172: What Can We Learn from Elites & Why the Enhanced Games Failed
5/30/202649 min
Andy and Rick are joined by Mark from The Running Channel to break down an extraordinary year for elite running. In April alone, five of the ten fastest men’s marathon times in history were recorded, while this year has also seen a new women’s-only marathon world record and a new indoor 800m World Record. In the trail world, Rachel Entrekin smashed the Cocodona 250 course record by an incredible seven hours.
Clearly, the elites are getting something right... so what can the rest of us learn from them?
The team also dives into the catastrophic failure of the Enhanced Games and why, in hindsight, it perhaps shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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First 90 secondsAndy Baddeley· Host0:00
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Speaker 20:25
We're going on tour, and I am so excited about this.
Andy Baddeley· Host0:28
It was a deliberate pun 'cause this episode is sponsored by On, so we're going on tour- On tour ... with On for the On Squad Race. So we're going all over the world, starting with South America.
Speaker 20:35
Buenos Aires.
Andy Baddeley· Host0:36
Yeah.
Speaker 20:37
I cannot wait. The On Squad Race has already started, and we are going to five different locations to take part in this sick event.
Andy Baddeley· Host0:44
Yeah. We're gonna be finding out all about the local running culture in three different continents, which is pretty cool for us.
Speaker 20:49
And racing up and down in a spiral car park, which I feel like is gonna be a test in itself.
Andy Baddeley· Host0:55
Yeah, four by four relay, two men, two women on each teams. We're gonna be captaining various teams when we take on these challenges around the world. And On is on a mission to ignite the human spirit through movement, which is what we're gonna be doing by traveling all over the world and meeting all these amazing runners.
Speaker 21:08
And if you wanna find out more about On Squad Race, then head to the link in the show notes.
Rick Kelsey· Host1:11
[upbeat music] This is the Running Channel podcast with me, Rick Kelsey.
Andy Baddeley· Host1:19
Me, Andy Baddeley.
Speaker 41:20
And me, Sarah Hartley.
Rick Kelsey· Host1:22
You've got an awful cold, Sarah.
Speaker 41:24
Yeah.
Rick Kelsey· Host1:24
[laughs] It's Mark Dredge- [laughs] ... who's with us today. Did you two know that five