E46: Chris Slater - Finisher at 2024’s Marathon Des Sables

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Marathon Des Sables in the Sahara Desert is among the toughest feats any runner can achieve, and fresh from a Top 50 finish is the remarkable Chris Slater.

It’s a privilege and a pleasure to speak with him on this week’s Marathon Talk - his recovery from addiction has led him on an endurance running journey from which we can’t help but be inspired.

Elsewhere in the show, we put the spotlight on Russ Cook for his next adventure, track & field taking centre stage at the next Olympics, and a curious new dating-running series…

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Kicking things off, Martin and Deena round up their fortnight watching the riveting US Olympic trials, and how they’ve been exploring different running formats
12:00 - All the latest in the running world sees a new challenge for the Hardest Geezer Russ Cook, track & field taking top billing in L.A, and a new, faster way to go dating…
23:45 - Chris Slater is our incredible guest this week, with not only an inspirational story overcoming addiction, but in doing so he’s an 81 time marathon finisher and is fresh from a remarkable 250km Marathon Des Sables

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 46 of Marathon Talk powered by Abbott World Marathon Major's and this episode
0:08.1	the Hardest Gies Russ Cook is at it again there's a summer run club for singles and I've let it get first billing in
0:16.8	Los Angeles 20-8 and in this episode's interview I talked to Marathon Runner Life-Changer and now MDS or Marathon Desab
0:27.0	Finisher, Chris Slater.
0:29.0	Right, let's go. go. Dina, how you doing?
0:35.0	It's been a couple of weeks since we last caught up.
0:39.0	What have you been up to?
0:40.0	Yeah, I'm doing great.
0:42.0	Martin Sommer's in effect here, and I've been going on hikes with my daughter and lake swimming. You know, we did this beautiful hike last week with some of her friends and we found a rope swing so we were
0:54.9	swinging out into the lake and letting go it was just such a fun summer
0:59.3	afternoon one that I'll probably remember for the rest of my life,
1:02.9	just one of those epic summer days.
1:05.4	It's been...
1:06.2	Did you go on the rope swing?
1:07.5	I did.
1:08.5	Yeah, I made the kids do it first.
1:10.0	Usually the responsible adult should try the rope swing first but I let the kids
1:15.5	let the kids try it first just to check it's fake. Let them be the guinea pigs first
1:20.0	and make sure they weren't shivering too much when they got out and then I gave it a go.
1:24.7	I still bet it was warmer than the ocean.
1:28.0	Probably, yeah, probably.
1:31.0	But I bet where you are, you have like a brilliant lakes that you can just get to quickly, right?
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