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Hello and welcome to the Marathon Training Academy podcast, where we empower and inspire you to go the distance.

I'm Trevor.

And I'm Coach Angie.

In this episode, we speak with author Martin Dugard about the inspiring people who made running mainstream. You know, the first New York

City Marathon only had 127 runners. And only one woman. But now it draws over 50,000 runners,

half of whom are female, and over 2 million spectators. We saw news recently that over 1.3 million

people applied to run the London Marathon in

27. So our sport is continuing to grow. That's right. So Martin Dugard will explain how we got

here. Interesting look back at our history and what makes the marathon so special. And don't

forget, you can get all of our training plans, back podcast episodes, courses, and support

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