AUDIO: EPISODE 52 - THE BOSTON MARATHON

THE BIG RUN

Hello and welcome back to another bumper edition of The Big Run in collaboration with A Runners Life podcast.

Today's episode is a deep dive into the oldest marathon of the majors: Boston.

Myself and Marcus had two fascinating conversations for this episode with Dave McGillivray race director of The Boston Marathon and then with Kathrine Switzer and Rosy Spraker. Kathrine was the very first guest on this podcast and Im delighted to have her back. She is joined with 14 time Boston finisher Rosy who is a member of her 261 fearless organisation.

You can hear Kathrine and Rosy from 01:15:20

But we kick things off with Dave who has looked after the race since 1988 and is an extraordinary athlete in his own right. He raced across America in 1978 in 80 days averaging 45 miles a day and to date has 160 marathons to his name a fair few of them done at Boston directly after he has finished being the race director!