EP7: Lyles & Hunt Shine in the 200m Finals & Rick Legs It at a Tokyo Parkrun
The Running Channel Podcast
The Running Channel
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
It's Day 7 of our 10 Days in Tokyo series - following the World Athletics Championships! In this special limited series of The Running Channel podcast, Sarah, Rick and Andy unpack all the action from the Championships - along with exclusive behind-the-scenes insights from the team you might miss at home!
Noah Lyles matched Usain Bolt’s run of four straight world titles in the men’s 200m, clocking 19.52 – the fourth-fastest winning time ever. Between them, Lyles and Bolt now hold seven of the fastest times in the event’s World Championships history.
GB's Amy Hunt burst into tears after she claimed a brilliant silver in an epic Women’s 200m final!
The team also took part in the original Japan Parkrun in Futakotamagawa. Rick had big plans to "take it nice and easy" - but changed his mind at the last second with a classic, “I’m gonna absolutely leg it.”
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| 0:00.0 | Well, that was one of the best mornings of my life. |
| 0:10.3 | It finally happened, everybody. Rick Kelsey went for a run. Not only that, you went for |
| 0:15.2 | a park run in Japan. I'm not sure I've ever seen your pink face so happy. Welcome to Day |
| 0:20.5 | 7 of 10 days in Tokyo. We are all |
| 0:23.2 | a bit more chipper than usual, I would say, because we've just literally come straight to the |
| 0:27.8 | studio after running park run. And we did it with such an amazing group of people from the |
| 0:32.2 | running channel community. We did. And Rick is happy now. He was not happy in the immediate aftermath and I don't use that |
| 0:38.7 | word lightly of the park run because this was your first experience of the humidity. We'll get |
| 0:42.6 | into that in the catch up but you did not look happy at all. No, but all that matters is type |
| 0:47.7 | two fun. Yeah. Yeah. It was an absolutely mind-blowing night last night and in the last 24 hours on the tracks. |
| 0:56.8 | A humdinger of an evening that you missed Sarah. |
| 0:59.5 | I know. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm so excited to catch up. |
| 1:01.7 | So let's do it. |
| 1:07.5 | It's worth, before we get into it, Sarah obviously has introduced it correctly as day seven of 10 days in Tokyo. |
| 1:13.1 | Just a quick reminder to everyone that yes, Rick wanted to call it 10 days in Tokyo, but there will only be nine days. Yeah. So there are any two episodes after this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you haven't missed it. Yeah. It just doesn't exist. Yeah. Thank you so much, both of you, for a great morning, taking us out, running together, |
| 1:29.3 | experiencing a Japanese park run, five kilometers underneath a motorway. |
| 1:35.3 | It was finished underneath an overpass, but actually the rest of it was quite lovely around the park. |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah, we did say as we were walking to it, and he was literally turned to you and was like wow |
| 1:45.3 | mate what a lovely one to bring I really liked it because it was it reminded me of I my first |
| 1:53.5 | experience of park run was the kind of like out of city UK park runs which is exactly what |
| 1:59.8 | we just went to you've got got like grass roots, kids playing |
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