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Welcome to the running channel podcast with me, Andy Badley, over there, Rick Kelsey.

And the two of us might actually get a word in this week because someone is jetted off skiing.

Sarah Hartley.

Oh, no Sarah this week, yeah.

She's gallivanted off to the French, Swiss, Italian or German Alps.

Not sure you don't know.

You don't know you weren't listening at all.

Should we sing her praises because we know she'll be listening to the introduction. So she just do that and get on with it. No, I'm actually glad she's not here. I'm going to go that hard. That's pretty harsh, actually. Yeah, you guys didn't talk about me when I wasn't here. Oh yeah, we didn't. We shouldn't talk about her. And also we've got an amazing guest today. Rick and I are going to catch up in a minute and then we'll be joined by the amazing

Hannah Cox, who not that long ago ran 100 marathons and 100 days across India in memory of her dad, which is an incredible story. And also she only took up running four or five months before doing that, which is crazy. Is the bit that gets me five months before she did not run. Yes,

we're going to be talking to her about injury prevention, strength and conditioning, and basically

how she conditioned her body in order to cope with that level of stress over such a long period

of time. Yeah, and when we get to it, we're going to ask her take

on some stuff that's been happening in a few hot marathons around the world and what she

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