It's Wednesday the 15th of February 2012. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is episode 110 of marathon talk. I'm going to do. On this week's show we bring you up to speed with some goings on from the world of running including the Boston Marathon elite field

enactment. We look at who's topping the tables in fabulous and what's happening in

Marchfulness. We've got an amazing interview with an inspiring woman, Karen Dark. You rate your run.

There's a super chilly winner of the week. Tony brings us his trials and we talk 20 milers

to do or not to do in training talk.

Last week I was so obsessed with my birthday on February the 7th

that I thought the show came out on the same day. In fact it didn't.

Last week's show came out on Wednesday the 8th of February and not the 7th as we said at the start of the show.

We do actually get that wrong a surprisingly large amount of time.

There's a kind of marathon talk trivia question there I think in terms of how many times of

Tom and Martin actually got the date right for the show. We do check it every single week as well. I remember last week we said right

seven checks it's Wednesday 7th yeah that's right episode 109 yeah check

done it's only when someone points out actually Wednesday's the 8th we got wrong

there you go all to do with us being a couple of goons anyway what

have you been up to come on last week you were you were sat there at the end of the

show and I said so Tom what will you be doing this weekend and you

fobbed me off with some kind of nonsense story. Well bless you little

cotton socks we celebrated your 40th birthday. It was a big surprise

wasn't it? It was a big surprise to me seeing all the photos of you and your

super cool 80s training gear with your curtain haircut and your rally grifter or

whatever it was absolutely fantastic had a really great time. Liz did just a

stunning job of arranging your surprise birthday party. There's about a hundred people down in

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