Welcome to the Allie on the Run show.
I'm your host, Allie Feller, and this is where I talk with people who are doing exciting things on the run and beyond.
From professional athletes and celebrity runners to the everyday amateur and back of the pack runner.
We are here to celebrate everyone and anyone who enjoys a life on the run.
Whether you are running towards something big or away from something that's been holding you back, I am here to hold your hand and help you pick up the pace.
My guest today is Olivia Enright, sports marketing manager at Adidas.
And we talk about that.
We talk about Olivia's job working in the running industry and all about the fun stuff she gets to do and about how she spends her days.
We talk about how Olivia, whose sister Cara, has been on the show before.
We talk about how she became a runner and about her time running at NC State.
Her best friend is professional runner Erica Kempf.
We talk about jump roping because Olivia is a former competitive jump roper.
But the main reason I wanted to have Olivia on the show today is because of the 12 Olivias.
Have you seen this?
For the past four years, Olivia has captained a hood to coast relay team that is comprised of 12 women, all named Olivia.
I have loved following this every summer.
I think it's so fun.
And I've always wanted to learn more.
Where did the idea come from?
How did she find 12 Olivias?
What do they call each other when they're all hanging out together?
This was such a delightful question.
I absolutely adore Olivia and her fellow Olivias.
And I felt really happy when we finished recording this conversation.
So I hope it has the same effect on you.
Please join me in welcoming Olivia Enright, creator of the 12 Olivias Relay Team, to the Alley on the Run show.
Yay, I'm so excited.
Olivia Enright, welcome to the Allie on the Run show.
How are you doing today?
Oh, I'm good.
I'm so happy to be here and be chatting with you.
I might be your biggest fan.
As you know, there is a time of year in which I go absolutely crazy for the Enright girlies.
And that is the holiday season when we get to see you jump roping.
And so just know it might be August now, but I'm already looking forward to it.
Hope you've got some good stuff up your sleeves this year.
Oh my gosh, the pressure's on.
Do you jump rope?
You know, let's just, let's jump right into it with the jump roping.
I know that every holiday season you and your sisters you do the jump roping videos and we love them so much.
Do you like keep up with this throughout the year?
Like, will you just go out in your driveway on any given day and jump around?
Or is that just a skill you maintain?
Usually no, which is why I feel like during this like 10 days of jump rope thing, we've been trying to cut it shorter, because I get really sore.
I get so sore.
Literally on day three, Cara and I wake up and we're so sore from jumping because we had not jumped until like since the last year.
Unless there's a little talent show situation going on, I usually do not jump, except for during Christmas.
It's kind of like riding a bike.
Okay, but how often is there a talent show situation popping up in your life in adult life?
It's honestly more than you would think.
We sponsor running camps, so I'll go up on stage if I'm there as a speaker or something for work and I'll jump there.
I think Raleigh Geiger I ran at NCCA only recruited me on the team because he saw me jump rope at a talent show.
And he thought I was coordinated, which I was not by the time I joined the team.
So it's fine.
Like jokes on you.
Exactly.
So when you get on stage at these camps and you jump rope, do the kids in the audience do they?
Are they impressed?
Oh, they go crazy.
And I usually, I do like a little like butt jump thing where I'm sitting and they love that one.
So yeah, they usually go wild.
But then this is the thing.
Then I'm known as jump rope girl the rest of the time.
And I'm not helping your cause right now by being so excited to talk about it.
But can you tell us, when did you start jump roping?
When, why?
Give us the backstory here.
Me and my sister started I think all of us were in middle school at our family gym that we went to the Cary YMCA in North Carolina.
They had a summer camp that we ended up signing up for.
And then we realized we could join the team.
So we tried out we I did it for nine years, my little sister Nicole did it, I think also for nine, and Kara I think as well.
So we all did it throughout, like all of middle school.
High school I did like one year into college as well.
My younger middle sister Teresa, is the one who did not jump rope, but she's a good sport and she'll do it sometimes with us during Christmas.
Does NC State have a jump roping club or team?
No, but my college coach was very nice.
My freshman year let me do it in the summer, because I went to Worlds, because I was having like my final hurrah and like did really well.
So she let me go to Worlds and compete while I was on the team, which I think was a pretty big deal.
But yeah, it was really nice of her.
But yeah, it was fun.
We got second place.
Man, if I had that, I mean the things that I would do if I had the skills that you have.
It's like the ultimate party trick.
It is a good party trick.
You got to find someone with a jump rope though.
I should just keep one like in my purse.
Well, I have jump ropes because Kara sent me jump ropes, because I, a couple of years ago, was like I'm going to learn.
And so she sent me an Annie jump ropes and guess what?
I have not yet done.
Listen, it's never too late.
It's never too late.
I appreciate your support.
Well, thank you for explaining that to us.
And as always, we look forward to 10 days this holiday season.
Don't you dare shorten it.
Come on.
I'll do my best, Sally.
I'll do my best.
Thank you so much.
What is something that is making you happy today?
Oh, man.
I guess the weather is making me happy.
I don't know.
I'm between travel, which is great.
There's a few things.
I feel like I can't complain.
This has been a really good week hanging out with Dan and my brother-in-law and sister-in-law.
So just getting some family time in.
So it's been a good week.
And what are some things that you're into right now, whether it's something you're watching, listening to or reading.
What are you consuming these days?
Oh, man.
I have been re-listening and re-watching stuff like a crazy person recently.
I'm re-watching House, which has been really good.
I've been re-watching that.
It's been fun.
And then I re-downloaded Serial podcast and I've been listening to that.
I've never listened to Serial.
It's like the original podcast.
Yeah.
And I've never done it.
Well, now they.
I wish they had more of an update since, like the case has been like changed since they filmed, but it's really good.
Listen, you should listen to it.
I don't like true crime.
Oh, I know.
I know.
I don't.
And I really don't like unsolved mysteries.
I don't like cases where it's like someone out there knows what happened.
Yeah.
But we're not getting the full story.
Yeah.
So I'll stick to, um, What did I listen to today?
I listened to, actually, I listened to the Sidious Mag podcast today.
I listened to Nikki Hiltz on Sidious Mag.
So I'll stay in my lane, I guess, but I'm excited for you.
And how was your run today?
Did you run today?
I have not.
I have an off day today.
So happy.
I had two workouts this week coming off of Hood to Coast.
So I'm very tired.
I'm Very happily taking it off day to day.
Okay, so you are marathon training right now.
You are running the Chicago Marathon.
So I want to hear about the training.
Do you have a coach?
Who's dictating what you're doing when?
Yeah, so...
Ryan Welsh is coaching me, my brother-in-law, my sister's husband.
So he's amazing.
He's also coaching my sister-in-law and my husband who are also running Chicago with me.
So the three of us ran New York last year and then we all signed up for Chicago.
