E56: Martin & Deena LIVE at the TCS New York City Marathon

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It’s crunch time for Martin and Deena - they took on the 5 boroughs together, but how did they fare?

They bring you a very special episode of Marathon Talk from on the streets of New York City, bringing to life the stories of those around them, and an impressive roundup of the elite field results… literally as they happened!

Join us for 26.2 miles of the infectious New York atmosphere, plus a bonus update on Sydney’s strides to become the 7th Major…

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Martin & Deena make their final preparations, and the early morning trek to the start line
7:30 - We hear from Achilles International guide Rosie from New Zealand as she guides fellow Kiwi Paul through his first international marathon, and the NYPD’s Russel as he lauds the way that the race brings us together
17:40 - At the 17th mile, we share the stories of some fabulous French volunteers, and an ambitious Brazilian 6 Star hopeful on their third punt at New York
21:20 - From the huge 20 mile mark, we push through the pain, catch up with a remarkable pregnant lady running for two, and find Episode 38’s Mark Rogerson and Katie Garrity on 5th Avenue

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0:00.8	Welcome to a very special episode 56 of Marathon Talk and it is the TCS New York City Marathon Special when me and Dina got to cover 26.2 miles through New York City.
0:17.3	What a privilege it was. Deena, we had such a great time.
0:23.7	It was really New York in its glory, in its best. I hope you listeners can really dive in and hear in between or while we're
0:31.7	interviewing people along the course, hearing the footsteps and the cheerleading and the heavy breathing as we talk to some
0:39.0	really special people along the way. Enjoy the show. Right here we are. I am sat with Dina
0:49.4	in the lobby of the race hotel at the 2024 New York City Marathon.
0:57.0	Now, a little bit of background about the marathon.
0:59.0	The race began in 1970.
1:00.0	There was just 127 entrants and they ran four laps around Central Park.
1:07.0	The race expanded across the city in 1976 and each year now, runners tour New York City's five boroughs starting on Staten Island, which is where we'll be in a couple of days' time, and then running through the neighbourhoods of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and ending in Manhattan at the iconic Central Park finish line.
1:27.4	And so Dina and I today went to the expo and picked up our numbers.
1:31.3	It was so exciting.
1:32.7	Just to be here and see the city come alive over the last couple of days and be in the craziness
1:38.9	of the expo.
1:40.3	And I wonder if Fred LeBoe so many years ago when he started this race, the race director
1:45.9	would have dreamed that it blossomed into such an event. He saw it through to this iconic
1:51.6	Five Burrow Challenge, but then it switched hands to Alan Steinfeld and Mary Whitenberg and now the great
1:58.7	Ted Mattelis and just that passing up torch and to see how this
2:02.6	event can grow each year and bring people from around the world and we're seeing them just file in through the lobby.
2:08.6	The hotels got busier and busier and busier.
2:10.6	I know because I locked myself out of my room earlier and the queue to get my key was about an hour long.
2:16.6	Anyway, we went to the expo we got our
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