E65: Adele Roberts - The Talk From Tokyo

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

An unseasonably hot 69 Farenheit couldn’t stop over 36 thousand athletes taking on Tokyo, and this week on Marathon Talk we’ve all the star-studded stories from the week!

Between the elite winners half a minute ahead of their rivals, Paula Radcliffe & Harry Styles’ stellar efforts, and this week’s guest Adele Roberts securing another star on her Six Star Journey, you won’t want to miss this jam-packed episode of Marathon Talk!

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - We catch up with Martin’s tempo running, a dodgy achilles, and Deena’s run-in with a delighted Marathon Talk listener in Lake Tahoe
3:45 - All the big stories from Tokyo, from the elite fields beating the heat and the hometown hero in the men’s wheelchair race, to Paula Radcliffe’s majestic return and the >2.5k athletes receiving a Six Star Medal in Japan
10:00 - We play a game of ‘Higher or Lower’ with Deena, all based around one of the world’s biggest stars’ finishing time in Tokyo - Harry Styles’ 3:24:07
14:00 - Broadcaster, Runner and Author Adele Roberts is our inspiring guest this week, talking us through her recovery from bowel cancer, the failures that’ve tallied up to her marathon successes, and her ambitions to set a new Guinness World Record
39:15 - A new section to the show, we share notes from the fabulous members of our community who took to the streets of Tokyo and flew their way through the finishing line

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 65 of Marathon Talk powered by Abbott World Marathon majors. On today's show, we have all the news from the weekend's Tokyo Marathon. It was an Ethiopian double as Tedesi Tiki and Satami Assefa Kibedi claimed victory in the Japanese capital. More than 2,500 athletes completed their six-star journey,
0:24.0	and the Abbott World Marathon majors welcomed their 20,000th member into that club. There was a
0:30.5	sprinkle of stardust at this year's race too, as Harry Stiles showed that when it comes to 26.2 miles,
0:40.1	he only goes in one direction. We've got an interview with presenter, author, campaigner,
0:43.1	and now Tokyo Marathon Finisher at Del Roberts
0:45.1	about her time in Tokyo, more about a six-star journey.
0:48.2	And finally, we're here from you, our listeners,
0:50.6	about how they've been doing in the land of the rising sun.
0:53.6	All this and more on
0:55.4	Marathon Talk. Hi, Martin. It has been a fun couple of weeks, an action-packed couple of weeks.
1:07.2	And this past weekend, I was at a ski competition. You know, I've been going to a lot of these
1:12.1	competitions for my daughter. And I was standing slopside, waiting for some of her teammates to
1:18.3	come down. And a woman came up to me on skis and said, I absolutely love marathon talk.
1:26.5	She was an original listener, one of your O.T. listeners and continues
1:30.4	to listen today. And she said, I hope you guys keep this podcast going. It's the highlight of her
1:36.3	of her week when a new episode comes out. So it was really fun to be in Lake Tahoe, California on the sunny slopes.
1:43.6	Yes. It was just a, it just a, it got me giddy.
1:46.3	You know, it was like one of those unpredictable things where when we go to races,
1:49.7	we might expect people to be listeners, but this weekend was super fun to have someone
1:54.0	seek me out on the slopes and say that they love listening.
1:58.0	You say it was a surprise, Dina, but I'm glad D'Hydry went to Tokyo because I'm pleased
2:02.2	that she met you.
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