Breakfast with Bob from Boston: 2018 Edition

Join us for our 2018 Edition of Breakfast with Bob from Boston

Pre-race interviews filmed at the Boston Marathon Expo

Friday – Sunday, April 13 – 15

Watch all the interviews on:

In Person at the Hyland’s Booth at the Boston Marathon Expo (339 – 341)

Friday Line Up

All times Eastern. Schedule as of April 10

11:30 Michelle Ferre Pocketful of Primary

12:00 Stan Brajer from Polar

1:00 TBD

1:30:TBD

2:00 Jackie Baker & Kristin Clark Girls on the Run

2:30 Meb Keflezighi

Meb took home the silver medal in the marathon at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and he came back from a career threatening injury to win the 2009 New York City Marathon. Meb is also the 2014 Boston Marathon Champion. His win in Boston, which came one year after the bombings, is considered one of the greatest ever wins ever by an American marathoner

3:15 Ryan Hall

He holds the American Record for the half marathon with a 59:43, he is the only American to go sub 2:05 for the marathon (2:04:58 at the 2011 Boston Marathon) and is a two-time Olympian in the marathon, and he joined us on Friday to talk about his legendary career and memorable races.

3:30 Dr. Bryon Solberg

Bryon Solberg was born without the odontoid bone which protects the spine, and is the longest living person surviving with this condition. He has about 10% of the strength he once had in his legs, but despite that he has now run 108 marathons!

4:00 Stephanie Crook

Stephanie is a teacher who is training and racing with MS

Saturday Line Up

All times Eastern. Schedule as of April 10

9:30 Michael Wardian

Michael is an Ultra Running Legend and his 2:38 is the fastest marathon in history for someone in an Elvis outfit. He actually won the Rock N Roll Las Vegas Marathon dressed as Elvis!

10:00 Jarrod Shoemaker and his mom May

Jarrod represented the US at the 2008 Olympic Triathlon in Beijing and he will be running Boston along with his mom

10:30 Lisa Bentley

11-time Ironman Champion, author, and inductee into the Triathlon Canada Hall of Fame

11:00 Caroline Rotich and her coach Ryan Bolton

Caroline won the 2015 Boston Marathon with a time of 2:24:55. Her coach Ryan Bolton was on the first-ever U.S. Olympic triathlon team in 2000.

11:30 John Young, AKA The Hammer, is the only athlete with dwarfism in history to complete an Ironman Triathlon. Check out this story about John: Marathoner with Dwarfism John Young to Run 12 Marathons in 12 Months

12:00 Pamela Nisevich-Bede

Pamela is an elite age group runner and triathlete as well as a nutrition expert at EAS

12:30 Tim Don

Tim is a three-time Olympian in the sport of triathlon representing Britain, a four- time ITU World Champion and in 2017 he recorded the fastest-ever Ironman Triathlon time with a 7:40:23 at Ironman Brazil. Last October, three days before the Ironman World Championship, Don was hit by a car while on his bike and suffered a broken neck. The Boston Marathon will be his first race back since breaking his neck.

LISTEN to our Babbittville Radio Interview: Tim Don

1:00 Mirna Valerio

Mirna is known as ‘The Mirnavator’ and her message is that running is for anyone and everyone.

LISTEN to our Babbittville Radio interview: Mirna Valerio

1:30 Karen Smyers

Karen is one of the few triathletes in history to win both the ITU World Championship at the Olympic distance and win the Ironman World Championship.

2:00 Krige Schabort

2:30 Dave McGillivray

Dave is a running legend who is the long-time race director of the Boston Marathon. Among his amazing accomplishments is a streak of running the Boston Marathon every year since 1973.

Sunday Line Up

All times Eastern. Schedule as of April 10

9:30 Jon Dunham

Jon created and produced The Spirit of the Marathon films and his latest film is the spectacular Boston:The Documentary

10:00 Mary Beth Ellis

She is known as the’Honey Badger’ for her terrific work ethic and she won eight Ironman titles in her career.

10:30 TBD

11:00 Sarah Reinertsen and Alec McManus

Sarah is the first single above knee amputee woman to finish the Ironman World Championship and she also starred on The Amazing Race. Alec is a local leg amputee who would like to get back into running.

11:30 TBD

12:30 Rachel Simpson from Let Me Run

1:00 Kevin Dua & Adam Welcome teachers from the Hyland’s Powered Boston Marathon Team

1:30 Scott Jurek and Jenny Jurek

Scott is the seven-time winner of the Western States 100, the two-time winner of The Badwater Ultramarathon and a New York Times Best Selling author. His new book, which he co-authored with his wife Jenny, is called NORTH.

2:00 Brian Pfeffer & Rachel Rodriguez from Students Run LA

2:30 Dick Hoyt

Dick and his son Rick are Boston Marathon legends and there is a statue of the two of them on the Boston Marathon course. Dick and Rick also became the first father/son combo to finish the Ironman Triathlon World Championship