E3: Edna Kiplagat, Two-Time Marathon World Champion

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In any sport it’s ideal to learn from the very best, and as a two-time Marathon World Champion and three-time Abbott World Marathon Majors series winner, it’s hard to find better than Edna Kiplagat.

Labelled the ‘Queen of Persistence’ by Outside Magazine, the strength of her mindset is equalled by her consistent success throughout the years.

On Marathon Talk this week, we hear what drives Edna’s stunning performances, round up the recent Valencia Half Marathon and upcoming NYC Marathon, and share AWMM’s exciting initiative to support 2,000 runners on their 6 Star journey!

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Rounding up news from Toronto, Frankfurt, and the blisteringly fast Valencia Half Marathon
23:00 - The incredible Edna Kiplagat on the preparation, motivation, consistency and persistence behind her continued success
50:00 - 6 questions with featured 6 Star Finisher Martin Cauldwell
51:10 - Closing out with a look forward to New York, and training plans to suit the winter season

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 3 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon Majors.
0:06.0	On this week's show we'll be talking all about the finale to series 14 of the majors, Lightning Fast, Valencia Half Marathon, a new initiative from
0:16.8	Abbott World Marathon majors and are we speaking to three-time Abbott World
0:22.1	World Marathia Major's series champion, the legendary Edna Kipplegat.
0:27.6	Dina, how you doing? A couple of weeks since we've spoken. Everything alright with you?
0:34.7	I'm well, Martin. We're actually recording this on Halloween day. It's one of my favorite
0:39.3	holidays. I don't own Christmas dishes, but I do own Halloween dishes.
0:43.8	Some fine-boned china out of England,
0:46.8	with little skulls with tears on them.
0:49.2	I love Halloween.
0:50.7	I love the festivities of it.
0:52.2	So it's a good day in our house.
0:55.0	So you have, as we're talking, I can also see you, which is great and you've got this
0:59.6	like Halloween jumper with big skeleton's head on it.
1:03.8	Yes, I'm all about skulls and luckily my daughter had a school dance on Friday and
1:09.4	then we had Halloween parties so I just have everything have a little skull snow globe that rains bats instead of snow
1:16.5	To say that I'm festive on this holidays an understatement
1:20.0	So do you go out and you know enjoy local communities do you take your daughter out?
1:25.6	How does that work where you are with Halloween?
1:27.6	Yeah, you know we have a very small town in the mountain so just one little neighborhood
1:32.3	that celebrates Halloween and it's
1:34.1	blocked off and there's a police presence and all of the families get on board it's
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