation and they were so open
1:57.2	and so honest, and I love their relationship. They adore each other and I adore them. So let's kick off
2:05.4	love on the run week with Aisha Pratt and Will Lear.
2:14.7	Aisha and Will so excited to have you here as part of this series. Thanks for being here and
2:20.2	welcome to the alley on the run show. Hi, alley and everybody else. Hello, everyone. It's the liars.
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