Episode 315 - Tom Fairbrother
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2016
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
Happy Birthday to us. It’s been 6 years and 5 million downloads since we released our first episode. Wada release the second of the Independent Commission reports into doping in athletics - we look at some thoughts and opinions. The Virgin Money London Marathon announce the 2016 elite men’s field. Top US marathoner Ryan Hall, announces his retirement. Tony brings us his Trials. You tell us about your eating habits on the run and show off your kit around the world. Training Talk looks at setting a marathon goal and we speak to marathoner Tom Fairbrother about his battle with an eating disorder.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday the 20th of January 2016. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is episode |
| 0:05.9 | 315 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to us. It's been six years and five million downloads |
| 0:50.2 | since we released our first episode. Wada released the second of the Independent Commission reports into doping in athletics. |
| 0:57.0 | We look at some thoughts and opinions on that. |
| 0:59.0 | The Virgin Money London Marathon announced the 2016 elite men's field. |
| 1:03.7 | Top US marathon of Ryan Hall and that's his retirement. |
| 1:06.9 | Tony brings us his trials. |
| 1:08.4 | You tell us about your eating habits on the run and show if your kids around the world. |
| 1:11.8 | Training talk looks at setting a |
| 1:13.0 | marathon goal and we speak to a marathon a Tom Fairbrother about his battle with |
| 1:18.3 | an eating disorder. Tom, what you been doing? What have I been doing? I've been in, oh I was in Bristol, wasn't I? I did go to Bristol. |
| 1:26.0 | I did go to Bristol after all. The weather was all right. |
| 1:29.0 | Our friend Ken bloused out in the last minute, so he cancelled on Friday. Bless him, he wasn't feeling very well. |
| 1:36.0 | So we already had the hotel booked and we'd already arranged to go to Little Stoke Park run on the Saturday morning. |
| 1:40.5 | So we went anyway. So we went anyway. |
| 1:43.0 | I would also arrange to go and see Chrissy Wellington and Tom Lowe and their new little baby |
| 1:47.2 | girl, Esme, who's beautiful. |
| 1:50.4 | So we thought we'd go there anyway. |
| 1:51.4 | So we went, we went down went down you're gonna laugh though. |
| 1:53.7 | I don't if I've told you this we we got down and you know what it's like you try and |
| 1:58.0 | you drive when the kids are asleep when you get to the hotel where you're saying you the trick is to get them out the car through the reception into bed and back to sleep before they wake up enough to realize they're in a hotel and all excitedly start running around and step all night, isn't it? |
| 2:13.0 | Right. So we go in and I've got Rosie, Helen's got Aston and |
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