It's

Tom Williams and this is episode 157 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to see. On this week's show, Jantastic 2013 is here. It's the first week of our Spring Motivation running challenge. We speak to the

inspiring Mike Tomlinson about for all events and a brand new marathon in Yorkshire.

It's week two of our countdown training talk. There's a little news.

We announce the Marathon Talk podium of the year for 2012.

There's a rate you run, A rave and of course Tony's trials.

Tom, what have you been doing?

Well, I've been getting a lapped, would you believe it, lap is a two and a half K lap, it's not like it was a 400 meter lap,

I've been getting lapped at the Yorkshire cross country championships.

Oh, just I'm here, I'm weeping sympathy for you.

Get in, well done those that lapped you. How did that come about? What were you doing?

Did you go the wrong way?

It was Yorkshire cross-country champs and it was one short lap and four long lap. Total distance was 10 and

half K. So I'm guessing the short lap was half K. So the long lapse must have been about a mile and a half

or whatever it was just under. And I had him ahead. Because obviously I'm out of my depth in terms of the standard so I thought my challenge is not to get

lapped by Johnny Brownie or any of his speedy buddies and honestly I thought I'd held them off and there was about four or five

four or five hundred yards to go and I come around the corner and it's down here all the

way and the three of them led by James Wilkinson I think the three of them came hooning past me at a rate if not so I thought

could I absolutely leg it and stay ahead of them for 400 meters and then even if then I collapsed I wouldn't have got

lapped not even close.

It makes you really appreciate the speed of these guys doesn't it because they can

oh yeah they can absolutely motor you've also been doing a little park run training.

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