Running Changed My Life: The Good & The Bad || Honest Q&A
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- In this video, I go over my life changing professional contract with Nnormal and how Nnormal is different from the bigger brands (like Nike or Adidas).
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I also discuss what ways in which this contract will change my training and day-to-day life, which races I am doing this summer, if I'm retiring from the track and steeplechase, my tips for cross training and motivation, how recovery is going plus my advice for coping with the fear of change, and a bit of bonus content! It is packed, and I divided it into chapter so you can skip around and listen to the parts that interest you most. #AllieOstrander #Nnormal
00:00-01:15 Intro
01:15-05:12 Nnormal Contract Details
05:12-08:11 what races will I do?
08:11-10:18 a day in the life now?
10:18-14:02 training & training tips
14:02-14:50 GOALS
14:50-17:57 ED recovery & food
17:57-18:45 bonus content and outro
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Sweet Nnormal hoodie you're sporting there, Allie O. Great to hear that Nnormal is taking you seriously and getting your feedback and input on their product lines and company direction. Great decision on their part to get the advice of a pro runner and take it seriously, and also support your social (ED awareness, etc.) goals. Great Nnormal teammates, too. Good to know you'll be doing trail, road, and track races in the future. Sounds like an amazing schedule. Here's to staying healthy and strong and ready to race.
I have been wearing this hoodie non-stop! And thank you, I'm really excited for all that is to come.
Congratulations! Very excited to see your trail videos!!
Great job. Looking forward to some exciting training and racing.
So excited for this one! So happy for you Allie. Best of luck on your continued training!
Excited for your new adventures Allie! Always cheering you on!! :)
Congratulations Aliie!
Wishing you the best of luck.
Wow! Can’t wait to see some trail content!
Great content. You have a great attitude about being a pro and your racing and goals. Excited to see more trail stuff!
Yay coffee. So glad for you Allie O I wish you all the best
I'm so happy for you and can't wait to see where this will take you...and where you will take this.
Allie, I am excited to see what you do in the trails and mountains! First the track, of course 😁👍
Thanks for your openness. You seem to be more relaxed now, I am looking forward for further content.
im honestly so excited for your trail running adventures and equally glad about the work you're doing around ED, both for yourself and others; you're an excellent and much needed role model for young runners
Love this ALLIE! So proud of you for sharing your struggles and being a role model for young runners. Congratulations on Nnormal. Look forward to seeing you on the trail circuit- so much more real about the body, and as you reach for your other goals.
omg the stoked levels are thru the roof like those races !!! i remember when u commentated one of ur steeple races at nationals and talked abt a bunch of ppl in that race who went on to a buncha cool areas of running and now ur also somewhere new too which is rly excitingg
Love this Allie so excited for you
Glad to hear things are working out for you. I haven't really ever followed trail running but if they are televised, and you are running I will watch it this year. Really glad you didn't shut the door on the steeplechase. I always thought it was a perfect mix of endurance, speed and athleticism.
I needed to hear what you had to say about a certain runners body type!❤ I just need to remember to trust the process of training, work rlly hard, and results will come eventually! :)
New subscriber here from Ireland. Love your videos and honesty. Hope to follow your success to the top.
Can’t wait to see more trail content. Looking forward to hearing more about the brand as well, it’s great you are getting involved in the team early on.
Yes, I'm excited to learn more about the brand and be involved in its development!
Nice hearing those questions being addressed. Good luck this 4th.. also didn't know Spencer had a channel. I'm getting ready to watch his sub 4 story.
Nnormal and Norway... will be a great team. Of course!!!!
Wishing you all the best.
The trails in the Dolomites are AMAZING!
What an excellent video! You answered every question a person could have about this partnership. Looking forward to your whole journey but really can’t wait to see you on the trails.
Excited to get out there!
Yay, so happy and so excited for you, Allie. You totally deserve this, for all of your hard work and especially for your honesty and insight. Especially excited that you'll be returning to AK for the Mt. Marathon Race. Can't wait to cheer you on as you fly down the mountain.
thank you, I'm so thankful and excited for what's ahead!
Yeah so excited to see you will be running more trail races. They are so fun!! Enjoy every opportunity you have. You’re amazing!!
Thank you! I can't wait to take on this new challenge!
Love the Q&A! And as always, I am so impressed with your candor and humility. Even those of us who have never met you seem to feel like you are a true friend. I wish you SOOOOO much success this year, and for many years to come! Nnormal hit a major home run with you!
I feel like all of you are my friends!
Great job on your race! 52:37 is very solid!
