E24: Alexandria Williams

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The 6 Star Journey is for all of us, and nobody shouts that louder than an amazing woman who recently earned the 6 Star Finisher’s medal for herself - Alexandria Williams.

She joins us in an inspirational episode of Marathon Talk, which sees the return of Martin in the co-hosting seat, a wild World Record set in high heels, and murmurings of Martin’s next race…

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - We herald Martin’s return with a look at his and Deena’s contrasting camping escapades, connecting with nature through running, and the Women’s World Cup
10:50 - Rounding up the World Athletics Championships’ dramatic Women’s 10,000m, warming up for this weekend’s race in Budapest, and a new high heeled World Record
25:25 - Alexandria Williams shares the inspirational journey she’s taken to becoming a 6 Star Finisher, and the importance of the running community

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 24 of marathon talk powered by Abbot World Marathon majors.
0:06.0	On this week's show I am back in the saddle from my recent holiday so is Dina.
0:11.0	We're both raring to go with a new episode. We'll catch up on everything we've been
0:17.0	up to and then get right into all things world athletics championships including that
0:22.4	women's 10,000.
0:24.0	Another title for Joshua Cheptagai,
0:26.0	and look ahead to the marathon races this coming weekend,
0:29.0	plus, we talk to the star of the Second Albert World
0:32.5	Mayor to the Major Six Star documentary,
0:35.0	which is out this week, Alexandra Williams.
0:37.5	Right, let's go.
0:41.0	Dina, how are you doing?
0:42.0	What have you been up to? It's been a month. It has been a month since we've chatted, but the last two weeks I have been camping. It is not as epic as your camping adventure across the entire country of Canada.
0:55.6	I can't wait to hear more about that.
0:58.1	But I was camping just a mile and a half from my house for two weeks without cell phone service. It was glorious. We did a lot of cliff jumping and hiking and swimming in the lake that we were camping alongside and towards the end of it we got a lot of rain which maybe
1:15.9	nothing new for you but for us it is totally novel so out came the rainbows and it was just really a stunning scene.
1:24.7	It felt like we were so far away because things became so lush.
1:28.2	We saw mushrooms growing on the sides of trees.
1:31.4	Like it was like a totally different space than we are used to despite the fact that we visit this place very often.
1:37.0	So I've got some questions like really you know a mile away from home, that's a question.
1:44.0	But the other question is, typically what we do,
1:48.0	we're a bit more used to the rain and camping
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