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Hello and welcome to this week's couple counselling.

Sorry, the Running Channel podcast with Sarah Hartley, Tom Dunn, Rick Kelsey. Very funny, Rick. You know what? I ran a marathon two days ago. I haven't had a lot of sleep and I'm feeling a bit grouchy, so watch it. No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. Yeah, sorry. All right. I won't get there. I'll get there. So we are going to be hearing about Sarah running the world's deepest marathon and also Tom here, who's training for his first ever ultra marathon.

What is it, December the 7th?

It is December the 7th.

Arguably more impressive than a Guinness World Record.

Hey, look, it's not, it's not a competition.

It's not a close one.

Listen, Sarah, you dug deep and you did it. Oh, thanks, mate. Yeah, let's get all the mining puns out of the way now. I haven't got any more, but I bet it was a mind-blowing experience. Oh, God's sake. Yeah, great. Okay, perfect. There's actually so much to put into today's episode. We've got an incredible

race that we've all watched online that we want to talk about. Mark has some really exciting

news for the world of running. And we've got a great question too. So let's get into it.

Welcome back. Thank you. But before we dive into this, because, you know, I don't even need to catch up today. I've been allowed to talk about it as the main segment of this podcast. Yeah. But let's come to you first. How are you? Well, I don't really think I can compete with what has happened to you. Hey, comparison is the thief of joy. No, it is. I mean, I did park run.

Yeah, nice.

And I've been trying to persuade my tennis coach, Luke, who has a real difficult job, to be fair to him.

He coaches me.

You know, the world's worst tennis player.

To do park run for about 18 months since I joined the tennis club. Right. And I eventually persuaded him to do it. You're local? Yeah, so he came to Hellsfire on Saturday. And I was like, ah, see, I can, at least I can show him a bit of a, teach him a bit of a lesson at Park run. Please tell me he absolutely flawed you.

Went past me on the line.

On the line?

Yeah.

No.

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