EP82 | Marathon Talk Christmas Special | Tell Us Your Running Confessions
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It's nearly Christmas! And on this episode of Marathon Talk, we're joined by content creator, runner, comedian, and public speaker, Laura Green, for a special episode of Christmas Running Confessions.
Our listeners have been anonymously submitting their Christmas confessions, so we're going to have some fun reading them! Oh, and plus a little about the recent Valencia Marathon.
Special thanks to our guest, Laura Green, and you can catch Laura as she hosts The Running Game Show in Boston on April 16th 2026. Tickets are available: HERE
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On this episode of Marathon Talk:
- 0:00 - Intro
- 1:17 - Martin and Deena have a Christmas Update
- 5:58 - Update from the Valencia Marathon
- 11:22 - We hear your Running Confessions, with Laura Green.
- 37:44 - Wrap-up
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 82 of Marathon Talk, brought to you by Abbott World Marathon Majors. |
| 0:05.0 | On this week's show, it's very nearly Christmas time. |
| 0:08.0 | We're joined on the show by comedian, content creator and public speaker Laura Green. |
| 0:14.0 | We'll be hearing your Christmas running confessions we've had, |
| 0:18.0 | a Santa's sackload of submissions from our listeners as they try to |
| 0:22.6 | absolve their conscience. Consciences? Almost couldn't get that one out before the festive season |
| 0:29.3 | is upon us. And before we get into this episode, our show this week is brought to by the |
| 0:34.8 | Wahoo Kicker Run Smart Treadn treadmill. The kicker run offers the freedom |
| 0:38.8 | and form of outdoor running at home. Its dynamic pacing capability means the treadmill matches |
| 0:44.9 | your pace automatically with no controls needed, offering you a more natural running experience. |
| 0:50.7 | And its unmatched connectivity means you can sync up with the Wahoo ecosystem |
| 0:55.4 | and third-party apps, including the simulation of routes from the Wahoo apps, Strava, or Zwift. |
| 1:02.4 | Perfect for the holiday season, Marathon Talk listeners can get a free Headwind Smart fan worth |
| 1:08.2 | $319 or 229 pounds when purchasing a kicker run from wahu |
| 1:14.1 | fitness.com using the code run talk at checkout. Martin, it is six days until Christmas has your |
| 1:22.5 | heart thawed out and grown in size to welcome the season? Nope. |
| 1:28.3 | Nope. |
| 1:29.3 | Definitely not. |
| 1:30.3 | We are so close to Christmas and I'm glad that I've still got a tinkling of grinch. |
| 1:36.3 | It's healthy to have a little grinch every now and again. |
| 1:40.3 | I think maybe that is born out of the fact that I've still got a sore hip. |
| 1:46.1 | And so, like, one of the great things about being a runner at Christmas is that I can get out and go for a run, right? |
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