Episode 104 - Liz Yelling

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2012

⏱️ 85 minutes

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It's been a rocky road for Liz Yelling in her quest to reach her third Olympics, Tom found out how she's pulled through some tough times and how she plans to zip up her training man-suit in preparation for this April's London Marathon. There was sad news with the passing of Frank Horwill and Zithulele Sinqe, Tony cheered us up with a video version of his Trials, and Jantastic kicked off in serious style.

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0:00.0	Happy New Year! It's Wednesday the 4th of January 2012. I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams, and this is episode 104 of Marathon Talk. talk. I'm going to On this week's show is the first show of 2012 we bring you up to speed with what's been happening over the festive period, including some amazing Kenyan statistics.
0:57.0	Jan Tastic is in week one. It's two hundred and five days to go until the start of the London Olympic Games. We catch up with Liz
1:04.0	yelling about her 2012 marathon plans and training talk is all about kicking off
1:08.8	of your 2012 marathon plans. There's Tony's Trials, Ransom Rave, Rate your Run, the Marathon Talk
1:15.0	podium and the listener launch pad. Boom! 2012 here we come. Tom, what have you
1:22.1	been doing?
1:22.6	Well, I've been kind of, I guess I've been a bit like a yo-yo.
1:25.6	I've been chocolate eating and then growing and then I've been running and I've been shrinking.
1:29.5	Yeah, you know, I know how that is. Over Christmas, it's just bonkers in it there's there's chocolate
1:35.2	everywhere I like you have been overeating and under running.
1:39.5	Well you see because listeners will remember that a little while ago my dad and I had this challenge to lose 20 kilos in total.
1:45.2	Could be 10 kilos each could be 12 and 8 whatever just 20 kilos in total by I think
1:50.4	February the 5th and we were kind of doing okay and my dad's been doing
1:54.0	amazingly well actually. I kind of indulged in a little bit too much chocolate over
1:58.7	Christmas and at one point he was only a kilo behind me in actual weight not in like he'd lost eight kilos or something and I'd lost one or something like that so
2:08.0	we'd started seven kilos different and then like I was 77 he he was 78 or something like I am
2:13.4	Dad I love you dearly and I know you're listening and you love the show and all that kind of stuff
2:16.4	but I can't be doing with you being lighter than me. Can you stop losing
2:19.5	weight Brian you're making him feel uneasy? Well I haven't actually eaten anything since.
2:23.5	And I've done 100 miles a week.
2:25.0	I'm now 43 kilos.
2:26.6	I'd like to add that Tom made that last bit up.
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