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Run Talk SA

Run Talk SA is a weekly running podcast hosted by Mr Active, David Katz aimed at the South African running community. We chat to the who's who of the South African running scene, preview races, catch up with experts and give advice from running your first 5km up to the Comrades Marathon.
Occasionally English South Africa Sports
81 Episodes
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Nothing is impossible - unless you believe it to be

Welcome to this week’s edition of Run Talk SA with myself, David Katz, Mr Active and I’ve got a really interesting guest on today and it’s not necessarily running specific, but the whole part of running and running these crazy ultras we do in SA, it’s all in your head,…
13 Jul 2015 20 min

Arnaud Malherbe on the revival of South African athletics

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Run Talk SA podcast, I’m David Katz, Mr Active. I’m very delighted to welcome someone onto the podcast today who is a former South African record holder in the 400m. His personal best time 44:59, he was the first South African to break…
7 Jul 2015 16 min

Knysna Forest Marathon - for the seasoned & novice

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Run Talk SA podcast, I’m David Katz, Mr Active and I wanted to try something new, having only recently taken over the podcast from Brad Brown. Every month, at the start of the month, to look at a particular race that month, a…
1 Jul 2015 9 min

Injury prevention and conditioning tips from Dr. Jon Patricios

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Run Talk SA podcast, I’m David Katz, Mr Active joining you once again. A very interesting topic today; I’m going to get straight to the point. I’m joined by Dr Jon Patricios, one of the most foremost spots physicians in the country. He’s…
22 Jun 2015 17 min

What every Runner should know about diet this Winter

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Run Talk SA podcast, I’m David Katz, Mr Active and winter really bit in South Africa, especially up on the Highveld in the beginning of June. It had to come at some point and it has arrived. So we looked a couple of…
15 Jun 2015 14 min

Why Compression gear should be in your running wardrobe

Welcome to this week’s edition of Run Talk SA, I’m David Katz, Mr Active. I can’t believe that it’s already just over a week since the 90th edition of the Comrades Marathon. I’m sure there are a lot of sore runners still out there. One aspect to look at after…
9 Jun 2015 17 min

How to stay healthy and get strong this Winter

Welcome to this edition of Run Talk SA, I’m David Katz, Mr Active. It is post Comrades, all the excitement of the 90th Comrades Marathon is done and dusted. Its recovery time now and we are going into winter, the three coldest months that we have here in South Africa…
2 Jun 2015 9 min

Barry Holland - for Club and Comrades

Welcome to this edition of Run Talk SA with myself David Katz, Mr Active and we are less than a week to go now until the Comrades Marathon and a lot of excitement in the air. I went out for a run in Johannesburg this morning, it’s starting to get…
26 May 2015 11 min

Running is about friendship

Welcome to this week’s edition of Run Talk SA, I’m David Katz, Mr Active, taking over the podcast from Brad Brown. Many thanks to Brad, he’s done fantastic work on Run Talk SA over the last two years, but we will continue to mould this into a fantastic running podcast…
18 May 2015 14 min

Winds of change on Run Talk SA

After two years and some amazing content, Brad Brown hands over the reigns of the Run Talk SA podcast to David "Mr. Active" Katz. Here is the introduction.
11 May 2015 22 min

What happened to the Comrades Marathon cheat?

One of the biggest stories we have covered here on Run Talk SA was that of the Comrades Marathon cheats. If you missed the story or would like a refresher then make sure you check out this post where Mark Dowdeswell told us about his statistical findings. We then had…
5 May 2015 19 min

How to run a sub 3 hour marathon with Arnold Geerdts

What does it take to run a marathon in under 3 hours? For many of us just finishing a marathon is an incredible achievement, running a sub 3 hour marathon is a super human achievement. South African TV and sporting personality Arnold Geerdts has run 63 sub 3 hour marathons…
12 Nov 2014 19 min

Bob de la Motte - The Run Away Comrade talks the Comrades Marathon

9 Time winner of the Comrades Marathon Bruce Fordyce describes Bob de la Motte as follows: “Bob de la Motte truly believed he would win the Comrades Marathon. While other contenders hoped to win, Bob knew he would. When he didn’t, he came back the following year twice as determined…
2 Nov 2014 25 min

Freedom runner Samantha Gash completes the Freedom Trail

On this episode of Run Talk SA we welcome back Samantha Gash. Samantha, along with Mimi Anderson, have just completed a run of more than 2000km in just 32 days! The first time we caught up with Samantha was a few days before she left Australia to head to South…
26 Oct 2014 20 min

Manfred Seidler launches Athletics Today

This week on Run Talk SA we catch up with Manfred Seidler, one of the top athletics journalists in South Africa about a new initiative that he has started called Athletics Today.Athletics Today is a bi-weekly online video magazine programme that will keep you up to date with the latest…
1 Oct 2014 19 min

Freedom Runner Samantha Gash runs to keep SA girls in school

When someone tells you they are running planning on running 80km a day for 32 days, what is the first thing that pops into your mind?The first thing that pops into our mind is “That’s awesome, we’d love to do that too”. If you think the same way, you are…
23 Sep 2014 18 min

The 2014 Wildcoast Wildrun™ with City Press journo Carien du Plessis

It is hard to put into words the beauty of the Wildcoast Wildrun™. Three days of some of the most spectacular coastal running you will ever experience, on one of the most unspoiled stretches of the South African coastline.This week on Run Talk SA we catch up with one of…
16 Sep 2014 16 min

Irvette van Zyl on life, love and running fast

A month ago Irvette van Zyl won the Totalsports Women’s Race in Stellenbosch in a time of 32:50. It equalled Zola Budd’s personal best as the third fastest 10km performances by South African women on the road. Budd ran that time at the age of 17 in Bloemfontein in August…
9 Sep 2014 20 min

2014 Comrades Marathon winner Ellie Greenwood talks running

2015 Comrades Marathon entries opened this week and as it stands as I write this approximately 4000 entries have already been snapped up. On this episode of Run Talk SA we talk the Comrades Marathon with the 2014 Women’s winner Ellie Greenwood.Ellie has had an incredible running career which includes victories at the…
2 Sep 2014 18 min

Joel Runyon runs the Comrades Marathon and the 777 Challenge

We are suckers for great running stories. Joel Runyon has a fantastic one. From being unemployed, sitting in his parents basement he has gone on to travel the world and do things most people think are impossible.Find out what brought Joel all the way from San Diego to the sleepy…
26 Aug 2014 25 min
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