715. LIVE at the 2024 Boston Marathon with Emma Bates & Jenny Simpson
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
"It was dark there for a while!"
What a treat to get to sit down with Emma Bates and Jenny Simpson three days before the 2024 Boston Marathon. Emma talked about coming back from injury and lining up in Boston with the same confidence she had in 2023 (where she finished fifth), and Jenny talked about making another attempt at a marathon debut after having to drop out of the Olympic Marathon Trials. (Spoiler: Jenny Simpson is officially a marathoner now!) Plus: getting to know each other, discussing our deepest fears, some very easy trivia, and an ode to Des Linden.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host |
| 0:07.1 | Ali feller and let the Boston Marathon episodes begin. I was busy at this year's Boston Marathon and I'm super |
| 0:15.0 | excited to start sharing all the good stuff that I recorded while I was in town. |
| 0:19.2 | First up, live with Jenny and Emma. I got to sit down at the Boston Marathon Expo with |
| 0:25.8 | Jenny Simpson and Emma Bates on the Friday before the race to talk about how |
| 0:30.4 | they were both feeling. Emma, after dealing with a gnarly injury and having to scratch |
| 0:35.7 | from the Olympic marathon trials, and Jenny, after lining up at the trials for her marathon |
| 0:40.9 | debut and having to pull out of the race after 18 miles. |
| 0:45.0 | spoiler. |
| 0:46.2 | On marathon Monday, Jenny did in fact become a marathoner. |
| 0:50.5 | She finished the Boston Marathon, her first marathon, in two hours, 31 minutes and 39 seconds. |
| 0:58.0 | Emma did exactly what she said she was going to do. |
| 1:01.0 | She tapped into that Emma Bates confidence |
| 1:04.0 | and she led the pack for much of the first 20 miles of the race. |
| 1:08.6 | She was the top American woman of the day |
| 1:10.6 | for the second year in a row, finishing 12th in two hours, 27 minutes and 14 seconds. |
| 1:17.0 | Thank you so much to everyone who joined us at this show. |
| 1:21.0 | It was packed in there. Wow. On a personal note, I don't know if you could tell. |
| 1:27.2 | I was kind of a mess during this event. Jenny and Emma each very sweetly shared afterward that they could sort of sense that something was up. |
| 1:34.7 | I went into this so well prepared and so excited for this conversation, but my brain had its own plans. |
| 1:41.5 | I know it might still be chemobrain, something many people have |
| 1:45.1 | told me sticks around for a long time, but there were so many times during the |
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