EP77: Phily Heads To The Windy City | Marathon Talk Meets Phily Bowden
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
On this week's bumper episode of Marathon Talk, we look back on a punishing day in Berlin as Sabastion Sawe and Rosemary Wanjiru won the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON. We also have news of a PB time for Sted Sarandos, your new favourite celebrity marathon runner.
Our first guest on the show is Team GB athlete Phily Bowden, who is preparing for next week's Bank of America Chicago Marathon, and offered us real insight into her training plan and how she prepares for a Major event.
And to close the show, we are so pleased to be joined by Abbott Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and External Affairs Melissa Brotz to talk to us about Team Abbott, 10 years of the Abbott and World Marathon Majors partnership, and much more.
In this episode of Marathon Talk:
5:32 - Martin and Deena talk about the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON.
10:22 - Sted Sarandos is the man everyone wanted to see in Berlin. But just who is this mysterious sub-3:00 marathoner?
12:37 - We preview the Bank of America Chicago Marathon
15:23 - We meet Phily Bowden and hear about her preparation for next week's Bank of America Chicago Marathon
39:50 - Melissa Brotz, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and External Affairs at Abbott, joins us to talk all about a partnership that is now about to enter its 11th year.
Links & references
Abbott World Marathon Majors
https://www.worldmarathonmajors.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wmmajors/
https://www.tiktok.com/@marathontalk
Martin Yelling
https://www.instagram.com/martinyelling/
Deena Kastor
https://www.instagram.com/deena8050/
Phily Bowden
https://www.instagram.com/philybowden/
https://www.youtube.com/@philybowden
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 77 of Marathon Talk powered by Abbott World Marathon Majors. |
| 0:07.0 | On this week's show, we take a look back on all that went down at last week's BMW Berlin Marathon. |
| 0:14.0 | And ahead of next week's Bank of America-Chicago Marathon, I spoke with Team Great Britain athlete Philly Bowden as she prepares to take on the course |
| 0:22.8 | for the first time. And we're joined by Melissa Brookes, who's the senior vice president of |
| 0:28.4 | global marketing and external affairs at Abba. And she'll be with us to talk about Abbott's |
| 0:33.0 | 10-year partnership with the Abbott World Marathon majors and a little bit more. Before we get into that, our show this week is brought to you by the Wahoo Kicker Run smart |
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| 1:22.4 | run talk at checkout. Martin, how have you been on these action-packed past two weeks? |
| 1:30.2 | Well, it's good, isn't it? There's been loads going on in the running world. |
| 1:34.9 | We were chatting just before we started recording this evening about like kind of our runs this |
| 1:41.1 | week and you just dealt a classic name-dropping blow. |
| 1:45.0 | Then you, it doesn't get any bigger than the run. |
| 1:48.0 | You were, yeah, I just went for a nice casual run. Come on. What did you do? |
| 1:52.0 | Right. So I was at a cross-country race this weekend with my daughter and I came home last night to a text from Joan Benoit Samuelson who said, surprise, I'm in town, the great |
| 2:02.8 | Joan Benoit Samuelson. And I said, you and Scott have to come to dinner. So they had dinner with us |
| 2:08.4 | last night here at home. And we went for a run together this morning. She still pushes the pace |
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