It's, Wednesday, the 10th of September 2014. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams. This is episode

244 of Marathon Tour. I'm going to do. So, On this year's great north run an American six-old runs an amazing 5K PR. Boston Marathon Registration

opens and there's a brand new half marathon in Sheffield for 2015. You rate your run, stand proud on the podium.

Plus, we interview Welshman runner-turned-triathlete,

Richie Gardner.

Tom, what have you been up to?

Well, one thing I've been doing is speaking to Richard Gardner.

What a top bloke?

Yeah, I'm looking forward to that, hearing about his Iron Man exploits to be. Yeah, and Steve Wei Esk in his passion for junk food. Is it? Yeah, it's good. You're going to laugh. You're going to laugh. You're going to laugh.

Been running? Have I been running? I've been doing a little bit running.

My usual, those people that follow me on Strava, I think, I'm parked on Tomm on Strava, I think.

I've just been doing two, a couple of runs a week.

I've been doing no more than about four miles and I've been doing some strides.

You've got a little 100 metre length of strides, we do, me and a couple of mates,

just around the corner from my house.

We've been getting quite a bit faster.

It's interesting, it can be really interesting to see if, I'll try to park run in a few weeks

time maybe if it makes a difference just and has the lifting has the lifting

Loving it. Hey I lifted the heaviest weight of every done my entire life the other day.

Yeah, a pebbed for deadlift deadlift, 112 and a half kilos.

Great. Yeah, quite good. Only like one one hundredth of the world record or something. Is that more than you way?

Well fortunately Martin, yes it is more than I way, considerably more than you way? Well, fortunately Martin, yes it is more than I way,

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