Dean Karnazes is one of our all time favorite guests. He came on to chat about his plans to run a marathon in all of the countries of the world in 2013 and how much he loves creating his running adventures.

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Mark Plaatjes has a marathon personal best of 2:08:58 and he won the marathon at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. But statistics do little to tell the real story behind an amazing man. As a black South African, Plaatjes was forced to deal with apartheid at home and discrimination abroad.

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Top American marathoner Ryan Hall has come down from altitude to San Diego to work on his speed. During our interview he put out a cool idea. He wants to team up with Michael Phelps and Lance Armstrong for charity to see how fast the three of them can get through an Ironman, relay style. How sweet would it be to see that happen?

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Asker Jeukendrup (pronounced You-Can-Drop) is a 17 time Ironman finisher who works with two of the world’s greatest endurance athletes, Chrissie Wellington and Haile Gebrselassie. What is the best fuel on race day? How does someone going as fast as Haile actually get any type of nutrition into his body while running a sub 2:04 marathon? What makes the Ethiopians so amazing? Asker was a wealth of information and a great interview.

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Dean Karnazes, the UltraMarathon Man, came on to discuss his 500 mile ElliptiGO trip from Northern Cal to the Honda LA Marathon and his next goal: To run a marathon in all 207 of the world’s countries all in one year.

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Brett Gotcher ran at Stanford and in January ran the fourth fastest debut marathon with a 2:10:36 at the Chevron Houston Marathon. Gotcher is definitely someone to watch as we head towards the 2012 Olympics and he has an awesome personality.

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Ryan Hall has been training hard to win the Boston Marathon this spring. He came on from Mammoth for a great conversation that really gives you some insight into why this young man is so special.

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The Honda LA Marathon has a new course and a new attitude. Peter Abraham came on to talk about about everything that will be happening over the March 20-21 weekend.

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