E70: 1 Man. 2 Continents. 17,000km… Behind Jamie Ramsay’s Adventure Across The Americas

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It’s 17,000 kilometres from Vancouver to Buenos Aires - anyone fancy running it…?

Jamie Ramsay covered the two continents in 367 gruelling days, and joins us on Marathon Talk this week to detail his masterclass in resilience, pushing boundaries, and what he learned about himself!

Tune in this week as we also pore through the finalised stats from THAT brutally blistering London Marathon, and talk about how you can best prepare for the heat on your next summer run…

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - Martin and Deena catch up on Deena’s trip to the Museum of Tolerance, parse through London Marathon’s finalised statistics, and dive into the ins and outs of training for heat
20:35 - Jamie Ramsay talks us through his 17,000km, 367 day trek across The Americas
51:00 - Our listeners talk us through their ambitious training plans for the summer head

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 70 of Marathon Talk, powered by Abbott World Marathon Majors.
0:06.9	17,000 kilometers over 367 days is some distance to cover.
0:11.7	Jamie Ramsey is the author of a new book called Running the Americas.
0:15.7	He joins us on this week's show to tell us about his experiences running from Vancouver to Buenos Aires.
0:22.2	I can never say that, so you'll probably have to help me out, Dina, after this.
0:25.1	While the London Marathon results have also now been finalised, our stats gurus have been pouring
0:30.7	over the data and found some interesting trends.
0:33.9	And we hear from our listeners as they tell us about their training plans for summer.
0:38.5	All of this and more on Marathon Talk.
0:45.3	Right, Dina, how did you survive your chaperone duties?
0:49.2	Oh, my God. It was a world, but it actually took me a couple days to recover, a lot of sleeping.
0:55.6	But I was with my daughter's eighth grade class as we bust ourselves down to Los Angeles. We went to the Getty
1:03.5	Museum, which had a lot of artwork, the Museum of Tolerance, which talked about the very disturbing
1:10.7	civil rights movement here in the United
1:13.7	States, as well as the Holocaust, and our very delayed response to what German Jews
1:21.5	were going through, actually European Jews were going through. And then we went to the
1:25.6	Science Museum. And on the way home we stopped in
1:28.5	Manzanar, which was a Japanese internment camp during World War II. So it was a heavy trip.
1:35.4	It was a really... That's a big, big emotional trip. Yeah. I mean, forget like trying to make
1:42.3	sure that the kids were in their rooms by 10 o'clock
1:45.5	lights out and nervous, like sleeping with one eye open to try to make sure that all the kids
1:51.3	were accounted for and hearing pitter-patters down the hallway and peeking through the aisle
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