Hi there, I'm Jenny Faulkner. Welcome to another episode of RunPod in lockdown. And I say that because we're still very much maintaining social distance and self-isolating at home as we try to deal with coronavirus. And with this global pandemic, we've seen so many incredible sporting events postponed and cancelled this year.

From the Olympics to Wimbledon and, of course, as runners, we're all very aware that many events for us have been affected to.

Park runs gone on hold and many races have been cancelled or postponed until later in the year.

Now, one of those races is the London Marathon, the biggest

annual one-day fundraising event in the world. Last year, over 66 million pounds was raised for charity,

and in 2020, the 40th anniversary, expectations were that this figure would be surpassed.

Now, the event which sees well over 40,000 people run through the Capitol has now been

scheduled to take place on October the 4th instead of the original day at the end of April.

However, there are plans to still do something very special on April of 26th to make sure that the key fundraising

still takes place. And to talk about this, well, I'm honoured to be joined today by race

director of the London Marathon. It's Mr Hugh Brasher. Hugh, welcome back to Run Pod because last

time you were on here, it was just before London

Marathon 2019, so things are very different this time round. They certainly are, yeah. And normally this

time of the year, we would be loading all the vans ready to go to Excel, which is now the

Nightingale Hospital, ready to put the running show together

in order to welcome 45,000 runners who would be doing the London Marathon on the 26th of April.

But absolutely, as you say, it's a different world,

and the event is now postponed until the 4th of October.

Yeah, I mean, this is probably a very stupid question here, but I'm assuming it's not easy

to shift the date of the London Marathon. No, it's not easy, but we had amazing support from

the mayor's office and all the boroughs, the Royal Parks, the

emergency services.

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