It's Wednesday, the 23rd of October 2013.

I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams.

And this is episode 198 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to do. On this week's show we broke the 2 million download mark. It's Yorkshire Tough at the

first Plusnet Yorkshire marathon Tom Tom and Tony were there, and

we catch up with for all events organizer Mike Tomlinson and women's

say Sir Holly Rush. There's a three-peat in Amsterdam, there's records in

Toronto and Steele is on top form in Birmingham. We ask you to

complete the Marathon Talk runner survey. Tony brings us his trials,

you rate your run and we announce which spring marathon we're running in.

Tom, what have you been doing?

I tell you what, I have been breaking myself into, I've been doing cross-fit.

Cross-fit? Oh, oh! Well... I've been doing cross fit. Cross fit?

Oh, well, I'm turning into...

Arnie.

Well, well, that's the idea.

Unfortunately, I'm turning into, I don't know what to call it but I'm so sedentary just

sat at my desk all day long and being so inactive and now I'm not swimming or

cycling or anything like that honestly I'm so weak and so inflexible and so

immobile and I had so many doing so many good intentions of you know buying

kettlebells and a rowing machine and everything for home and just thought

I'm not going to do it but I need the personal

interaction I need the crack I need you know the sort of group environment and I've been thinking about going to

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