91. What's New With You Week with Sarah Sellers
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
“I’m still not sure which was crazier: me finishing second, or the response to me finishing second.” — Sarah Sellers
After the 2018 Boston Marathon, everyone wanted to meet second place finisher Sarah Sellers. She joined the Ali on the Run Show just two days after her triumphant finish in Boston — and that episode went on to become the most-downloaded episode of the show ever. Today, Sarah is still a nurse anesthetist living in Arizona, but her life looks a little different post-Boston. She's no longer and unknown, unsponsored runner — she signed with Altra soon after Boston — and she's $75,000 richer thanks to the Boston Marathon. On this episode, she looks back at that day in Boston and how her life has changed since, and shares her big racing plans for the fall.
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What you’ll get on this episode:
- What the days and weeks after the Boston Marathon were like for Sarah (2:05)
- What it was like returning to work after Boston (4:45)
- What Sarah’s post-Boston recovery was like (6:00)
- How Sarah spent her $75,000 Boston Marathon prize money (7:30)
- How Sarah became sponsored post-Boston, what that process was like, and why she chose to partner with Altra (10:10)
- Whether her second-place finish in Boston added stress and pressure to Sarah’s running (16:00)
- How Sarah is fitting her new, busier running and racing commitments into her already intense work schedule (19:40)
- What’s next for Sarah Sellers? (23:00)
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Sarah Sellers on Episode 69 of the Ali on the Run Show
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's new with You Week is brought to you by Aftershocks. |
| 0:03.1 | Welcome to the final episode in this seven-day, seven episode, seven guest series. |
| 0:13.6 | We've heard from Cara Goucher, we've heard from Ali Kiefer, we've heard from your hungry |
| 0:17.7 | runner girl, and so many more. |
| 0:20.1 | And today to wrap up What's New with You Week, I have for you the return of the all-time, |
| 0:25.8 | most downloaded episode of the Alley on the Run Show, Sarah Sellers. |
| 0:30.5 | Who is Sarah Sellers? |
| 0:32.0 | That's what everyone was asking after the unknown, unsponsored runner from Arizona took |
| 0:36.7 | second place at the 2018 Boston Marathon. |
| 0:40.2 | But now we know, she's a hardworking nurse anesthetist, and she's no longer unknown or |
| 0:45.4 | unsponsored. |
| 0:47.0 | So what's Sarah been up to since April? |
| 0:49.0 | Well, she's $75,000 richer, thanks to her second place finish in Boston. |
| 0:54.5 | She's officially a sponsored runner thanks to Ultra, and she's as kind and humble as she |
| 0:59.6 | was on that fateful, ridiculously rainy day a few months ago. |
| 1:04.2 | Let's hear from Sarah. |
| 1:12.7 | Alright, Sarah Sellers, welcome back to the Alley on the Run Show. |
| 1:16.5 | It's great to have you back. |
| 1:18.1 | Thank you, thanks so much for having me back on. |
| 1:20.0 | Alright, before we get into all the good fun stuff, remind everyone who you are, where |
| 1:24.3 | you're from, and what you do. |
| 1:26.9 | I'm Sarah Sellers. |
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