Episode 600 - Dave Bedford
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 192 minutes
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Summary
Join us one last time as we discuss the latest news in running (and life!) and interview legend of running and the London Marathon, Dave Bedford. We catch up with Tom as we look back over 12 years of Marathon Talk, and there's a very special Tony's Trials.
We want to thank each and every one of you for coming on the run with us. Whether you have run, laughed, cried, worn your kit around the world, felt Jantastic, rated your run, ranted or raved. We are grateful for each and every interaction, for the community you have created and we thank you for the support.
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| 0:00.0 | It's |
| 0:05.0 | Wednesday, the 19th of January, 2022. I'm Martin yelling. |
| 0:06.0 | She's Holly Stables, and this is episode 600 and the final marathon talk. I'm going to do. So, So here we are. |
| 0:43.0 | after the |
| 0:45.0 | we are now. |
| 0:46.0 | So here we are. After 12 years, 600 episodes, that's nearly 11 million downloads, a community of thousands, loads of thousands, loads of events and challenges friends made forever. |
| 1:04.0 | We find ourselves at the end of the show's own marathon. |
| 1:09.0 | We're 26.1 miles in, |
| 1:12.0 | and you're joining us for that final 0.1 mile as we close into the finish line. |
| 1:20.1 | On this week's show it's slightly different. |
| 1:21.7 | There's a touch of news. |
| 1:23.2 | Founder Tom Williams is in the house. Tony brings us a special final Tony's trials. |
| 1:29.6 | We hear from some amazing marathon talk listeners and our lovely production team about what the show has meant to them over the years including a few outtakes and our final interview is with the iconic brash and charismatic former world 10,000 meter record holder |
| 1:46.7 | and longtime London Marathon race director Dave Bedford. |
| 1:50.6 | Please enjoy our final run with you all. |
| 1:56.0 | So Holly Rush, this is it, our final ever marathon talk. |
| 2:00.0 | The time's never that right to stop something you love and that's brought so much joy to our lives for so long. |
| 2:07.0 | Yet at the same time, we know our lives do change, season shift, the timing is right to end marathon talk and as my wonderful wife once said, the world's moved on, babe. |
| 2:21.0 | Hello, I can't believe this is the last one. It feels, I don't know, just a bit weird that we're both sitting. |
| 2:29.0 | Yeah, it does actually. I mean, I actually spent some time today, well over the last couple of days I've been going back |
| 2:37.1 | listening to lots of the audio clips that all the wonderful listeners have sent it and it's been lovely and thank you everyone |
| 2:42.1 | so much with |
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