It's Wednesday the 15th of May 2013 and this is episode 175 of marathon talk. So, I'm going to On this week's show we have a messy race report from the Paris Marathon

we ask how you choose your next goal. Wada changed doping penalties.

Last year's comrades winner keeps his medal.

They're not quite the marathon of the North was on Sunday. We interview

fell runner Joe Simmons and speak to the lead author of the Foster Collapse paper, Tony Brinks is his trials and there's a brilliant lap counting video of the week. Tom, have you had a busy weekend?

Wow, I had a really hectic weekend, and I ran my 100th Park Run.

Wuhoo!

Where did you do it?

Cannon Hill Park Run in Birmingham.

There was a load of park runners there.

We had a bit of a park-run going on where we invited ambassadors and volunteers from all around the country to come together and spend a couple of days talking about park runs. That was really cool and as part of that Helen and I ran our

last ever runs in a last ever runs in our 50 t-shirts but that's not quite right

because our hundreds will probably take a little while to come. I've not even

replied to my email yet actually, but yeah proudly running my

one hundredth run. Congratulations, one hundred Park runs well earned. Yeah although we have.

Yeah I found out the weekend Danny did a little quiz on the Saturday night, I think it was.

And one of the questions was how many people are in the 250 club? We have 37 people on Saturday morning. There are plenty of things to do on a Saturday morning, aren't there?

Well I tell you what, I don't think I've done anything else on Saturday morning for several years.

So for some of us, no.

I did do 1910, so I was quite pleased with a bit of progress at 55 miles of running last week

second 50 mile a week in a row in 1910 to 34 seconds put in the week before so I'm moving forwards

at Cannon Hill Park Run was the Northern Ireland

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