Run Your Story Podcast · Allison Gaillard

Allie Eslava Taylor - "I don't care where you are in life, you can always begin to change it right now"

·2 hr 3 min

Runner Story starts with gratitude. Allison Gillyard thanks Fresh Junkie Racing and United Cerebral Palsy of Mobile, and she makes it clear that both partners help keep the stories moving. The tone stays warm and familiar. She opens in the usual Runner Story way, giving the guest room to talk and letting the conversation unfold at an easy pace. Allie is the guest, and the episode leans into a run story that got famous for all the wrong reasons and then funny for all the right ones. It is the goo story from Scenic 98. Allie walks through running in public, cars passing by, and trying to solve a miserable problem mid-run with whatever she could find. She describes using water, then trying to wipe it off with her hand, then blowing her nose and even trying spit when she ran out of options. The story gets more vivid as she explains how absurd the whole thing was, which is why she recorded it, posted it to her Facebook story, and watched it spread from there. Run club had already heard about it, and she later showed the videos at a women's panel at Running Wild, where people thought it was hilarious. The humor is clear, but the embarrassment stays in the room long enough for the laughter to land. It also turns practical. Allie says she threw the shorts away and never ran without lubrication again, which gives the story its blunt little lesson. By the end, it feels like a very human run story about community, humiliation, and learning what not to forget next time.

As heard by us

A gross, funny run story that earns its laugh once it gets moving.

Run Your Story centers on a memorable goo story on Scenic 98, and its appeal comes from how plainly it tells the mess without softening the ugly parts.

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Why you'd press play

You want a running interview that starts with gratitude and ends in a truly wild story.

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