It's Wednesday, the 19th of March 2014. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams.

And this is episode 219 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to see. On this week's show we speak to the super speedy Chris Thompson.

Mo zips up his man suit in New York.

There's fantastic PB's left, right and center,

two stacked listener podiums.

Training talk is all about the taper,

and we have the usual rate you run and Facebook fun.

fun.

Tom, what have you been up to?

Well, I've been, I've been shaving my shins again.

Oh, you've not, you've not been going to those jobs again have you the

the famous shave your shing me I was back at cross fit what did I do it what was

the it was deadlifts followed by box jumps and I

Landed clean on the call of the box again. I've got a eight inch

I tell you what it if you're eating your dinner, put your dinner down now because you probably won't like this next bit.

After I've peeled myself off the floor, there was like a probably 3 centimeter strip of skin complete with leg hair just hanging off the edge of the box.

Yeah. Again the thing is I've thought about this after you did it last time and I thought biomechanically what must the reason for this so you

jumped just to get me understanding you're jumping off and on a box right I mean how hard can that be

I'm willing to bet that biomechanically and structurally the reason for that's actually quite simple

Little legs well I was more thinking as you jump up just not quite got the length in the feet to stay

to hit the top of the box so whereas you think you're going to hit the top of the box,

the feet just don't quite get there, do they?

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