The final time Cam Levin took the streets of Vancouver for the Vancouver First Half, he left with a brand new Canadian report on the half-marathon distance. Weeks later, he stored the record-breaking streak going with a career-defining run of two:05:36 on the 2023 Tokyo Marathon, taking a minute and a half off of his private finest and breaking his personal Canadian report within the course of.
Quick ahead three years, and Levins is returning to the playbook that served him so properly prior to now, as he’ll toe the road this weekend on the Vancouver First Half in a last tuneup effort earlier than a much-anticipated return to the streets of Tokyo on March 1.
Now, eight years into his marathon profession and practically 14 years since his first Olympic crew in London, Cam joins the present to speak about how he continues to chase excellence within the sport. We discuss his well-known high-mileage coaching, how he’s discovered his manner again to wholesome operating after years battling harm, and what all of it seems like whereas balancing life as a brand new father. Plus we discuss his return to the streets of Tokyo, a metropolis that has been a standard thread all through his marathon profession, and what it’ll take to as soon as once more seize lightning in a bottle there in lower than a month’s time.
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