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Jake Wightman

RunPod

Global

Running, Health & Fitness, Sports

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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To end 2022 on a perfect note, we're joined by the 1500m World Champion Jake Wightman! When Jake isn't winning gold medals, and making Great Britain proud, you can find him doing a lovely Park Run in Bushy Park (just a convenient 200m from his house!) Jake is an incredible runner and motivator, and he will definitely inspire you to go for a run or a nap... Looking to buy a RunPod tshirt? Go here: linktr.ee/runpod

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0:00.0

A safe trip begins with TRIP.

0:03.0

Take a road trip with your family, get there safely.

0:06.0

Do your trip checks.

0:08.0

T, drop up on island fuel, R, rest every two hours to

0:13.0

I inspect your pressure and tread.

0:16.0

P, preparing for the weather ahead.

0:18.0

A safe trip begins with TRIP. Oh, yes, always, so we're a safe trip begins with TRIP.

0:21.9

Oh, yes.

0:23.8

Do the four trip checks before every journey, National Highways.

0:32.1

This is a Global Player Original Podcast.

0:39.0

Hello there, welcome to Run Pod. I'm Jenny Faulkner and I'm going to tell you I am beyond excited to have this guest today.

0:47.1

So we're ending 2022 really with someone whose year has been incredible. So he got a bronze in the 1500 at the Commonwealth Games this summer.

0:56.0

He got a silver at the European Championships in the 800 metre.

1:00.0

And he got gold and became the world champion this year in the men's 1500.

1:05.0

I mean, this is the first time for a Brit since, I think it's since Steve Cramm, like 1983 or something like that. This guy is

1:12.3

amazing. He is the one and only Jake Whiteman. Hello there. Hi, Jenny. You're good? Yes,

1:18.7

are you? I'm all right, thank you, yeah. Did I get those facts right? It is the first time since...

1:24.0

Yeah, for 1500, I think it is, yeah, which is pretty cool, isn't it?

1:28.4

How was Steve Kramm with you after that? But he was one of the first people to message, and I think a message from Krammy is always a nice one, because if you get it from over, like, Co-Krammo, Vette, they're the guys that were trying to emulate. So, yeah, he was cool. He was so buzzing about it. And we met up the next day and we did a little bit

1:44.4

for the BBC, which was trying to like compare his race to mine, which actually had probably

1:48.8

more similarities than you thought. But yeah, it's a real, real special day. Yeah, I'm not

1:54.1

surprised. I mean, what a year you've had and you did, I mean, completely smashed it. And you've

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