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🗓️ 9 December 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

My listeners always tell me how much they enjoy the variety of speakers on the show and I thought it was time to hear from someone from a different culture without access to all the newest gadgets available in the American markets. Bobby Philip is a well known Indian runner with a great story to tell.

Bobby was the first Indian to run the Boston Marathon barefoot in 2015, he has great PRs, he lives in Bangalore and works for Nokia.

Today we’re going to talk about why a Boston qualifier has become the ultimate dream come true for an Indian runner, what’s it’s like running and training in India and how he transitioned to barefoot running.

“My running career was accidental.” [...]

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0:00.0	I mean for any Indian runner Boston is a dream.
0:05.0	You have to first of all to be Boston College site.
0:08.0	I would say that they're not more than 15 or 20 runners in India who are actually Boston qualified.
0:15.6	Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning
0:21.6	from the best minds in the sport so you can train
0:23.9	smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now. And now your host, Tina Muir.
0:29.7	Hello, this is Tina Muir. Thank you so much for being here with me today for the
0:35.2	latest episode of the Runners Connect Run to the Top podcast. Last week you
0:40.3	heard from one of the most motivational speakers I've ever heard through the interview with Dick Beardsley.
0:46.6	And if you missed it, make sure you go back and take a listen.
0:50.3	I've had a lot of positive feedback about how varied the interviews are and I intend to keep that going and keep looking for new running related channels I guess is the rest word to find guests you will want to hear from. I thought it was about time
1:05.3	we heard from someone in a different culture. Somewhere there's not as much
1:10.0	access to the latest and greatest gadget and somewhere where only a handful of people have actually run a sub-3 marathon.
1:18.0	After some help from a fellow listener, I found Bobby Philip, a well-known Indian runner and someone who had a great story to tell.
1:26.0	I emailed Bobby and he responded quickly.
1:29.0	After a few emails back and forth I could tell who was going to be a fantastic guest and of
1:35.4	course he was and I'm sure you're going to love him too. So let's dive in.
1:40.3	Who is Bobby? Well he was the first Indian to run the Boston Marathon Barefoot in 2015.
1:47.0	He has PRs of 3824 in the 10K, 125 24 in the half, and 315.24 in the half and 3.15.30 in the full marathon. He lives in Bangalore and works for Nokia.
1:58.4	or Nokia, I guess you guys may say. Today Bobby and I are going to talk about why a Boston qualifier has become the ultimate dream come true for an Indian runner.
2:10.0	I was kind of surprised and I asked him why it wasn't London because personally I love London
2:15.2	No, I'm just kidding. I haven't raced Boston yet. So once I do maybe that will be my favorite
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