E26: Keith Turner - The World’s Fastest Blind Half-Marathoner

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

World records are toppling in the marathon world - stand up and take a bow Tigist Assefa and Keith Turner.

The new women’s record fell in a truly stunning Berlin Marathon last week, and Keith Turner’s half marathon time sets a benchmark for a visually impaired, untethered athlete.

Join us as we share a conversation with Keith and his guide, Jim Roberts, in this week’s Marathon Talk, cover off the biggest stories from Berlin, and look ahead to Chicago next week…

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Catching up on Martin and Deena’s escapades, recent runs, and how they stack up to the recent record-breaking runs
5:00 - One of the most breathtaking weeks in marathon running with Berlin’s record-setting race, and how it sets up a super showdown in Chicago
32:30 - The amazing duo of Keith Turner and Jim Roberts give us the inside track on how they set the new half marathon WR for a blind, untethered runner

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 26 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon Majors.
0:08.0	On this week's show, our hot take on an amazing race at the BMW Berlin Marathon.
0:15.8	A look ahead to the action at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon.
0:20.2	And Martin speaks to visually impaired runner and new world record holder, Keith Turner.
0:26.2	All right, let's go.
0:27.6	Martin, welcome back to the microphone. How have you been?
0:35.0	Good, I've been really good actually.
0:37.0	You had a nice couple of weeks.
0:39.0	Do you know what, Liz and I went away?
0:41.0	We don't get to go away that often without the kids.
0:44.3	And I know, my mom kindly looked after the kids.
0:48.8	Like who wants to look after twin 10 year old boys, you know, in a 14-year-old teenager, not many people is the answer.
0:56.3	So my mum looked after the boys and Liz and I went away to the new forest, which is a lovely forest
1:01.9	about 20 minutes or so from where we live and we took our
1:05.5	mountain bikes and we did some mountain biking and some gin drinking we had a
1:11.8	lovely weekend.
1:12.6	Gin drinking in the new forest.
1:15.4	While mountain biking, were you doing it simultaneously?
1:18.8	Yeah, it would have been good, but we did a couple, we did a loop on them
1:22.4	on the mountain bikes and then we drank gin in the evening.
1:25.4	So it's because gin is made from juniper berries, which grow in the forest, yeah?
1:30.4	Is that, was it like locally made?
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