EP84 | Hall In For Tokyo! - Marathon Talk meets Sara Hall as we preview the Tokyo Marathon
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
As we look ahead to the first Marathon of the new season in Tokyo, we catch up with US long-distance great Sara Hall as she prepares to return to the Japanese capital for the 3rd time.
And we'll hear from Abbott World Marathon Majors' David Macnamara with a round-up of things happening during race week.
On this episode of Marathon Talk:
- 00:00 - Intro
- 01:00 - Happy Birthday, Deena!
- 05:40 - Tokyo Marathon Preview
- 16:00 - Sara Hall joins us to talk about her prep for Tokyo, her career and more.
- 39:11 - David Macnamara is here to tell us all about what is happening in Tokyo on race week.
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| 0:00.0 | Marathon Talk, powered by Abbott World Marathon Majors. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to episode 84 of Marathon Talk, brought to you by Abbott World Marathon majors. |
| 0:17.0 | On this week's show, we're looking ahead to next month's Tokyo Marathon. |
| 0:22.7 | We take a look at the elite field who will be victorious in the imperial palace next Sunday how defending champions will get on and |
| 0:29.6 | we'll hear from one of those professional athletes taking part in the race as sarah hall joins us |
| 0:35.6 | having just wrapped up her training at home in Flagstaff, Arizona. |
| 0:39.8 | There's too many peas in that sentence for you, Dean, wasn't there? The Imperial Palace and professional |
| 0:44.8 | athlete sticking with Tokyo, we're joined by Abbott World Parathon Major's social media manager, |
| 0:51.0 | David McNamara. He has the lowdown on everything that will be happening |
| 0:55.1 | race week. All this and more on Marathon Talk. |
| 1:02.6 | Dina, happy birthday. We both share an Aquarian birthday, don't we? That is right. And also my daughter, whose birthday is next week. Oh, no, |
| 1:14.0 | she goes into Pisces by this coming weekend. But it is a month of birthdays for us, |
| 1:19.2 | Martin, and we're older and wiser. I'm feeling so. Are you? Wiser? No, definitely not. Did you do anything special for your birthday? Should we have a little |
| 1:30.6 | birthday off first? Yeah. Well, birthdays are always special. I feel like just like January 1st |
| 1:37.3 | is the data like reset. You think of the year past and all of your, all of your good fortunes |
| 1:43.1 | and what you want out of the year ahead. So it's a fun, |
| 1:46.5 | it's a fun time of year. I love getting older. I feel like I feel great and I get to do what I |
| 1:53.1 | love to do in this sport. So I feel very, very privileged to be able to do what I love year after year and |
| 2:00.2 | feel good doing it. |
| 2:01.3 | Do you have cake? |
| 2:02.7 | Of course I had cake. |
| 2:04.5 | Chocolate raspberry cake. |
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