Episode 122 - Toni Reavis

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2012

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

You define the mansuit. A big well done to Claire Lomas for completing her marathon. What’s the worst thing in race goody bag? We speak to Jerry Rothwell, producer of the film about Ethiopian running – ‘Town of Runners’. Olympic Games marathon team selection shenanigans in Ireland and Canada. There’s rate your run and who will be top of this weeks Marathon Talk podium. Plus we talk to a legend of the running community across the pond, the original running commentator Toni Reavis.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday the 9th of May 2012. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is
0:05.8	episode 122 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to do. On this week's show you define the man suit. It's a big well done to Claire Lomass for completing her London marathon. What's the worst thing in a race goodie bag?
0:56.7	We speak to Jerry Rothwell, director of the film all about Ethiopian running called
1:01.3	Town of Runners. There's Olympic Games marathon team selection shenanigans
1:06.6	in Ireland in Canada. There's a rate you run and who will be top of this week's marathon talk podium
1:11.2	plus? We talk to a legend of the running community across
1:14.8	the original running commentator Tony Revis. Tom, you've been to Geneva.
1:22.4	I have, yeah, it was a whistle stop tour straight over on
1:26.2	Friday back on Sunday night with a cheeky half marathon with me old man on the
1:30.9	Sunday morning and how'd it go? Well really good actually really
1:34.9	good we went there it was dad's first ever half marathon in his entire life
1:39.5	he's 67 this year I think later, later this year, and you know, it's the furthest he had run since 1965 and all this.
1:47.2	And you know, he is a life, he doesn't smoke anymore, but he was a lifelong non-exercising smoker. So it is a really big deal for a real really big
1:56.1	deal and it trained really well. They've done an 18k run in Vancouver when he was there
1:59.5	on business the week before you know he's feeling great and we decided we'd go off nice and steady we thought
2:04.3	we'd quite like to break two hours but we wouldn't chase it and we'd just go off easy
2:09.1	and we let the two-hour paces go off into the distance and if we got to kind of, I don't know, a few miles to go in
2:14.0	within range we might see if we could reel them in and we're doing brilliant.
2:17.3	We went through the first 5k which is slightly uphill in 30 minutes and a few seconds.
2:22.0	We were on course to go through 10k in about 58 dead probably
2:26.6	maybe even just under really holding it back really relaxed in about 9.9k we could see the
2:32.2	10k marker just at the point where we were thinking I wonder if we can reel this back to sub 2
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