4.7 • 994 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2010
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Sammy Wanjiru has run the fastest Olympic marathon, UK based marathon and American marathon of all time... we caught up with him on a recent trip to Bedford. Also on this week's show, Martin is about to go large and Tom get's back in the groove with a half-Ironman.
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0:00.0 | I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams, and this week's show we've got an interview with the |
0:26.0 | men's Olympic marathon champion Sammy Wangeru. We've got your questions about |
0:31.0 | first time marathon running and running in the heat. We've got your questions about first time marathon running |
0:33.3 | and running in the heat. |
0:34.4 | We've got some news about Brighton, ballots and Mickey Mouse |
0:37.7 | Medals. |
0:38.6 | Training talks all about how to choose your next marathon. |
0:41.8 | We rant, we rave, we winner of the week and that is about it. |
0:47.4 | Tom, what have you been up to? Well I was over in Wales at the weekend we managed to |
0:52.4 | dodge most of the bad weather and I was taking part of the national middle distance triathlon championships in in Bala which is half fireman distance roughly |
1:02.0 | 2K swims a little long 50 mile bike which is a little shorter and then a 20K run. |
1:06.0 | And it was good. It was kind of my first training session back really. I went as hard as I could like it's a race but it really was my first proper hard session |
1:15.4 | back since Lansarotti. I went okay I was reasonably pleased I'd like to have gone a little |
1:21.3 | bit quicker |
1:22.6 | swim bike and run but it was good and it's a great base to build from I think it was |
1:26.1 | 24th overall out of 624 finishes I think so it was a reasonably good day. |
1:32.3 | Yeah really good |
1:33.4 | then to build up for the outdoor. Yeah really good you know it's you always feel |
1:39.0 | less fit than you are don't you especially when you're coming back from a |
1:41.7 | big race and you just gradually getting back into it and |
1:44.3 | you know I didn't feel particularly fit so it was nice to to kind of prove that wrong with a |
1:48.1 | decent performance and a good starting block to build from and you've been hanging around with some |
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