Ali on the Run Show

"I start from zero, too, after having a baby, just like everyone else. So, here goes!" Molly Huddle is one of the greatest American distance runners of our time. In her career, she's held numerous American records and is a two-time Olympian. She's the co-host of the Keeping Track podcast and co-author of the book How She Did It . And in April, Molly added a new title to her bio: mom. Molly gave bi...

"We all get nervous. We all have this energy, whether it feels good or bad. We all get in the race and physically feel good and bad at different points. It's just important to remember that that's all normal, no matter what that is. So I just told her, 'This is how it feels. This is how it's gonna feel.' And that was it. Game on." First, he paced Sara Hall at the Marathon Project. Then, he paced K...

"I went through a breakup and went straight for the guitar shop, hoping that would fix everything. Well. I played it once for about 10 minutes." In both 2021 and 2022, Boulder-based professional runner Nell Rojas was the highest-placing American woman at the Boston Marathon. Now, she's ready to tackle the Big Apple: Nell is gearing up to make her TCS New York City Marathon debut next month. Today,...

"It was an astonishing thing. It was one of those defining moments in your life. Everything else was changed from that moment." It was an honor to be invited to the 20th running of the Akron Marathon , Half Marathon, & Team Relay in Ohio this past weekend, and to get to host a live show at the pre-race expo with running legends Meb Keflezighi (Olympic silver medalist and winner of both the New Yor...

"Oh god, it was so bad! Oh god. I'm going to bring this up in therapy this week!" She's everyone's favorite funny runner — and today, Laura Green returns to the Ali on the Run Show for the third time to answer a series of 26 questions. (Check out Laura's previous episodes: when she filled in as an Ask Ali guest host , and when she was part of the Motherhood Mondays series .) Whether she's playing...

"No one can define what success is for you but YOU. Even though the sport of running tries to tell us that the only things that matter are distance and time, that is simply not true. You decide what matters to you." Welcome to Part III (the last part!) of the  Marathon Mentality series  with  Ali on the Run Show  favorite  Emily Saul ! Emily is a licensed mental health counselor, sport psychology...

"To go out on top — there are so few athletes that can say that, and that really wasn't my plan! I just wanted to know when it would be over so that I could put everything that I had into each throw." Kara Winger had long planned for 2022 to be her final javelin season. And what a final season it was! The four-time Olympian capped off her 18-year international career by winning her first global me...

"I have to enjoy this race. I really just need this one to be uplifting." Deena Kastor has run (and won!) many marathons during her career. She's the 2004 Olympic Bronze Medalist in the marathon, she has won both the Chicago and London Marathons and the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, and until this past January, she was the American Record Holder in the marathon ( Keira D'Amato holds that title now...

"I've worked really hard and I've put a lot out there, and it's been really good to the point that it terrifies me." Welcome to Ask Ali, a twice-a-month series where I answer all of  your  questions. This time around, I'm flying through 29 listener questions, sent in via Instagram Stories (I'm  @aliontherun1 ), about my current goals and dreams, the New York City Marathon (lots of questions about...

"I struggle every day. I am just committed to not letting those little moments take me out of the game." As the founder and CEO of Thrive Causemetics, Karissa Bodnar has been included on Forbes 's 30 Under 30 list, was named as one of Marie Claire 's Most Powerful Women, and she was on Inc .'s Badass Female Founders list. But what matters most to Karissa, she swears, isn't the accolades: It's the...

"I'm very excited to see where I'm at and to test myself. And I'm really having fun so far with this!" OK, right off the bat: You're getting more than 26 questions. Welcome to this new series on the Ali on the Run Show , where I sit down with some of my favorite people to ask a series of running- and non-running-related questions. Think Vogue 's "73 Questions," but for runners — all of whom are cu...

"Don't just celebrate the final finish line. One of the ways to get through a training plan successfully is to make sure you're stopping along the way and celebrating." Chris Bennett is on a mission: He wants runners to have more fun! (There's a reason he's been called "the real-life Ted Lasso." ) The Nike Running Global Head Coach — known by hundreds of thousands of runners as simply "Coach" — ta...

