Episode 72 - Ed Whitlock
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 994 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In recent years Ed has truly excelled, currently holding nine single-year age World records for the Marathon, notably in 2004 with a 2:54 at age 73 and earlier this year a 3:25 just 35 days after his 81st birthday... Tom caught up with Ed and found out just what it takes to break three hours in your seventies! Mark Hetherington brought you the third and final installment of his heat and hydration Training Talk... and the boys enjoyed a nice holiday... whilst being terrified of an 56 impending miles!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom May 2011 and this is episode 72 of marathon talk. |
| 0:27.0 | Now on this week's show it's a marathon talk episode with a difference. |
| 0:32.0 | As you'll know if you're regularly |
| 0:33.6 | to the show, me and Tom are over in Durbin in South Africa |
| 0:39.1 | to take part in the Comrades Ultra-Marathon. |
| 0:42.4 | And as a result, what we've decided to do with today's show |
| 0:46.2 | is do it a little bit early and get it published while we're away. |
| 0:49.6 | So what we have for you today is training talk Mark Heatherington is going to be talking about |
| 0:55.4 | training in the heat part three we've got an amazing interview with Ed Whitlock and Tom spoke about that in great detail on last week's show. |
| 1:05.1 | We'll still do our normal clothes, we'll still do our normal marathon talk listener |
| 1:10.4 | launch pad, but firstly we're going to tell you all about what we're doing this |
| 1:14.9 | weekend over comrades. Yep it's finally here comrades this show is due to go out |
| 1:21.0 | four or five days before comrades on the Sunday and it's going |
| 1:25.7 | to be an exciting thing. |
| 1:26.7 | It's going to be 20 miles further. |
| 1:28.6 | In fact, it's not going to be 20 miles. |
| 1:29.8 | It changes every year, doesn't it mark? |
| 1:31.0 | It's actually only, only 54 miles this year. |
| 1:34.0 | Well it is it's an uprun so we're doing we're running from Durban up to |
| 1:39.9 | Peter Marisburg through some of the the great landmarks and the history of this race. |
| 1:45.1 | The Comrades Marathon started actually in 1921. |
| 1:48.3 | There was 34 runners. |
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