413. Ask Ali!
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
"It just feels like too much."
Welcome to Ask Ali, a twice-a-month series where I answer all of your questions. This time around, we've got listener questions about preparing for parenthood, podcast planning, first marathons, and so much more. Thanks to everyone who called in for this one. Enjoy!
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You asked:
- What can I do to prepare for pregnancy and motherhood? (6:00)
- The Ali on the Run Show recording and releasing timeline (12:00)
- All about the Ali on the Run Show theme music (18:40)
- My favorite places in New England (24:30)
- The best half marathons on the east coast (31:45)
- Advice for a first-time marathoner (33:50)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Gooter. |
| 0:04.1 | Go to gooter.com slash on the run and use code on the run 15 to get 15% off your entire order. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller and it's just us today for this |
| 0:21.8 | edition of Ask Alley. This is where you get to call in and ask whatever's on your mind and I do |
| 0:28.0 | my very best to give my most honest answer. Now I'm gonna be honest. I am feeling |
| 0:38.4 | feeling things this week. I don't know. It's been a really hard week and I think that a lot of you |
| 0:45.8 | might be feeling the same way that things feel really heavy that I know I thought we would be heading |
| 0:52.5 | into the school year and my daughter she's she's gonna be three so she's you know preschool age but |
| 1:01.9 | I thought we would be in a different place for this school year. Pandemic-wise, I am feeling |
| 1:08.0 | saddened and frustrated that feels like not only are we taking steps back but that everything is |
| 1:13.4 | more divisive than ever and the news and everything happening in Afghanistan and it's also sad and |
| 1:22.7 | then it's just people pointing fingers and then on Monday of this week we learned that |
| 1:30.3 | Gabe Grunewald's sister Abigail Anderson was killed by a drunk driver in a really tragic accident |
| 1:38.7 | and that was kind of the thing that just pushed me right over the edge. I just lost it and I just |
| 1:44.8 | sobbed and I didn't know Abigail personally actually I met her one time at the New York Roadrunners |
| 1:51.2 | Run Center. She had done a live show before the Fifth Avenue mile with the amazing Carrie |
| 1:57.9 | Tollifson and I got to meet her and told her that Gabe was such an inspiration to me and that she'd |
| 2:02.9 | been on the show and and Abigail was just always so kind and sweet and supportive and she would always |
| 2:09.2 | respond to the silly videos I would post of Annie and she had reached out to me as recently as |
| 2:14.1 | last week to talk about promoting this year's Brave Light Gabe 5K so that just it just hit hard |
| 2:20.7 | it's just unfair and if you're feeling sad even if you didn't know Gabe or Abigail in person |
| 2:27.3 | much like me but you're feeling really sad just know that you're not alone and I feel you and |
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