E62: Tim Good - Race ready

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

With a huge marathon season fast-approaching, it’s time to ask: Are you Race Ready?

Our special guest on Marathon Talk this week, Tim Good, is behind a new, free app that promises to help avoid the unfortunate circumstances that led to the loss of his brother in 2011, and the story behind its development is a remarkable one.

Join us this week as we also dive into the latest announcements for Tokyo’s elite field, share a mind-numbing treadmill World Record, and weigh in on a socks-and-sandals race-winner…

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Martin & Deena catch up on skiing escapades, the dire running weather in the UK, and the joys of heated running wear
10:30 - The news roundup this week features Tokyo’s elite field, which remains stellar even in spite of London and Boston’s fields, plus a new treadmill WR and Barnabas Kiplimo’s ‘super sandals’
29:40 - Tim Good joins us to share the story behind the loss of his brother, and the long journey that the Matthew Good Foundation has taken to make race preparation safer for all

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 62 of Marathon Talk powered by Abbott World Marathon Majors.
0:06.6	On this week's show, Tokyo rounding out the spring elite field announcement, and it is another long list of big time names.
0:17.4	A new treadmill world record is in the books pending.
0:23.6	A man wins a marathon in a super sandal. Plus, we welcome former guest from way, way back. Tim Good from the Matthew Good
0:31.3	Foundation is back on the show to talk about the running app Race Ready. All right, let's go.
0:40.0	Martin, how you doing? What have you been up to? Two weeks. I've missed you.
0:44.9	And I'm wet, Dina. I'm wet. It's constantly raining in the UK at the moment.
0:51.0	We've been battered by storms relentlessly. And I'm not joking. As I'm
0:57.0	recording this, you sort of looked at me and laughed because my top is like all wet. And all I did
1:04.7	was run up, you know, like from the, like my house to the garden, which is where we do this recording or I do the
1:12.9	recording you're in your mansion in the hills and so I I ran I run up my garden I got
1:20.1	actually drenched I just feel like the weather at the moment is in the UK it it's not very nice, should we say?
1:30.3	For our audio listeners, you can't see Martin. He's polka dotted right now because he was
1:36.6	pelted with raindrops on his run from the house to the garden. But, you know, people,
1:42.2	we've, even with a lot of the people from the Gold Club master class that we're speaking to each month, they're having a hard time. They're running races in 20 degree weather. They're happening to get out and do their 20 milers in adverse conditions. So you still have the discipline to get out. I'm a treadmill geek when the weather is fake.
2:02.6	Are you?
2:03.4	You know, yeah, I just like, I just, yeah, most of the time.
2:08.0	Most of the time, I'm like, I'm just going to bang it out on the treadmill.
2:11.3	But how do you get out there and do it?
2:13.2	Like, what inspires you to just put on the shoes and get out in the wet weather and continue to get in the miles?
2:19.7	That is a good question.
2:20.8	I think you need gusto, of which is wobbling every now and again because I don't mind, I don't mind going out in the rain.
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