It's the 26th of March 2014. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is

episode 220 of marathon talk. I'm going to do.

So, I'm going to do you know. On this week's show we speak to BBC Sports Reporter

George Riley about his 100-mile racing challenge.

We have the first of a fascinating two-part nutrition interview with Barry Murray.

Fantastic is in the final week.

Win a free ticket for Marathon, Mainia in Manchester.

We talk about the rise of the Kenyons and the forthcoming World

Half Marathon Championships. Training talk is a few do's and don't for race week, you rate

your run, and just who is on the podium? Tom, what have you been up to? I've been messing up my fantastic. the Honestly, when we designed the tiebreaker thing, the whole predict your performance, the idea was it would be really hard to get it.

And so it would result in not everybody having 100% at the end.

The risk was that everybody sort of

sandbagged their scores all the way through we ended up with a whole load of people on

100% and not that there's a prize for getting 100% but we wanted to add that bit of

challenge so we put this thing in this really really

really hard to get right and I got it almost perfectly and then I missed the

rest of it I can't believe it. What did you do you forget to log some runs or

how did that come about? Well yeah I've been running I put seven runs a week and I've been just knocking over seven

a week so easily all through between sort of seven and nine runs a week.

I didn't even, I'd stop counting my runs ever, I just logged them on a Sunday or Monday morning

just that was it and I totaled them all up at the end of the week I thought oh

have we done six can't believe it one run short and I was so blown at the end of the end of first 10

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