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I'm back from holiday. Mid-marathon training, we're having dealt with, hopefully, a terrifying injury scare.

So bear with me on the podcast today.

Oh dear. Well, welcome back, Andy. Thanks. Welcome to the running channel podcast. We're

pretty much every week. We have Olympian, Andy Badley. We have park run lover.

What's coming. Knee surgery declarer, Rick Kelsey. Take that. And Guinness World Record

Holder, Brackets Pending Verification. Sarah Hartley, that's me. Are you ever going to stop banging

on about this? Is this still the world's deepest marathon? It is the world's deepest marathon,

yet one of, one of the Guinness World Record Holders. Andy, you should have seen her last week she's wearing a helmet I mean you are a helmet

can we say that in the intro on with the intro Rick okay sorry sorry yeah we are

talking about very important subject today which is something that individually all nearly made us quit running,

and it is for very different reasons, I'd say.

Hmm.

Do we get into it?

Let's do it.

So we're going to leave it, we're just going to leave that hanging there?

Yes, we are going to leave that hanging.

Look at us doing a very enticing introduction, which you'll hear about in five to eight minutes, depending on how much Rick wants to bang on about different things. And that will be entirely dependent on how much running he's actually been doing. If he hasn't been doing any running, what he tends to do is research some nonsensical thing that he wants to talk about. However, we did have a lot of emails about the P-Index and people wanting to know more.

Yeah, exactly.

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