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The Running Channel Podcast

EP8: First-Ever Shared Medal in the Heptathlon & Sarah Orders Chips at a Sushi Bar

The Running Channel Podcast

The Running Channel

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.8591 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It's Day 8 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!

Beatrice Chebet and Faith Kipyegon went head-to-head in a thrilling Women’s 5000m final, while Team GB added a bronze to their medal tally in the Women’s Heptathlon on an exciting penultimate day of the Champs.

The team recap their experience at a local sushi bar as well as a deep dive into the topic of mental health and resilience - in both running and life - sharing personal stories about how movement and running have supported their wellbeing.

Supported by ASICS.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Every second, Sogoy.

0:10.2

That's the official motto of these championships.

0:14.0

Do you actually know what it means?

0:15.3

Of course I know what it means.

0:16.1

I don't just come up with this stuff.

0:17.7

Well, we don't have very much, very much faith.

0:20.7

Sugoy means awesome in Japanese and the motto celebrates the effort and determination of the

0:27.6

athletes here on the track in Tokyo. And it also reflects Japanese cultural values of precision,

0:34.6

dedication and mindfulness. Well read. Welcome to day eight of 10 days in Tokyo.

0:41.2

I think after spending eight days together or nine actually or 10, depending on which version

0:46.3

of bricks you go with.

0:47.8

We're all going a little bit stir crazy.

0:50.6

But that will not stop us from recapping the last day of events.

0:55.4

No, the championships have been amazing. We've got loads of really cool stuff to talk about in today's episode.

0:58.3

We're here to give you our experiences of what's been happening.

1:01.2

Yeah, we're also going to be answering some of your questions, a very good question at the end of this episode,

1:05.7

and finding out what happened to Rick last night.

1:08.8

Should we get into it?

1:09.7

On a geissimus. And finding out what happened to Rick last night. Should we get into it? Onigaisamus.

1:20.8

So Rick's learnt one Japanese word, which means please.

1:21.7

That's not true.

1:22.6

I've got three.

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