4.7 • 994 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2011
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Since being diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's Disease in 2008 Alex Flynn has significantly raised his already high althetic bar, already the only PD sufferer to complete the Marathon des Sables, in two days time he's setting off on an 1,800 mile run accross Europe with just 30 days to complete it! With two week's worth of running to catch up on there was also plenty of news, results, gossip, winners, losers, rants, & raves... not to mention the second installment of Tony's race report from his German adventure... What. A. Show.
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0:00.0 | I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom June 2011 and this is episode 74 of Marathon Talk. |
0:26.0 | On this week's show we follow up with Ellie Greenwood on her awesome fourth place at Comrades. |
0:31.0 | We also talk to Parkinson's sufferer and runner Alex Flynn who at the end of this |
0:34.7 | week is due to set off on a 1,800 mile run across Europe. |
0:40.3 | There's news of Mo Farrah's amazing new British and European 10K record and also a new 30K world |
0:47.0 | from Boston runner-up Moses Mosep. Plus we've got some other news in the world of |
0:51.7 | running we catch up on all your |
0:53.2 | marathon results, there's rate you run, rant and rave and an inspiring winner of the |
0:58.2 | week as well, of course, as Tony's Ultra Trials. Anyway, Tom, how have you been since our return from comrades? |
1:06.7 | Well, I've been a bit snively like you. |
1:08.6 | We've all come down with this kind of cold, didn't I mean, I'm sat here with a lem sip in the middle |
1:12.4 | of summer, bunged up it seems like every |
1:15.2 | other week we're doing the show at the minute I'm all bung up so I did listen to last |
1:18.5 | week's show and we both sanded really bung up and now a week later I'm slightly less bunged up and you're slightly more |
1:27.1 | bung up. Well I was laughing about that because I was chatting to Ralph the jogler who won the |
1:31.6 | Edinburgh Marathon place I was chatting to him last night and he said oh you know you really captured the feeling of the |
1:36.9 | the race when you were doing the race report. I said that's because it was only 24 hours previously. We were absolutely battered We weren't lying in bed because we wanted |
1:44.6 | to lie in bed. We were lying in bed because we needed to be there. But yeah, I've been brilliant. |
1:50.0 | I've been just yesterday I did two interviews for the show and they're both |
1:53.1 | amazing nothing to do with me I'm not blowing their and trumpet but the |
1:55.4 | the guests were amazing this week we've got Alex Flynn Parkinson's sufferer |
1:59.6 | who's about to run 1800 miles across Europe in 30 days and it was such a motivational interview I really |
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