E23: Tom Williams - parkrun COO and Marathon Talk Co-Founder

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Long-time Marathon Talk listeners will be treated to a familiar voice this week, in the majestic return of former Co-Host: the wonderful Tom Williams!

Tom joins Deena to guest host an episode packed with news of Chicago’s lineup announcements, the US Olympic Trials in Orlando, and some grand race plans of his own.

He also stars in our interview section, where he joins forces once again with Martin to discuss parkrun’s landmark achievements, the value of volunteers, and majors aspirations.

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Starting the show with a focus on Tom’s major impact on the global running community, and his time-pressured race plans
9:20 - Wrapping up the biggest stories, from the continued wait for Kiptum vs Kipchoge, to the sweat-inducing start time announcement for the US Olympic Trials
22:40 - The long-awaited reunion for Martin and Tom, as the former Co-Hosting pair cover the parkrun landscape, huge global milestones, and Tom’s lessons & moments of pride in his accomplishments

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 23 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon majors.
0:06.6	On this week's show, well Martin is still on vacation so it is a pleasure to welcome my second guest co-host, but he is the esteemed
0:17.2	co-founder of Marathon Talk, Tom Williams, to the show.
0:21.3	We take a look at Chicago's elite field for October and we'll discuss the
0:26.2	merits of a midday start for the U.S. Olympic Marathon trials in Florida? Hmm.
0:34.0	All right, let's get to it.
0:35.0	Tom, welcome back to the seat.
0:40.0	This is six hundred and one episodes for you. It is so
0:47.5	great to be here. You left me really big shoes to fill but it is such a pleasure to have you here what have you been up to?
0:55.4	Oh Dina thank you so much like it honestly it feels incredible to be here I feel
1:00.0	truly honored as I said before we started recording that you've kind of taken up the
1:04.3	the button carried the flame of marathon talk and continued it going and yeah thank you
1:09.2	very much I listened to the most recent episode on the way into work this morning
1:12.2	and and really enjoyed it.
1:13.8	So brilliant work to everybody involved and thank you. I've been traveling. I think one of the
1:19.3	themes of last week's show with Donna was traveling wasn't it with her work and I've been traveling
1:24.4	with my work I've been to Ireland meeting in the north and south with with
1:29.2	volunteers and communities from Park Run and then I went over to Australia, spent some time at our
1:34.8	Gold Coast office and then I went unbelievably fortunately to the South Island of
1:39.3	New Zealand. Met some marathon talk listeners in the South Island in New Zealand as you do and had a great time there.
1:45.0	So it was just a real kind of top up of how running brings people together the communities and I think you were talking on last week's show about
1:53.9	the running groups. I think you'd said to Donna if you could run with anybody who would it be and she said her running group of 10
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