E38: Visually-Impaired Six Star Hopeful Mark Rogerson & his guide Katie Garrity

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Marathons form very unique bonds within the running community, but when your life is in your guide’s hands it’s truly a bond like no other.

That’s where Six Star hopeful Mark Rogerson’s story sheds light on the joys of running - he joins us on this week’s Marathon Talk fresh from a PB-setting Tokyo race with guide runner Katie Garrity.

Join us this week as we round off all the other stories from the first Abbott World Marathon Major of the year, from surprising slow runs, to sprint-finish drama in the Women’s Wheelchair race.

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Martin and Deena kick things off with a retrospective on the Indoor Athletics World Championships, and Martin’s endeavours to dust off the road bike in spite of some savage weather conditions
8:55 - We round up the hottest news from the first Abbott World Marathon Major of the season, with shock slumps from Kipchoge and Hassan, the sprint finish in the Women’s Wheelchair race, and the 2,628 runners earning their sixth Star
22:20 - Training Talk this week tackles the vital final five weeks of race prep, and the emphasis on nailing that all-important final long run
29:10 - Mark Rogerson and Katie Garrity talk us through the complexities of training on opposite sides of the Atlantic, their emotional Tokyo experience, and how they’ll take on that all-important sixth Star

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 38 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon Majors.
0:07.0	And this week's show will look back at a stunning day at the Tokyo Marathon, including some unexpected performances.
0:16.0	We've got training talk and prepping for those final five to six weeks before the Boston and London
0:22.4	marathons, and London marathons.
0:23.6	And we speak to two Tokyo finishers,
0:26.8	visually impaired runner Mark Robertson
0:29.5	and his guide, Katie Garrity.
0:31.8	All right, let's go. Martin, we've been recording a lot these days. What have you been up to the last week?
0:40.4	Mm. Been busy, isn't it? It's been busy.
0:43.0	We've been, we seem to have been recording all the time.
0:45.0	I have been doing loads.
0:48.0	Actually, I went for a cycle in the rain on Saturday.
0:51.0	I've been neglecting my road bike so I thought you know what I'm
0:55.0	going to get out on the road bike and do some miles I did 50 miles on Saturday check me
0:59.4	out. Oh yeah but you've been doing a lot in the rain recently.
1:03.6	Well, that was the follow-up. You see, I went out.
1:07.3	I'm going to like hold my hand up here. I'm a bit of a fair weather cyclist.
1:12.1	Like I like it when it's dry, warm and about 25 degrees. I don't like it when it's under 10 degrees and heaving with rain,
1:21.1	which in the UK has been most days lately, but I thought, you know what, I am going to commit.
1:27.2	So whatever the weather was on Saturday morning I was going to go out and I did.
1:31.2	But riding through some of the lanes in Dorset where I live, the water from the
1:36.3	roads was so deep it was coming up higher than my cranks. So it's like 8, 10 inches deep in the road.
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