Ep 253 - How to make London Marathon more sustainable with Megan Hunt

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

Runner, Sports, Leisure, Fitness, Ultramarathon, Marathon, Health & Fitness, Running Injuries, Running, Hobbies, Ultrarunning

4.7 • 539 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Not every big city marathon can be as environmentally friendly as Edinburgh Marathon by getting rid of ALL water bottles from the course (snigger), but what can marathon directors and organisers do to make their races more sustainable. In this episode, Jody and David quiz London Marathon head of sustainability Megan Hunt to find out more about the race's plans to lead the way in reducing the footprint of the race, its report on areas to focus on and where she sees the future...

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0:00.0	They're bad, their boys, and occasionally they talk about running.
0:06.6	Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running podcast with your host, Jody Rainsford and David Heller.
0:13.0	Come back, baby, come back.
0:17.6	But a bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
0:20.4	I must admit I was a clown to be messing around. But that doesn't mean that you have to leave town. Come back, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, Hey, Danny Rainey, how you doing? Hello, David Harrodis. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. Today we have.
0:40.3	We weren't sure whether to save this episode for nearer to London Marathon, but we speak to
0:45.2	Megan Hunt, who has been brought on specifically to look at sustainability and the environmental impact
0:51.0	of London Marathon events. We talked to her about the study they've been doing,
0:57.2	what the strategy is, and answering all our questions about how big city runs affect the earth.
1:07.1	And we've also been giving us some suggestions, completely unsolicited suggestions, both from the do badders and ourselves, some of which we came up on the spot.
1:16.7	So stay tuned to listen to some of that stupidity.
1:20.1	For example, if they really want to think about their environment's an impact, they could go the way of Edinburgh marathon and just do no water.
1:27.9	And, you know, that, that's one easy way to, uh...
1:33.0	Don't we say that to us?
1:35.0	We probably do, we probably do.
1:38.6	But you've been, you've been messaging me about some London news, haven't you?
1:44.0	Yes, we've got some London news.
1:46.0	So let me try and get this right.
1:49.2	So as I understand it, London has announced that they're going to try and squeeze 50,000 people into the next running of the London Marathon, which I suppose they have to do because they've probably got so many carryovers
2:02.5	from previous races, plus they need to get it. So 50,000. How many more is that the normal?
2:08.6	That's another 10,000 than normal, isn't it? It's almost 10,000, yeah, which as, I mean,
2:15.0	that's a huge percentage increase to suddenly 25% more. And it's also, I mean, that's a huge percentage increase to suddenly 25% more.
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