494. Friendship Fest with Jenny Grimshaw & Grace Keller

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

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

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

"I don’t think I would’ve done it if Grace hadn’t. I remember saying two things: One, 'The data says you can do it.' And two, thinking about Grace."

Jenny Grimshaw and Grace Keller have only been friends for a few years, but in that time, they've helped each other dream bigger and chase down exciting running goals. Their first endeavor together: to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials. On this episode, Jenny and Grace talk about meeting when they were both living, working, and running in New York City, and share how they're now making a long-distance friendship work. (Jenny lives in San Francisco with her husband and their new baby, Tate, and she works for Glossier. Grace and her husband, a professional baseball player, live in Charlottesville, VA, where she works in the finance and investment banking industry.) Their friendship is a special one that's rooted in their unwavering support and admiration for one another. (Be prepared to shed a tear or two when Grace talks about what she wrote in her journal after Jenny raced that California International Marathon.)

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What you’ll get on this episode:

How Grace and Jenny met (5:25)
How Grace and Jenny became friends (9:45)
On training to qualify for the Olympic Marathon Trials (14:30)
Reflecting on Grace’s Philadelphia Marathon in 2019, when she qualified for the Olympic Trials (22:00)
Looking back on Jenny’s CIM race in 2019, when she qualified for the Olympic Trials (31:45)
What it was like getting to run the Olympic Marathon Trials together (35:15)
How Jenny and Grace got so close (48:15)
Why Jenny and Grace’s recent visit in San Francisco was so powerful and important (51:30)
What’s next on the run for Jenny and Grace (58:00)
Jenny and Grace’s proudest moments in their friendship (1:02:20)

Check out:

Jenny Donnelly on Episode 215 of the Ali on the Run Show

Jenny & Judi Donnelly on Episode 193 of the Ali on the Run Show

Take the Bridge

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Instagram @gracebkeller

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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.
0:04.6	Go to TrackSmith.com and use code Alley22 to get free shipping on your next TrackSmith order.
0:11.5	Plus, TrackSmith will donate 5% of your purchase to the Brave Light Gabe Foundation.
0:16.4	Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show.
0:23.0	I'm your host Alley Feller and this is Friendship Fest.
0:26.8	This series is all about what Friendship looks like on the run and off.
0:32.0	It is warm, fuzzy, central.
0:34.3	Every Tuesday on the Alley on the Run Show and today's conversation is super special.
0:39.2	I have watched these two women train together and push each other and dream big together
0:44.4	and then get to celebrate together when really amazing things like qualifying for the Olympic marathon trials happen.
0:51.8	My guests today are Jenny Grimshaw, formerly Jenny Donnelly. She's been here several times so you know her and Grace Keller.
0:59.8	Jenny and Grace have such a special friendship. They met when they were both living, working and running in New York City.
1:05.6	They will of course share that full story here but I'm going to warn you.
1:09.8	This one was a bit of a surprising tear jerker or at least it was for me.
1:14.0	The way that Jenny and Grace support each other and cheer each other on is so special.
1:19.2	It's exactly what we need more of in the world. They just see the absolute best in each other and I love that so much.
1:26.0	Now, Grace and Jenny are in a long distance friendship.
1:30.2	Jenny, her husband and their new baby Tate live in San Francisco where she works for Glossier and Grace and her husband who no big deal is a professional baseball player.
1:40.2	They live in Charlottesville where she works in the finance and investment banking industry.
1:45.3	They're both super smart, super fast, super women. So please join me in welcoming Jenny Grimshaw and Grace Keller to friendship fest on the Alley on the Run Show.
2:03.1	All right, it's friendship fest day. My favorite day of the week. I shouldn't say that. That's not fair to the other days.
2:08.6	But I am so excited today to have Jenny Grimshaw and Grace Keller here on the Alley on the Run Show.
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