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Marathon Talk

Episode 278 - James Cracknell (Part Two)

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2015

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

We speak to Kate Carter about the brilliant Wings for Life World Run, you rock your Marathon Talk kit around the World, the Jabra Podium is stacked, and Martin speaks to James Ruskin about the City of London Mile. Boy on the Run is back, Ellie Greenwood looks forward to Comrades and Training Talk is all about the why.

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, 6th of May, 2015, I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams, and this is

0:06.1

episode 278 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to do. So, On this week's show there's a second part of our interview with British

0:50.1

endurance legend James Cracknell. We speak to Kate Carter from the Guardian about her debut win at the UK leg of the Wings for Life World Run. You lot rock your mouth and talk kit around the world, the Jabra podium is stacked. I speak to James Russell. Rock Your

1:03.6

marathon talk kit around the world, the Jabra podium is stacked. I speak to James Ruskin about the City of London Mile and their brilliant

1:07.2

competition to win a night at the tower.

1:09.3

Boring the run is back.

1:10.5

Eddie Greenwood is back on track for comrades. Training Talk asks you why. Tom, what have you been doing?

1:18.1

I've been chilling out actually had a really, really chilled out Bank holiday Monday at the old local Harlow Car Gardens with

1:27.6

Helen and the kids and Hannah Corn who presented the show a little while ago and her two kids and the sun was out and it was lovely.

1:34.7

That's what bank holidays should be for isn't it like kicking back, chilling out, switching off and spending time with, you know, people that you that you love more on that later but and the benefits

1:46.1

of only of Iran only being 20 minutes easy you know well I must admit I have seen some of your

1:50.5

runs like being 15 minutes in duration thinking isn't that the warm up before you do a session?

1:55.8

We'll talk about that later but yeah I did if you people look at me on Stravi you'll see that most of my runs last

2:00.4

week were but I got a little bit fitted during the week I think so I was doing

2:04.0

it in about 12 and half minutes by the end of the week. It was really easy. I mean it was this easy, easy, easy runs and

2:08.8

I wasn't pushing myself with like eight and a half, nine minute mile

2:10.5

miling for 12 or 13 minutes, like a 1.3 mile loop around the house.

2:16.7

But it was lovely and we're more about that later I was in Northern Ireland which I

2:20.0

think that's my longest possibly my longest run of the week with a

2:23.1

part run with no warm up or cool down in 21-15 at city park part run I tell you

2:28.5

what I really really enjoyed it a good old burn-up I pushed it as hard as I possibly, I could not have gone a second harder. I was bent over double at the end.

2:38.8

And it was nice because we were all over there. I was there with work and Paul Newton who was there with his wife Joe and Helen was there and Helen Hood and her other half Fraser and their son Finnas and we had a really good time and the nice thing was and we're

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