414: Kelly McLay - 100 Marathons and Counting
C Tolle Run
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Kelly McLay is a mom, wife, marathoner, author, keynote speaker, traveler, and founder of Fitness International Travel. Carrie met Kelly just after she finished her 100th marathon(!!) which also happened to be her wedding anniversary weekend at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon. In this episode, they explore Kelly’s journey as a runner and entrepreneur, from life on the road while parenting to overcoming health challenges and building a business that plans full-service race travel experiences, including guaranteed entries, lodging, meals, transportation, and even costumes. Kelly’s story is inspiring, energetic, and purpose-driven, and she just might have Carrie’s dream job for the next phase of her career.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Olympian Kerry Tellipson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast. Today in the pod, I am bringing you Kelly McLeigh. I met Kelly at the champion's reception in Chicago right after she ran her 100th marathon. |
| 0:22.2 | Kelly writes in her website that she's a mom, she's a wife, she's a marathoner, an author, |
| 0:27.3 | a keynote speaker, and a traveler. |
| 0:30.6 | She's also a coach. |
| 0:32.3 | Kelly is the owner of Fitness International Travel, a travel company that designs race weekend |
| 0:37.2 | plans around the world. |
| 0:38.7 | It sounds so cool. They guarantee at a race entry, they plan your day-to-day, your lodging, |
| 0:44.3 | transportation, meals, costumes, all the things. It sounds like a really cool job. |
| 0:48.9 | And I think I need to go on a trip with her. So in this episode, we hear all about all of those |
| 0:53.8 | things. But we dig into |
| 0:54.8 | her wedding anniversary weekend that happened to be at the Bank of America, Chicago Marathon, |
| 0:59.9 | and her 100th marathon. We also talk about life on the road in parenting, her health battles, |
| 1:05.6 | her company, and her favorite marathon. This woman is very busy, but she took a little bit of time, and I'm so excited to have her on the show. |
| 1:14.9 | So let's get after it. |
| 1:19.0 | All right, Kelly, 100 is in the books. |
| 1:22.5 | You did it. |
| 1:24.3 | I did. |
| 1:25.3 | I can't believe it. |
| 1:26.8 | I had such a great day. Chicago was on fire. Everybody was out and it was such a wonderful day in the city. A city of records. |
| 1:34.9 | City of records. That's right. I cannot believe, though, that you have done 100 marathons with everything you have going on. I mean, I really want to dig into this. |
| 1:45.3 | But first of all, you were in Chicago. You ran your 100th. And did I just see on Instagram that you |
| 1:52.2 | wore the same shorts that you did when you started marathoning? I did. I cannot believe I still |
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