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Ali on the Run Show

487. Friendship Fest with Emily Infeld & Aisha Praught Leer

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

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

4.93.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

“When I met Aisha, I was like, ‘Oh, we’re gonna be friends forever.’”

Emily Infeld and Aisha Praught Leer are professional runners and Olympians, and despite never sharing a coach, team, or hometown, they have the type of friendship that transcends all of that. On this episode, Aisha and Emily talk about how they met, share their first impressions of each other, and talk about how they bonded long-distance in the early days of their professional careers. We get some big life updates: Emily officially announces who she's being coached by since leaving the Bowerman Track Club, and Aisha talks about how her return to running has been going since having surgery to repair her torn meniscus after last year's Tokyo Olympics. Plus, LOL-worthy stories about Emily behind the wheel, Aisha in the pool, and so much more.

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What you’ll get on this episode:

  • When and how Emily and Aisha met (6:00)
  • Emily and Aisha recall their first impressions of each other, and talk about how their friendship progressed (10:55)
  • The time Emily taught Aisha how to swim — kind of (18:00)
  • On running together and making a long-distance friendship work (19:40)
  • How Emily and Aisha are alike, and how they’re different (26:00)
  • What Emily and Aisha talk about, and what they’re each like when the other is racing (38:00)
  • What’s new with Aisha (43:00)
  • What’s new with Emily (52:10)
  • Emily and Aisha talk about moments when they’ve felt especially proud of each other (1:04:20)

For more, check out:

Emily Infeld on Episode 400 of the Ali on the Run Show

Aisha Praught Leer on Episode 462 of the Ali on the Run Show

Aisha Praught Leer on Episode 415 of the Ali on the Run Show

Aisha Praught & Will Leer on Episode 204 of the Ali on the Run Show

Aisha Praught Leer on Episode 197 of the Ali on the Run Show

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Friendship Fest on the Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Tracksmith.

0:04.8

Go to Tracksmith.com and use code Alley22 to get free shipping on your next Tracksmith order.

0:11.8

Plus, Tracksmith will donate 5% of your purchase to the Brave Lake Gabe Foundation.

0:22.2

Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller and this is Friendship Fest.

0:28.1

This series is all about what friendships look like on the run and off.

0:34.2

Last week we kicked off this new series by hearing from professional marathoners, Nell Rojas,

0:40.2

and Haruni Wajaya Ratna. Today, Emily Infeld and Aisha Pratt-Liar are here. Emily and Aisha are

0:48.0

both professional runners and Olympians and I have always loved that their friendship transcends

0:53.5

sponsorships, teams, coaches, and so much more. On this episode, we'll hear all about how they met

1:01.3

and what happened when Emily didn't choose to join Aisha's team. Spoiler, it didn't affect

1:07.4

their friendship. They've never not been super close. Emily and Aisha were both on the show last

1:13.0

summer, separately. Aisha was here just a few days after returning from the Tokyo Olympics,

1:18.4

where she represented Team Jamaica in the 1500 and then immediately flew home to have surgery on

1:24.9

that torn meniscus that she ran on. So it was fun to get some updates on how her recovery process

1:30.5

has been going and what running and training looked like for her right now. And when Emily was

1:35.0

here, she had just competed in the 10k at the Trackinfield Trials and expressed both gratitude

1:41.2

for being healthy on the run and frustration that things at the trials had not gone as she had

1:46.0

hoped and dreamed. Emily talked about not being thrilled with her trials build up, so I was not

1:51.5

super surprised when she announced recently that she had left for longtime training group,

1:56.4

the Bowrum and Track Club. I was also excited when Emily said she'd come on the show to share

2:01.4

some updates with us about what her running life is like now and who she's training with.

2:06.9

There's lots of auls, lots of laughs, lots of smiling in this one. I hope you love it. I hope

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