Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. I am your host Alley Feller coming to you from Eugene, Oregon.

It is gosh, it is July 18th. I think that's a Monday. I have been in Eugene for a little more than a week now, but

the reason I'm here with this episode today is because in the midst of this trip where I'm working World Athletics Championships

as part of the media operations team, I took a mini trip in between. I had a prior commitment to be the race

announcer at the inaugural Weinstein Half-Marathon in Napa, California, and I was not backing out on that. So in the middle of everything, I boarded a plane, I flew to San Francisco, I got a rental car, I drove up to Napa, and I hosted this live show that you are about to hear with Alicia Montagno and Stephanie Howe. You will get to know them very well in this conversation, so we will just roll right into it. But I do want to thank the Weinstein Half-Marathon for having me. Even though the past eight,

or so days have been totally chaotic and I barely know where I am right now, I had so much fun. The race was wonderfully done. People seemed happy. It was a beautiful day. And while no, I did not have time to drink or bring back any good Napa wine. I had a darn good 36 hours. And well, I was going to say the Bay Area, but it's not, but I drove through there.

I'm doing my best here. I am hoping to bring you some world championships conversations later this week. I will of course have some solo episodes talking all about what I'm doing in here. Hopefully I will bring in some guests. Let's see what happens. But first, please enjoy this live show conversation with Alicia Montagno and Stephanie Howe.

Thank you everyone for coming. I'm so happy to see so many smiling faces. It's great to have people in Napa. My name is Michelle LaSalle. I'm the race director of the Weinstein Half-Marathon. I'm also the race director of the Napa Valley Marathon, which is in Napa in March. So I want to see all of you back here. March.

Today, we are joined by three guests, which we are very excited to bring to you. A very strong group of women, inspirational, business women, athletes, mothers, and very important people who help people like me do work in this business and help all of us to run all the races that we do and cross all the finish lines that we do.

So without further ado, I'm going to introduce our live show host, Ali Feller. She is the host of the chart topping, Ali on the Run podcast, and also tomorrow's race announcer looking to welcome you all to the finish line.

Hi, thanks, Michelle. When you were talking about important people, I thought you were going to introduce your staff and you were talking about us. So thank you. That was very, very nice. Hi, everyone. How are we doing?

Yeah, oh my gosh, I'm so happy to be here. I'm still like, I mean, I'm always excited about live shows, but you know, we didn't get to do this for a while. And now we are and we're here. And it's just, it's exactly what I need in my life. So thank you for showing up for me and for us and for yourselves and each other and warm fuzzies. That's like my live show jam is just all the warm fuzzies.

We are going to have a lot of fun today. I know you know what's about to happen because you're here, but we have to absolutely outstanding guests joining us. Look at Alicia Montanio over there. Just killing the boomerang game.

Alicia, come on out. You can get one of the crowd if you want. Alicia Montanio.

And look at this outfit. Are you kidding? Amazing, amazing. Alicia is an Olympian. She's a two time world champion, seven time US champion, the author of Feel Good Fitness, a mom of three, the founder of and mother. I could spend the whole hour reading your bio. Have a seat. She's amazing. She's super woman. We love her. Stephanie, how 70. Come on out.

Now that we set the precedent, you have to twirl because Alicia twirled and posed so you have to do that. Stephanie is an elite trail and ultra runner.

An incredible resume. She has one Western states. She has, yeah, I know the gasp. So you're going to gasp again. So just get ready to do that again. Has set course records at the bandara 100K and the lake Sonoma 50 mileer.

She's also brilliant. She has a PhD in nutrition and exercise science. And she's a new mom to Julian who you might see running around 19 months old, little superstar. So thank you both so much for being here. Thank you for being here.

I'm going to have a seat. You all know there's champagne in the back right here like yeah, yeah, we got that as soon as we walked in. Awesome. And Michelle, thank you for having us.

Okay, so you know if you listen to the alley on the run show, we start every episode with a warm up. We're going to do that now. We have some questions to get to know you. Alicia, favorite wine.

Oh, I am a pinot noir fan as well as rosé of the Pinot variety. Not to be on see about Stephanie favorite wine.

I'm a Zinfandel fan. And I also like rosé when it's warm like it is here. So let me share that in common warm out or warm rosé.

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