Episode 279 - Jim Barahal
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2015
⏱️ 99 minutes
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The Emperor hangs up his running shoes, you share your favourite medals, it was the biggest 10k in Europe in Manchester and the 30th anniversary of the Leeds Half London Mile. Tom speaks to Jim Barahal from the Hapalua in Hawaii, you Rate Your Run and who will walk away with a paif of Jabra Sport Pulse headphones in our weekly podium.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the 13th of May 2015. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is episode |
| 0:05.9 | 279 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to do. On this week's show the Emperor hangs up his running shoes you share your favourite |
| 0:48.8 | medals. It was the biggest 10k in Europe in Manchester and the 30th anniversary of the Leeds half marathon. |
| 0:54.3 | It's the last chance to enter our VIP competition at the Amber City of London Mile. |
| 0:58.8 | Tom speaks to Jim Barajal from the Hapalua in Hawaii. You rate your run and who will walk away with a pair of |
| 1:06.8 | Jabrasport Pulse headphones in our weekly podium? Tom, what you've been doing? |
| 1:11.4 | Happy to speak to the Jim Baraj, and Jim, two Jimies. |
| 1:14.0 | All the gyms. |
| 1:15.0 | Two gyms. |
| 1:16.0 | Two very, very different characters from women in the world are running, two, both of whom absolute legends, Jim B. Jim Barr who's on the show today has been |
| 1:26.3 | race director of the Holland and Lulu marathon for 27 years. Wow. I've seen some amazing things in his time and also was the instigator of the Hapelua, which is the half |
| 1:39.2 | with the kind of the head start for the elite which also has been brilliant and I think is something we need to see stuff like that in the UK was I do as well brilliant but I think as priority |
| 1:48.3 | you can give you head start a Bormuth marathon this year well in about two hours what we need to do is we need to see these events happening. |
| 1:54.3 | It's no good, you know, we actually need to see them live in person. |
| 1:57.9 | We've got to experience it, feel it, experience it, immerse ourselves in the richness of the chase. |
| 2:04.8 | Yeah, yeah, without a doubt. |
| 2:11.1 | And Jimlda? |
| 2:12.1 | I also spoke to DiMalder. |
| 2:13.4 | Very different character. |
| 2:14.6 | He will be on next week's show. Jim, what a legend. I mean, he ran in 1960, I think it was 64, |
| 2:21.0 | including 66, I think it was 64, he ran 20,200 meters in an hour. |
| 2:26.0 | When the hour was quite a big thing, it's interesting, I wonder if it'll come back, |
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