407. What's New With You with Neely Spence Gracey

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

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

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

“Why can’t I do it all? Why can’t I be a mom, a really good mom, be the mom that I want to be, and also be an athlete, a really good athlete, the athlete I want to be?”

The last time professional runner and coach Neely Spence Gracey was on the Ali on the Run Show, she had just run her first postpartum marathon after having her son, Athens. She ran a 2:44 at the Houston Marathon and qualified for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in the process. A year and a half later, a lot has happened in Neely's life — including another baby! On this episode, Neely offers updates about what it was like running the Marathon Trials last year and what life for her family was like during the pandemic. She talks about getting pregnant, in spite of having an IUD at the time, while she was training for The Marathon Project, and talks honestly about what that surprise was like. Neely talks about her pregnancy run streak, about giving birth to Rome on June 14, and about what postpartum life as a mom of two has been like so far.

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What you’ll get on this episode:

On the transition from one to two kids (5:15)
All about the names Athens and Rome (7:00)
On getting pregnant with an IUD (9:30)
What Neely’s pregnancy was like (16:55)
How Neely recovered from running the Houston Marathon and prepared to run the Olympic Marathon Trials in 2020 (20:30)
What the pandemic was like for Neely’s family (28:00)
What running was like during Neely’s pregnancy with Rome (33:50)
What labor and delivery was like with Rome (38:00)
On experiencing postpartum depression and anxiety (46:45)
On returning to running after having Rome (51:45)
What’s next for Neely? (58:00)

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Rome's birth story

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The What's New With You series on the Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by YouCan.
0:05.2	Go to youcan.co-slash-alley and use code Alley for 20% off your order.
0:15.7	Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller and this is season 3
0:21.5	of The What's New With You series, where we catch up with pass guests on the Alley on the
0:26.7	Run Show to hear what they've been up to since the last time they were here. So far this season,
0:32.0	we've chatted with Kate Grace, Dene Dorami, and Latia Albertson-Junkins. And today, much like
0:38.9	Latia, we've got another Mom on the Run. Today, professional runner and coach Nilly Spence Gracie
0:46.8	returns to the Alley on the Run Show. Nilly was the first ever professional runner to come on the
0:52.4	show way back in October 2017 on episode 42. Then, she came back on the show last year in January
1:01.2	2020 for episode 201. Nilly had just run the Houston Marathon, her first postpartum marathon
1:08.4	after giving birth to her son Athens, and she ran fast enough that day to qualify for the Olympic
1:13.9	Marathon trials. So, we had a lot to catch up on today. Like, what it was like running at the
1:20.0	Olympic Marathon trials. What life for Nilly and her family was like during the pandemic.
1:25.6	And speaking of family, her family has grown since the last time that we talked. Nilly is now Mom
1:31.6	to two little boys, Athens, and Rome. Nilly is six weeks postpartum officially making her part of
1:39.6	that post-Alympic marathon trials baby boom we keep talking about on the show. Nilly's really
1:45.7	honest about her pregnancy this time around. She got pregnant while she had an IUD. So,
1:50.8	he looks to say this was not part of her plan for 2021, but Nilly is the queen of positivity and joy
1:57.6	and optimism and you will definitely hear that throughout this conversation. Before we get to it,
2:02.6	I do want to send a little bit of love out to anyone listening to this who might need some love
2:07.4	or to give a bit of a warning that if you're in a tough place in regards to pregnancy or trying to
2:12.5	conceive or loss, some parts of this conversation might be hard to listen to. I think I was really naive
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