543. World Athletics Championships Recap, Part I with Jay Holder

"I am not wired to do something halfway or to do something for fun. I don't know what that means. Fun for me is going as hard as possible." After nearly two highly-decorated decades of racing the 15...

11 Jan 20241h 19min

"I survived!" It's a tradition! Here on the Ali on the Run Show, we kick off every year with the annual State of the Show episode — a look at the past, present, and future of the podcast. In 2023, t...

4 Jan 202453min

"If you have that heart of a lion, you will get back there. You just have to have patience." It was a big year for Kara Goucher! Her book, The Longest Race, debuted and became a New York Times best-...

28 Dec 20231h 9min

"I felt like I was constantly treading water and barely staying afloat. It felt like I was stuck, as everything else just raged on. Time doesn't stop and the world doesn't stop. Everything doesn't sto...

26 Dec 20231h 50min

"It's not easy to talk about the disappointments. It's not easy to talk about the times that you fall short. Nobody wants to brag about those. It's been hard. There were lots of tears shed in private....

21 Dec 20231h 7min

"Community is everything. People are everything. I want to stay surrounded by people that I love and that love me. I'm going to mess up in life. I'm not always going to get it right. But that's what m...

19 Dec 20231h 6min

"Whenever we do something that we really invest in and that's hard — and that we're not sure we can do — it's a reminder of the 'we can do hard things' aspect. And I'll always get to say that I did th...

14 Dec 20231h 9min

"For the first time in my entire life, I was in awe of myself. I was in awe of what I'd accomplished. The marathon was a love letter to myself. For the first time, seeing myself the way other people s...

7 Dec 202359min