372. The Everyday Runner, Dr. Margi Johnson

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

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

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

"At times in my life when I’ve struggled or when I’ve maybe been less than my best self, my mom always asks, 'When was the last time you went for a run?'"

Welcome to the newest series on the Ali on the Run Show: The Everyday Runner. On this series, we’re hearing from runners who are just like you and me. Not professional athletes — these runners have jobs, families, and responsibilities beyond this sport we all love so much.

Today, meet Dr. Margi Johnson. Margi is a family medicine physician and mom of three with big goals and dreams on the run. (Hint: She wants to qualify for the Olympic Marathon Trials someday, which would mean running a sub-2:45 marathon!) On this episode, Margi shares her story of being an "airlift baby," born in Vietnam and brought to the United States, where she was adopted and raised. She talks about being athletic as a child, but admits that running was never her first love. (She chose to be a jumper, because she wanted the sport that involved the least amount of running! The irony!) It wasn't until Margi was in her surgical residency — with two kids and a third to come — that she rediscovered and truly fell in love with running. Margi talks about what the past year has been like for frontline workers, shares her story of getting Covid a whopping three times, and explains her family's decision to relocate from New Jersey to Georgia.

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What you’ll get on this episode:

Margi shares her adoption story, and what it meant to be an “airlift baby” (6:15)
How Margi became a runner — and a jumper! (14:00)
The road to becoming a doctor (21:20)
On rediscovering running as an adult, a resident, and a mother (29:30)
When Margi finally started calling herself a runner (41:45)
When Margi finds time to run, and what this past year has been like for her (50:10)
Adjusting to life in Georgia (59:45)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by PickyBars.
0:04.1	Go to PickyBars.com slash on the run and use code on the run for 20% off your next order.
0:10.7	Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show.
0:17.1	I'm your host, Allie Feller, and this is the everyday runner series.
0:21.8	On this four-part series, I am introducing you to runners just like you and me.
0:26.7	We're not professional runners. We have jobs, we have families, we have responsibilities
0:31.9	beyond running and recovering and getting massages. I would love that.
0:37.4	This series has come by very popular demand and I hope you've been loving meeting these runners.
0:43.4	First, we met Jen Corea, the mom of two who lost her home and everything they owned during Hurricane Sandy.
0:49.9	And then last week, we heard from Megnavado, the couch to 5K runner turned ultra-marathonir.
0:56.4	Today, Dr. Margie Johnson is here. Margie, Dr. Johnson, if you will, is someone that I have followed on Instagram for a while and it's hard not to be inspired by this woman.
1:08.9	She is a doctor, a mom of three, and a woman with big goals and dreams on the run.
1:15.0	Margie has always been athletic, but running was never her first love.
1:19.5	In fact, she was a jumper in high school because she wanted to play a sport, but wanted the one that involved the least amount of running.
1:26.8	Of course, fast forward a few decades and she is now chasing an Olympic trials qualifying time in the marathon.
1:33.2	That's how I found her on Instagram. You can find her there at Chasing in OTQ with underscores, chasing underscore and underscore OTQ.
1:43.4	Margie is super honest on there about what life is like as a physician, as a mother, and as an ambitious master's runner. I love that about her.
1:52.0	So, thought it would be cool to hear from her on this series.
1:55.0	In everyday runner, who fits the bill for sure with the whole responsibilities outside of running thing that I mentioned earlier,
2:02.0	but she's also someone who takes her running seriously and is committed to it.
2:05.8	She takes it seriously, but not too seriously.
2:08.8	So, let's do this. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Margie Johnson to the Alley on the Run Show.
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