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Marathon Talk

Episode 432 - Barry Carpenter

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

We don't think we'll see a weekend of marathon drama like that again for some time... it was the Commonwealth Games marathon, and what an epic! Yuki won Boston. Yes, we'll say it again, Yuki won Boston! We look forward to the Virgin Money London Marathon this weekend. Training Talk looks at staying cool in the marathon heat, we're joined by Kenneth Foreman from ARUK to tell us about Running Down Dementia, we remember the life of multiple Paralympic champion and blind sport ambassador Bob Matthews. Plus we're joined by Barry Carpenter who shares his incredible journey from living on the streets on London to running this year's London Marathon, and Tony's here with some Brighton Trials!

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, the 18th of April, 2018. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams. This is episode

0:05.9

432 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to do. So, On this week's show we didn't think we'd see a weekend of marathon drama like the

0:51.1

one we've just had for some time. It was the Commonwealth Games

0:54.9

marathon and what an epic. Yuki won Boston, yes we'll say again Yuki won Boston.

1:01.3

We look forward to the Virgin Money London Marathon this weekend.

1:04.7

Training Talk looks at staying cool in Marathon Heat. We're joined by Kenneth Foreman from

1:09.3

Outsummer's research UK to tell us about running down dementia. We remember the life of multiple

1:14.2

Paralympic champion and blindsport Ambassador Bob Matthews. Plus we're joined by

1:18.4

Barry Carpenter who shares his incredible story from living on the streets of London

1:22.3

to running this year's

1:23.6

London Marathon and Tony's here with some Brighton trials. What you've been up to

1:29.4

Tom Williams? What have I been up to? I've been, I don't really know, life's a bit of a whirlwind at the moment.

1:37.0

I was in London last week, hanging with Helen and the kids, which was kind of fun and kind of not. We went down to the

1:46.5

Natural History Museum and the Science Museum in London. It was just a bit

1:51.2

busy and Aston was just a bit young so it was just a bit busy and Aston was just a bit young so it was just a bit stressful

1:57.7

So yeah that was a shame, but there you go we had a we had a good time we always like hanging out together we went to

2:03.2

dulage part run for their sixth birthday on Saturday which is super cool because it was

2:07.8

tropical weather wasn't it I don't know what you had daren pool but my word it was lovely and

2:12.2

warm oh fantastic I hung out with the kids

2:14.9

Helen ran a comeback PB in fact she ran with our good mate Nick Pearson and ran

2:20.6

22 57 which is I think the first time I ended up 23 minutes for possibly a year

2:28.8

and it was certainly a first fastest time she'd run since she last ran with Nick in 2016 at the Park Run Christmas

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