340: Runaway Sydney Half Marathon | Kenya Olympic Marathon Team Announcement | The Virtue of Consistency

340: Runaway Sydney Half Marathon | Kenya Olympic Marathon Team Announcement | The Virtue of Consistency

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Brad goes full out on a 5k time trial then goes into his recent history of long runs.
Julian checks the surf before getting back on the horse.
Brady takes it easy in his first week post-Ballarat Marathon.

 

Ed Goddard took out the Hoka Runaway Sydney Half Marathon in 1:05:43 ahead of Matt Smith and Matthew Cox. Abigail Nordberg won the Half Marathon in 1:14:35 ahead of Eloise Wellings and Lauren Reid.
Results

 

Eliud Kipchoge was selected for his fifth Olympic team, hoping for a third consecutive gold medal in the marathon. His teammates for Kenya will be Benson Kipruto who recently beat Kipchoge at this year’s Tokyo Marathon and 2024 winner of the London Marathon Alexander Mutiso.
Peres Chepchirchir, also the defending Olympic Champion has also been selected, along with Hellen Obiri who won silver in the 5000m and placed 4th in the 10,000m at the Tokyo Olympics and defending silver-medallist Brigid Kosgei.
Olympics.com Article

 

Listener Question of the week asks what a newer runner needs to do to get their body right and break the injury cycle. Moose goes on the Loose on would-be customers wasting time of store staff, then there’s discussion on an audacious attempt on Greek ultrarunner Yiannis Kouros’ long standing 1000 mile record.

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