Ali on the Run Show

Welcome to the April edition of Ramblings on the Run with Ali & Matt. Every month, Matt Chittim — host of the Rambling Runner podcast and the Road to the Olympic Trials show — and I will come togethe…

“Find a way to get people hooked on running. That’s what we need.”

Jay Holder just might love running — the sport itself, plus every single member of the running community — more than any guy I kno…

"I can sincerely say that when I leave work and go home, my heart feels really full — but sometimes it feels defeated... There's a lot of emotion at stake. It's hard."

Christine Mousa is a family s…

"You have to believe in yourself. And you can say it a million times, but before this, I didn’t actually believe I could run with these girls. And now I absolutely know that I can run with these girl…

"I had to keep believing that my Olympic dream was still alive until the race was over."

Laura Thweatt ran a fast, fierce, gutsy race at the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta — a hard effort …

"Fear is not something you experience in an airplane. That’s your comfort zone."

For many people, flying in an airplane is an anxiety-inducing adventure. But not for Julia Harrington. Julia is a co…

"Without races on the schedule, you’re figuring out why you run in the first place. I think this is a really good reminder that we do it because we love it — not because we’re constantly chasing a go…

"I was just like, ‘Oh my god, I’m in Hollywood! This was meant to be!'"

Taylor Ritzel has quite the resumé: She was a collegiate rower at Yale University who went on to win Olympic gold in rowing a…

"There’s nothing I can do, so I might as well not wallow about it, and I might as well just find something else to make me happy for the moment."

Emma Coburn is a two-time Olympian, eight-time U.S.…

"I run on pure stress and adrenaline."

Kelly McKnight is an orthopedic surgery resident — a real-life Callie Torres from Grey's Anatomy! — in Sioux Falls, SD. On this episode, the second in the On …

"I know I wasn’t a favorite, but I felt that if a door opened, I was fully ready to sprint through it."

When Kaitlin Goodman, a 2:32 marathoner who runs for adidas and the Boston Athletic Associati…

"It’s really a lesson in humans and human activity."

Welcome to the On the Job series on the Ali on the Run Show! Every Tuesday for the next seven weeks, we'll meet cool women with interesting, fas…

"I’m not going to throw a pity party. I’m celebrating this day. I was a part of history."

It's so hard to believe it’s been nearly a month since we were all in Atlanta for the U.S. Olympic Marathon…

“I viewed myself as a runner my whole life. That was my main identity. And so when I started considering the possibility that that might be taken away from me, I just felt this grief I didn’t even kn…

"It’s almost like I was running away from what had happened."

Anita Perez just might be one of the most inspiring, hardworking, dedicated women you'll ever meet. She's a 2:39 marathoner (who also r…

"I wasn't there as a runner. I wasn't there as a sister, a mother...I was there as a fan of the sport, and as a supporter of so many of these women. And in a very different way I found my own 'I belo…

In honor of International Women's Day, I sat down with an all-star panel of smart, inspiring women — Abby Bales, Rozalynn Frazier, Kelly Hogan, and Henna Rustami — to talk about everything from perio…

"I am here to try and find the best version of myself." —Sarah Cummings

"I am here because running makes me feel the most alive." —Kaitlin Goodman

"I’m here because I found running later in life,…

"This showed me I can make more dreams — because apparently they come true!" —Veronica Jackson

Last week, we heard from U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon qualifiers, friends, and former training partner…

This is the first of several post-U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials episodes coming your way this week. It was such an honor to co-host a live show after the race alongside Carrie Tollefson and Meb Keflez…