Welcome to the Allie on the Run show.

I'm your host, Allie Feller, and I am excited to bring you this conversation recorded live at the 2025 Boston Marathon Expo, presented by Shocks.

I was so psyched to get to host a panel featuring three of Shox's pro-athlete partners,

Helen O'Berry, Connor Mance, and Dakota Pau-Pain.

Helen O'Berry, she's Boston's two-time defending champion who ran a stellar race this year,

finishing second in 2,1741, a significant personal best and a fast, gritty race from Helen.

We got Conor Mance, one of the best professional marathoners the United States has ever seen,

who ran so hard and with so much heart and finished fourth in 20508.

And of course, Dakota Popain, the sweet, smiley, speedy Paris Olympian who finished 16th

in 2,2609. This conversation was, of course, recorded before the race, so we talked about

what a successful day in Boston would look like for each of these athletes. Biggest thanks to

our friends at Shocks

for putting this together and for having us all.

You know these are my favorite headphones,

and as you'll hear me say at the beginning of this one,

these are runners' headphones,

the safest, smartest, best ones.

So it's no surprise, they are now the official headphone partner

of the Boston Marathon.

Also, can I just say how cool and proud that makes me feel?

When Shocks and I first started working together more than five years ago, they were relatively

unknown but growing really quickly.

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