414. What's New With You with Keira D'Amato

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

"I feel like nothing and everything changed."

Keira D'Amato is many things: a full-time realtor, a mom of two, a Nike-sponsored professional runner, and — her newest title — a world record holder. Last year, Keira had arguably the best running year of her life. She ran a personal best at the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials (2:34), ran a 5K on the track in 15:04 (beating her lifetime best by a full minute), won the Michigan Pro Half Marathon (and ran a 64-second personal best), ran a 2:22 at the Marathon Project (a 12-minute PR), and broke the 10-mile women's only American record at a race she created called the Up Dawg 10-Miler. Turns out, that race wasn't just an American record — it was also good enough for a just-ratified world record! At the peak of it all, Keira signed with a sponsor (Nike) for the first time at age 36. Unfortunately, since then, Keira has dealt with injury stuff and health stuff, and had to scratch from the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials, where she'd hoped to run the 10K. Still, her perspective is as inspiring ever, and she's one of the funnest, funniest women in running. Always a good time with Keira on the Ali on the Run Show!

THE LAST TIME KEIRA WAS ON THE SHOW: Episode 305

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What you'll get on this episode:

What's making Keira happy right now? (6:00)
Keira's advice for raising confident kids (10:00)
All about D'Amato family food challenges (13:50)
Reflecting on running the Up Dawg 10-Miler and setting both an American Record and a World Record (20:00)
On becoming a sponsored runner and signing with Nike (26:20)
How a kind compliment from Molly Seidel changed so much for Keira (35:00)
On the decision to scratch from the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials (40:00)
All about Keira's recent 5K vs. her husband — where he got a big advantage! — and their Vegas wedding (49:50)
Keira's biggest hopes, dreams, and goals on the run and beyond (1:01:00)

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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.
0:05.1	Go to youcan.co slash Alley and use code Alley for 20% off your order.
0:16.2	Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show.
0:18.4	I'm your host Alley Feller and this is season 3 of The What's New With You series.
0:24.3	So, what's new with you?
0:26.8	No What is New With You, I really do want to know. But this series is where we catch up with past
0:31.6	guests from the show and we hear about everything they've been up to since the last time we talked.
0:36.5	So far this season we've caught up with Kate Grace, Dene Dorami,
0:40.4	Latia Albertson Junkins, Nelly Spence Gracie and Josef Herzog.
0:45.5	And today we've got a world record holder in the house. In the house on the pod?
0:50.7	No, I don't think I say on the pod. I don't think I've ever said on the pod.
0:55.3	But today, Kira Demado is here. Kira was last on the Alley on the Run Show in November for episode
1:02.0	305. At the time, Kira was having arguably the best running year of her life.
1:09.2	The mom of two and full-time real estate agent had run a personal best at the Olympic marathon
1:14.1	trials, becoming a 234 marathoner. She then ran a 5K time trial on the track in 1504,
1:21.9	beating her lifetime best by a full minute. Then she won the Michigan Pro Half Marathon in 10857.
1:29.6	That was a 64 second personal best. And then she broke the 10 mile women's only American record
1:37.5	at her own race, which she got to name, the Up Dog 10-Miler. And as she'll reveal on this
1:43.7	episode, she later learned that that time was actually good enough for a world record.
1:48.8	And just a few weeks after we recorded that episode, Kira went and ran a 222 at the Marathon project.
1:56.4	That is a 12-minute personal best in the marathon. I'm able to say the future was looking
2:03.1	oh so bright for Kira, who also at age 36, signed with a sponsor for the first time officially
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