So he coached us then and he's coaching us now, which has been great because he's amazing.
So yeah, I've been following his plan.
I'm tired, but it's great.
Yeah.
Does it change the dynamic that you have with your brother-in-law when there's like either a particularly grueling workout or he wants you to do like paces that you maybe get in your head about?
Does it change the dynamic at family holidays?
No, because so I try not to complain to him about stuff, but I'll call Kara and complain to her and be like I don't want to do this workout.
Yeah.
So I'm like shielding him from my chaoticness, which I think he's grateful for.
But yeah, I try not to complain.
I'm very grateful for him.
Yes.
But Kara gets to hear it all.
So as a runner, is your heart kind of in the marathon right now?
Like you said, you did New York.
Now you're training for Chicago.
Is that the distance that you're most drawn to?
I feel like no.
Honestly, if I'm answering like with my heart, I feel like I want to go back to the 5K.
I would love to do a steeple again.
But everyone's telling me I'm going to break something.
And I, of course, am not listening.
So I want to do a steeple again at some point.
But people are calling me crazy.
Who's calling you crazy?
No, you need more supportive people in your life.
Hello, if you're jump roping and then you're jumping in the steeple.
I think all of this ties together very nicely.
I told, I saw Lori Hennis and Geiger at USA is the other week.
And I told them, I was like, I'm going to do a steeple again.
And they're like, please do not.
You're going to hurt yourself.
And I was like, no, but then I'm, that makes me want to do it more kind of problem.
You can't tell me no, come on.
Well, let's, uh, let's start by going back in time to bring us to the present.
When, how, and why did you become a runner?
Oh man.
I honestly don't even remember why exactly I knew.
So my sisters three of my sisters did soccer and I was the one odd one out who did not want to do soccer.
And I remember my mom told me, cause I asked her, I was like, why did I quit soccer?
And she told me it was because I ran too much.
Like I was like, Oh, it's too much running, whatever.
And I was the one like chasing butterflies and like picking stuff for like mini kickers, like on the field, like flowers or whatever bugs.
Which is interesting to me, hearing that.
And then I was like the first one, I think, to really get into running in high school only my freshman year really.
I started I did like some high school stuff or middle school stuff, but for the most part I started in high school and like it just kind of stuck.
And then I thought, it was my career path and my like life path.
So I ended up running in college.
I was like, Oh my gosh, I love this.
But yeah, my first race in high school, my parents were like, we're not buying you track spikes.
Like you're not going to do this for a long time.
You probably aren't even going to like it, which probably because I told them soccer was too much running.
So I don't blame them, but I definitely, it just kind of stuck.
And then I ended up working in running as well.
So now just everything is running.
And now you can get unlimited track spikes if you want them.
So ha ha, mom and dad.
Yeah, ha ha, jokes on them.
What was your distance in high school when you first were getting into it?
Were you a sprinter?
Were you long distance?
What'd you like?
Distance.
I did the two miler in high school was like my event.
But I got I had allergies a lot.
So I was sick a lot.
So it was a lot of up and downs for my high school career.
But it all worked out.
So you didn't just run in college.
You went to NC State, like a very legitimate, very good, very renowned running school.
Was that a big factor in your decision when you were deciding where to go to school?
Was it how much was running part of the conversation?
It was definitely I was looking specifically at running schools, like I was looking basically between Charlotte and NC State.
I was kind of like putting my heels in towards I didn't want to go somewhere too close to home.
I'm from Cary, which is right near Raleigh.
So I was like, I'm not going to go to NC State.
And of course they were super nice in like letting me come tour and do an official visit and all of that.
Same with Charlotte.
And I just connected with the NC State girls so much when I went on the visit that I was like oh, I guess I'm going to school in my backyard.
But I stayed for five years.
I did an extra year.
It was honestly the absolute best experience ever.
And I'm so grateful they had a spot for me on the team.
Because obviously, they're really good.
And I was not as good as anyone else on that team.
But I was very happy that they had a spot for me.
I was a morale booster.
I was a personality hire.
Yeah.
We love a personality hire.
It's fine.
Is Erica, we know that Erica Kemp is one of your very, very good friends or best friend.
I don't know.
I don't know what we put titles on.
Are you two the same year?
How did you two get close?
We have matching tattoos, so we're in bestie territory for sure.
What are the tattoos?
It's an acorn and an oak leaf for Raleigh.
So yeah, we're besties.
I love that.
So I was already on the team, and we ran together.
I remember our first run together.
We...
This is actually, I wonder if she remembers this.
We were going through like this little gate at Umstead Park.
They have like gates at the end of the trails and like neither of us would move.
We're both like pretty stubborn.
So we both like crammed through the gate and I remember kind of snapping her and being like you gotta let one person through at a time.
I remember if she, I'm curious if she remembers, but.
Love that that's your origin story.
And now you have matching tattoos.
Yeah, and then we got matching tattoos.
But yeah, yeah, she's awesome.
So when you went there, were you there thinking, I want to be a professional runner someday?
What were your running goals beyond college?
I wish everyone could see the face you just made.
Definitely not.
I knew I wanted to be in the running realm, but I was not going to be a pro runner.
I actually initially I thought I was going to be a park ranger.
This is just my first year of school.
But then I realized the whole khaki on khaki situation was not going to work for me.
So that was a deal breaker.
I did take a crazy course because my first year I was like oh, I'll take like a wildlife course to see if this is what I want.
And it was like a 400 level course on squirrel diets, which acorns they like and what they don't like.
It was crazy.
I did not do well in that class.
And then I transferred to a different, I did textiles after that.
But I knew once I was in textiles that I wanted to do like athletic clothing.
What was your major?
Product development and fashion management with the College of Textiles.
Okay.
So you really did take your academic focus and your passion and turn it into a job, because you are now a sports marketing manager of global running for Adidas, which I have to imagine for college, Olivia is the dream job.
I initially started in more apparel design and then I realized I wanted to do more people work.
So shifting into sports marketing was such a dream because I got to manage people.
I was still in the sport.
I actually managed the cross country camp on the brand side with NC state that I used to go to.
So I was like, I started as a high schooler going to all American cross country camp.
Then in college, I worked at as counselor.
Then in my professional career, we sponsored it.
So I went as a sponsor and, So it was pretty cool.
Can't complain.
So can you walk us through the road to getting the job that you have now?
Let's go on the professional path.
Yeah, I first went the internship route.
So I had been reaching out to recruiters after school.
So I had done five years in school.
My last year I did like a senior studio.
So I did a full line of athletic apparel that I had sewn and did like a runway show and stuff.
It was super fun.
Yeah.
It was crazy.
You came up with the designs, you made the designs and you put on a runway show.
Yeah.
It was definitely fun.
It was crazy.
Like staying up all night in the lab while I was also trying to run.
So that part was a little chaotic, but yeah.
