Great podcast again folks...loved the budgie smuggling segment you were painting pictures with words, although I may need to see my therapist after those mental images.
Great interview with Adam...it makes you wonder just how good he would be if he was given full-time funding and support.
Episode 9 - Adam Grice
Released: Tuesday 9th March 2010
Live from Lanzarote - Adam Grice was the British Universities 10,000m champion and came top five in the World Mountain Running Championships however eventually lost the battle against a lack of funding and gave up competitive running at the age of 24 to pursue a career in medicine. We answer a few listeners questions, have a bit of a rant and rave, catch up with Tony and his trials and chat about how to approach build up races.
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Show Notes
Time - Section
00:00 - Intro
- Martin's sunning himself in Lanzarote
- Tom battles through the snow and apologises for talking nonsense!
05:30 - News
- Marathon Talk reaches 1,000 Facebook fans (link)
- Danny does it for his mum!
- Non-itunes listeners can now subscribe via Libsyn (link)
- A website we love - www.mzungo.org
- Check out you Virgin London Marathon target mile splits by clicking HERE
- Daniel Torte raves about the Bratislava Marathon (link)
13:28 - Tony's Trials
- Tony takes up teaching
21:40 - Training Talk
- How should I approach races during the build up to a marathon?
31:50 - Rant and Rave
- Tom loves home sweet home
- Martin rants about budgie smuggling and poor kit choices
37:10 - Adam Grice
- As an unhealthy child with a love for sweets and crisps running was far from Adam's mind. At 16 he ran a 10k for charity and within a few short years had pb's of 14:08 for 5k and 65:46 for the Great North Run, not to mention a 5th place finish in the World Mountain Running Championships. Having battled against a lack of support through his early 20s he's hung up his spikes for the final time at the age of 24 and has returned to University to pursue a career in medicine. We talked to him about the challenges facing young and talented runners in the UK.
1:11:40 - Questions
- How important is it to do my long run on the same day and at the same time as my 'A' race?
- Am I at a disadvantage as a shorter runner than my competitors?
- Please can I do my long runs a little faster?
1:17:55 - Winner of the Week
- Les Turner
1:19:15 - Close
- Martin crosses his fingers for good weather in the Canaries
- Tom keeps on riding
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Daz Reevell
11th March 2010 10:58:29
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Jeff B
Hi Guys,
I'm enjoyng the podcasts. It was interesting to hear your thoughts on doing races in the run up to a marathon. I'm doing Stafford 20 this weekend and a half two weeks later. I'm then doing the London Marathon at the end of April. I just feel that doing a race is more enjoyable than running the same distance in training and that I'm likely to do a better quality run. The only thing I'm slightly concerned with is thatwhen I taper my mileage in the week prior to these interim races I hope I'm not missing sessions at an important stage of the overall marathon training plan. Hopefully it won't make too much of a difference.
Cheers J
11th March 2010 12:55:22
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Martin Yelling
Jeff, by the time you reach the London Marathon your training will have put you in a good place. Ease back for a few days before each race and importantly make sure you recover afterwards.
12th March 2010 12:01:44
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Derek Atkins
In regards to the question on disadvantages of shorter runners, a former multiple Canadian marathon champion named Peter Maher should eliminate any doubt. Maher has a personal best of 2:11:46 in the 1991 London marathon and briefly held the half-marathon world record. He is also 6 ft 5 inches tall (195 cm).
Apparently in his early 20's, he ate lots of junk food, smoked 3 packs a day, drank a lot of Guiness and weighed over 245 pounds. After resuming training, Maher competed throughout Canada and US in the late-80's, early 90's and competed in the 1988 Seoul and 1992 Barcelona Olympics. It was quite a sight seeing him line up with the other elites who were mostly a head shorter. Maher, an Irish-Canadian, now runs a sports therapy clinic in Cork, Ireland.
13th March 2010 06:10:19
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OslerBoy
About height for marathon running:
Noakes (Lore of Running) covers this on page 180 of the 4th edition. "Analysis of Boston Marathon winners... average 171cm (+/-5cm) with a range of 155 to 191cm."
The piece is headed "Why All Great Marathoners Are Small'.
15th March 2010 11:35:48
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Mark
Hey guys, great podcast - especially love the rants.
I know you've talked a few times in prior podcasts about the "monster medal" at the Little Rock marathon in Arkansas. Just wanted to let you know that I ran both Little Rock and Texas this year, and both have huge medals. Thought you might be interested in <a href="http://welshrunner.blogspot.com/2010/03/battle-of-big-bling.html"; rel="nofollow">a blog entry I just posted </a> comparing the beasts.
16th March 2010 03:14:14
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Martin Yelling
Loving the big bling Mark!
16th March 2010 08:28:42
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