E17: Alex Eagle & Victor Macauley from The Running Charity

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Running Charity’s purpose is positive and powerful, and in nobody is it more prevalent than the wonderful Victor Macauley.

Victor, their Partnership Lead, joins us on Marathon Talk this week alongside CEO Alex Eagle for a dive into their life-changing work for homeless, disadvantaged and marginalised young people.

Elsewhere in the episode, we’re tackling the Leeds Marathon, a new 100km World Record, and a disastrously drenched camping trip…

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Kicking off with an update on Martin & Deena’s training, and a disastrously drenched camping trip
9:45 - Rounding up some heartwarming news from the Leeds Marathon, Aleksandr Sorokin’s new 100km World Record, and the art of the ultra run
19:15 - The Running Charity’s Victor Macauley and Alex Eagle on their first London Marathon, inspiring the next generation, and running’s impact for marginalised communities

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 17 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon majors.
0:07.0	On this week's show, two heart melting moments at the Leeds Marathon.
0:12.0	A new 100 kilometer world record set at an eye-watering pace.
0:18.4	We look back at a long lonely but ultimately lucrative trudged for one athlete and we talked to the founder of a charity
0:26.4	using the power of running to change young lives.
0:29.9	Right, let's go. Martin, how are you since we've talked last? What have you been up to?
0:40.0	Getting wet?
0:42.0	Getting wet? You know what? It's springtime and each week on the show here you're
0:46.8	you're in California and I'm in the south of England and each time I sort of
0:52.0	of myself was there she is sat in the sunshine you know
0:55.3	baking Californian sunshine and each week I ask you is this have you still got snow and
1:00.9	this time you said yeah I've still got 15 feet of snow.
1:06.2	Well whereas in the UK we're coming into spring and often in May the the weather starts to get a little bit better.
1:16.0	So last weekend Liz and I had a camping trip planned in, right?
1:21.0	So one of our, it was actually one of our sons football soccer trip away. So every year the whole
1:29.2	soccer team, there's three of them. All the parents and the kids go away together and we all go camping.
1:33.5	Oh how fun. But this year it did nothing but chuck it down. Not a little bit of
1:40.3	like fine rain but proper stare rods. Were you camping with an umbrella over you? How did you do that?
1:48.0	It was hideous. Honestly, like it was everyone was so wet, like we put a
1:54.4	gazebo up to try and cook under it and it just dripping, like we had so
1:59.6	much wet clothing. The worst thing was, so I'll level with you a little bit so we've got a little
2:05.3	camper van so me and Liz are like yeah right it's dry in here we put that and we're in the dry
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