So then I was applying for like more design internships at Adidas.
I knew I wanted to be with Adidas because NCCA, it wears Adidas.
So I had been wearing Adidas for everything basically.
Um, And so I was putting all my eggs in one basket.
I remember my dad telling me like, you have to apply for other brands.
And I was like, I just don't want to work for anyone else.
I only want to work for Adidas.
So I did put all my eggs in one basket and I got the internship.
It was a six month internship.
And I drove from North Carolina to Portland and was like, I'm going all in on this.
Hopefully they hire me after, because I sold all my stuff and drove across the country for this internship.
And they did end up extending me another six months within the innovation space.
So that was where I worked, like an innovation apparel or footwear for running.
So I was working and running.
And then the sports marketing job opened up and I applied for that and got it.
And now I just hit eight years with the brand in June.
Congratulations.
Thanks.
So right now with the job that you have, can you explain what exactly is it that you do?
What takes up most of your time?
How do you spend your days?
Yeah, right now I'm working mostly with Atlanta Track Club.
We signed them in 2022.
They are the most humble, amazing partners ever.
I love working with them.
They have so many races per year.
So I
I'm helping with activations, seating apparel and gear, doing like participant tees and any sort of like sales at Expo.
So that is most of my day to day.
I used to work more with elites.
So going to like all of the championships, seeding all of the gear and stuff.
So I've kind of shifted more towards community a little bit since I'm working with ATC now.
But yeah, I do some partnership stuff with some of our elite athletes.
So if someone in comms wants to utilize one of our athletes, I'll help.
Be like the door in between the brand and the athlete.
But yeah.
It's a busy one.
So a lot of travel, but it's very fulfilling and I still get to be so involved in the sport and I'm very grateful.
Let's talk about Boston, because I know a lot of people in the Alley on the Run show community either have run Boston or they want to run Boston, or they've been in Boston.
So that's a thing that we all understand pretty well.
Boston Marathon Weekend and the buildup to it, which is maybe even the bigger part.
Can you explain what exactly that looks like to you or for you, and how you spend Boston Marathon Weekend?
Oh, my gosh.
It's such a huge, huge event.
Um, so my colleague Danny manages most of Boston, so I'm a little more just on the grounds during the weekend and not as much in the buildup.
But usually I mean meetings are starting in like October to start planning.
And obviously the gear stuff starts way before that because you have to work with the factories and usually it's a year or more out.
Um, so like colorways and everything are determined so far in advance.
It's super interesting seeing the whole process, but.
Yeah, Boston weekend is crazy.
We get there and it's full week of in advance of working and making sure partners are all set and elite athletes that are there and stuff.
So it's really fun being able to see the excitement.
It's such a magical weekend and going into the expo and seeing people be excited about the gear is always really awesome.
So yeah, it's a fun one.
That's got to be a great weekend to be an Adidas employee just watching an entire city covered in your jackets from, like all the different years.
So you already know.
I know you're not going to tell me, but the 2026 jacket, you know what colors they are.
I do.
You're going to be excited.
It's a good one.
Is it hot pink?
Because you just said you're going to be excited.
So I'm going to assume that it's hot pink.
A hot pink one.
Oh, my gosh.
We get the alley edition.
Oh, my God.
Stop.
Stop.
Do you already know 2027?
I don't, but I think the meetings have already happened, so I'm sure that my boss does.
Yes.
Okay.
We know that Adidas, of course, sponsors so many of our favorite athletes.
Are there any in particular that you get excited about when you know either they're at an event or that you get to work with?
In other words...
Who are your favorite Adidas athletes?
Oh my gosh.
Don't put me on the spot.
I know.
I'm sorry.
It doesn't mean any aren't your favorites, but like, who do you get really excited about?
Honestly, we have the just best bunch of athletes.
And I know obviously I'm very biased, but everyone is just so kind.
And I love working with people on site, seeing them, because Usually when I'm working with an athlete, we go through the manager.
So we try not to be direct contact with them and we go through their management company.
But once we see them on site, it's really nice to be able to connect and chat and stuff.
Obviously, Noah, Grant, we got the heavy hitters that are all so kind and so amazing.
Anna Hall.
So yeah, I love working with everyone.
It's also fun when we get to sponsor someone that I ran in school with.
So Ellie Hennis. obviously is a good one.
She also was our first second gen athlete because my manager had managed her mom, Lori.
And then when we signed Ellie, I like cried.
I was so happy.
So yeah, we love Ellie.
Oh, I love that.
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You also travel quite a bit for work, obviously with Atlanta, with Boston, but you are headed to Tokyo very soon.
So let's talk a little bit about the travel part of your job.
What will you be doing at world championships and how long are you in Tokyo?
I'm in Tokyo for, I think it's 20 days.
I am taking some extra days at the end.
So I think it's 16 days of work.
Yeah.
We're going to be setting up our hospitality space, uh, for our athletes.
So we just want to make sure they have like a little home away from home.
We do gear distribution.
There's food for them.
We try to do activations.
If there's any like PR stuff that's going on, they'll be doing it there.
So we have a really beautiful space this year.
So I'm super excited to see it all come to life and some pretty cool gear that we're giving out to everyone.
So yeah, it's a lot of setup and preparation to give the gear to the athletes and then connecting with everyone.
Sports marketing is a very relationship job.
So just connecting with athletes, agents, families, all of that is also really fun.
And we get to just hang out a lot of schmoozing, but like fun schmoozing.
Yeah, totally.
I don't know if you would remember this, but at 2022 World Championships in Eugene, I got to come into the Adidas house, which I just remember being like someone's going to know that like I don't belong here or that like, but because I was with my friend, Jay Holder, who at the time was working with Atlanta Track Club.
And so he got to be in the Adidas house.
I just kind of like latched on.
And I don't know if you remember, but you gave me a very cute Adidas dress that I still wear, that I love.
Um, and I was just really blown away by like you built out an entire I mean there.
It was a fraternity house that you turned into hospitality.
Again, a lot of people listening probably won't ever get the opportunity to go to an elite athlete hospitality house at a world championship.
Can you kind of paint a picture for us about when you walk into whatever space you've built out?
What is, what is it like?
What's there?
Who all gets to take advantage of it?
What should we know about hospitality?
I think especially that example of the frat house, one that was one of my favorite work projects that I got to work on.
I think we just want to like embody the area that we're in.
So our Japan one is going to be very like hopefully have some like cultural elements within it.
The one in Eugene was super interesting because we work with like a German agency and they wanted to lean into this frat like Themes so bad.
And they're like, Oh, it's a frat house.
They were so excited.
They were asking what fraternities and sororities were, because they weren't 100 sure about like what it was and all of this stuff.
So that was funny, like getting their perspective as someone who's not traditionally like in the US or in a frat house.
Seeing how they would elevate that to make it into a hospitality was super interesting.
