It's 25th of March 2015. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams. This is episode

272 of marathon talk. I'm going to do. So, On this week's show there's some amazing Strava art. I speak to a Dariname Finn about his new book The Way of the Runner.

Mo breaks 60 minutes and the European record for 13.1 miles.

Japan announced their World Championship marathon as Tony's here with his trials.

Jantastic approaches the finish line and you tweet us your taper time woes.

Tom, what's been going on?

All kind of things actually and something I didn't put in the

this bit here that says what we've been up to I interviewed the 95 year old speedster

Charles Uksdster I'm looking I'm looking forward to that interview. What are what are legends?

It's not every day in fact you get to speak to somebody who is aged 95 and everything they've experienced in almost their century of life, let alone somebody who's 95 in a world record holding runner.

We did actually concentrate a little bit more on his recent running than I would have liked. It was good, it was really interesting.

I'd like to have done a bit more sort of general life stuff. I mean this is someone who I'm guessing was in his

20s during World War II. Yeah, fascinating. I mean, that's amazing, but anyway, it was more about the running, but yeah, it was good and he is actually a legend and had loads of interesting things to say.

So that was, that really really good. I've also been long running I managed 18 miles. I mean okay so he is not going to about to say he must be he is the oldest in interviewee we've ever had.

And so our youngest is 18 maybe.

We probably chatted to 20.

Let's call it 20. I don't think we've had anyatted to call it let's call it 20

I don't think we've had any kids on the show every we should get some kids on

with it yeah we should we've had a so there's a 70 year roughly a 70 years

age span in our interviewees. Yeah, that's amazing. It's twice your life.

Yeah, well, nearly. More than nearly.

What else you've been doing? Oh, well, as I was just saying, I have been long running. I buy the skin of my teeth again 18 miles. I went off a little too hard. I was in Twicken. I'm staying at Paul Sinton Newitz, part of the round founders. I did 10 miles solo within 8 miles with PSH and I went off a little tastily for the 10 miles solo.

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