838. Meghan Howard, On Running the Berlin Marathon with Harry Styles
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
"I will forever tell this story until the day that I die!"
Meghan Howard is an 11-time marathoner and educator who lives outside Toronto. She started running in 2019 and had a speedy — literally — rise to running success. Last year, she broke three hours in the marathon for the first time at the Chicago Marathon. Most recently, Meghan ran the Berlin Marathon — alongside Harry Styles! In this conversation, Meghan talks about how she and Harry met at the start, and how they ended up running the first 17K of the race together.
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In this episode:
- How Meghan is feeling post-Berlin (2:00)
- What's making Meghan happy today, and all about her work as an educator (4:40)
- What Meghan was like as a kid, and how she found running (12:50)
- How Meghan found her confidence through running (24:00)
- How Meghan deals with "failures" on the run (27:15)
- Meghan reflects on her training for the 2025 Berlin Marathon (35:20)
- On running through grief, and how Meghan leaned into her training after the loss of her father (38:20)
- How Meghan reflects on her race at the Berlin Marathon (43:00)
- On running the Berlin Marathon WITH HARRY STYLES! (53:45)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Allie on the Run show. I'm your host, Allie Feller, and this is where I talk |
| 0:09.0 | with people who are doing exciting things on the run and beyond. From professional athletes and |
| 0:14.6 | celebrity runners to the everyday amateur and back of the pack runner, we are here to celebrate |
| 0:19.8 | everyone and anyone who enjoys a life |
| 0:22.5 | on the run. So whether you're running towards something big or away from something that has been |
| 0:27.0 | holding you back, I am here to hold your hand and help you pick up the pace. I just finished |
| 0:32.2 | recording this conversation and my cheeks hurt from smiling so much, so get excited. |
| 0:39.4 | My guest today is Megan Howard. |
| 0:43.0 | Megan is an 11-time marathoner who lives outside Toronto. |
| 0:48.5 | She's an educator, and I loved hearing about the work she does with 7th through 12th graders. |
| 0:52.2 | Megan ran her first race, a half marathon in 2019. |
| 1:00.0 | Her goal then was to run sub-2, and she finished in one hour and 57 minutes, so she did it. Then Megan moved right to the marathon where she had pretty immediate success running some seriously fast times. |
| 1:06.0 | Last year, Megan achieved her goal of running sub three at the Chicago Marathon. |
| 1:14.3 | Now, Megan is fresh off running the Berlin Marathon. |
| 1:18.7 | She went into the day with big goals hoping to run around 255. |
| 1:25.5 | But the day was hot and was not without drama, including two nasty falls that almost took Megan out of the race. |
| 1:30.7 | She may not have hit her time goal, but all was not lost because guess what else happened that day in Berlin? |
| 1:32.8 | Megan ran with Harry's styles. |
| 1:35.4 | All about that and so much more in this conversation. |
| 1:39.0 | Like, she really ran with Harry Styles. |
| 1:41.5 | She talks all about it, sparing no detail. |
| 1:44.3 | So please join me in welcoming |
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