E19: Gerda Steyn

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Spectators of Gerda Steyn’s Comrades run were treated to 5 hours, 44 minutes and 54 seconds of pure athletic prowess, and a brand new course record…

This week on Marathon Talk, as we round up some of the standout stories and blistering times from the running world, we’re fortunate to have a fascinating discussion with the South African!

Tune into episode 19, as we also illustrate the art of the benchmark run, and learn why meeting your heroes isn’t always all that it’s cracked up to be.

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - We get things started with a look at the art of the benchmark session, and being a parent to an athletic child
11:20 - Rounding up the latest from the stellar Comrades Marathon, remarkable course records, world-beating times, technology revolutionising the Diamond League, and much more
30:45 - A fascinating interview with Gerda Steyn, an incredible athlete whose electric performance in South Africa set a new Comrades course record
1:03:30 - We close out with a story about Arnold Schwarznegger that backs up why you should never meet your heroes…

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 19 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon majors.
0:07.0	On this week's show a look back at the grueling Comrades Marathon.
0:13.5	We take stock of a rash of record-breaking runs on the track,
0:18.1	and we assess the Fantasy Marathon team from Kenya
0:21.3	heading for the World championships later this summer.
0:24.0	All right, let's go.
0:30.0	Martin, it has been two weeks and I am dying to know how your camping trip went.
0:36.0	Now it was good, it was good, it's nice to hear you again.
0:39.0	You're right, such a lot has happened since we last chatted not only in the world of running, but also it's definitely summer here in the UK.
0:47.0	We heard at the beginning of the show how, before we started recording, how you've got a little bit of drizzle as we call it drizzle a little bit of rain in California California and drizzle don't go well together but you know it's sunny and warm here at the moment so we've been having barbecues and going camping and things like that. Yeah, good camping trip was great.
1:07.0	Our world says have flipped. Yes, they have. Yeah. I'm sure they'll go back at some point because our Californian weather won't last.
1:14.0	What are your kids like to do while they're camping?
1:17.0	Just get dirty and like really filthy and go feral and although my older daughter's just kind of slightly less into it now.
1:27.0	But the twins are just, yeah, I mean, disgustingly so. But that's what it's for. That's what's going that's what going
1:34.1	camping is for isn't it is to let your kids go, let them run wild, let them explore
1:38.4	boundaries, do things that like yeah we went paddleboarding, we went kayaking, they swam in the sea, you know, we just kind of jumped off high things and
1:49.6	like they got really bad hay fever, all the kind of stuff that kids do get when they're away camping.
1:55.2	And so for our listeners are you able to keep up with your routine of running and cycling while you're
2:00.2	camping?
2:01.2	No.
2:02.2	It's bad, isn't it? Like you always get up a bit earlier and then you always
2:07.2	have this kind of camping coffee. You know what I mean when you think mmm it's not quite it's not really, it's not like coffee at home is it or
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