EP86 | How To Get Into Every Major
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The question everyone wants to know: just how do I get a bib for any of the Majors? We're joined by a Majors veteran, Rob Dalto, to talk us through all the ways you can earn your place at one of the Abbott World Marathon Majors. Plus, we have lots of news from around the marathon world.
On this episode of Marathon Talk:
- 00:00 - Intro
- 00:50 - Deena tells us all about her time at the LA Marathon
- 02:41 - News Round-Up: LA Marathon
- 11:57 - Jacob Kiplimo breaks the half marathon world record in Lisbon
- 13:47 - Fotyen Tesfay of Ethiopia wins Barcelona 2:10:53, 2nd fastest marathon time
- 18:53 - Eliud Kipchoge to run the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon
- 20:24 - Shanghai passes stage one of AWMM candidate assessment
- 21:52 - Dave is joined by Rob Dalto to talk about how to get into every Abbott World Marathon Major
- 46:00 - Martin and Deena wrap up the show
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Marathon Talk, powered by Abbott World Marathon Majors. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to episode 86 of Marathon Talk, brought to you by Abbott World Marathon Majors. |
| 0:16.6 | On this week's show, it was absolutely epic in LA for the A6 LA Marathon. |
| 0:23.9 | There was an amazing marathon debut in Barcelona and a new half marathon world record from Jacob |
| 0:30.5 | Keplimo. |
| 0:31.4 | And have you ever asked yourself, how do I get an entry for one of the majors? |
| 0:37.4 | David McNamara speaks to Rob Daltow to find out |
| 0:41.2 | just how. All this and more on Marathon Talk. Martin's so great to see you. We actually got |
| 0:50.7 | a chance to talk earlier in the week with our master class group, which was fun. |
| 0:56.9 | But how are you doing? |
| 0:58.3 | I enjoy that master class group, actually, because we get to hear stories from people doing one of the majors, of course. |
| 1:05.7 | And because we're deep into spring marathon season, there's quite a lot going on in the master class. |
| 1:12.6 | So it's good fun to hear everyone's stories and see pictures of medals and things like that. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm all right. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm riding and running. |
| 1:19.6 | I've done a little bit of running this week. |
| 1:22.6 | I thought of you the other day because you said, when the weather improves, your hip |
| 1:26.6 | will improve and the weather's been improving and my hip's been okay. So maybe there was something in that. I am doing a little bit of running. When the weather gets better, it's always better to run as well. Just before we go into the L.A. Marathon and the events that happened there, did you have fun? Was it good? Did you enjoy yourself? |
| 1:45.1 | It was so fun and we'll get to that amazing men's finish. But I think what was another |
| 1:50.7 | side story that really stood out was the top three women. Prisca Chirono, 45-year-old mom of |
| 1:58.8 | three won the race. Second place was American Kellyn Taylor, who's a mom of four and a firefighter. |
| 2:06.5 | And Antonina Kwambai, who was runner-up three times in a row, took the third place spot to this year. |
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