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Welcome to the Alley on the Run show. I'm your host, Allie Feller, and it's just us. It is solo episode time. These Ask Alley episodes, I've been doing them for several years now, and it is where I sit down by myself and answer all of the questions that you submitted over on Instagram. If you want to follow along, I am Allie on the Run One. I don't think we need anything else. We're about to

talk. I'm about to talk to myself for a while. So nothing further needed in this intro. Let's

just jump right into the questions. I got so many,

and I'm going to try to answer as many as I can. So thanks to everyone for being here.

Thanks for listening. I am always blown away that people choose to listen to me talking to myself

for an hour or more at a time. So I just think you're the greatest. I love you. I appreciate you.

I hope we all get to hang out soon.

Let's get right into some of these questions.

When I put the question box out on Instagram, I said, this will be the last Ask Allie episode of 2024, which first of all, subject to change.

Second, I think because I said that, a lot of these questions are very reflective.

We are looking back.

We are looking forward.

A lot of questions about 2024 in review.

A lot of questions about looking at 2025.

I will save all of those because if you've been around for a bit,

you know that I kick off every year with the state of the alley on the run show episode.

I've been doing that since, gosh, 2019, 2020. I'm not sure, but I've been doing those episodes

for a long time. I love doing them. I say they hold me accountable, but usually I do forget about what I said on each

episode until I go to record the following years.

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