840. LIVE in Chicago with Eric Jenkins
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
"There's nothing I'm going to shy away from."
What a gift it was to be in Chicago this weekend for all of the Chicago Marathon festivities. And what better way to kick it all off than with a live show with 450 of you, presented by our good friends at New Balance? If the goal was to laugh, relax, and have fun before runners toed the line on Sunday (or Saturday, in the Abbott Chicago 5K!), then we certainly succeeded, thanks to our special guest, former professional runner and Off the Rails cohost, Eric Jenkins.
On a personal note: This show was one for the books for me. Thank you for welcoming me in such a beautiful way and for wrapping me up in so much love during such a tough time. This room, this conversation, this event gave me everything I didn't even know I needed. Thank you for being there. Thank you for being you. And thank you to New Balance and Fleet Feet Chicago for making it happen.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Allie on the Run show. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm your host, Allie Feller, and I am coming to you from Chicago. |
| 0:11.2 | I am so happy to be here for all things Chicago Marathon Weekend, |
| 0:15.3 | starting with this live show presented by New Balance with our very special guest, Eric Jenkins. |
| 0:22.1 | Eric is everyone's favorite funny man in running. He is the co-host of the Off the Rails |
| 0:27.0 | podcast with Aisha Prott Lear. Love you, Aisha. He's a former professional runner. He competed in the |
| 0:32.9 | 1,500 meters up to the 10K. And he's a darn good time. |
| 0:37.8 | This show was exactly what I didn't even realize I needed. |
| 0:42.9 | It has been a long road to get to Chicago for me. |
| 0:46.4 | It's not been an easy one and I was feeling all kinds of ways about coming to Chicago. |
| 0:52.4 | So to be here, to be surrounded by so much love, this crowd |
| 0:57.0 | was incredible. Thank you to Fleet Feet, Fleet Feet Chicago for having us in this gorgeous space. |
| 1:03.1 | And thanks to all of you for filling it. Shout out especially to the people who were there |
| 1:07.4 | lining up for the show at 4 p.m. The show started at 5.30. People were in line at 4. |
| 1:12.6 | You are my people. I love you so much. This was just a real feel-good event. And I know it was |
| 1:19.7 | what I needed. Hopefully it was what some of you needed as well. So thank you, everyone, for coming. |
| 1:24.6 | Thank you, Eric, for making your live show debut. What an honor |
| 1:28.5 | to have it be on the Alley on the Run show. And I gotta say, if you were there, how about |
| 1:32.6 | that VIP section? This was a star-studded event and it was so cool to have so many of my |
| 1:38.2 | favorite people, my closest friends, and some very legitimate names in this industry. We had Dina Kastor, we had Mavka Flesgi, |
| 1:46.6 | we had Clayton Young, we had Kira Damado, and then of course lots of my friends like, |
| 1:51.6 | you know, everyone's favorite Allie on the Run friend, Connor Nickel. So it really was so, |
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