E59: Tommie Runz - 6 Star Finisher in a Single Season

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Record-breaking debutants, speedy teens and iconic Six Star Finishers - we have it all in this week’s Marathon Talk!

Among all the world-best performances from the lilies of Sabastian Sawe and Gout Gout, we’re joined in this episode by the iconic Tommie Runz off the back of running all six Majors this year.

Tune in to catch his take on the Majors circuit and representing his community, while we also cover Valencia’s rapid performances, a thrilling cross country title, and much more…

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - We have a brief catchup with Deena and Martin on their discipline challenges, and an underwhelming USA vs England women’s match at Wembley
6:10 - We have a new fastest debutant, a new fastest teenager in the world, a new Female Athlete of the Year, and questions over Ingebritsen’s future
22:00 - Tommie Runz joins us to talk 6 Stars, which was his favourite, the hero that is Ted Metelles, his journey to sobriety, and representing so many communities

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Martin Yelling

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Deena Kastor

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Tommie Runz

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 59 of Marathon Talk powered by Abbott World Marathon majors.
0:06.0	And this week is another red hot time from a marathon debutante in Valencia.
0:12.0	Jacob Inge Britson won a third European cross-country title and Australian Sprint Sensation Gwatt-Guat is better than Usain Bolt at the age of 16.
0:24.4	Plus, we talked to Thomas Bailey, aka Tommy Runs, about his rise from alcoholic to sober marathon man.
0:31.7	Right, Dina Castor, let's go.
0:35.4	What have you been up to?
0:37.1	Wow. I mean, it's been a really exciting close to the year.
0:41.3	Usually December you get to focus on holidays and spend some family time, but the news just
0:48.0	keeps giving in the running world.
0:50.6	So it's been super exciting and it's motivated me to run a lot. I've been running
0:55.8	every day, but also cross-country skiing because as I continue my hundred days of discipline,
1:02.6	I have to train twice a day for 45 minutes at least. That was actually like one of the really
1:09.7	big things I wanted to ask you is how's the,
1:12.8	how's the hundred days of discipline?
1:15.1	Hundred days?
1:15.9	Is it a hundred days?
1:17.0	Yeah, a hundred days.
1:17.7	I don't know how many days I have in.
1:19.8	It's been great.
1:21.1	So I run once a day and then if I'm like, if the day is closing and I'm like, oh no,
1:26.6	I need to get in more.
1:27.7	I just jump on the treadmill and run another 45 minutes.
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