Oct 4, 2026 · 38 min · 8 segments
The big names for this week’s Nike Melbourne Marathon Festival have been trickling in, but now the full elite fields are out – and there’s plenty to get excited about. Competition Director Tim Crosbie…
He had a fall in Kenya and couldn't do the world half marathon champs, and then I got the phone call that now that he's got an edema and he just...
It's not a serious injury, but it's just enough to take the edge off and he'll just be cross-training for the next few weeks.
I've been dealing a lot with Jimmy, and I think you're the one who, who got us onto Jimmy, so thanks for that.
But Jimmy will be in town soon and, um, I think, uh, the Old Xaverians boy debut marathoning in Melbourne, I think it's a great story, and let's just see how that pans out with him and Kipchoge and various others that we'll talk about.
Between Kipchoge and Jimmy Wieland, you've got two of the world's smoothest movers out there on the course too, so it's gonna be a real spectacle for, for anyone out there watching, which is great.
We really don't know Kipchoge's, uh, strategy with this, so there haven't been, hasn't been much coming out of his camp of how he's gonna... 'Cause he is doing the seven marathons on seven continents, so he's not necessarily looking for race wins.
But with the South American run, he went through at, uh, 2:09 pace at halfway, and that's about where Jimmy is at.
He had a fall in Kenya and couldn't do the world half marathon champs, and then I got the phone call that now that he's got an edema and he just...
It's not a serious injury, but it's just enough to take the edge off and he'll just be cross-training for the next few weeks.
I've been dealing a lot with Jimmy, and I think you're the one who, who got us onto Jimmy, so thanks for that.
But Jimmy will be in town soon and, um, I think, uh, the Old Xaverians boy debut marathoning in Melbourne, I think it's a great story, and let's just see how that pans out with him and Kipchoge and various others that we'll talk about.
Between Kipchoge and Jimmy Wieland, you've got two of the world's smoothest movers out there on the course too, so it's gonna be a real spectacle for, for anyone out there watching, which is great.
We really don't know Kipchoge's, uh, strategy with this, so there haven't been, hasn't been much coming out of his camp of how he's gonna... 'Cause he is doing the seven marathons on seven continents, so he's not necessarily looking for race wins.
But with the South American run, he went through at, uh, 2:09 pace at halfway, and that's about where Jimmy is at.
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