Live from the London Marathon 2013 - Friday

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2013

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Wilson Kipsang, Patrick Mackau and Geoffrey Mutai have all broken 2:04 for the marathon distance and the combined times of their PBs would be enough to beat over 5% of London Marathon finishers in a normal year! Need we say more.

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0:00.0	You guys are about to experience something absolutely phenomenal.
0:06.7	What we've got lined up for you now here on the Add-It-S Boost stage at the 2013 Virgin London Marathon is simply stunning, breathtaking.
0:18.4	We've not done it before.
0:19.8	It's going to be super, super special. We're a little bit nervous, aren't we?
0:24.1	We are a little bit nervous.
0:25.3	My name is Tom Williams, and he's Martin yelling.
0:27.2	And together we produce the UK's number one running podcast,
0:29.6	Marathon Talk, and we've spoken to some pretty speedy runners in our time, but I don't think we've ever
0:37.2	spoken to three runners quite as fast as this.
0:41.8	This is Rockstar running, right? we're about to introduce to you three of the
0:46.5	world's biggest runners right now on the marathon circuit. They are absolutely amazing. Before we do that, we just like to
0:56.4	thank Adidas for their own support of marathon talk and for inviting us here today to speak
1:02.1	to you and introduce these guys.
1:04.7	This weekend of course it's the 2013 Virgin London Marathon and it sees the best ever elite field ever assembled in the history of
1:19.8	marathon running. Those of you running on Sunday you are going to be towing the
1:24.0	start line with these guys. No surprises, okay? They are absolutely
1:29.8	phenomenal. So there are seven guys in the field with personal best of under two hours and five minutes.
1:40.0	Seven guys in the field including the Olympic marathon champion Stephen Kippritich.
1:44.9	Seven other guys. So Tom who have we got with us?
1:48.4	Well I think without further ado we'd like to welcome World Marathon Record Holder with a
1:54.8	PB of two hours three minutes and 38 seconds set in 2011 Patrick Macau. We'd like to welcome the fastest marathoner of all time who ran 2.0 in Boston in 2011 Jeffrey Muti.
2:17.0	And last but not least we would like to welcome the current London Marathon
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