Dane Bird-Smith
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Episode 137
Race walking explained for parkrunners, the straight-knee/contact-phase technique and how it is judged, race walking a 5k in 18:46 at Mooloolaba parkrun, his 15:21 run at parkrun the previous weekend after almost no running since Rio, how he got into the sport at 16 via a school athletics meet (and his dual-Olympian father), why race walking is easier on the joints but brutal on the anterior tibialis, distances from 1500m to the Olympic 20k and 50k, raising the sport's profile after the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, and the 2019 Doha World Championships with its midnight 20k walk in 28-32 degree heat.