"I'm in this whole new world of what they call marathon training. I don't know. I'm still in denial!" Emily Durgin is having one heck of a year on the run. The adidas-sponsored professional runner lives and trains in Flagstaff, AZ (though, she says, "Maine will always be home home"), and 2022 has been good to her. She kicked off the year at the Houston Half Marathon, where she ran a personal best...

"I saw a lot of people, especially on social media, saying, 'She's not gonna make it.' And in my mind, I wanted to prove them wrong. And I think, honestly, that might have been my biggest downfall — trying to do more too soon, to prove to people that I could do this." It would be putting it lightly to say that the past two years have been a whirlwind for professional runner Aliphine Tuliamuk. At t...

"That's such a good question, and one that I absolutely refuse to answer!" Welcome to Ask Ali, a twice-a-month series where I answer all of  your  questions. This time around, I'm flying through 39 listener questions, sent in via Instagram Stories (I'm  @aliontherun1 ), about my upcoming race announcing plans, how I'm feeling about moving (again!), what's most fulfilling to me right now, my take o...

"I was in New York, and I went out and I had this experience of watching people run this marathon, and I broke down. I was like, 'Holy shit, this is the most powerful thing I've ever seen.'" To legions of adoring fans, Zac Clark is known as the winner of Season 16 of The Bachelorette , who got engaged to Tayshia Adams. But today, we are getting to know Zac, beyond the Bachelorette . We meet the yo...

"The whole idea of getting comfortable being uncomfortable is actually about building a psychological endurance. In the same way we build a physical endurance for running more miles, we can build a kind of psychological endurance or tolerance for this stuff that is uncomfortable, but in the context of running, it's actually normal." Welcome to Part II of this summer's Marathon Mentality series wit...

"It shows, in the past two years, how much we've both improved because we've had each other to push each other the whole way." Meet Roisin Willis and Juliette Whittaker: the fastest high schoolers in American history. Not only have Roisin and Juliette spent their respective senior years breaking records and taking home world championships medals, but they've formed a very special long-distance fri...

"It's really special when your friend becomes family." Some friendships build, grow, and develop over time. Others are instant. For Peloton instructors Jess Sims and Kirsten Ferguson , the best friendship was immediate. In the final episode of Friendship Fest Season 2, Jess and Kirsten talk about how they met (through Peloton, naturally), why they hit it off right away, and what it's like when a f...

"There was a part of me that was like, 'What if I hate it? What if I hate this job, what if I hate this role? Because I might! I'm not a media operations person! What if I hate it?' And so before the trip even started, I had kind of told myself, 'Hey, if you don't love this, that is not a measure of success, and that does not make you a failure. You fail at this if you don't try, if you don't show...

"When you think about what you hope to leave on the sport or model for my daughters through the sport, I hope that's what people see: resiliency, and how to pick yourself up, and not let discouragement get you down." First we heard from Keira D'Amato . Then Emma Bates . And now, we complete the World Athletics Championships Team USA women's marathon trifecta on the Ali on the Run Show with fifth-p...

"These people are out on the track, by themselves, just with their own body and their own mind. It's really cool to watch. It's cool to watch humans push themselves like that. And I want everyone else to be as excited about it as I am." Michelle Wolf is a stand-up comic, an ultra runner, and a massive fan of track and field. So it makes perfect sense that she was at World Athletics Championships i...

"That's what I want — that's the only thing that drives me as much as it does. I just want to inspire the next generation. And I feel like we did that. You would've sworn we won the entire race. You would've sworn we swept the podium! But, you know, fifth, seventh, eighth, and for people to be that proud and excited for us? It doesn't get any better than that." The World Athletics Championships co...

"I feel that every time I step on the line — like I have nothing to lose. And I get that question a lot: 'Do you feel a lot of pressure now that you're the American record holder?' No. I feel no pressure. No one thought I was going to get the American record, and no one thinks I'm probably going to go any further. I just feel a lot of support. So yeah, I kind of just felt like I'm playing with hou...

"Listen, there are eight heats. Seven of them were all men. We are one-eighth of the media. We need to get that number up. But hell yeah to being the one-eighth." Jay Holder and I are back today, talking all things World Athletics Championships! We spent more than two weeks in Eugene, OR, working on the media experience team — him as the mixed zone supervisor, me as the press conference moderator...