E14: Haroon Mota - A 6 Star Champion for Underrepresented Runners

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Running is truly for everyone, and there’s no greater champion for that notion than the remarkable Haroon Mota.

A 6 Star Finisher, Founding Director of Active Inclusion Network, and huge advocate for running within the Muslim community, Haroon joins us on Marathon Talk to share his experiences of training through Ramadan.

We’re also hot off the back of Paris, so we hear Deena’s exciting experiences and the standout stories from the race, plus a segment of training talk with some quick top tips for race day success.

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - We kick off with Deena’s exhilarating Paris Marathon experience, and some tips for those of you looking to do the same next year
16:00 - Rounding up the big stories from Paris, including a sprint finish, debutant winner, and looking ahead to Eilish McColgan’s big London debut
30:00 - Training Talk this week covers 5 quick tips to see you through the big day if you’ve been training for a spring marathon
34:20 - An uplifting interview with Haroon Mota, who shares the intense discipline for runners during Ramadan, becoming a voice for underrepresented runners, and what makes London such a special race
1:16:40 - Wrapping up the show with a look ahead to London, Boston and Easter

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 14 of marathon talk power by Abbott World Marathon majors.
0:07.0	On this week's show a promising sign of things to come from Ailish-McCulgen.
0:12.0	An impressive debut. sign of things to come from Ailish-McCulgen.
0:13.1	An impressive debut and a thrilling finish in Paris,
0:17.5	where I also ran, and we look forward
0:19.8	to an exciting Boston Marathon.
0:22.4	Martin and I will give you a few race day golden rules and
0:26.1	he chats to Boston six-star hopeful Harun Wota. Martin would have Martin, what have you been up to since we last recorded?
0:38.0	I've been busy. I have been busy, almost as busy as you. We are going to get on to your Paris Marathon Run and how everything
0:47.3	went. I've been. I went away, I did a little workshop for Virgin Radio, Chris Evans and a team of charity runners around the Buckinghamshire
0:58.3	countryside. We ran along the Thames, we kind of ran into some quite undulating and very slippery but beautiful
1:05.3	countryside and ended up running a half marathon which was brilliant.
1:09.8	Wow surprising half marathon. Well that was actually another surprising half marathon.
1:15.0	So I've done two half marathons in a week.
1:18.0	One was with Chris and his team.
1:20.0	Thanks for having me by the way, Chris.
1:22.0	Not they'll be listening listening and the second was I left on a run not I don't
1:27.3	if you ever do this Dean but sometimes I've got a really planned focused idea of what I'm going to do on a run at any time and I'll know. I'll leave the door
1:36.0	and I'll have already made my mind up what that run's going to look like. And sometimes I leave the door,
1:41.9	I'm not really sure.
1:43.7	I haven't kind of made my mind up.
1:45.0	I know I want to go out, but I don't know what I'm going to do.
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