I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams, and this is episode 32 of Marathon Talk.

In this week's show, Martin's back from France.

We've got part de of the popular European silver medalist interview with Chris Thompson.

Liz gives us her Chicago update. Training talk is all about

being ready for race day. We answer your questions. We rant, we rave, we winner of the week.

Tom, how's the chickpea leaf and dust diet coming along?

The chickpea leaf and dust diet is good. I've chucked in the odd cucumber sandwich for good measure.

Yes, being a vegetarian, it's been interesting. It's not really sunk in yet, I don't think. I mean, I've been a veggie now for nine or ten days.

I'm, of course, not training particularly hard. So that's taken that stressor out. So I don't know how it would affect that how might have happened before, but yeah, it's interesting. Like I said, it's not really sunk in.

We went to a barbecue on Saturday and there was some really nice salmon bagels and I thought,

oh, don't mind if I can't.

And then we went to my mum's in the evening on Saturday so they

they'd have a couple of days and she oh I've got these lovely free-range organic chickens in the

fridge oh no I can't have those either. So yeah, so it's funny, you know, I'm not missing it at all, but there is certainly that kind of habitual thing of you just, you forget that you can't do it.

Where do we, I was going to have muscles the other night

or to a restaurant.

Oh no, I can't have muscles.

So yeah, but I'm enjoying it. It's really good.

It's definitely making me think about my food a lot more,

which is really interesting. So yeah, watch this space. If my arms. my wrong. I know if you see me on with Dungareezon on a rainbow jumper you'll know what's going on but

I don't know whether I should share this with you actually but I used to be

vegetarian. Did you you never told me? Well there go. I was vegetarian for a lot of years

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