E33: Richard Whitehead MBE - 2x Paralympic and 4x World Champion

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Marathon Talk! It’s 2024, and what better way to inspire the year ahead than a fascinating episode featuring a four time world champion - Richard Whitehead MBE.

We learn more from him about his 10 year unbeaten streak in 200m track events, and the training plan that’ll see him to his 6 Star finish in Tokyo.

Also in this jam-packed show, Training Talk returns to kick off your training plans for a spring marathon, and we round up the news from record-breakers and blistering debutants galore!

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Martin welcomes back Danny Coyle as a guest host this week, caps off Christmas, and the duo review the start of their 2024 training plans
7:00 - Our roundup of the busy holiday season, from a javelin thrower-turned-debutant-winner, a new fastest women’s debut ever, and a road 5k record toppled
17:50 - Training Talk returns with a kickstart to your running year, focusing first on laying the essential groundwork for the all-important months leading up to a spring marathon
31:15 - Richard Whitehead MBE joins us to detail his remarkable career, from finding his specialism and hunting his 6th star, to world-beating performances and the biomechanics of running as a double amputee

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 33 of marathon tour powered by Abbot World Marathon Majors and also
0:06.3	welcome to 2024. On this week's show we take a look at the fastest women's debut marathon ever.
0:15.0	There's a new 5K World Road record right at the end of 2023.
0:20.0	Kibchouge and Hassan head for Tokyo. We're going to talk a little about New Year's
0:24.8	resolutions and about how to prepare for spring marathons. Plus we're joined by
0:31.2	two-time Paralympic T42 200-meter champion and marathon world record
0:36.9	holder Richard Whitehead. Before we get into the show you may notice that Dina sounds a little bit different
0:47.9	this week that's because Dina is not in fact Dina she is none other than Danny from Abbott World Marathon majors because
0:56.2	Dina was having a few digital gremlins so I'm joined by Danny Koyle
1:01.1	welcome to marathon talk Talk, Danny.
1:03.0	Thank you, Martin.
1:04.0	I'm not sure about those gremlins, you know.
1:06.4	You know, it just so happens that Dean is off to Sunnier climbs off down to the
1:10.3	commuter on some marathon-related pigagor-other and lo and behold
1:14.4	her internet fails. She disappeared. She disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. I'm sure
1:21.4	I'm sure she'll have a good time down there and we'll hold the thought.
1:25.2	I'll do my best.
1:26.2	Well, thank you very much for stepping in Danny.
1:29.8	Normally at this time in the show we have a little catch up about what we did over Christmas.
1:34.4	What did your Christmas look like?
1:35.7	My Christmas was we hosted my family.
1:39.2	We had 14 people around the table on Christmas Day and then we hosted my wife's family.
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