I am beyond excited for you, and can’t wait to watch and root for you on this new adventure. I can’t believe you get to race in Europe. Way cool.
thank you! WOOO!
Rooting for you and the company. They seem to be good folks.
Continue to stay healthy & consistent…. the real key to success….congrats
Allie, another excellent video. The trail races that you are slated to run all sound really exciting and in stunning locations. I am glad that NNORMAL is giving you the flexibility to wear other brand shoes when you race on the road or the track. I know that alot of us were wondering and concerned about what shoes you would be wearing. You have alot of fans rooting for you mostly because you are such a nice person. Look forward to watching the Gate River Run. Best regards.......
Yes, it's really nice of them to allow this flexibility and accept that road shoes are not their focus, so it's in my best interest to use others!
Excellent video Allie! It’s going to be so fun to watch your journey on the trails and see you do some road and track stuff! NNormal sounds like an amazing company! You will be an awesome ambassador!
Thank you!
Oh my !! So excited for you Allie... So many great, iconic races penned in... Sierre Zinal is special... :D
it will be an iconic year!
Congratulations, Allie!! So excited that you'll be doing more trail. You're going to be such a positive presence and absolutely smash these races. I'm also selfishly SO excited to see you at Sunapee. I'll be absolutely fangirling and trying not to pass out before the race. 😂
stoked for sunapee!
Omg enjoy the Dolomites and Spain!! Love your CZcams channel, I paused watching HBO to come here! Best wishes on your races and congrats on the partnership!!
Wow, I am honored to have one over HBO ;)
dude what?! i havent been keeping up to date, congrats on that new contract. That's amazing!
Thanks!!
My nine-year-old totally believes the Golden Trails were his idea. I’ll just leave it that way, I think 😂 He is super super excited to watch your races this year!! Love from Amsterdam 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🏁
Great Q&A! I’d highly recommend watching the late finishers at an Ironman event achieving their goals. So inspiring to see all body types getting it done. As you said, it’s more about what’s inside. Congrats on the adventures ahead and maybe consider the Xterra trail running world champs.
true true! I will check that out!
Hi Allie good morning happy Monday morning and I hope you having amazing weekend and I loved your vlogs and you are amazing Supporter and I'm proud of you
Love the hoodie!
Inspiration, I have the feeling the best is yet to come for you, see you may be on the trails in Europa, may be in Chamonix, my wife is running UTMB this year, take care, all the best 🍀
UTMB is a race I really want to do someday!
You're just great Allie! Can you do a video on strides. Great job on your sponsorship!
16:30-17:16 Thank you so much for this. I'm a high schooler who has had this mentality that losing weight and dropping my calories will make be a better runner. I'm finally stopping with the obsessive calorie tracking/restricing and weighing myself everyday. I feel so much better and I'm glad that I heard this from people like you to change my mind and keep me from a downward spiral. ♥
I’m so happy that you recognized those harmful behaviors and took action to change them! Proud of you for being strong and setting yourself up for success ❤️
Yayyy! This is very exciting news! More trail races only means more hill workout videos.. which means more suffering and.. is so enjoyable to watch hahahaha
MORE HILLS
Once again Allie a huge congrats to your new contract they seem like a good investment and they want to help you not only with your running goals but also your recovery goals so congrats again!!! I am so stoked for the races that you have coming up that is super exciting and i'm stoked for you to do them!! I am just so inspired by you and your journey you have come so far and it's really amazing to see all that you have accomplished so far :) Wow going to spain that sounds like a once in a lifetime opportunity! I am still sturggling with eating enough and fueling my cross fit training but I am inspired by you to keep going no matter how hard it gets :)
Thank you for all of the support through everything!
@@allie_ostrander of course your very welcome :) I am stoked for the races that you have coming up!!!
very exciting times for you and us cheering from the sidelines. I can't wait to see your track journey continue, but then, your trail journey is very exciting. while I love the olympic athletes, the ioc have wrecked the olympics for me. I haven't watched any olympics for 20 years, but everyday I'm watching the allie's and the courtney's on youtube.
yes, it's nice to have options, and I'm excited to do multiple types of racing!
