Marathon Talk

On this week's show we celebrate 500 episodes! We share some highlights, catch up with some of our favourite guests from the past including Paralympic Champions Noel Thatcher and Richard Whitehead and...

7 Aug 20191h 56min

Wow, it's Episode 499, next week we hit the magical 500! It's countdown to Tokyo 2020 with 1 year to go, Mo lines up the GNR again, Luke Traynor tests positive, Tom speaks to Sara Garstecka about dogs...

31 Jul 20191h 43min

Good news about the US Olympic Marathon Trials, and for Scottish marathoners, and for the BMC. Five Talents are putting on a great running weekend this October and are offering a chance to win complim...

24 Jul 20191h 21min

On this week's show Martin is joined by Anji Andrews in hosting the show for the first time. There's some super fast running on the track from Charlie Grice, a new women's mile WR and a new women's ma...

17 Jul 20191h 33min

On this week's show, Holly speaks to the Barkley-marathon-finisher John Kelly, Tom's breaks his non run streak and is back from the parkrun UK annual conference. Martin is back from a rather painful S...

11 Jul 20191h 33min

Tom speaks to this year's Comrades 3rd female and 2012 Olympian Caitriona Jennings, Kipchoge confirms Vienna as his 1:59 venue, Jim Walmsley and Clare Gallagher light up the Western States 100, and th...

3 Jul 20191h 18min

Martin speaks to Australian Olympic coach Nic Bideau, Ali Brownlee runs his first marathon, as part of a sort-of-duathlon... and qualifies for the Hawaii Ironman. Plus Tokyo plan for the Olympic heat,...

26 Jun 20192h 10min

On this week's show Martin speak to the co-founder of Strava Mark Gainey about segments, set up, the Rim to Rim and the future. We remember American track star Gabriele Grunewald, young Brit track sta...

19 Jun 20191h 32min