It's Wednesday the 28th of December 2011. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is

episode 103 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to do you know the

and now I'm going to do you know. So, On this week's show we hope you had an amazing Christmas. Now we recorded this week's show before Christmas. Now we recorded this week's show before Christmas and so we've taken a

rain check on all the normal features that come to you on Marathon Talk but we will

be back in the first week of January with a full show.

What we do have this week though is an amazing interview with a legend of British

running Bruce Tuller and we want to bring you that in full.

There's nothing that Bruce hasn't seen and done in the world of running.

He won at the European 5,000-meter track championships 50 years ago.

Fantastic.

Don't forget, we've also only got

until this Sunday the 1st of January

to sign up and commit to your January running goals

in our spring motivation challenge.

Fantastic. And remember remember rival someone random today. I am joined on this week's marathon talk interview by one of Britain's legendary old school runners coaches, authors and champions of the century. I'm speaking to Bruce Tuller.

Welcome to the show Bruce.

Thank you.

Now Bruce won the 1962 European 5,000 meter championships. He was famous for racing

barefoot. He set new British and European records for two miles, three miles and

six miles. He competed in two European, two Commonwealth and

one Olympic Games. In 1969 he broke the record for running from Los Angeles to New York covering the 3,000 miles in just

under 65 days. He coached Mike Boit and Richard Neurka, was the coaching

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