Episode 102 - Chris Finill

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2011

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Chris Finill has run every single London Marathon there's ever been... in under three hours! He's also broken three hours across five decades, crossed the line first in the 2012 Olympic marathon test evet, and run across America in 79 days. We also bring you news from the World of running, all the usual features, and a festive Tony's Trials.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday the 21st of December 2011. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is
0:06.3	episode 102 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to do. So, On this week's show it's only four days until Christmas and you've got only 10 days left to sign up for Jantastic.
0:56.3	We've got news of a new world record, a field scarer for Houston 2012 and the USA Olympic Games trials in the marathon, an update on Team Kenya for
1:06.4	2012. There's news of more Yuki suit zipping. You rate your run and we bring you the marathon talk podium. There's
1:14.6	rant and rave and winner of the week. We talk Christmas lights and Christmas
1:18.9	presents for runners and training talk is all about running over the Christmas period.
1:24.0	Oh, and we've got a great interview with London Marathon ever-present Chris Finel.
1:30.0	Unbelievably, he's run every London marathon since 1981 in under three hours.
1:38.0	What a show.
1:40.0	But every London marathon as well, it's not just, well it is since 1981 but there wasn't one in 1980 so that is every single London marathon. Tom, what have you been doing? Well I've been Uber inverse tapering. I've been carrying out the Martin yelling inverse
1:53.8	taper to an absolute extreme. Come on then what you been up to? Well there's
1:59.3	two things you should probably do in the build up to an important race and one of them's
2:03.2	resting at plenty of sleep and the other one is probably not run quite so much and
2:06.6	unfortunately I did both of those exactly in the inverse fashion so
2:10.8	Thursday I was in Sulfur in the morning speaking to a potential new park run team.
2:14.8	Then I was in Withershaw and Manchester in the afternoon, looking at a change of course because
2:20.1	of the conditions and the grass are being worn a little bit in W shore so we were looking at that and then I got home in the afternoon
2:24.7	started working and I just got a bit of a roll and I actually worked from
2:27.8	Thursday afternoon right through to a Friday evening without stopping.
2:30.9	But that is a role.
2:33.0	It's not a role I'd like to join you with though.
2:35.0	I'm glad you did that, but an all-nighter that must have set you up for your inverse taper at the weekend.
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