E10: Mary Ngugi, Marathoner and Founder of Nala Track Club

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Mary Ngugi is not only an accomplished marathoner, but a force of nature, a catalyst for change, and an inspiration both throughout her racing and beyond.

Having launched Nala Track Club, she’s creating opportunities for young girls in Kenya with the potential to achieve similar success.

We hear from Mary on the podcast this week, as we also take a look at the stellar elite field for London, Tokyo’s record-breaking run next month, and how much race pace you’re really sacrificing by missing out on training sessions.

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Martin & Deena catch up and share their experiences with unique run plans and strength training
13:43 - Rounding up news on the recently announced elite field for April’s TCS London Marathon, and Tokyo’s Guinness World Record-breaking run next month
21:10 - Training Talk: New research on how much impact a run of consistent missed sessions can have on final race pace
29:05 - Mary Ngugi’s inspiring interview, discussing her start in distance running, advantages of training as a team, and remarkable activism work with Nala Track Club & Women’s Athletic Alliance
1:01:00 - Closing out with celebrations for two important, special birthdays

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 10 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon majors.
0:06.0	On this week's show we'll be taking a look at the TCS London Marathon Elite Fields for April and they are stacked and one of our favorite cult running
0:17.0	heroes will be there too. We look at how much training you can miss in a marathon
0:21.3	build up and we look ahead to a massive record-breaking
0:24.8	feel of six-star finishes in Tokyo. Plus Dina talks to the incredible Mary
0:31.3	Gugi about her stellar road running career and the work she's doing for women in Kenya.
0:37.8	Right, let's go.
0:41.0	Hi Martin, good to see you. You too. How are you all right? Great the last time we talked it was your mom's birthday and you were taking her to the theater. How did it go?
0:52.0	Well, it's always good to go to the theatre with your
0:54.9	mom. That was a good thing. I enjoyed celebrating my mum's birthday with her, but
1:00.4	the show was rubbish.
1:02.8	Is that bad?
1:03.8	Should I say that out loud?
1:05.2	So I'm not going to say anything else about what we went to see
1:08.8	or when we went to see it, because that might embarrass,
1:12.4	not that they'll be listening but yeah took my
1:15.4	mom to the theatre and it was long very slow really difficult to watch, really complicated, and I looked at my mom about 45 minutes in and
1:29.6	she nodded off.
1:32.2	She fell asleep in the theater? Yeah, it was that good. She fell asleep.
1:38.1	One of the problems was that the characters played, there were a limited number of characters, probably six in the whole play, but there was more than six roles in the play.
1:51.0	So the characters played multiple roles. So they kept coming off and on and off and on as something else.
1:58.0	And sometimes the only thing they had on different was like a jacket or a pair of glasses or something like that and so really quickly it got really confusing and they were jumping backwards and forwards in time and I must admit you know it was a bit lost oh yeah I was a
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