It's 21st of November 2012. I'm Martin to do you. I'm going to do. On this week's show there's a trio of news from Japanese races a chance to win a

place in the Virgin London Marathon 2013.

Ultra runner, Jez Bragg announces a great New Zealand adventure

and we talk to the incredible Steve Edwards.

He's run 500 marathons in under 3 hours 30 minutes. Training talk is all

about planning a successful winter. You rate your run. You give us a winner and

who will make the podium. Speaking of podiums, how did you get

on at the Abbey Dash Tom? Well I think as much as there was all your talk of sandbagging

last week I managed to live up to the tide analogy

for the first third of the race, at least the tide went out for the first third. It carried on going

out for the second third and it disappeared off the distance for the final third.

Was it, did you find it tough?

Oh, I don't know.

To be honest, if you'd given me the time, I think I ran 38, 14 or something, if you'd given me that time

at the beginning of day, I hadn't done a session for six weeks,

I would have bit your arm off. That would have been great. But as is often the way, when you lose a bit of fitness,

the last thing to go, think is your pace and effort over

the first mile or so of that race distance so the I ran totally on feel I ditch my

watch I ran completely naked as they say and I thought I'll just go and feel and that's got to be the best way to adjust my pace based on my kind of levels of fitness and of course it's not the first mile that felt really comfortable not too fast thought I'm doing

about right here and then someone shouted out 544 and I thought oh no I'm

knacker now I just I just slant into reverse all the way through and had a miserable day huge positive split

don't know what that was couldn't have my watch but limps over the line so to speak but yeah

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