Episode 510 - Ed Caesar and the 1:59
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
What a weekend for running! On Saturday the world was captivated by the Ineos 159 challenge that saw Eliud Kipchoge become the first person to run a marathon distance in under 2hours, then, on Sunday in Chicago fellow Kenyan Brigid Kosgei obliterated Paula Radcliffe's world record. We're joined by Two Hours author and 1:59 commentator Ed Caesar to reflect. You can help get legendary Bruce Tulloh's book 4 million footsteps back in print, Professor Andy Jones explains nitrates and endurance in Training Talk and Tony is here with his trials.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday the 16th of October 2019. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is episode |
| 0:08.0 | 510 of marathon talk I'm going to do. On this week's show what a weekend for running. On Saturday the world was captivated by the Inios 1.59 challenge that saw Elliot Kipchouge become the first person's |
| 0:56.4 | runner-marathon distance in under two hours. Then on Sunday in Chicago, fellow Kenyan, |
| 1:01.9 | Bridget Kosky, |
| 1:03.0 | obliterated Paula Radcliffe's World Marathon record mark |
| 1:07.0 | whilst Mo Faro ran his slowest marathon ever. |
| 1:09.0 | You can help legendary runner Bruce Tuller's book 4 million footsteps get back in print |
| 1:15.2 | Professor Andy Jones explains nitrates and endurance in training talk and |
| 1:19.8 | Tony is here with his trials. |
| 1:22.7 | Well, what a show. |
| 1:24.1 | What a show. |
| 1:25.1 | Thank you very much to this week's show sponsor, |
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| 1:48.0 | M T 20. |
| 1:50.0 | Right Tom Williams, we're both back in the room. How you doing? |
| 1:54.0 | I'm good, although you forgot the sporting highlight of the weekend. |
| 1:57.0 | Hawaii, because I thought you would talk about it. |
| 1:59.0 | No, Mike Bush all got an eye on strictly. |
| 2:02.0 | Oh, no, I didn't see that. |
| 2:03.0 | What is the world coming to you? |
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