425. Ask Ali!
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
"So many of us, we put so much pressure and expectation on our running goals because we work so hard, we make so many sacrifices and choices, and we just want race day to be everything that we dreamed of and everything we worked toward. And sometimes life happens, and it's just… We have to adjust our goals accordingly."
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 what to expect at the New York City Marathon start line, hitting a wall during marathon training, race announcing vs. running, The Baby-Sitters Club, and more. Thanks to everyone who called in for this one. Enjoy!
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You asked:
- Insider tips for running the New York City Marathon (4:15)
- What is the ultimate food crime? (13:15)
- Advice for when you hit a wall during marathon training (16:00)
- Why I changed the warm-up questions on the Ali on the Run Show (27:40)
- On race announcing vs. running (33:00)
- How to get notified about live events on the Ali on the Run Show (38:45)
- My favorite character from The Baby-Sitters Club (45:00)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Gooter. |
| 0:04.0 | Go to Gooter.com slash on the run and use code on the run 15 to get 15% off your entire order. |
| 0:16.9 | Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Allie Feller and it is just us today for this |
| 0:23.1 | edition of Ask Allie. This is where you get to call in and ask whatever's on your mind, |
| 0:29.0 | and I will do my best to give you my most honest answer. I am fresh off of a three-day trip to |
| 0:36.0 | New York City which was so nice, so wonderful. These trips are always really quick and jam-packed |
| 0:42.0 | and I always go into them thinking I'm going to get so much done, I'm going to do so much, |
| 0:46.4 | I'm going to see everyone I know and then in the blink of an eye it's over and I'm back on that |
| 0:52.4 | Amtrak headed north to Boston. It was a great trip though. I was in town for the new balance |
| 0:57.6 | bit of a new mile which was this past Sunday. I was doing some video stuff for New York roadrunners |
| 1:03.5 | and new balance. That video should be out sometime this week so I'll be sure to share it, but |
| 1:08.4 | I was basically the host for what will be the video recap of the day, so I got to run the race |
| 1:13.9 | in the morning. My heat was at 8.15am. They kind of followed me around, not while I was running. I |
| 1:19.2 | was like you do not get to film me running. I don't know how the pros do it, but they look good when |
| 1:23.3 | they run. I look less good. They followed me around to the start and then I did a little recap |
| 1:29.2 | after of what it was like and then did a quick change in a port-a-potty because that's life at |
| 1:34.4 | the races and then I got to spend the entire day doing lots of fun interviews with cool people. |
| 1:40.0 | A lot of people were very excited to hear that two of the people I interviewed work, Zat Clark |
| 1:45.4 | and Tasha Adams, who are from the Bachelorette, but I've never watched that show, so to me they were |
| 1:50.8 | just people who ran our race. But I also had the privilege of interviewing an FDNY firefighter. He |
| 1:57.8 | ran the race. He ran a 530, so fast. He was part of the 9-11 rescue efforts 20 years ago. We were |
| 2:05.5 | featuring him and honoring him because of course the race was the day after the 20th anniversary |
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