431. LIVE at the Boston Marathon with Nell Rojas

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

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

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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"My goal is to be the top American. That's my goal. And I think I can do it... To be the top American would probably be the best day of my life."

Racing is back! Major marathons are back! And, after 19 long and lonely months, live shows are back! It was such a privilege to get to host a live recording of the Ali on the Run Show at the Tracksmith Trackhouse during Boston Marathon weekend, with very special guest Nell Rojas. During the show (recorded on Saturday, October 9), Nell said that finishing as the top American during the Boston Marathon would make Marathon Monday the best day of her life — and she went on to do just that. In her fourth marathon and her Boston Marathon debut, Nell — who is currently, somehow, unsponsored — finished sixth, was the first woman from the U.S. to cross the line, and earned a personal best time of 2:27. This show was so much fun. I promise you will laugh at least once, and, special treat, you'll get to hear from Nell's dad, running legend Ric Rojas. Thank you to Tracksmith for hosting us, thank you to Nell for being a legend, and thank you to everyone who was part of the fun!

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0:00.0	This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by TrackSmith.
0:04.1	Go to TrackSmith.com and use code AlleyBoston for 15% off your order for one week only.
0:16.5	Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller and Marathons are back!
0:22.8	Racing is back! Oh, this weekend was so exciting with the return of both the Chicago
0:29.2	Marathon and the Boston Marathon on back-to-back days. And with the return of major marathons came
0:37.9	the return of real in-person live shows. After 19 long lonely months I was so so so excited to get
0:48.4	to host my first in-person live show since before the pandemic started. When TrackSmith asked me
0:54.8	to host a live show at their track house on Newberry Street during Boston Marathon weekend I thought,
1:00.0	yes, amazing! Totally cannot wait, let's do this! Then I thought, who can I get as a guest for this?
1:08.5	Ideally, it would be someone who was planning to run Boston and someone who wouldn't have a
1:13.2	brand conflict which can be hard to find. Someone with a great story, that was important. Someone we
1:19.0	could all root for, maybe even a past guest from The Alley on the Run Show. So I came up with a dream
1:26.8	to do a live show with Nell Rojas before she'd made her Boston Marathon debut. Nell was on episode
1:34.0	229 of The Alley on the Run Show after she finished 9th at the Olympic Marathon Trials last year.
1:41.2	She has gone on to have an amazing 2021 on the run and she said yes to doing this live show
1:48.7	and oh my gosh, it was so fun and so funny and I have thrilled to get to share that conversation
1:55.7	unedited with you today. Now I asked Nell during the show, what would make this year's Boston Marathon
2:02.4	the best day of her life? And she said it would be being the top American finisher, that would do
2:09.1	it for her. So we need to follow up episode to confirm that but she did it! Nell was the first
2:16.5	US woman to finish this year's Boston Marathon. She ran a 227 which earned her a sixth place finish
2:23.7	and a personal best time. Nell is currently unsponsored and I have a feeling that might not be the
2:30.9	case for much longer. I am positively giddy for this woman so big big big thank you to everyone who
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