Welcome to the Allie on the Run show. I'm your host, Allie Feller, and this is where I talk with people who are doing exciting things on the run and beyond.

From professional athletes and celebrity runners to the everyday amateur and back of the pack runner, we are here to celebrate everyone and anyone who enjoys a life on the run.

Whether you are running towards something big or away from something that's been holding you back,

I am here to hold your hand and help you pick up the pace. Today is the second episode in the new

No Stupid Questions series. Last week, Eric Jenkins and Aisha Pratlier, former professional runners and co-hosts

of the Off the Rails podcast, kicked off the series answering all of your questions about

professional running and then some. We had some laughs. This week, we are tackling shoes and

sports bras with Ginger Gottschall, New Balance's director of sports research. I thought Ginger would be

the perfect expert for this episode, which is really a lot of questions about super shoes and the

ever-controversial removable sports bra pads because Ginger spends every day in the sports research lab.

Product innovation is her jam. Ginger is also, of course, a runner herself,

so not only does she help develop and test these products, she's using them too. Welcome to No Stupid

Questions, Shoes and Sports Bras Edition with Ginger Gottschall. Ginger, welcome back to the Allie on the Run Show.

I am so excited to have you.

You are our expert of the day.

How are you feeling?

How are you doing?

I'm super pumped to be here and chat all things related to shoes and apparel.

And I love hearing what your listeners are thinking about.

Me too.

So I put out a question on Instagram stories a couple weeks ago just saying, what are your running

questions?

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