Wednesday the 26th of August 2015 I'm Martin yelling he's Tom Williams

This is episode 294 of marathon talk I'm going to do. So, On this week's show the World Athletics Championships keeps us on the edge of our seats as

Mo and Jess take gold Bolton Bolton gatling go head to head.

And American women enjoy mixed fortunes over 10,000 meters.

Away from Beijing, Niliya Shubakova has her band reduced.

You guys catch some rays in your classic black, rate your runs and stand atop a stacked jabra podium. Tom, what's you been doing?

I have been running. I did a proper Thatcher on my four mile tempo.

Excellent. We love a good Thatcher. So a Thatcher for non-regular

this is of the show. tell us what a Thatcher is.

We originally came up with a concept, didn't we, or somebody else did, of a royal flush negative

split being each split of your designation, let's call it a mile, each split being quicker than the one before.

So the ultimate marathon royal flush negative split I guess would be every single mile successively quicker

than the one before.

And the opposite of that, we had a bit of a laugh. successively quicker than the one before.

And the opposite of that, we had a bit of a laugh with our mate Noel Thatcher,

the multiple Paralympic gold medalist.

And we said when you, I think it was his suggestion,

the opposite of that, it's a kind of like a royal flush and positive split was a

Thatcher and I did that so I went out for my four mile tempo prescribed to me by

the great Matt Barnes. I think it was Friday I went out. It's on Strava for those people who

are interested in seeing my pain and suffering and I thought I could do I did four

laps of the stray where Harrogate Park Run is and I thought I think I've done

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