GOLDEN TRAIL!!!!
the answer to the high school runner was really superb, i hope that helps a lot of people
Awsome Q&A Allie thank you for taking the time to answere questions i had a few in mind that you answered. I am looking forward supporting your journey as best as I can. Im sure you will have a wondeful time over europe. Is spencer and georgie going to be traveling with you? Good luck on your 15k race on saturday rooting for you. Have a great rest of the week.
yes, so cool 🎉🎉 i hope to see you crossing that finish line at sierre-zinal. i‘ll be running it in the ‚tourist‘ category (well, I hope to get a spot) 😉😉
Looking sooooo forward to seeing you running the 15K!!!!....Rachael Kennedy a friend of mine will be running...hope you get to meet her she has a great inspiring story. Pulling for you Allie....Stride On!!!...love your channel/content👍👍
race day is coming soon! STOKED!
Is there an Allie code to use when buying Nnormal gear? I don’t even want a discount, just them to know I’m buying their gear and supporting them because they’re supporting you. You are an inspiration. Congrats on all the things. Can’t wait to see what you do on the trails.
Your videos are so enjoyable
Very good content and relaxing for me to watch
You really are so talented at this
Thank you
Awe, that is so nice to hear. Thank you!
I always enjoy watching your videos, you've really helped me through my ED by sharing the raw, real side to things, and its helped me put into perspective whats important and what will help me in the long run! Thank you for being you! never change! Also what distances are the trail races that you'll be running?
That is so incredible to hear! I'm glad I've been able to help in some small way :)
I'll be racing vertical kilometer up to 26k distances.
This is great! I think you'll be amazing at Dolomyths!! And Pikes Peak.
The Allie O and Allie Mac Show! Woohoo!....
You’re gonna come to Italy, omg, YES! Italian stan here to support what Francesco Puppi calls “madness”. LFG! 🤟🏻🇮🇹
I love my Italian stans !!
@@allie_ostrander we love you too 😎❤️
Added you on Strava. I’m getting back into trail running. I’m doing two events in april. Can’t wait. Cross country was my love in high school. Have the nicest trail shoes.
Looking forward to watching your trail running videos soon.
Love from Australia 🇦🇺
Good luck in your races in April!
@@allie_ostrander Thankyou. 10k and 14k. Just want to finish in one piece :-)
17:41 It's okay. My favorite PopTart flavor is brown sugar cinnamon, all because of how perfectly it pairs with a tall glass of water in the morning, lol!
About time you got Strava lol 😂 but seriously kudos with the contract enjoy watching your journey since starting your channel since the early days
haha I know. I held out for so long!
I want to be as cool as you… and I want to be your friend. Thanks for being an icon and leader in this world 🎉
Great video covering all aspects of the new sponsorship and your plans going forward. Just slightly heartbroken to hear that Paul is your favorite subscriber - but hopefully I can recover from this news. But seriously, enjoy the process and have a great time running Gate RR 15K and Carlsbad 5000 and beyond. You're too young to remember, but ESPN used to have a weekly 30 min show called "Running and Racing" back in the day and I made my one and only ESPN appearance on their Carlsbad coverage in the late 90's (B-roll footage of finishers; the leaders were gone in the first 400!)
haha well he is my dad, so I'm a bit biased!
@@allie_ostrander Just a quick follow up...will Cory Brown be the captain of your trail crew team?
Really like how you explained your weekly mileage and glad you on strava as now following you.I been running around 15 miles a week and have now increased my mileage but being careful to avoid injury.My goal is 40 miles a week by the summer to improve my running and times .
Just be careful and don't build up too fast! Also integrate some down weeks so it's not just build build build and no time to adjust to the training load!
Hi Allie
I am doing down weeks as you suggested and know not to over to do.
Ooh, would love to see you run Pikes Peak
All I had to hear was the name Killian Jormet and I knew you have gotten into a good thing. Congratulations to you.
haha I agree! As soon as I knew he was the co-founder, I believed in Nnormal 100%!
Did I hear Pikes Peak.....! Yes come run with us! Spencer can look for Bigfoot if he comes 😀
Congratulations on your affiliation with Nnormal! You deserve it! I was wondering how much sleep your body typically requires a night? Do you take naps?
I sleep usually 9hr a night. Sometimes 10 on the weekends! I don't usually take naps because I just don't like them haha
Excellent! Truly excellent. Couldn't happen to a better person. You could have been a violin player and things would have turned out well.
Normal signed Allie because she shows up to race and will represent their brand in and outside of competition.
Are you the favorite daughter? 😂😂
Great vid. Congrats on the contract. Will be fun to watch as you get into trail races!
haha I think I'm the favorite sometimes and not the favorite other times...
Great athletes are not normal. You are among the elite. Working with a team is great.
not normal is best
Dolomyths + Sierre Zinal + Pikes Peak
Bah Gawd that's Golden Trail World Series music!
