I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams, and this is Marathon Talk. Welcome to episode 25. On this week's show we've got some news from fast long

races and a new marathon world record attempt. We've got a follow-up interview with

two-time Olympian Liz Yelling as she prepares for her

autumn marathon in Chicago. Training Talk tells you how to kick-start your

autumn marathon campaign. I rant, Tom Raves, we've got your questions on

regular racing and pushing through the long run,

plus we've got a great winner of the week. Tom, what have you been up to this week?

Well, this week I've got a year old the grand old age of 36 or nearly vet 40 which

everybody keeps reminding me so yes it's my birthday that was on Sunday had a

great day kicked off with a 50 mile time trial.

Oh, what a stunning way to start your birthday.

I love it up and down in the A19. Nice.

It was funny actually because I had a really strange race really I've never felt so bad in a in a race before my legs just felt completely empty

And I've been doing this thing where I've been not looking at my my watch during races to try and race a bit more and feel and to try and not kind of prejudge how well or badly I'm doing because it obviously the conditions vary.

So I've been not looking at that, I just have the distance and heart rate on to know how hard I'm working how far there is to go.

And honestly it was the worst one I've ever had. I got to about 25 miles just before and I've completely blown and my head had dropped and my heart rate had really gone through the floor and I was I've lost motivation

and I pressed my lap marker at the halfway at 25 miles to kind of just give me an idea of where I was after the race and normally

I'd go back and review it. I was actually something like 10 seconds up on my PB which is just

ridiculous and you can see from my heart rate graph it just suddenly

my heart rate just suddenly lifts and and I pushed on to the finish and I still didn't

have a fantastic feeling race but I rode I.58.54 for a 50 which is just over 25 mile

now. So really really good that's awesome in fact. Yeah so I was really

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