Episode 71 - Ellie Greenwood

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2011

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

In just over a week, British Ultra runner and World 100km champion Ellie Greenwood will taking on the mighty Comrades Marathon, just four weeks later she's also competing at the infamous Western States 100... Martin caught up with Ellie for some last minute long distance advice. Meanwhile, Tom spoke to John McIroy about his Comrades multi-sport challenge and learnt all about hydration from Dr Mark Hetherington and Tony told us all about his Manchester madness!

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0:00.0	I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom May 2011 and this is episode 71 of Marathon Talk.
0:26.7	We're going to kick off this week's show with some very sad news.
0:30.8	The Marathon World was shocked recently by the death of the Beijing Olympic champion
0:36.7	Sammy Wangeru.
0:37.7	Really, really sad news.
0:39.9	We woke up to it this morning.
0:41.5	The circumstances around Sammy's death aren't really clear at the
0:44.3	moment, but today's about celebrating Sammy as a runner I think rather than the other side of
0:48.8	his life and so you know we thought we'd talk just a little bit about him. He finished six marathons in total. He won five of them.
0:55.2	His slowest time ever was 2006-39, which was his first win for Kawaka on his debut.
1:00.6	Of course I remember him for his Olympic victory in 2008.
1:04.0	It was just breathtaking.
1:06.0	I'm sure most of our listeners watched it
1:08.0	and it really did change the face of marathon running
1:11.0	probably forever for that point on.
1:12.0	Mark Hintz, one of our listeners, wrote a great the face of marathon running probably forever for that point on.
1:12.6	Mark Ince, one of our listeners wrote a great blog piece about it, which will put a link to
1:17.1	on the show notes.
1:18.1	We stuck it on the Facebook page.
1:19.1	It's amazing.
1:20.1	I just remember the commentators, I think it was Brennan Foster and Steve Cram
1:22.7	constantly saying he's gone off way too hard he'll never do it and then it gradually
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