E28: Calli Thackery

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Imagine your first marathon almost breaking a national record - that’s how you break onto the scene and make a statement.

Barring Paula Radcliffe’s time in London, Calli Thackery’s 2:22:11 is the UK’s best, and as she sets her sights on the Paris Olympic Games, she joins us to share the run that’s been 15 years in the making.

Elsewhere we’re gearing up for New York, as Letesenbet Geday prepares for his Majors debut, the women’s wheelchair race features four fierce frontrunners, and Marcel Hug’s lining up an unprecedented clean sweep.

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Martin’s dinner with the stars, Deena’s joyful exploration, and the art of leaf peeping
9:00 - A roundup of Deena’s induction to the New York Road Runners’ Hall of Fame, the stacked lineup for NYC, and Marcel Hug’s hunt for a clean sweep
20:00 - Calli Thackery takes us through her route to running the UK’s 2nd fastest women’s marathon EVER, setting her sights on Paris, and enjoying running for what it is, rather than goal-chasing

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 28 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon majors.
0:07.0	On this week's show, a look ahead to the series finale at New York City.
0:12.0	And we speak to Callie Thackeray, who shot to second on the all-time list in the UK on her marathon debut earlier this month.
0:21.0	So much to look forward to. All right, let's go.
0:26.4	Martin, it's been two weeks I've missed you. What have you been up to?
0:31.1	Well, I have been to a fancy dinner dinner.
0:35.0	Oh, I know. I don't get to go out much these days.
0:38.0	I went to a fancy dinner at AFC Bormuth, so our local Premiership football club, largely because Stormbreak, the charity
0:46.3	that I work for, has been awarded the Charity of the Year for two seasons. So that's really good. To be the Charity of the So that's really good
0:53.0	to be the charity of the year for a
0:55.0	Premiership season
0:56.0	so they invited us to a dinner,
0:58.0	their director's dinner,
0:59.0	and I was sat next to Ben Shepard,
1:02.0	who you probably won't know right but Ben
1:05.2	Shepard is a TV personality in the UK that presents kind of morning
1:09.8	TV stuff and a man called Jim Fofola. Now you may not have heard of Jim for Vola.
1:17.0	I feel so naive. Yeah, well he was an American. Perhaps you should have heard of Jim Fervola because Jim is the new president of business at
1:27.2	AFC Bormuth but he was an American and he used to be, right, in American football and national hockey in ice hockey.
1:37.0	Wow.
1:38.0	So he used to be the, I think it was the vice president or senior vice president of the Vegas golden knights have you heard of them yes
1:47.2	wow yes they go the Vegas go and he was telling me that they're they're the the knights of the team in Las Vegas who won the Stanley Cup
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