E67: The Champion’s Secret to Beating the Boston Marathon with 2014 Champion Meb Keflezighi

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

It’s race week for the Majors, and we’re kicking off a stellar double header with a trip to the fabled grounds of Boston!

We have the lowdown on defending champions in Hellen Obiri and Sisay Lemma, Catherine Debrunner’s potential course record clean-sweep, and former Boston Champion Meb Keflezighi shares his top tips for taking on the Boston course.

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Martin & Deena catch up on their spring motivations, and preparations for Boston & London
5:00 - We round up the big stories ahead of Boston, from the defending champions and a potential clean sweep of course records, to Marcel Hug’s 8th possible win at Boston
13:35 - Statman Stew joins us for some exclusive statistics for the Boston race, including the 1,585 6 Star hopefuls, 3 birthday runners, and 2 new countries to give us first-time 6 Star Finishers
24:45 - ‘Marathon Meb’ recounts his experience with the Boston course, and shares his top tips on how you can make your way to Boyleston Street running your very best
55:05 - Our notes from the community this week are predictions of their finish times in Boston - we wish them luck, and promise a prize to whoever is closest to their predicted time

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 67 of Marathon Talk powered by Abbott World Marathon Majors.
0:06.0	On this week's show, we've got a preview of this year's Boston Marathon.
0:11.0	Can defending Boston Marathon champions Helena Beery and Cise Lema repeat their success in Boston Street?
0:19.0	And on the subject of Boston, we caught up with Meb Kifleski, and he shares his insights on this historic course.
0:27.2	Finally, we'll hear from our listeners as they prepare to take on the famous race.
0:33.2	All this and more on Marathon Talk.
0:40.4	Martin, what have you been up to since we last spoke?
0:43.9	In the last two weeks, Dina, loads.
0:47.1	Absolutely loads.
0:48.4	It's been super, super busy.
0:51.2	Mostly, I've been gradually getting back into some running and biking and things like
0:56.4	that. As I think you alluded to last week, when the clocks go forwards, for me, the clock
1:04.4	spring forwards and I think I kind of spring into action. I sort of feel like, I feel like that the bear who's like peeping out
1:13.9	of the cave, you know, it's like, whoa, is, is it? Am I? And I feel like that's kind of just,
1:21.3	just very seasonally motivated, Dina. So the sun's out and I'm running and kind of enjoying, enjoying things again. Training's
1:29.7	going on the up rather than on the down. Right. So if you're a new listener, you're like,
1:34.6	oh, okay, that makes sense. But if you're an OG marathon talk listener, you know this about Martin.
1:40.6	Every year, he just has a smile on his face about this time when the clock spring
1:46.2	forward that you just kind of find yourself in the sunshine. I think you're definitely, I think I
1:51.5	might have even said this last year, you're solar powered. Yes, you're definitely down with the kids
1:56.8	though. What does OG mean? Original. Oh, does it? O O.G. Yeah. Is that what it means? Because I know all the
2:04.6	kids go, like, if you're OG. So, yeah, O.G. If you are an original Marathon Talk listener, yeah,
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