It's Wednesday, the 29th of August 2012.

I'm Martin yelling.

He's Dave Robertson. and this is episode 138 of marathon talk. I'm going to On this week's show for the first time ever Tom's not here he's sipping

Duvan on France so it's down to me, to hold the marathon talk fort.

I'm joined by Dave Robertson, aka Robboo, from the Naked Runners in Australia for the

whole show, including some Magic Mile trash talk.

There's news from the global world of running including Paula's Foote and Mose Twins.

This week's interview is with London 2012 Olympic Athletic Stadium announcer, MD of Run Britain and 213 marathon at Jeff Whiteman.

The Magic Mile kicks off next week.

You rate your run and rant and Tony is back in his slot. Robboo, welcome to Marathon Talk. What have you been doing?

Thanks Martin, it's a real thrill and an honor to be here and I'm hoping I can get through the entire show because my wife Gabby is

due to have a baby any minute so hopefully we can get through to the end it's

exciting times down here in Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia.

But you're literally waiting, aren't you? You're waiting for that baby to arrive.

We are, yeah, made a due day was just gone on Sunday, the 26th of August, so that was 40 weeks and now the time is ticking.

So it's very exciting, it's on the edge of our seats waiting for it all to happen.

We really don't want our first marathon talking live on air baby.

So if you could just ask your wife to, I don't know, like clamp in for another another hour or so.

Well we've just moved house and so it was a we were a bit anxious about making sure we

got in before the baby came along so she's being quite good at doing that.

Yeah hopefully we get some movement

happening pretty soon. But look, down here in Newcastle Martin, we've enjoyed the success of our

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