E25: Wayne Larden - Sydney Marathon’s Race Director

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Wanda Age Group World Championships have never been hosted on a non-majors course before… Enter: The Sydney Marathon.

As the budding race hopes to become the 7th Major, we hear from the marvellous Wayne Larden on what it’s like to be Race Director of a course with such potential.

Elsewhere, we touch on Berlin’s stellar lineups, a mad Mexico City race with thousands of DQs, and why housework is as dangerous as any high intensity sport…

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Martin & Deena return to cover a surprise visit to A&E, a thrilling road bike race, and racing children
9:50 - Rounding up the marathon world’s top stories, from a Mexico City marathon fraught with cheaters, to the anticipation building for Sydney & Berlin this month
21:10 - Sydney Marathon’s Race Director, Wayne Larden, shares the race’s fascinating journey to hosting the Age Group World Championships, and its hopes to become the 7th Major

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 25 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon Majors.
0:07.0	On this week's show, we'll talk about what on earth went on at the Mexico City Marathon. We'll dive deep into what we can
0:15.4	expect at the BMW Berlin Marathon. Some big news about the Age Group World
0:20.8	Championships and we'll hear from race director of the Sydney Marathon
0:25.8	as they make their bid to join the Abbott World Marathon majors.
0:29.3	All right, let's go.
0:37.0	Martin, how have you been the last few weeks? Good, I've been really good.
0:38.6	We had a little week, a week break, didn't we?
0:42.1	A little week off,
0:43.4	just change the scheduling a little bit,
0:45.0	but we are now back as from this week
0:48.1	with a regular bi-weekly marathon talk,
0:52.2	catch up to talk about everything Abbott World Marathon Majors and otherwise.
0:56.2	And I've been good. Yeah, I've done loads. I've done a park run in 1820, which I was quite happy with staying fit yeah I was beaten by a child oh and
1:09.7	Breathe out so I got like I was running running around the last that running around the 3K and I thought
1:17.2	there's a there's a child ahead of me I mean it wasn't like you know a 15 year old this was a 9 year old and a small 9 year old at that.
1:25.4	I thought, wow, okay, let's see if I can at least catch the child up.
1:29.7	And what I did, I then felt a pang of guilt about pushing, like pushing past and, you know, taking a child to the cleaners in the last kilometer.
1:41.0	So I thought, hang on a second,, had a really big check with myself, you know, not to race and instead to go, well done, you know, you're doing really well. Keep pushing and then drop back a little bit but secretly
1:53.7	inside dinner I just wanted to just wanted to beat them yeah you had to you had to
1:59.2	completely dismiss all of your instincts that you put a target on this child's back and what you
2:04.4	wanted to do is come up on his shoulder and just smack talk and then give him an
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