Episode 19 - Ryan Hall
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2010
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In 2007 Ryan Hall became the first American to break 60 minutes for a half marathon and in 2008 set the fastest marathon time ever run by an American born athlete crossing the London Marathon finishing line in 2:06:17. We caught up with him to talk about all things running. Also this week, Tony squeezed out a new PW, Martin took a turn for the worst and Tom made his final training bank deposit.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams, and this is Marathon Talk. Welcome to episode 19 of marathon talk on this week's show Tom is in Lanzarotti |
| 0:27.8 | waiting for his big race this weekend. We've got news from Windermere and |
| 0:31.7 | Brathay marathons and people who run crazy distances. |
| 0:34.8 | We've got some fast running in Manchester and naked running in San Francisco. |
| 0:39.1 | We've got Tony's trials, training talk and a great interview with super speedster Ryan Hall. |
| 0:45.0 | We've got some of your questions and Raspberry of the Week. |
| 0:50.0 | Tom, you're in Sunny Lanserotti. |
| 0:52.0 | Okay, well it is sunny in Lanza Rotti, and I've been having a great time. |
| 0:55.8 | We were, the ash clouds cleared for a day and we got out here and had a really easy journey over |
| 1:00.2 | and we're staying in a place called for Mara on the quiet side of |
| 1:03.9 | Lanza which is absolutely beautiful and really really really secluded. |
| 1:07.0 | Finding internet connection was really difficult but the people who own the travel company that we've booked with stepped |
| 1:14.7 | in and gave the use of their office for this afternoon. |
| 1:17.5 | So if it wasn't for their marathon talk wouldn't be live from Lanza, so I must thank them. |
| 1:22.4 | So Zoko Travel.com you can email |
| 1:24.7 | Vicky or Mark at info Zoko travel.com and if you look into books from self-catering |
| 1:30.7 | Rocky style training camp accommodation for winter sun then you couldn't do worse that you or you know you do |
| 1:37.1 | Couldn't do better than that so check out |
| 1:39.6 | Zoko Travel dot com other than that I'm just kind of chilling out for the race really. |
| 1:44.4 | Tomorrow is kind of what I call a race prep day. |
| 1:47.4 | So I'm going to swim a lap of the swim course, |
| 1:49.6 | which is half the distance of the race, obviously, |
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