Episode 539 - Lily Partridge and Ben Connor
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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On this week's show, Holly catches up with GB International marathoner Lily Partridge and 10000m elite Ben Connor about life in lockdown, there's a further suspension of UK athletics competitions, there is a new 5k WR (kinda), Garmin sheds some light into how Europeans are exercising during the Civid-19, Tony's here with his trials, plus you guys Rate Your Runs and rock your Kit Around the House.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, the 6th of May, 2020. I'm Holly to do. |
| 0:23.0 | So, So, On this week's show I catch up with Lily Partridge and Ben Connor about life in |
| 0:48.7 | lockdown there's a further suspension of UK athletics, there's a new 5K world record. |
| 0:54.8 | Garmin shed some light into how Europeans are exercising during the COVID-19 pandemic, |
| 1:00.0 | plus you guys rate your Ram and you rock your kit around the house. |
| 1:04.7 | Hello, Holly Rush, how you doing? Are you having a good lockdown? |
| 1:10.4 | Yes, I'm having a very good lockdown. Things are just pretty much the same as every other week. |
| 1:16.0 | So here's the thing, here's a little question for you. |
| 1:19.0 | Yes. How are you getting on and noticing any like shifts to people's like adhering to |
| 1:31.4 | lock down recommendations? adhering to lockdown recommendations. |
| 1:34.0 | Okay, well I definitely last week, so you know last week when the weather broke and it was like raining, well it was here, it was raining quite a lot, and it was really weird. It was raining quite a lot and it was really weird. |
| 1:43.8 | It was on the Monday and but I was lying in bed and I could hear the rain coming down and |
| 1:50.0 | from about 7 a.m. the traffic sounded like normal traffic was back to normal |
| 1:55.2 | as in like everyone had gone back to work people were going to school it was |
| 1:58.6 | really noticeable and I said that to Pete and I also spoke to my mom said it was exactly the same outside their road and it was like oh |
| 2:06.0 | It was really weird and worrying actually and so yeah, I've definitely found that so there's just much more traffic on the road. I found that when I've been at running. |
| 2:16.8 | And in terms of people around, do you know what I think I've seen less people running as well, like people are just maybe over that. |
| 2:25.0 | But, and in the shops as well, I guess I just, I try obviously have been avoiding the shops as much as possible. |
| 2:31.0 | When I have gone, there's been really massive cues. So that's what I'm seeing really. That's the only thing I'm saying and it's definitely the traffic has gone up and up a notch. How about you? Yeah, I've noticed a little bit, you know, I've been, I am still running. |
| 2:48.3 | I'm not using, I'm not kind of running with anything particular in mind. I'm running depending on what the day feels like, |
| 2:59.0 | but if I don't get my run done early, like sunrise early, |
| 3:05.0 | then when I go out I feel like there's quite a lot of, |
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