E35: Dan & Becky Sharp - London Marathon Fundraising Family

Marathon Talk

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Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Preparations for Paris 2024 are firmly in the final stages, and we finally have all the action from the US Olympic Trials from Deena Kastor herself!

It’s a jam-packed episode of Marathon Talk this week, where we tackle debutant winners, a heart-wrenching story from this week’s guest & London Marathon hopeful Dan Sharp, and a Training Talk that touches on how to put a positive spin as you reflect on your progress.

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Topping off the show with Martin’s parkrun escapades and Deena’s role at the recent Olympic Trials
7:30 - All the latest from the US Olympic Trials, from a debut performance earning Fiona O’Keefe her spot, and our guest last week Ed Eyestone comes through with his two young charges taking a 1-2 finish in the men’s race
24:45 - Training Talk this week focuses on reflections and progress, with a three-step plan to regain control of your motivation during a run
33:40 - Dan Sharp is our special guest this week, running London Marathon for Brain Research UK this year; he talks us through the emotional turmoil that’s brought him to this point, and wife Becky Sharp makes a charming appearance on the show sharing her own goals alongside Dan’s

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 35 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon majors.
0:07.0	On this week's show, I'll look back at the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials here in Orlando, Florida.
0:14.0	We'll dive into a bit of training talk
0:16.0	as Tokyo approaches,
0:18.0	and we speak to six-star hopeful Dan Sharp
0:22.0	about his forthcoming marathon and the incredibly challenging journey his family has been through to get there.
0:28.0	All right, let's go. Hi Martin, how have you been the last couple weeks? Tell me what you've been
0:39.5	up to Martin. I've been running a little bit Dina I've been swimming once in the sea been on a
0:46.6	great 10 mile I've been putting some effort in a little bit more effort in in my
0:51.0	own running well and I thought that when you put a bit more effort in you were rewarded right with better outcomes
0:58.1	But it doesn't seem like that's the case I ran my local park run a little bit harder, but a bit more effort in, really focused,
1:06.2	you know, like I was focused before I was going to do the run. Like I mean, I got up earlier and I put my kit on with plenty of time.
1:14.0	Normally I'm a bit of a last minute racer to park run and I get there already having you know
1:19.4	rinsed myself just to make the nine o'clock start but I've given myself a bit of extra time and I thought
1:24.4	I am going to dial into this and see if I can beat the time that I'd run the previous week which was
1:29.3	1842 I think something like that 1842 so I thought right I'm going to go off harder I'm going to not lose
1:36.4	focus on on each of the three miles and see what I end up with so I did exactly that I ended up with exactly the same time.
1:44.8	Oh man but do you think it sometimes with park runs it's it's the weather that day
1:50.4	was it colder and windier was your nemesis not there or your sun not there to
1:55.9	chase down? Because all those little factors can really draw a little bit more out of you.
2:00.8	Well, I'd like to say that it was really blowing a gale,
2:05.0	you know, the elements were definitely against me.
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