E73: Deena Kastor vs Martin Yelling: Marathon Talk’s Inaugural End of the Season Quiz

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Who’s the host with the most, the quiz whiz, the mastermind with the mic? There’s only one way to find out…

This week’s very special Marathon Talk pits Martin and Deena against each other, with a trivial roundup of the running season’s greatest times!

We also cover all the latest from Sydney’s elite field announcements, the packed ballot for the London Marathon, and Tokyo’s international ambitions.

In this episode of Marathon Talk:

0:00 - We kick off with tales of Deena’s gigging adventures and Martin’s negotiation with injury
5:30 - The latest from the running world includes Sydney’s elite women’s field announcements, Faith Kipyegon’s Breaking4 attempt, and ballot news from London and Tokyo
18:00 - The main event: Martin and Deena face off in a battle of brains across 4 rounds of quizzing - play along at home and see if you can beat our hosts with the most
42:30 - Before we sign off for July, we look to our community for runners to join the Global Run Club challenge, and share your plans for getting the steps in this summer

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 73 of Marathon Talk powered by Aber World Marathon Majors.
0:07.4	On this week's show we've got all the news from around the running world.
0:11.6	Sydney announces its elite field.
0:14.4	There was an attempt to make middle distance running history.
0:18.3	More than 1.1 million people found out they'd be running next year's TCS London
0:23.7	marathon. Plus, me and Dina go head to head in an end-of-term epic quiz. All this and more on
0:34.0	Marathon Talk.
0:39.3	Dina, have you been?
0:41.4	Oh, I've been great, Martin.
0:44.3	Summer's been amazing here in the mountains,
0:46.7	but for the first time ever,
0:48.5	I have been to back-to-back concerts.
0:49.7	My daughter got out of school. Can I try and guess who you went to see?
0:51.3	Sure, go guess.
0:53.0	Sabrina Carpenter.
0:54.5	No, but I would love to.
0:56.1	I have friends that have tickets to see her.
0:58.3	I think it would be so fun to dress up like a little Barbie doll and go see her in concert.
1:03.3	I went to see the weekend in Los Angeles with my daughter.
1:07.2	And we had so much fun.
1:10.1	He was amazing.
1:11.4	And then I flew to San Francisco this past weekend with girlfriends to celebrate one of
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