It's Wednesday the 20th of August 2014. I'm Tom Williams. He's Andy Jones and this is

episode 241 of Marathon Talk. On this week's show Andy Jones takes over from Martin, Not Another Holiday Yelling.

We've got all the news from the European Championship Marathons.

Joe Pavey plans to keep on running, Mo moves back to the track.

I speak to Jess Coulton in this week's interview.

Kenanisa Bakee talks to talk, you guys rate your run, get on the podium, nominate a winner of the

week and Tony brings us his latest trials.

Andy how are you?

Very well thank you.

It's great to have you on the show as guest presenter in Martin Dads

absence he'll be prancing around of his holiday

resort and his white budget smugglers with a belt with a little gold buckle on.

So how are you? It says here you've been racing trains, packing boxes and watching

races. So let's go through that in order shall we

racing the train yeah busy week and Saturday race the train in Towan in

mid Wales excellent race great atmosphere race 14 miles long, you race the train. You've got about 1 hour 47 to cover the 14 mile

course before the train gets back to the station, which a good percentage of the race

manage, but still for those that are on the 146 to

148 boundary it's touch and go if they're going to actually beat the train so again

it was a great atmosphere a great day wherever were, a little bit windy on the backwards run, but it was a, like I said, awesome day.

I mean I've never done it, but it's one of those sort of classic British runs that you know it's not about running an amazing

time or a super stellar field is it it's kind of real real running and getting out

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