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🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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What better time to exhibit the extraordinary mental benefits of running than during Mental Health Awareness Week.
That’s been a huge focus for this week’s Marathon Talk guest, Runner’s World’s Mallory Creveling, who’s been working on a must-read piece of work on wellness - ‘The Runner’s World Guide to Mental Health’.
Learn more on this week’s podcast, where we also share the best path to recovery from unexpected injuries, peek ahead at Bekele vs Kipchoge, and bring you some superb 6 Star Stats.
In this episode of Marathon Talk:
0:00 - At the top of the show we check in with Martin & Deena’s recent antics, from Deena’s L.A. trip to Martin’s camping escapades and an unfortunate injury
6:15 - In the news this week, we FINALLY get a preview on Bekele vs Kipchoge at Paris 2024, some shocking revelations about Kipchoge’s recent abuse, and we crunch the numbers on the 6 Star Statistics from the past season
19:50 - Training Talk this week hits a personal point for Martin, with the best methods for recovery if you’ve picked up an unexpected niggle
27:50 - Runner’s World Deputy Editor of Health & Fitness Mallory Creveling joins Deena to share their remarkable recent work for mental health, and Mallory’s own journey discovering the mental benefits of running
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0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 43 of marathon talk powered by Abbott World Marathon majors. |
0:05.4 | This week we look ahead to the prospect of Kicho-Gae versus Bakili finally. |
0:11.8 | We also take a deep dive into the latest Abbott WorldMouth and Major 6-star finisher stats |
0:17.1 | with a little training talk on what you should do when an unwanted niggle creeps up on you and we talk to our friends at |
0:24.8 | Runers World USA about mental health and running right let's go. Dina, what you've been up to? |
0:35.0 | Well, it's been a busy couple of weeks, but I just returned from Los Angeles. |
0:42.0 | It was a six hour drive down and back this weekend for a barmitza celebration. My daughter is 13, so she's at the age where she's going to some fun parties. |
0:53.4 | And this was her first Bar Mitzva. |
0:55.3 | One of her ski team friends was celebrating in LA. |
1:00.0 | And it was such a fanfare. |
1:02.7 | We had such a good time, which is why my voice is a little gravely |
1:06.8 | because we did a lot of singing on the drive home. |
1:09.7 | And my favorite part of this celebration, they're over the top parties, right? |
1:15.0 | As he becomes an adult in this world. |
1:19.0 | And so he did such a great job with the ceremony at the temple in the morning and then in the evening we were all on the dance floor, crowding the dance floor on the outskirts to welcome the family in and the family was like coming in one by one and dancing like toe touching and putting their hands in the air so people would start clapping and all of a sudden her friend came in. the |
1:45.0 | air so people would start clapping and all of a sudden her friend came in the family broke out into a choreographed dance. |
1:49.0 | It was the most epic thing I have ever seen. So 10 family members all dancing together. It was such a hype game. It was so incredible. And as an athlete, it's taught me like really to like use everything around me as inspiration so I immediately like my jaw was on the ground. |
2:09.9 | I was like how can I incorporate this into my life like when can I do this like my |
2:15.7 | daughter's turning 16 that's like something that I would celebrate a sweet 16 so I |
2:21.1 | have three years to think of how we can have this epic party and have |
2:26.0 | our family choreograph a dance for everybody as we as we kick off the show. So it |
2:32.2 | was so epic and so amazing. |
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