But yeah, we like basically blew out the Sigma Chi house essentially and like redid all the doors.
We redid all of the carpets.
The walls had to be redone.
There were holes everywhere.
There was graffiti all over the house.
I was like, oh, man, this is a very party.
It must be a very party.
But redoing that was really fun.
And we had basically little hotel rooms upstairs where the rooms were.
And we had Adidas robes that we gave to everyone, which was cute and made little room keys and like little hang tags for the for the doors and stuff.
It was very fun.
But I think the goal is just to have a space for athletes to feel relaxed and it's chaotic.
Like if they wanted to go somewhere in let's use Eugene for an example if they wanted to go somewhere to just relax and maybe get in the zone.
They know that at the hospitality no one's going to bother them.
Like they can just be chill and like relax and be ready to go.
We usually have recovery tools there as well, which is great.
So they're able to maybe sometimes we have ice baths or use Norma tech or whatever it might be to kind of just get their head in the game and get ready to go.
But yeah, having a space for them to feel relaxed.
And then obviously the gear distribution part is a big one.
So I was happy to send you gear.
You're a VIP, so you're allowed in our hospitality.
Thanks.
I remember like poking around it was my first time, it was probably my first time in other than being in like the hospitality areas at finish lines at major marathons like I had never seen anything like that.
And yeah, I remember there were people playing games, there was like ping pong and people just hanging out and I, of course, I was like I want to know who everyone is here, like you know who the athletes are.
But then all the other people, I was like who are these people?
Like everyone seemed very, very important.
Yeah, what was, do you know, when it was time for the students to return to the University of Oregon, were the Sigma Chi people.
Like this is awesome, like what was?
Because it sounds like you did a lot of upgrades to the house.
Yeah, so we use the Sigma Chi house every year, so we are close with the chef and one of the guys on the board for that fraternity.
Um, Sometimes the students are happy that we're in there.
Sometimes I think they're inconvenienced, which is fair.
We try to like leave like goodies or some sort of upgrade.
We want to make the space better than we left it.
We got the new turf.
We redid their basketball court.
Like we're very grateful to be using this space.
Yeah.
And we try, I think I had left Yeezy slides one year.
So yeah, I try to sprinkle in some goodies, but I think it's Sometimes they have to leave early or like let us use their space, or there's workers around.
So I feel like sometimes they're like, oh, get out of here.
But in general, I think that hopefully they're happy with us since we're able to like repaint.
We gave them all mattresses.
What?
What is not to love about this?
That's what I'm saying.
Listen, if you ever do an event in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, feel free to take over my home and do whatever upgrades you deem necessary.
Because what I think is we're going to need a hot tub.
We're going to need a sauna.
Just like feel free.
To use my space as your canvas and you came whatever you need.
Yeah, I will be inconvenienced.
It'll be fine.
I love it.
So while you are in Tokyo, you're you've got to be hitting peak mileage right about now for marathon training.
Have you thought about how that's going to work into these long days on your feet?
Oh my gosh, I'm trying not to think about it.
Okay.
I'm definitely nervous.
I'm staying about a kilometer away from the Imperial Palace, which I heard is a good running area.
I've never been to Tokyo.
So I was like looking on Strava, like the heat maps, like zooming in, where can I run?
I think that it's going to be a 5k loop around this palace.
I believe there's a running path and it's lit.
So I will probably run there every day.
It's going to be early mornings.
I have a few buddies that I'm going to try and tap into, but trying to get people up at six to run is a tough one.
We'll see.
I don't think it's going to be tough.
It's going to be all runners descending on this city.
So I think you'll be fine.
I think you're going to find lots of people to keep you company.
If anyone out there wants to run with me at 6am in Tokyo, hit me up.
What will your, do you know what your longest run will be while you're there?
I have a 22 miler and I'm hoping to do that.
I'm probably going to cut it.
I can't imagine doing that long.
I mean it's going to take me forever and I usually have to be ready to go by eight or eight, 30 for stuff.
Yeah.
It's just going to be challenging.
I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to piece together.
Yeah.
I also don't want to run by myself in the dark.
So we'll see.
I'm going to, I'm going to do the best I can, but who knows?
I'm just going to try and run as much as I can between the hours of six and eight, probably every day.
It's a foolproof plan.
Yeah.
Thanks.
We'll see.
It'll be great.
So when you said, you said your husband is also running Chicago.
Does that mean you're running the race together or that you're both running Chicago?
We're both running Chicago.
We are not running together.
Yeah.
He's much faster than I am.
Okay.
We do easy runs together, but we don't even do workouts or anything together.
So most of those are solo.
So we know that when you are training for a marathon, it really helps to have a reason that you're running it, to have a why so, they say.
So what is yours?
What is getting you motivated, especially when you're traveling and you're busy and you've got to get up really early to get these runs in?
What is that why for you for Chicago this year?
I think two things.
One, I'm running for charity.
So I am running for Project Purple.
They support pancreatic cancer research and support families and just awareness in general.
So running for such a cool and amazing charity, I think, has been my number one why.
Ryan also is the coach for Project Purple, so he has personal ties to the charity.
So yeah, I think that that is my number one why, just being able to run for this great organization.
Number two is just getting my body moving the usual everyday grind.
I do like the like having running being like sent to me by my coach to be like, you have to do this.
Otherwise, I feel like I don't.
I'll just like find examples of why I should not run.
So that's my number two, just getting the body moving and forcing it.
So I'm ready for this marathon.
And you will be.
It's going to be great.
You managed to run a relay in the midst of marathon training.
And Olivia, I have wanted to have you on this show for years now to talk about this.
Tell us about the 12 Olivia's Hood to Coast team.
Yes.
So I don't know if everyone knows what Hood to Coast is.
So it's a 196 mile relay from Mount Hood in Oregon down to Seaside Beach, the coast in Oregon.
And it's 12 people.
It's kind of like a Ragnar.
I have not done a Ragnar, but I've heard it's like a Ragnar, but you run through the night.
So it's 12 people.
You have two vans with six people in it each.
And you alternate legs and you just run the whole way back down to the coast.
I had been running this relay for three years, I think it was, with Adidas teams.
So we do corporate teams and stuff.
Um, and then I decided that it would just be funny if I found all women named Olivia to run with me for for a year.
So in 2019, I had reached out to a few different Olivia's.
I think it was only like two or three at this point.
And I was like, Hey, this would be kind of funny.
And I started following a bunch of other Olivia's at that time.
So I was like setting the scene a little, uh, Nothing happened.
I just thought it was funny.
This is like one of those thoughts that you have in the shower or like, like mile 10 of a 14 miler.
You're just like ruminating.
And I'm like, this would be so funny.
Like I should do this.
Like, but nothing comes of it.
You're just kind of like, Oh, that would be funny.
So it was in like a notes app.
