EP78: Welcome To New York! | Marathon Talk Meets Ted Metellus
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of the 2025 TCS New York City Marathon, Deena catches up with race director Ted Metellus to hear more about how they prepare for the final Major of the year.
We have an update from Cape Town after their race was cancelled on Sunday, and what that means for their bid to become an Abbott World Marathon Major.
Also, we hear the marathon story of a Team Abbott member, and finally, Dave is here with a round-up of everything happening in New York during race week.
In this episode of Marathon Talk:
3:46 - Martin and Deena are joined by Abbott World Marathon Majors COO Danny Coyle for an update on the events surrounding last weekend's Sanlam Cape Town Marathon.
25:20 - Welcome to Marathon Talk, race director for the TCS New York City Marathon, Ted Metellus.
57:15 - Community Notes: We meet Treena Mitchell, from Team Abbott and hear about her run story.
1:04:51 - AbbottWMM Social Media Manager, David Macnamara is here to give us the lowdown on all the events that are taking place over the course of the next week in New York.
Links & references
Cape Town Marathon Timeline of Events
Tickets for our Six Star Finisher Medal Monday Event
First Timers: A Night Of Storytelling In Celebration Of The New York City Marathon
Strava/Runna Race Hub, 1865 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
Abbott World Marathon Majors
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Deena Kastor | Instagram
Ted Metellus | Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 78 of Marathon Talk powered by Abbott World Marathon majors. |
| 0:06.0 | On this week's show, Start Spreading the News. |
| 0:08.0 | That's a song, isn't it? Isn't that Frank Sinatra's song? |
| 0:11.0 | We are all about the TCS New York City Marathors. |
| 0:15.0 | We're joined by race director, Ted Mattels, to give us the lowdown on preparing for the last major of the year. |
| 0:23.3 | Start spreading the news is what they play after the cannon fires on the Verrazano-Naro's |
| 0:27.9 | bridge in New York, if you remember from a run there together. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm not going to start belting out into song, but we have a roundup of everything that is |
| 0:36.9 | happening in New York |
| 0:38.5 | on Race Week from the pop-up stores to the shakeout runs. We have you covered. And we'll also |
| 0:43.9 | have news for a major candidate race to Sanlum Cape Town Marathon. After their race last Sunday |
| 0:50.6 | was forced to cancel due to high wins on the course. We'll have more reaction to that |
| 0:55.1 | in the show. But before we get on to that, the show this week is brought to you by the Wahoo |
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| 1:40.0 | What have you been up to, Martin? |
| 1:41.6 | I have been running, but rather badly. |
| 1:43.9 | Do you know what? |
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