It's Wednesday the 11th of April 2012. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is episode

118 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to see.

So, So, I'm going to On this week's show the spring marathon season is getting super exciting with

massive races on the cards at Rotterdown, Boston, Paris and London coming up. We have a look at the

Kenyan race for Olympic game selection. Ryan Hall's got a 2012 movie coming out.

You, Key, the swimmer. You rate your run and Tony brings us his trials.

There's a full podium, training talks all about getting race week right,

and we've got the second part of our fascinating interview with Pioneer of Women's Running, Catherine Switzer.

Tom, what have you been doing?

Well, I have been cheering on Team Williams at Hull Park Run. I did see that your dad nearly took you down. I know he

did he take me down. I think my age grade was just a touch over 70% from a

P. Bied in the all-time P PV the other week and my dad bashed out a

69-age grade score he was the first vet male 65-69 over the line in 2426.

Nice work Brian Williams.

2426 to take first place in the veteran men 6569.

You must have been well pleased.

Well, he was absolutely over the moon, astonished, shocked, surprise.

I mean, he didn't really take up running until he was 64 or 65, and, you know, he was kind of overweight and never exercised at all really not for years and years and of course she's been skiing for the last few years which has helped which he which he took up when he was 58 or 59.

And yeah, he's going to the gym every day.

He's lost, together we've lost 16 kilos,

you know, we have our challenge to move 20 kilos.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so far, we're at 16 kilos, and we're, you know, combined and we're chugging away and I think he's

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