It was like me, three different Olivia's that I had mutual friends from and, like Olivia, wild Olivia, like the Peloton instructor.
I was like, Oh my gosh, you need her on your team.
I reached out to her and she ghosted me, but it's fine.
She did not respond to the idea.
It's a tough world out there, but, uh, Yeah.
So I thought it would be funny.
So then in 2021, I like fell into a bib.
So you have to enter for a lottery for hood to coast.
It sells out pretty quickly every year.
And people who get top five in the category get like automatic bids for the next year, but everyone else you have to enter this lottery every year.
So I randomly fell into a bib, but it was like It was offered to me if I wanted it.
So at that point, this was in 2021.
I was like, oh, maybe I should see if this 12 Olivia's thing will work.
And I kind of gave it like a like a half ass effort, whatever.
And I reached out to people, but I couldn't find 12.
So I was like, whatever, I'm going to pass.
Then the next year.
So 2022, I was like, I'm going to do this.
Like, I think it's going to be funny.
I found like five Olivia's in 2021 who were interested.
And that's almost half the team.
So I had reached out to over a hundred Olivia's in 2022.
Hold up, hold up.
Are you just going on Instagram and searching like Olivia runner?
Like where are a hundred, where are you finding them?
How are you doing your research here?
Allie, you're going to love this.
I'm so excited.
I reached out to all of your followers named Olivia and All of my followers?
You were involved in this.
Wait, how did I not know this?
So I reached out.
I looked at all your followers.
I looked at Sidious Mag's followers.
I know.
So I wish I had like record of who specifically you found for me, but I feel like it's all muddied now so I can't tell.
But I had reached out specifically.
I was like, okay, who follows Ally on the Run?
Who follows Sidious Mag?
Who is following, like shalane flanagan, like i'm reaching out to like a bunch of olivias that are following other running accounts.
My heart is bursting right now.
I was like oh, she's gonna love this, so yeah, that was good.
And then i also reached out, like you said, anyone that just said live or olivia with runs.
I could see mostly in people's bios if they had run marathons, because people love to put in their bios, which is very helpful um, So yeah, I think it was like 120 Olivia's.
I had a giant spreadsheet.
And at one point in 2022, so I had I hand wrote a letter to Hood to Coast and was like, please let us in.
I want to do 12 Olivia's.
I think at this point I had maybe four or five of us committed in 2022.
And you have to have a team of eight by June.
So it's like, I think it was maybe three weeks before this June date.
And me and my sister-in-law Paige, were sitting down and I was like I'm going to lose like three grand because I cannot find these Olivias.
And she was like, no, we're going to reach out.
So she helped me with the spreadsheet and I had color coded, like reached out.
They said no, reached out.
They ghosted, reached out and they're interested.
And I am shocked at the amount of Olivia's who responded to a random message because none of us knew each other.
We I didn't know I had.
So one person, Olivia D'Angelo was my husband's best friend's little sister.
And then I had love this.
Yeah, I was like looking for everyone.
How do I find these people?
Olivia Johnson, I had done a relay with like three years prior.
And then Olivia Paxton, I had worked at with one of the running camps through work.
They were the only three that I like had I knew anything about.
So the rest of them, I was reaching out and I mean, they have to pay me like $200 Venmo.
So I'm like, hey, it's 200 bucks.
Do you want to run?
Like, here's my idea.
And I'm shocked that they sent me the money and like, agreed to this, because I could have been just some random person.
I mean, I am some random person.
But I'm shocked that they had committed.
But I also reached out to Olivia's that I had found on Instagram after looking through all of the world marathon majors and West Coast marathon finishers 330 or faster.
So anyone I saw on the finishing I'd look up their name and that I'd find them on Instagram and reach out to them.
So I had a massive database.
It's funny, if you look at my followers list or my following list, it's like 300 Olivia's.
When you were reaching out, did your message include adidas at all?
Like did you say, was adidas supporting this?
Because i'm just thinking, like when you get a random dm from someone, if they're like oh, i work for adidas, and then i think you might be like either intrigued or like oh, this is legit, or you might be like this is not legit.
Were you using adidas at all?
No, I tried not to.
I try to keep my like personal and work life pretty separate.
So I was like, okay, I'm not going to say it.
I think at the very end when I was really trying, because a lot of the Olivia's I had to request to be friends and they had to like figure out if they wanted to be friends with me back in order for me to message them.
So I would like wait.
I think my profile was public.
So you could see that I worked for Adidas, I think, but I think I ended up putting it in my bio at the very end there.
But then I removed it because I was like it just feels like it felt like cheating, trying to use Adidas as my like.
Reach out to me like.
So, yeah, I tried not to.
But so you eventually get 12 Olivia's.
Are they I'm guessing from all over the country.
What's the is there any is there any main demographic or any geographic location or what?
What are we looking at in terms of the demographics of the 12 Olivia's?
Yeah.
So the first year, I think, was like maybe eight different states.
There were like two in South Carolina, I think, that ended up joining.
There were two in New York, two in Oregon.
So those were like the repeats.
But we yeah, they were from all over.
None of them knew each other.
So their first time meeting was at the Airbnb, and we were all sharing beds too, because I was like, how do I manage this?
Cause I got one Airbnb for all of us.
It's like, we have to connect before we're in the vans together for 24 hours.
Like this is you don't know how people are going to act after staying up all night, much less with a bunch of strangers.
And so none of us knew each other.
We're like sharing beds the night before.
And it like we all hit it off immediately.
But yeah, I think I wrote down all of the States from all of the years.
We've got New York city.
Sorry, New York.
Cause there's another New York non-city and, New Jersey, Montana, South Carolina, California, Oregon, Maryland, Texas, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania.
So those are all Olivia's future and past from all of those areas.
How is there not a documentary crew following this?
This is so like the real world, but for runners and in a relay situation.
Were you... Okay, so let's talk about the first one, which was at 2021 or 2022?
2022, yeah.
Okay, so were you nervous?
How much had you corresponded?
Like, had the group connected much either over email or in a group text or anything?
Like had you gotten a vibe for what the energy might be like before you all descended on this Airbnb?
Yeah, so I definitely did research on Instagram of all of the Olivia's before reaching out to them.
So I like made sure that we all seemed like we were going to vibe.
And one of them was like, I told them all this.
I was like, Oh, if other women are in your comments saying like, Oh my God, I love you.
I'm obsessed with you.
Then you're good to go.
So I was like, okay, that'd be girls girl.
So that was like, my number one thing, trying to figure out if, Like they had other, a bunch of other female friends.
So all of them do.
But yeah, that was my like number one thing and just making sure that they didn't have any weird stuff on their Instagram page.
So I was like creeping through hardcore.
We did a Zoom call the first year because the other challenging thing was was none of them had run the race either.
And this is a super technical race, like trying to coordinate handoffs.
