Episode 548 - Pete Simpson
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On this week's show, Martin is joined by Anji. We talk injury recovery and acceptance. Wilson Kipsang is hit with a four year ban, there's a record smashed on the John Muir Way and parkrun is back in New Zealand (whoop!). Holly interviews runner Pete Simpson about his heart stopping race and recovery. Plus you guys rate your run and share your kit around the World.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday the 8th of July 2020. I'm Martin yelling. She's Angie Andrews. This is |
| 0:06.7 | episode 548 of marathon talk. I'm going to see. On this week's show, Wilson Kip Zang is hit with a four year ban. There's a record smashed on the John Muir Way. Park Run is back in New Zealand. |
| 0:56.0 | Plus you guys rate your run and share your kit around the world. Angie Andrews, how you doing? |
| 1:02.3 | Hey hey how you doing? |
| 1:03.0 | Hey, hey, how are you? |
| 1:05.0 | I'm good thanks, how you? |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, I'm okay. |
| 1:07.0 | How's that dodgy peg? |
| 1:08.0 | Let's get straight into it. |
| 1:09.0 | Oh, yeah, I forgot that, that was my new name. |
| 1:12.0 | Do you know, there's been a little bit of progress? |
| 1:16.0 | I'm not, I probably tempted feeling a little bit by saying this, but I'm feeling positive. There's been progress. |
| 1:21.0 | Well, for, you know, Reg and listen to the show who don't |
| 1:25.6 | follow our social media accounts, Angie Andrews looks after our social media and she is a sometime, I guess occasional host on the show which is always great |
| 1:35.3 | she's recorded a few times with Tony recently you may not know that she's been |
| 1:39.0 | wandering around or lying down for about the last eight weeks with a with a foot raised up because it's |
| 1:48.6 | been in one of those boots which is for a runner it's like about as annoying as it gets. |
| 1:53.7 | Yeah, in very hot weather for some of that as well, can I just say? |
| 1:57.8 | Not ideal. |
| 1:58.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:59.8 | So it's 12 weeks altogether between this happening and getting diagnosed with the injury and |
| 2:05.8 | eight of the seven and a half weeks I think was in the boot so it's been great fun. |
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