Episode 222 - Simon Webb and The Manchester Marathon
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2014
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
Martin and Tom ran the Greater Manchester Marathon, Ethiopian track legend Kenenisa Bekele his marathon debut in Paris, there was new record in Brighton and it was third time lucky for Andi Jones in Manchester. We also review the Virgin Money London Marathon, can Mo do it? Tony sings about the things you hear the day before a marathon and there's a great interview with blind runner Simon Webb.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday the 9th of April 2014. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is episode 222 of Marathon Talk. So, On this week's show we hear how Martin and Tom got on at the Greater Manchester |
| 0:28.6 | Marathon. Ethiopian track legend Bakee, runs his marathon debut in Paris. |
| 0:33.9 | There's a new record in Brighton and third time lucky for Andy Jones in Manchester. |
| 0:38.3 | Plus, we review this weekend's Virgin Money London marathon, Can't Mo It. Tony Sings about the things you hear |
| 0:45.0 | before a marathon and with a brilliant interview with Blind Runner Simon Webb. |
| 0:51.0 | This week though, Tom, it's all been about Manchester hasn't it? |
| 0:55.4 | Well and the fact it's episode 222, how calls that? |
| 0:58.4 | Yeah, we like episode 222, but we were both up for the Greater Manchester Marathon at the weekend. |
| 1:05.0 | We had Marathon Mania on the Saturday and then we both ran the Manchester Marathon on the Sunday. |
| 1:12.0 | Should we kick off a little bit of Marathon? |
| 1:14.3 | Tell you what, it really helped me because I wasn't up for the marathon. |
| 1:17.9 | I'd had two really hard weeks at work, a massive long day, some 20 hour days |
| 1:23.0 | I've really sleep deprived I struggle with my nutrition when I'm tired |
| 1:27.0 | and I've been eating rubbishy food I was just over honestly I was over it and by Friday I was just thinking I just want to get this marathon done |
| 1:35.6 | I'm not that bothered I don't care how I do and I was just really really flat and actually |
| 1:39.5 | marathon mania as a we sort of what we, spectators I guess for two-thirds of it as Tony did this thing, that really, |
| 1:48.0 | really turned me around actually. I'm not just saying that, that really turned me around and |
| 1:52.4 | got me really excited for the |
| 1:53.9 | following days marathon. Well it was brilliant Tony put so much hard work into it as |
| 1:58.1 | a as a fundraiser and of course Rev eat-up was there doing a special marathon, Manant of the Marathon prayer and |
| 2:06.4 | Tom Potson did a load of the commentary, of course Tony sang as you'll hear later on in today's show. This week's Tony's trials is the things you hear the day before |
| 2:15.8 | a barre and Tony's new song and it's absolutely brilliant so we actually had what a |
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