Episode 303 - Bill Rodgers (Part Two)
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2015
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
We have part two of our interview with American marathoning legend Bill Rodgers. There was some fast times at the Frankfurt Marathon and a Rio qualifier for Scot Callum Hawkins. Jo Pavey sets another record. A Kenyan gets caught out and there is trouble afoot for UKAD and some website gremlins have been visiting us.
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| 0:00.0 | It's 28th of October 2015. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams. This is episode |
| 0:06.3 | 303 of marathon tour. I'm going to do. |
| 0:23.0 | So, I'm going to do. On this week's show we have part two of our interview with an American |
| 0:48.8 | marathoning legend Bill Rogers. There were some fast times at the Frankfurt marathon this past weekend |
| 0:54.4 | including a Rio qualifier for Scott Callum Hawkins. Joe Pavey sets another record in |
| 1:00.8 | Portsmouth. A Kenyan gets caught out. There's trouble afoot at |
| 1:04.4 | UK anti-doping. Plus some website Gremlins have been visiting us. |
| 1:09.3 | Tom, what have you been doing? Well I've been having a jolly good time actually, a bit of a jet-setting weekend, wasn't it? |
| 1:17.0 | But people who listen last week will know that I went off on safari in South Africa. |
| 1:22.0 | Unbelievable. |
| 1:23.2 | What a life you lead. |
| 1:26.6 | It was pretty special, I have to say a flu Wednesday night and arrived Thursday morning. |
| 1:31.8 | We went for lunch with Bruce Ford Ice and Jill on Thursday in their beautiful house |
| 1:38.6 | in Johannesburg which is really nice and you know what Bruce has got he's just had it installed, he's got one of those blue plaques outside the... |
| 1:47.0 | Well, I don't think he chose that to install, but it's got one of those blue plaques on the front of his house. |
| 1:51.0 | Not that says Bruce Fordy lives here? |
| 1:53.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:54.0 | No. Yeah. |
| 1:55.0 | I tell you what I tell you what it says. |
| 1:56.0 | It says I've got a photo of it now. |
| 1:58.0 | Designed for JRA Hay in 1915 by P. Hill Mitchellson in the arts and crafts tradition with the ground floor in red bricks and contrasting first floor in rough cast plaster. |
| 2:07.0 | The house is named after a district in Perth, a house is called Ganoke, a district in Perth, Scotland, Hayes birthplace. In 1961 it was home to journalist and |
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