James Whelan

Marathon runner B might have got there through three quality speed sessions, lower running volume, and lots of cycling, for example.

Which actually brings me on to something I was keen to discuss your take on, which is Jimmy Whelan.

Have you seen him? Cyclist, so years and years as a pro cyclist.

Ran his first marathon in Valencia, I think it was last year.

Is that at odds with the running economy

cumulative effect that you described? Not necessarily.

I mean, it could be what then when that Jimmy Whelan got into running, they had other aspects of the determinants of endurance performance that were very high, but he also was probably lighter.

I don't know what his strength and conditioning history was.

Today's episode with Martin is very much like an episode of two friends chatting.

Uh, I was curious to hear more about his training, uh, hear, hear more about how it was to train with Jimmy Whelan, which he trained with up in the altitude before Birmingham, the European Ch- Championships.

So I hope that you'll like this.

I hope that you'll learn something from this episode, and, um, we'll, we'll have Martin back after the world, um, maybe just before too, the, the World Championships in Copenhagen for the half marathon.

Uh, and I think that that activation of sponsorships, sometimes that's not focused enough on, like, from the brand side, and then you might, like, both par- parties might, like, leave the, the sponsorship being like, "Oh, we didn't get enough out of this."

Yeah.

But then if you actually put some more thought into how can we make this the best possible, because, uh, I don't know who the filmmaker of, uh, of, like, Jimmy, and we're talking about Jimmy Whelan here-

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I was just surprised by that, so.

Um, James says, like, "If you miss 'cause it's long, I think that's worse." Um, uh, I'm not sure.

Both stink, obviously.

I'd, I'd rather miss...

I also think that, like, the strain on the bike works your leg muscles in a way that's very different than running, but can also still be good for running.

I think that there's something about the bike that's really nice.

And then also, we happen to have people in the world like, is it Jimmy? There's a James Whelan and a Jimmy Whelan.

One is a former pro cyclist who has now turned pro runner.

Uh, he is coming right from the Birmingham European Championships, so we talked about that.

We talked about training with Jimmy Whelan and up in the altitude.

A lot of good stuff, and just a cool conversation.

In the meantime, have a good week.

Uh, Adam Lipschitz, the South African, he was a pacemaker.

There was a point in the race where he had Jimmy Whelan, Ed Cheserek, Galen Rupp, Mark Scott, and I think also the Irish guy, Hiko Hasae, on him.

Um, but he finished the race off and beat all of them.

He ran sixty-one oh six for a lifetime best, which is quite bizarre.

You mean, like, fifteen K or?

Oh yeah, fifteen rather.

And then, yeah, Jimmy Whelan, PB sixty-one nineteen.

Shit, the stream.

We've got the European champs to talk about, some drug bust news out of the USA.

Also, uh, yeah, a result from our guests on the weekend, Jimmy Whelan, to discuss.

Listener question, moose on the loose, some whispers.

Kook or core lord.

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Um, and, and then, uh, even like Jimmy Whelan, like the Nomio one, I feel like there would be funding available for you or that it would make sense that a brand would, would, would, would contribute because they get a lot-

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It was a tough course.

Uh, Jimmy Whelan was second, thirteen fifty.

Abdi Derou, credit to him, thirteen fifty-nine.

And, uh, on the women's side, it was very tactical.