842. My 2025 Chicago Marathon Weekend Recap
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
"I'm trying to figure out how to live with stage IV cancer. How do I live and enjoy my life and enjoy these moments while also knowing I had to fly home the next day to go to chemo?"
From the press conference and the New Balance live show to the 5K, the marathon finish line, and all the moments in between, this is my recap from the 2025 Bank of America Chicago Marathon.
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In this episode:
- Friday: the press conference, the big feelings, and the New Balance live show (1:30)
- Saturday: the Abbott Chicago 5K, the ABC interview, the game show, and the time with friends (21:50)
- Sunday: the 2025 Bank of America Chicago Marathon! (36:45)
- Monday: the final run and the trip home (1:01:40)
- Final thoughts (1:06:40)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Allie on the Run show. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm your host, Allie Feller, and this is where I talk with people who are doing exciting |
| 0:10.3 | things on the run and beyond. |
| 0:12.5 | From professional athletes and celebrity runners to the everyday amateur and back of the pack runner, |
| 0:18.1 | we are here to celebrate everyone and anyone who enjoys a life on the |
| 0:22.0 | run. So whether you've been running towards something big or away from something that's been |
| 0:26.4 | holding you back, I am here to hold your hand and help you pick up the pace. We've got a solo |
| 0:31.4 | session on tap. It is just you and me today because I am here with my trusty notes app and my |
| 0:37.3 | 2025 Bank of America |
| 0:39.1 | Chicago Marathon Recap. As I look back on my experience in Chicago this year, I feel really |
| 0:44.9 | happy, really grateful, really proud. There was the live show with Eric Jenkins. I got to see so |
| 0:50.6 | many people I love. I got to cheer at the finish line on Sunday. Lots to be psyched |
| 0:55.0 | about. And it wasn't all high highs. I had some real low points while I was in Chicago, and it was |
| 1:01.5 | yet another reminder that I am living in constant duality, experiencing so many feelings and emotions |
| 1:07.7 | at once. So if you're into hearing all about it, awesome. That's what I'm here |
| 1:12.9 | to do today. So stick around. Let's relive the 2025 Chicago Marathon from my vantage point. |
| 1:27.2 | All right, we're going to go day by day here. And for me, all things Chicago started on Friday |
| 1:32.1 | before the race. I was up at 4 a.m. and I swear I looked out the window and there was snow on the ground. |
| 1:38.7 | It might not have actually been snow. It may have just been a heavy frost, but I was not psyched about |
| 1:44.1 | that. |
| 1:45.1 | So got up, I had packed the night before, had a nice, easy, breezy flight from Manchester to O'Hare. |
| 1:52.4 | Everyone in the airport was wearing running shoes, both in Manchester and when I landed in Chicago. |
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