E31: Liz Yelling - Team GB Manager & Olympian

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest on Marathon Talk is truly special; not only is she a Commonwealth Medalist, Olympian, and Team GB Manager, but Martin’s own wonderful wife!

Liz’s formidable marathon and cross country experience is matched only by her philanthropic commitments to the running community, all of which she shares with us on this week’s episode.

Elsewhere, we cover the latest from a Valencia race that saw 12 new national records, and Sydney’s super strides towards becoming the 7th Major…

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - We catch up with Martin & Deena’s running escapades through the darker months,
9:45 - Huge news from Sydney’s drive to become the next Major in 2025, and Valencia’s rip roaring, record-breaking race
19:20 - Liz Yelling takes over the mic from husband Martin to talk about her Team GB squad mentality, top tips for taking on hills, mud and hay bales, plus how cross country feeds into marathoning

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 31 of Marathon Talk powered by Abbott World Marathon Major's
0:06.2	on this week's show we reflect on the massive news that Sydney has taken a
0:11.9	step closer to becoming a major.
0:15.0	We also take a look at a lightning quick Valencia marathon.
0:19.5	And I've been on my best behavior,
0:21.7	because this week is a very special guest. Right, let's go
0:26.6	Dina. What have you been up to? Oh my gosh I look forward to this interview so
0:32.4	much but it has been a Oh my gosh, I look forward to this interview so much.
0:33.7	But it has been a fun two weeks.
0:35.8	I was at the running event in Austin, Texas.
0:38.6	And my biggest takeaway from that,
0:41.0	the week is just packed with events from Happy Hour. away from happy hour after happy hour to multiple group runs organized each
0:49.1	morning but my favorite of them all was a trash cleanup around Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas.
0:56.2	It was before the week really even kicked off.
0:58.8	So I was shocked that more than 100 people showed up to run and clean up trash around this lake and I just
1:05.9	reflected on our time sharing those kilometers together that people really look for ways to give back and it was such a rewarding morning to start the
1:15.7	week in that way to make Austin a more beautiful place.
1:19.1	So it was a really, really fun week with a lot of vendors and events going on it was a privilege to be a part of it just
1:26.2	really fantastic with a lot of what a lot of vendors vendors like oh vendors yeah like
1:31.4	different oh like little sales. Yeah, so sometimes when you go to these events like the running event I've not been but I'm assuming it's a you know big kind of running industry celebration in Austin.
1:45.0	You know, to your point of trash clean up, it's really important.
1:48.5	Like, I remember actually being in races when people just throw their wrappers down, you know, I've been running
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