585. 26 Questions with Emily Durgin

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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"I was a complete wreck. I had a lot of anxiety about a lot of unnecessary things. Not even the race itself — all the outside factors, and I didn't handle them well. I race all the time! This should have been just another race. But in my mind, I was over-worried about not making it to the start line."

Emily Durgin spent this summer getting into the best shape of her life: marathon shape! She was gearing up to make her 26.2-mile debut at the TCS New York City Marathon — but race day didn't go as planned. Emily, who lives and trains in Flagstaff, AZ, and is sponsored by adidas, ended up dropping out "somewhere in Harlem." So today, we cover the fun questions in this series (first car, current car, celebrity lookalike), and Emily answers the tough questions, like what it's really like dropping out of your marathon debut, and how to deal with mid-race stress and anxiety. In true Emily form, she's in good spirits, she learned a lot, and she got to celebrate her friend Sharon Lokedi's win!

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0:00.0	26 questions on the Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by TrackSmith.
0:04.4	Go to TrackSmith.com and use code Alley22 to get free shipping on your next
0:09.9	TrackSmith order plus TrackSmith will donate 5% of your purchase to the Trevor Project.
0:19.5	Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller and this is 26 questions.
0:25.6	This is the series where I ask guests, you guessed it, 26 questions. Simple as that.
0:32.0	Summer about running. Some are about their fall marathons. That's what unites all of our 26
0:38.3	questions guests, fall marathons. And some questions are totally, totally random because I just
0:44.0	really enjoy hearing about people's first and current cars. It turns out in this series,
0:49.4	we have had 26 questions worth of fun with an all-star lineup. Dina Caster, Deslinden, Laura
0:57.3	Green, Nell Rojas, Kyle Merber, Matt Wilper's, Tommy Runs, Kira Demato. And today, returning
1:06.4	recent Alley on the Run Show guest, Emily Durgan is back to go through 26 questions.
1:13.1	I love Emily. I'm an Emily Durgan super fan. She's an Adidas sponsored athlete from Maine
1:18.7	who lives in trains in Flagstaff, Arizona and everyone loves her. That's the first thing people
1:23.4	say about Emily Durgan. She's so sweet. I love her. She is also a fierce as hell competitor.
1:30.2	So I know lots of people were super excited to learn that Emily was making her marathon debut
1:36.8	at this year's TCS near City Marathon. Lots of eyes on Emily and it was a top day. She ended up
1:43.2	having to drop out. So today, she's here to talk about what happened out there. What went right?
1:49.1	What went wrong? What was preventable? What wasn't? So not only does she break that down, but she
1:54.0	does also answer the fun questions about things like her first and current car. I appreciate Emily's
2:00.9	honesty and her vulnerability. Anyone who has ever worked their butt off in training and then
2:06.5	just had a tough day. I think you're going to relate to a lot of what Emily says. I feel for Emily.
2:13.1	I am heartbroken that she didn't get the day that she worked so hard for, but I absolutely know
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