484. Friendship Fest with Nell Rojas & Hiruni Wijayaratne

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

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

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

"I would declare war on all of your enemies."

Welcome to Friendship Fest! Starting today and for the next seven weeks, we'll be hearing from runner friends about how they met, the role running plays in their friendship, and what big dreams and goals they share for the future. (Consider it Love on the Run, friendship-style!) We're kicking things off today with Boulder-based besties and professional marathon runners Nell Rojas and Hiruni Wijayaratne. Nell and Hiruni are both coached by Ric Rojas (Nell's dad), and we recorded this conversation while they were at training camp in Phoenix. They share the stories of how they met, why Hiruni joined Nell and Ric's training group, what it was like running the first 20 miles of CIM together in December, and how they handle it when one of them has a great race or workout and the other doesn't.

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What you’ll get on this episode:

What Nell and Hiruni are up to in Phoenix (6:00)
How Nell and Hiruni met (13:25)
What it was like when Nell and Hiruni started training together (22:30)
How Nell and Hiruni are similar, how they’re different, and what they’re like when they run together (26:00)
On running CIM together in December (40:00)
Nell reflects on her race at the Houston Half Marathon in January (48:25)
Nell talks about signing with adidas and what she did first after making it official (55:00)
Nell and Hiruni talk about when they’ve felt especially proud of each other (59:20)

For more, check out:

Nell Rojas on Episode 434 of the Ali on the Run Show

Nell Rojas on Episode 431 of the Ali on the Run Show

Nell Rojas on Episode 229 of the Ali on the Run Show

Hiruni Wijayaratne on Episode 466 of the Ali on the Run Show

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0:00.0	Friendship Fest on the Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Tracksmith.
0:05.0	Go to Tracksmith.com and use code Alley22 to get free shipping on your next Tracksmith order.
0:11.3	Plus, Tracksmith will donate 5% of your purchase to the Brave Lake Gabe Foundation.
0:17.6	Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show.
0:24.2	I'm your host Alley Felor and we are kicking off a new series today.
0:29.1	Welcome to Friendship Fest.
0:31.6	I came up with this idea last year when I noticed how often runners on the show,
0:36.4	especially professional women runners, were mentioning other professional women runners.
0:42.1	They would talk about their training runs together or what it was like racing each other.
0:46.7	And of course, having friends on the show together isn't new to the Alley on the Run Show.
0:51.1	I've been doing this for a while.
0:52.7	Corey Carter and Ajay Wilson, Choline Flanagan and Elise Kopecki,
0:56.9	Perissa Schweitzer and Elise Cranney, Julia Bertoletti and Robin Mayer.
1:01.2	One-on-one conversations are really fun.
1:03.7	I love them. Those aren't going anywhere.
1:06.0	But getting these pairs together tends to really change the game and change the whole conversation.
1:11.2	So starting today and for the next seven weeks, we will be hearing from seven pairs of runner friends.
1:18.1	It's basically love on the run for friendships and a little more spaced out.
1:22.9	We are starting today with returning Alley on the Run Show guests,
1:27.2	professional runners and training partners, Nell Rojas and Haruni Wajaya Rutan.
1:33.2	You've heard from both of them before, so I'll spare you the long-winded intro bios.
1:37.5	But as soon as I decided I wanted to do this series, I knew I wanted to launch it with these two.
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