Hope to see you mixing it up with Nienke Brinkman, Maude Mathys, Judith Wyder, Sara Alonso...
STOKED!
Fantastic post... Everything you posted was perfect!!!! Except the cherry pop tart thing 😔😔
haha I knew the cherry pop tart would be controversial
It sounds very exciting... I'll buy some of their products and give them away as gifts. {I have always liked (simple) trail running. I grew up speaking several languages including Spanish and Italian. I hope you enjoy Spain and Italy, etc.}
Spain and Italy seem great! Excited to experience them myself.
@@allie_ostrander 👍😃
This is all very exciting. So happy for you. Is it fair to say that the choice of the 15k season kickoff race was a way to do a race that both helps you prep for some 5k/10k races on the track AND the longer-distance trail running to come this summer? Or is it mainly just the latter?
15k was an exciting new distance and the race was at an ideal time...it all just made sense for my racing schedule.
It’s the sprinkles they use on the cherry pop tart!
There's nothing controversial about that pop-tart call. Cherry and brown sugar cinnamon are easily the best flavors.
I'll be very interested to see all of your new trail running content as it starts to ease in.
I'm glad that you have impeccable taste in pop tarts too.
Cherry pop tarts are sooo good
LOL love your dad's question --- I had a Qs -- what are your thoughts on recovery shoes? do you have one?
I love Birkenstocks lol. I don't have any recovery shoes!
Good things come to those who persevere. Will be pulling for you at Gate River!
yay, thank you!
Sounds like answer is trails, trails, trails!!
and road and maybe track!
Great video as always. However, was there something weird with the audio or is it just my headphones?
Sorry the audio didn't sound great...I'm not sure if maybe it was because I didn't use a mic?
Allie, so happy for your progression...will Ari rremain your coach ?
Yea!
How does that work with track and road running since NNormal is trail and mountain running and does not have road and track shoes, are they good with you running in a pair of Aplhafly's or Vapor's or whatever is best for you for road and track? And does that mean they will look at road and track at somepoint or just stay with what they know best?
Oops, I forgot to add the most important word, 'prominently,; in and outside of competition.
Do you have any advice for a high school runner that wants to run in college? Also do you think you could also talk about signs of an eating disorder? Thanks!
Advice for a runner who wants to run in college would be to reach out to coaches, focus on development through high school, and realize that it's more important to be great at the end of college than at the end of high school.
Bro that augghh intro 🤣
❤
Your future is so bright you're going to need shades 😎
Another question: Around 2-2.5 years ago I was around 140-145 lbs and running 80-90 miles a week and in the best shape of my life. I started getting injured not much later and it has been an endless cycle since. Now I'm 160-165 lbs and when I've been healthy anytime I do a running workout longer than an hour or so, my legs tend to feel like lead the rest of the day and after I complete the session. In addition, I've found that running even 50-55 miles a week has proven to be challenging on my body even with me being much smarter about training intensity now than back then. Is that "lead feeling" in my legs simply from the increased impact from the added weight and if so would say that I simply need to adjust my volume accordingly? Thank you for taking the time to read this message! You're an inspiration Allie O!
I think you just have to adjust to what your body is telling you. If the higher mileage doesn't feel good, and you aren't adapting to the training well, it makes sense to try something different. Maybe going lower mileage but adding cross training?
@@allie_ostrander yep that sounds like a good idea and I've been trying to do more of that as opposed to rushing mileage! I actually have really found a passion for cycling and swimming/the triathlon since being injured continuously. I think I also need to not be so ambitious about weekly volume and hitting a specific and arbitrary number/time goal because that's all it is, a number and nothing else.
Allie, which race will you run at the Broken Arrow weekend of races? I live near there and we are getting hammered with snow, so I expect there will still be snow on those courses in June as well as for Western States which is the following weekend.
I am signed up for the 23k and the VK
@@allie_ostrander Awesome, I will be there watching, and I hope I get to say hello to you.
Cherry pop tarts are the BEST
I'm glad you agree!
Just curious, how is it running without an insole?
Great Q&A. FWIW I have a "runner's body" but am spectacularly slow at running - the body doth not the runner make. To answer your dad's question, I assume your dad is your favorite father?
he is my favorite father! haha
Allie goes racing in Italy
MAMMA MIA
MAMMA MIA is right
What kind of caffeine pills do you use?
I originally thought it was NN. The road running teams that supports like Eulid Kipchoge. I now assume that NN and NNatural are different entities.
They are different!
envy your stoke levels.
Hey Allie, whatever you do don’t go running through the Appalachian Mountains. Just trust me lol.