It's the 20th of May 2015. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is

episode 280 of marathon Talk. I'm going to do. On this week's show, Tom speaks to Northeast running legend Jim Older. Phil Smith looks to resurrect the maupeth.

Andy Waterman reports from the Highgate Harriers Night of the 10,000 meter P.

Mary Wittenberg stands down as race director of the New York City marathon

Facebook Friday checks out your all-time running fails. Tom's been in

Birmingham I've been in Bedford boil on the run his back, you rate your run and stand atop the Jabra podium.

Rosie gets ready for the Westminster mile.

Tom?

Tom, what's you've been up to?

Tom, Tom, what have I been up to? I have been at the Part Run Ambassador

conference at the weekend, which was great. Once a year we bring all the

Part Run volunteer ambassadors together for three days or you know two days and

Friday lunchtime to Sunday lunchtime of talking about park run talking about all the

kind of things we need to do the challenges we face the achievements we've made

everything there is to talk about in part-run UK world and it's really social and really friendly and really fun and we did Perry Hall

Park Run on Saturday morning which is a really nice two-lapper. I love running with a load of friends. So yeah, it was that was pretty pretty cool.

Good and what's this you've been chucking the bells around?

Chucking the bells around. Well as you know as regular listeners will know my

motivation my mojo for exercises through the floor at the minute and I've barely

been doing anything and I've had to stop doing cross fit

because I ran out of money and times I couldn't afford to go and then couldn't go even

if I could afford to go and it was just all of it rubbish and people that follow

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