# @aliontherun1 on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BxuVI4GFXqH
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/14492953-aliontherun1-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/93b97e9988.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-05-21T12:04:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ali Feller (@AliOnTheRun1) — https://gondola.cc/AliOnTheRun1

## Caption

On Friday night, in slight preparation for the next day’s #PopularBKHalf, I was reading my old Brooklyn Half race recaps. In my 2011 recap, I wrote about finishing the race and taking the subway from Coney Island back to the Upper East Side. “That’s weird,” I thought to myself as I traveled down memory lane. “I guess boldceo didn’t come to the finish that year?” And then I remembered.

We hadn’t even started dating yet. Our first date came a few hours later that very day, after making it safely back to the Upper East Side, taking a quick shower, and then trekking to Van Cortlandt Park to shoot jackrabbit_original commercials.

Thanks to a bottle of Pinot Grigio and a flirty Facebook message, our first date started around 10 PM, shut the bar down at 4 AM, and (innocently, I mostly swear) continued until 3 PM the next day, when coachcane’s training plan had me scheduled for a three-mile recovery run. I finished my run and the date picked right back up.

Eight years later, our all-nighters are looking a little different these days. But every year on May 21, I feel those first-date butterflies all over again. (And so glad I have you to drive me home from half marathons now!)

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