The 2025 TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon takes place this Sunday, October nineteenth. Headlining the Canadian Nationwide championship discipline this 12 months is Ben Flanagan, as he appears set to make his much-anticipated debut over the Marathon distance.
This week on The Shakeout Podcast we meet up with Ben to listen to how he’s approaching his first step into the deep waters of marathoning. Following a stellar 2024 season that noticed him PB on the observe at each distance from 1500m to 10,000m and make his first Olympic crew in Paris, Ben tells us why the time was proper to make the transfer full-time onto the roads.
Already a multi-time nationwide champion at shorter distances and the Canadian report holder on the highway 5k, Ben shares his ideas on why the roads have all the time felt like house for him regardless of a glittering observe resume and the way the unprecedented depth of Canadian marathoning at the moment is making the transfer each a frightening and thrilling one for him. He additionally shares about his resolution to maneuver from his long-time coaching group in Michigan underneath the legendary Ron Warhurst to coaching solo in Cape Cod, his relationship with new Jon Inexperienced, and what it’s been wish to stability a lot change with the calls for of parenthood after the arrival of his first daughter this March.
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