Ali on the Run Show

“I feel like I’m in a good position to have a real crack at making the team.”

With the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials coming up, now's a great time to get to know as many of the competitors as …

"At times in my life when I’ve struggled or when I’ve maybe been less than my best self, my mom always asks, 'When was the last time you went for a run?'"

Welcome to the newest series on the Ali o…

Happy Mother's Day! Earlier this week, I had the honor and privilege of hosting a virtual live show with four inspiring, iconic women: Lauren Fleshman, Alysia Montaño, Stephanie Bruce, and Dawn Harp…

"Having an invisible illness yourself is a constant reminder that you never know what other people are dealing with."

Welcome to Ask Ali, a bi-weekly series where I answer all of your questions. T…

“So, there is hope. I am still an optimist about this, and I’m doing as much as I can to keep myself healthy. If this is my destiny or whatever and there’s nothing I can do to stop it, that’s fine. …

"I don’t chase podiums and PRs. I have a tendency to chase clocks and cutoffs. And that’s fine with me."

Welcome to the newest series on the Ali on the Run Show: The Everyday Runner. On this serie…

“I’m pretty close to living the dream right now.”

What do you do when you can't decide whether you want to go pro as a runner, or pursue your dream of being a registered dietitian? For Maddie Alm,…

“The water took everything, but we had ourselves and all of our communities and friends who made sure we had everything else.”

Welcome to the newest series on the Ali on the Run Show: The Everyday…

"We spend so much time in our lives comparing ourselves. So my mantra is, life isn’t about what you don’t have. It’s what you do with the gifts you are given."

Tatyana McFadden is one of the most-…

"I wanted this to be a show for so long where everyone loved every episode. And don’t get me wrong, I’d still love for that to be the case! But I’ve learned that that is kind of impossible. So I’ll …

“Things can go off the rails quick. So as much as you want to be confident and feel like it’s gonna be easy, that’s not how this works.”

Des Linden, Olympian and 2018 Boston Marathon champion, is …

“I think you can almost want something too bad. Because I just wanted it so bad. I wasn’t relaxed. It wasn’t fun anymore. It was just tunnel vision on winning — and I wasn’t winning! I wanted it so …

“It’s hard for me to be back here in a lot of ways. Because it sometimes brings me back to being that little Cynthia, and feeling like my voice doesn’t matter because of the color of my skin or my h…

“I think that in order to do special things, especially in running, you really have to put yourself out there. And a lot of times, it doesn’t go how you want it to. But you can learn a lot from the …

“I wish more people looked at them as humans first and were not scared… They don’t know what to say, they don’t know how to act. They may be well meaning, but they don’t see it’s just OK to talk to …

"It was such an immediate shift for me. I realized, this is what I need to do to love running again."

Welcome back to Ask Ali, a monthly series where I answer all of your questions. This time arou…

“We get on the line and yeah, we’re competitive with each other, but as soon as we cross that line, we’re each other’s biggest fans.”

Shelby Houlihan and Karissa Schweizer are two of the fastest w…

“There are so many times you start on a journey and somewhere along the way you realize, this isn’t where I wanted to go. The beginning of this was right, and then somewhere I took a turn or didn’t …

“If you want to do this job, you have to be willing to assume that you could be wrong about just about everything. You need to be willing to look everything up.”

Carla Benton gets paid to read all…

“I have this insatiable need to find out how good I can be. I just want to see how fast I can run and what I can accomplish. If I can make an Olympic team, if I can win the New York City Marathon. A…