There's a lot of rules, like trying to figure out all that stuff.
So I was the only one who had done the race.
So trying to figure out, like Olivia Johnson, who only did the first year, she had done a relay before.
So she understood the premise.
So I had her like captain one van and I captain the other.
But trying to like make sure that we understood the actual race was definitely a challenge, having no one else had done this race before but me.
What about uh?
You said before you mentioned some times that you were searching for specific times in the marathon databases.
Were you looking to be competitive so that you could get one of those spots for the following year?
Or was this a just for fun?
Kind of a combo.
I think my first priority was to find women who seemed like they were wanting to have a fun time.
Most of the people that I had found, though, was... it just happened to be around the same pace.
So we were all like eight minute or so between eight and seven.
I feel like, for like racing we I didn't realize how fast of a team I had pulled together until we had finished.
I think we finished second or third that first year in our category of women's open.
And I was like, Oh, we're actually like a pretty competitive team.
Like that's just pretty cool.
But I think my first actual like thought was like, find women who are going to have fun.
Um, So yeah, that was kind of my first thing.
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So what was it in your message that you think got people to say yes?
Was it sort of the gimmick of it of we're all named Olivia?
Was it people who wanted to run a relay and never had?
Did you get a sense of why people said yes to this?
I feel like Olivia's just want to have fun, I guess.
I don't know.
We're just an adventurous bunch.
We all, I was like, what, why did you agree to this?
And usually the answer for them is like, Oh, I don't know.
It just seemed like a weird idea.
So I decided to do it.
And some of them pulled the, Oh, I thought it was like an MLM or something.
So I was scared to money, like whatever it might be.
You're like a cult.
You're like, and now you have to recruit three Olivia's and they each and you're the top line Olivia.
Yeah.
You get benefits.
The more Olivia's you pull in.
You get a white Mercedes at the end and we're going to go on a cruise.
And then you can also be part of my timeshare.
It's going to be great.
But yeah, I think that first people were creeped out.
So one of the Olivia's, Olivia Bush, she's from Texas.
I don't know what it was about her, but I was like, I have to have this girl on my team.
Like I was so committed to Olivia Bush and I was reaching out to like hundreds of Olivia's.
But for some reason it must have been something that she said initially where she was like I'm interested.
I was looking back at our screenshot the other day when I was talking to her, because I was like you were the hardest Olivia to pull in.
I think I messaged her like six times in a row, like desperate.
I was like.
Hey, just checking back in, just checking back in, wondering if you're interested.
And she agreed and she's done it every year.
But I was like, I can't believe how desperate I was sounding in these messages.
So I feel like they just felt bad for me.
And cause I at one point I think, I said to her like I'm going to lose a bunch of money if you don't do this.
Is that correct?
A little bit.
We have a bunch of repeat Olivia's.
There's a group of, so we have group chats.
So we do a yearly group chat.
So we have like 2025, 12 Olivia's.
And then we have a big family group chat just called the Olivia's, which is where all of Olivia's present and past are in.
So we have maybe 17 of us in there who are pretty active and, like it kind of rotates who is doing the race that year, depending on like life situations and whatever else.
Um, So, yeah.
What was the question?
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know if I got to it.
But oh, when you all, just when you all arrive and you all get together, do you do like icebreakers and getting to know you?
And like, let's go around the group and say your your last name.
I guess you don't even say your name, but your last name and where you're from.
Like, how did you sort of set the set the tone for the weekend?
We did the first year we had.
We did like a cocktail hour basically before.
So we like met for drinks and everyone was just chatting.
I also think I shared everyone's Instagram accounts up front like a few months beforehand, so people could follow and start like engaging with each other.
So that was good.
I think like just being forced into a van with each other was like the main part of us all getting along honestly.
Like you have to in order to be functioning during this race.
Like you were on top of people who haven't showered and have run three times, like so you just get to know them very well, for better, for worse.
But um, so yeah, we're all kind of just forced to get to know each other.
But I do think um, we just have similar like vibes in general, which is crazy to say.
I don't even know how.
We just all everyone wants to have a good time.
I think it's the number one thing.
So we all get it.
And people are like in the chat they'll be like oh, is there another race we can do this year?
Or like, does anyone want to do new york with me this year?
So like they're meeting up in other areas in the us, which is so cute.
Yeah oh ally, you're gonna die.
So one of the olivias, olivia paxton, got married.
I think it was last year, and another one of the olivias was the maid of honor.
So Olivia Polish is made of honor.
Yeah.
So like people are really forging like real friendships out of this and are hanging out outside of the race and stuff.
And like we get happy birthday messages in our Olivia's chats.
We do like race goal stuff.
We have like people saying what races they're at and other folks joining up, like random vacations that people will join in on.
So it's just really cute.
This is my dream.
Not even to be a part of it, just to know that it's happening.
I love this.
What about costumes gear kiss, adidas has been giving us some gear, so usually i'm like pressing gear or like i'll have olivia snell, one of the other olivia's like pressing gear, like the week before like, oh crap, we should have had these ordered somewhere.
Is pressing gear like putting your little i'm?
And i only know this because you just made the gesture you're screen printing yeah yeah, how do you have a screen?
Do you have that at the office?
Uh yes, but i usually just use, but there is one at the office as well.
Okay, yeah.
And then olivia snell's boyfriend works for nike, so he helped us also, but he's pressing adidas gear in a nike.
Yeah, i was gonna say that's so.
Yeah okay, i like it.
It's synergy um, but yeah, it's good, the gear is fun.
I like when we all match, everyone seems to like gravitate towards pink, which is hilarious.
Like all of the olivias love pink.
They're gonna love the boston marathon jacket.
Oh, they're going to love the Allie edition Boston Marathon jacket.
So we do that.
A lot of the Olivia's have run Boston.
Three of us are running Chicago this year.
So fun.
And will you all see each other?
Like you'll all see each other that weekend, or is it just kind of like yeah, we'll know that you're there?
Like how close are these, are these bonds?
We probably will see each other.
Um, so Olivia Hummel's running, I think she's trying to break three.
So she's much faster than me.
And then Olivia on decks running.
I actually didn't ask her what her goal was, but I assume that the three of us will see each other for drinks.
Um, but yeah, the chat is like, it's like an everyday active thing.
Like They all love Taylor Swift.
So they actually started their own Olivia Taylor.
It's Olivia Swifties chat.
They moved it off of the other chat and they have an Olivia Swifties chat.
Allie, you should be an honorary Olivia, please.
You could be like Olivia, like basically.
What do you all call each other when you're all hanging out?
We go by our last names.
Okay yeah, but the first year, like Olivia D'Angelo, she had trouble with it and she would be like Olivia, can you pass me that?
And we're like you can't say that you gotta pick us by the last name.
So that's always funny um, but yeah, we go by our last names.
