It's Wednesday, the 23rd of December 2015. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is episode 311 of Marathon Talk. marathon talk. I'm going to be slightly different. Tom's not here at all. Instead, we've got an hour long special

interview with Ben Smith from 401 marathons for you to sit back or run to. If you need some inspiration for 2016, then this is it.

But first a reminder, our annual run camp in the new forest are wonderfully named.

Sandy balls. He is back. It's our third camp in the new forest this year.

Well next year it's on February the 26th, 27th and 28th. Places are selling pretty quickly. So if you do want to join us for some

running some laughter some fun then pop along to this week's show notes on

marathon talk dot com for the link for more information and to book your place. For this week's marathon talk festive special interview

we are joined by Ben Smith.

He is currently doing something amazing. We've been trying to get Ben on the

show for a while and we've managed to track him down. The reason it's been difficult is because

he is all over the place on September the 1st

2015 so earlier this year he started a challenge of a lifetime running 401 marathons on consecutive days spread all across the UK.

He's joining us on Day and Marathon 108. I'm not sure where he is, but

welcome to Marathon Talk, Ben.

Hi, you're right.

I'm really good.

Where are you?

I'm in Leicester at the moment.

Oh, yeah, I've just finished my first day in Leicester.

The Mecca.

The Leicester Mecca. Yeah, that's the one. Yeah got the one around the countryside of leftorship today which is quite fun but very hilly

She was flat. You're a hundred and eight marathons in Ben.

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