The Big Run - Episode 2 - Spencer Barden

Spencer Barden is a former international athlete with more than 30 representative caps for Great Britain & Northern Ireland and England. Over a fifteen year period he has competed at track, road and cross country events around the world, including six IAAF World Cross Country Championships and two European Cross Country Championships. Following his athletics career, he spent 12 years working for British Athletics, the governing body for athletics in the UK. Spencer is currently the head of elite athletes at the London marathon and was part of the team to overcome the huge obstacles to staging an elite race in a global pandemic. He was also head of elite athletes for the Ineos 1:59 challenge and was part of the team that helped Eluid Kipchoghe achieve the holy grail of a sub 2-hour marathon.