They uh, the most funny thing is when we're at like a Starbucks or like a coffee place where you have to give your name, or like people are looking like starting tabs for us at restaurants.
We had like a McMinimins incident at like i think it was like midnight and the lady was like looking at all of our cards to pay and she was like am i hallucinating?
Are you all named olivia?
And we're like yes, we're all named olivia.
It's like a whole thing.
When people find out.
It's always really funny.
Yeah, what is?
What sort of reaction do you get?
Because obviously a very fun part of races like this one, whether it's a ragnar or hood to coast, is you decorate the vans right.
You get them all decked out.
You write on them.
It's really fun.
Do you get a pretty good reaction?
Do people understand that you're all named Olivia?
I feel like so we.
We try to make it very clear on our vans, because the number one question that we get every single year is are you really all named Olivia?
Like they'll ask over and over like, Oh no, but are you really all named Olivia?
And we're like, yes, we're really all named Olivia.
So usually we'll write that like, yes, we're really all named Olivia on the van.
Um, Which is a funny one.
But yeah, most of the time.
I mean this most recent one.
We were in like a drive through at McDonald's getting a like midnight burger.
Oh, yeah.
And someone like raps on our window really loud.
And I'm like, what?
And we're about to get robbed.
And so we rolled the window down.
I don't know why we rolled the window down, but it's fine.
We rolled the window down.
And the lady wanted to make the robbery nice and easy for them.
Why did we roll the window down?
The lady's like, I don't want to, she, she said something.
She was like, Just coming from a fan, we need to know, how do you meet each other?
And so she saw our names.
It must have been on the back of the van.
But people are very interested.
And they always ask, how did you guys meet?
What do you call each other?
Are your names really Olivia?
Do you have any new Olivias?
Because every year we have maybe one or two new Olivias.
So those are all fun ones.
But yeah, it's always really funny.
The only time that I told the Olivia's this year, I was like, we have to keep our reputation up.
We can't be known as the mean Olivia's.
So we have to be like happy every time someone asks, even if it's at three in the morning and we haven't slept at all.
And they're like, no, you're really Olivia.
You're really Olivia.
I'm like, we got to say yes with a smile, ladies.
It's only a matter of time before you have a handbook.
And it includes like you are an extension of the brand.
Anytime you are out in public, you are an extension of the Olivia's.
Yes.
Represent yourself is how you represent the van.
Oh, my gosh.
I always have to catch myself because I'm like OK, I don't want to talk right now because it's so late.
But people are super genuinely interested, which is also really fun.
So, yeah, that's always a fun one.
Yeah.
One year.
So in 2023, we had four new Olivia's that year.
So Olivia Maffei, which is one of our New York Olivias, and Olivia Bush, which is our Texas Olivia, who I had DMed a million times.
Maffei was injured and Bush was pregnant, so they weren't able to run.
So I had to find two other Olivias for them.
But this is the sweetest thing ever.
They both still came to the race and they crewed for us.
So we had that year, which was so cute.
Yeah, it was the cutest thing ever.
They were like so committed.
They came, they like drove, they stayed at a hotel in the middle of the night and then they came to the beach with us and they were like just hanging out the whole time.
I mean, that's just how you know like people are just excited to be around everyone, because everyone just gets along really well.
This is the best shower thought come to life ever.
I know we're coming up on our fifth year in 2026.
Yeah.
So now does it feel like an expectation that like we have to do this every year?
And I'm mostly thinking for you as the person who created this and made it all happen.
Like, is this your, your thing?
Is this something that is just fun for now?
How do you see this over the years?
Yeah, I mean, the first year I did it, I thought it was going to be a one and done.
But then we got the auto bid to come back in.
So that's when people are like, well, we have to keep going.
And now it's definitely an expectation that will continue.
We did we got seventh place this year because it was super hot.
So we do have to reenter the lottery.
I assume it'll be fine, but we'll see.
We have some other races that we could bring the 12 Olivia's to Headwaters Relay in Montana or Cascade Relay in Oregon.
So we have some backups, but I think that we will continue.
Someone sent an article.
One of the Olivia's sent an article the other day that was like these people's kids are now doing hood to coast.
It's been 40 years.
And like my life flashes before my eyes having to plan every year.
I'm like, Oh my God, this is a huge commitment.
But I was like, we can do this.
My little sister, Teresa told me, she's like, you got to assign like a CEO, chief executive, Olivia.
Oh my gosh.
I just got chills.
I love that.
And we can do like.
So maybe in the future, if I like get tired of planning, I'll start assigning uh like chief Olivia's for different elements.
So, but yeah, we are looking for sponsors, specifically Olipop, because Olivia Pop, Olive Garden obviously makes sense and oh positive, it's like a women's health care company.
So these are the three companies that i'm after.
So, if anyone has contacts, i'm trying to get an olipop and olive garden and oh positive, i mean i feel like olipop you can get.
They love runners.
Chris chavez will connect you yeah, let me.
Let me hit him right, see what the deal is.
Yeah, olive garden yeah if, if you make that happen, let me know, because i too would be interested in unlimited breadsticks for life.
Agree, I have so many good content ideas.
Imagine we're handing off oh, with a relay, like a relay stick.
You know, kind of greasy, but it could be fun.
No, I love this, you're amazing, you're brilliant, I am.
This is so fun, I want.
It was the breadstick handoff.
That really got you Ali, and my brain just like short-circuited, because now that's all I can think about and I'm like wait also, I want to do that.
It sounds delicious, and then you're obviously like carb loading.
I mean, it truly brands itself.
It could be perfect.
And then the women's health companies really cute.
You get some free tampons or something.
I would love that.
Yeah.
So it could be fun.
This is the best.
These see, these are the questions that I've had for years and I'm hearing about it is somehow even more delightful and wholesome than I imagined it to be.
So this is the best.
I do have one funny story about recruiting.
So when I was initially recruiting back in 2022 and I was nervous that I wasn't going to find enough women, I found this one girl who on Instagram went by like I think it was like live, and she had a bunch of running stuff on her page.
So her page just said live.
And I'm like, Oh, Olivia, great, we're gonna reach out.
And I started chatting with her.
And I forget if I had a mutual that I reached out about her too.
But I was like hey, like i'm reaching out to this liv wondering, and the person was like you know, her name is livia.
No oh oh, no.
So i polled my family and some of the olivias and i was like, do we, do we let her in?
Do we not?
Like we?
We agreed not to, so i had to tell her she wasn't able to.
Oh my god, wait.
And was she interested?
She was like half interested, but I also – thankfully she wasn't like – she kind of got it because I was like oh, we actually need Olivias, not Livias.
It could be a PR scandal.
What if it was 11 Olivias and one Livia?
I know.
You can't have that coming out.
That's not good for the downline in the MLM.
Exactly.
False advertising.
Oh, my gosh.
