718. LIVE at the Eugene Marathon with Emily Halnon, Author of To the Gorge

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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"One of my favorite things to do when it gets hard is I ask myself the question, 'Is this the story you want to tell today?' I like that question because you can't hide from that question. You can finish a run and tell your friends, 'Oh my stomach was upset,' or, 'The weather or whatever.' But you can't lie to yourself. You know who you're choosing to be in those moments. And I like asking myself, 'Who do you want to be in those moments?' And I find that usually I want to be someone who pushes through hard stuff."

Emily Halnon is no stranger to the Ali on the Run Show. She was the show's very first guest, and she returned for her seventh appearance on the show with a very special conversation recorded in front of a live audience at the 2024 Eugene Marathon race expo, one week before her debut memoir, To the Gorge, is released to the world. (Get your copy here!) We talked about the book, about exploring grief through running, about pushing back on the praised notion of fearlessness, about how to make the most of our lives and the people in it, and so much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Alley on the Run show. I'm your host Ali Feller and I'm excited and honored to get to share this episode with you today.
0:12.0	Recorded in front of a live audience at the Eugene
0:15.1	Marathon Expo with one of my favorite guests and favorite people, Emily Halen.
0:21.3	Emily is of course no stranger to the Alley on the Run show.
0:25.1	She was the first ever guest on the show, episode one.
0:29.6	This episode marked her seventh appearance and it was our first time getting to do a live event together.
0:35.3	Emily and I met back in 2011. We were in our 20s working full-time desk jobs, her in DC, me in
0:41.8	New York City, and enthusiastically writing
0:45.2	running blogs on the side. Our bond was immediate and we've been
0:48.4	friends since we've finally met in real life at a half marathon,
0:51.6	fittingly. The internet may be a dumpster sometimes, but I'll tell
0:54.9	you, it has been good to me in so many ways, and having Emily Hownen in my life has been the greatest gift.
1:01.8	Emily's debut memoir, To The Gorge, comes out on May 7th, and this event in
1:07.3	Eugene, her hometown, served as a pre-launch for the book. People in attendance were able to
1:12.2	buy the first copies of To the
1:13.9	Gorge before it officially hits bookstores next week. This book is in my
1:18.7	completely unbiased opinion, a must read.
1:23.2	Emily writes so poignantly about losing her mother Andrea
1:26.2	to a rare cancer and about the immense grief and loss
1:29.5	her family endured during that time.
1:31.8	In the wake of that loss loss though, a challenge. Emily
1:34.9	decided that she wanted to live more like her mother did, courageously and bravely.
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