Training talk spot on. I 'll look forward to it each week. It will be great t hear how Diane goes through her build up too.
Episode 156 - Kelly Sotherton
Released: Wednesday 2nd January 2013
Happy New Year! Olympic medallist Kelly Sotherton joins Martin, we bring you up to speed with festive news. Jantastic starts on Monday the 7th of January and we speak with last year's overall prize winner Diane Adkins. You rate your Christmas runs, Tony brings us his trials and training talk sets you on the way to your spring marathon.
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Show Notes
00:00 - Intro
- Marathon Talk highlights of 2012... Jantastic, Live from Leeds, Olympic Marathon watching, Live from London, meeting some amazing people, super cool interviews, watching the community grow, Magic Miling and finally some new t-shirts!
- Our third birthday in two weeks, Jantastic is going to be epic, listen out for an awesome announcement on the 9th of January and we've just broken through 1.5 million downloads.
- Tom's been parkrun volunteering, catching Johnny Brownlee and adjusting his Jantastic goals
- Martin's been running less, getting wet and building his Christmas belly!
- Thanks as always to the great folks at adidas uk
- Jantastic starts on Monday
17:30 - Diane Adkins
- Diane won the overall Jantastic prize in 2012 of a VIP entry to the Virgin London Marathon, including a whole load of adidas goodies and a night at the amazing Tower Hotel.
34:00 - News
- No real news this week so we just had Rate Your Run and the Listener Podium
41:15 - Training Talk
- For the next 16 weeks we're going to take you through your spring marathon programme week by week
- In week one it's all about setting out your basic week, pacing your training sensibly as there's still a long way to go, being honest with regards your goals and realistic in terms of your personal training budget
48:38 - Tony's Trials
53:00 - Interview - Kelly Sotherton
- One of team GB's finest ever heptalthetes, a medallist at World and Olympic level and Commonwealth Champion
- Kelly's taking on her first marathon in London this spring
- Find Kelly on Twitter here and Wikipedia here
1:36:10 - Close
- Still time to sign up for Jantastic
- Tom will be off to Carlisle, running the Yorkshire cross country championships and Jantasticating
- Martin will be getting into the swing of things and checking out the Lion King
- Check out our events pages here
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Jon Hobbs
Posts: 523rd January 2013 22:22:05
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Dave Keeley
Posts: 17Talking of hobnobbing with the elite, I'm in the hotel lobby in Xiamen, being used by elite runners. There are plenty of Ethiopians and Kenyans about for tomorrow's marathon, but they probably haven't recognised me yet and so we haven't got round to discussing our injuries, colds and hangovers.
4th January 2013 06:28:53
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John Tougher
Posts: 354Martin,
didn't matter how many times you tried, Kelly doesnt want to run more than 18 miles!! Hope she doesnt regret it! As she said, its all in the preparation and i dont know how many ways and times you tried to tell her to run further in training.
Anyway, good luch to her. hope she does well.
John
7th January 2013 09:43:25
Martin Yelling Says:
Thanks John! You picked up on that! ;-) She will! Lol.
7th January 2013 20:06:53
Anthony Ashworth Says:
I was surprised that an elite athlete should pick such a relatively soft target. Surely 4 hours would be a shoe-in for her? Having said that, if she doesn't fancy putting the miles in, 26.2 could be a very long way, elite or not!
I've always liked her, so I hope she does well - maybe you boys could follow her training progress?
All the best,
Ant6th January 2013 21:56:40
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Brian Flaspohler
Posts: 38Great interview - it does make her seem almost human going for a four hour marathon. Heck, I can do that...
The highlight of the interview had to be her describing the 'Reformer.' "A bed with lots of springs that I can get into many different positions on." Martin showed remarkable restraint in only commenting, "Sounds like fun." :)
9th January 2013 06:53:56
Martin Yelling Says:
Brian! Really! I must admit to having a chuckle to myself ;-)
9th January 2013 14:50:17
Brian Flaspohler Says:
I could hear the wheels turning. "What can I say to that that would be funny and not too cheeky?"
9th January 2013 01:12:10
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Andrew Carter
Posts: 32Just wanted to add that I loved the interview and was surprised by the amount of respect, even fear that Kelly was showing to the marathon distance. I have a 4 hour target (again!) this year, but I have the feeling that Kelly is sandbagging a bit and once the gun goes she'll get in race mode and will more likely be finishing in about 3 - 3.5 hours as long her nerve issue doesn't cause problems.
Very refreshing to have an elite be so candid about their fears. Great interview to start the year.
12th January 2013 11:44:34
Jon Sutcliffe Says:
I find her approach strange. Yes she spoke of fear and respect for the distance, but was really head in the sand about running appropriate distances in training.
Obviously she knows her own body better than me, and the nature of her nerve issue may very well be that she is taking the best route. However, her reasons for not running long seemed to be about boredom and the onerous nature of them.
I was left feeling sorry that I didn't think she was giving it a proper go to see how well she can really do.
12th January 2013 13:52:52
Alison Purvis-Gisborne Says:
I agree Jon, she had plenty of respect for the distance but not enough realism for what needs to be done to prepare. A marathon can be done on only one 18 mile run (I did it last year, my first marathon in 4:20) but I did do plenty of 15+ runs, something that Kelly is obviously not keen on.
From her vagueness she's obviously not planned out her training yet and I'm sure the guy that she mentioned that will be helping her will make sure she has a plan that has all the required elements in it for a 4h attempt.11th January 2013 08:46:09
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Paul Henry
Posts: 73lovely to hear how trepid Kelly is about the Marathon.
I hope her aversion to the longer runs is really just a hangover from her 'first career' and that they grow on her. Certainly she will reap what she sows in training.
As for relying on the garmin to hold her back come race day, hmm you have to be really self aware to do that even with a garmin on your wrist. Id suggest rocking up to some of those park runs and running off from somewhere midpack at your MP to get used to allowing people to run past you at the begining.
5th February 2013 17:09:38
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