I had to tell her that she wasn't welcome into our group, which was sad.
Have you seen any –
Copycats, have you seen any other groups doing this with different names?
No, I'm waiting for another name to duel us though.
I would love to see another 12 something out there.
So if anyone needs help, I could help you maybe.
I could help you maybe.
I love that.
But I would love to see like 12 Pauls or 12 Chads.
12 chads.
That's too many chads.
That's a lot of chads.
One chad is too many chads.
Sorry if you ever had chads.
Dad's chads.
Dad's brads and chads.
There you go.
We'll see.
You can definitely do 12 alleys.
Yeah, but how specific do we have to be about the spelling?
I feel like you could take in a bunch, any of them.
But then how do you put your title?
Right.
Exactly.
Exactly.
So no, also no, I can't, I can't take on another thing.
Don't get me excited about something.
Just let me delight in the 12 Olivia's without turning this into a little project of my own.
I don't want more projects, but I love yours.
Oh my gosh.
This has just, this is, I love hearing about this before I let you go.
I need to put you through the sprint to the finish round on the alley on the run show.
Are you up for some rapid fire questions?
Yes.
Perfect.
I'm waiting for the day that someone, I don't know why I ask.
I'm waiting for someone to be like, not really.
I have another meeting or like, ah, it's not my thing, but everyone's so nice.
What would your last meal on earth be?
Chicken wings.
You were ready for that one.
Buffalo.
Yeah.
Spicy.
Ooh.
Favorite movie.
Ooh.
Don't kill me on the taken.
This is such a weird take, but it's fine.
I've never seen it.
But is that the nicholas cage one?
No, it's with liam neeson, liam neeson, same thing.
My other version.
If i'm allowed to give a second one, it would be midsummer, because it kind of feels like the olivias, you know.
Yeah, favorite tv show, a little cold favorite tv show uh, i'm gonna say gossip girl.
Oh, good answer.
What food reminds you of your childhood?
Oh, chili cheese burritos from Taco Bell.
Nice window or aisle window.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Big time.
Who would you want to play you in a movie?
Oh, I've never thought about this.
I don't know.
I think, will you play me in a movie, Allie?
I mean, I can't act for shit, but yeah, it'd be my honor.
Yeah, I don't really know.
Who would I want to play me?
I don't have an answer for that one.
Okay.
That's a bad answer, but.
Well, we'll see if you have an answer for this one, which is do you ever get told you look like someone famous?
I used to get told Emma Watson when I had really short hair.
So I had a pixie cut.
And she had a pixie cut, I think, too, right?
I think she had a pixie.
We had pixies around the same time.
I love her.
She's yeah.
I love her.
Uh, favorite pasta shape.
Ooh, I think bow tie.
What was your very first job?
I guess Adidas would be, I mean, I didn't really, unless you counted like, Oh, jump rope counselor.
Yeah, no, I count everything.
Like first thing you ever got either paid or credit to do.
Okay.
Either being a babysitter or a jump rope counselor.
I bet you were such a fun babysitter.
Yeah, I still love to babysit.
Oh, well, come over anytime.
I would love that.
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Oh, I wanted to be an entomologist.
Is that the bugs one?
Yeah.
Studies bugs?
When I was very young, very random.
And then I suddenly like a switch turned and I didn't like bugs anymore.
So then you took that squirrel class and that again changed the trajectory.
Yeah.
So many pivots.
First concert, best concert.
First concert might've been, it might've been like Backstreet Boys.
I think best concert, Miley Cyrus.
Oh, I love her.
Awesome.
Favorite ice cream flavor.
Anything cheesecake.
Nice.
Biggest pet peeve.
Ooh.
I don't know.
That's so nice.
Of course you don't have one immediately ready.
I could name 10 off the top of my head.
There's nothing really that I think about when my sister Kara used to drink Hawaiian punch and then breathe in my face.
Wow well, she's gonna.
I can't wait for her to text you immediately as soon as she hears that, because we know she's gonna listen to this.
This is when we were children, but I really I can't think of anything immediately.
That really irks me.
Wow, but that that even came to mind brutal, brutal sisterhood.
If you could take a class in anything, what would it be?
Um, I think I would continue with Actually, no.
Floral arrangements.
I think that'd be one.
Yeah, they do those now.
They do them as like fun little girls nights and things.
Yeah, I want to do that.
That sounds like a good one.
Favorite candy?
Sour Patch Kids.
If you could go for a run with anyone, who would it be?
I think, well, my sister, because we don't live near each other anymore.
Which one?
Yeah.
Uh Kara, Teresa and Nicole don't really run that much, but if they wanted to join I would love that too.
Okay.
In one word, how does running make you feel?
Free.
All right.
Last thing, give everyone listening a reason to go for a run.
Oh man.
Uh, just relax the minds, have a like little thought where you could maybe start a run group with 12 other people with your name.
I love it.
Oh my gosh.
I have loved this.
You know what?
At some point we need to do like a live show with all 12.
Well, it's more than 12 with the entire Olivia's group chat.
Um, I will have no problem keeping everyone's names.
In order.
Seriously.
Thank you for agreeing to do this.
This made me so happy.
And you're the best.
Have the best time in Tokyo.
And I'll see you in Chicago.
Thank you.
The Olivias all listen.
So, Olivias, I love you all.
And they're all obsessed with you.
So, they're going to be very excited.
Oh, my gosh.
I love you all.
And thank you for being, but truly isn't it amazing what running can do and the ways that it can bring people together?
Like this is, this is what I want this show to be all about.
And you're the exact embodiment of that.
So thank you for doing what you do, for sharing it and shout out to all the Olivia's and and and, Olivia and Olivia.
You're the best.
Thank you for doing this.
Thanks.
Thank you so much for being here for this episode of the Allie on the Run show with my guest, Olivia Enright.
I hope this episode made you as happy as it made me.
Just nice to hear fun running stories, don't you think?
We don't have to take it all so seriously all the time.
Go rally a group of people with your same name and have some fun.
Make some friends.
I am You had to have known.
I'm guessing everyone listening to this was like, this is so up Ali's alley.
And it absolutely is.
Shout out to any of the Olivia's out there who are listening.
You're doing great.
You're all doing great.
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I feel like I'm extra chipper right now.
I have Olivia, all of the Olivias, so thank for that.
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At some point, I will get back into a regular cadence of posting.
It's one of those things where I write a newsletter and I'm like, oh, it's so fun to write.
And then the next week, something will happen.
And I'm like, oh, it feels like too much work to put that into writing.
And then the next week, I'm like, well, now too much time has passed.
It's too much to catch up on.
Allison, just... taken everything too seriously these days.
I need to go run a relay or something.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for listening, Olivia.
Thank you for coming on the show.
As a reminder, you've got this.
You're doing great.
And thank you for joining me on the run.
