I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams September and this is episode 35 of marathon talk.

On this week's show we bring in news of super marathons around the world,

we've got some race results, Tony tells us about his epic long run, Liz is glum, we tell you how to get your

recovery just right after a hard sesh. There's a question on marathon target

time. We rant and we rave and we've got a great winner of the week.

Tom, are you a winner this week?

Well I was a bit of a winner. I think on Saturday I actually did a half-ironman in the morning and a 56-mile

ultra-run in the afternoon stroke evening. And that's not bad for one day, is it?

That's a brilliant, brilliant workout. How's the throat? Well of course I'm using

the word did in the loosest term of course. We went down to watch the Vitruvian half-iron man race on Saturday morning and Rutland Water in the UK.

And that was great, it was really good fun.

Hel's tonight it's the first year in five years that we haven't been doing it.

But it's really good fun.

Watch everyone have a great race and your buddy Joel took down the course record actually.

It absolutely hammered the swim.

I know he's been working on that a lot.

Smash the bike and then disappeared on the run, on an accurate course.

I think he ran 112.58 for a half marathon.

Yeah, we've been working really hard on his running off the bike and he's been working very hard on his swim too.

And if you can, you know, you can put a really solid bike ride in between the two, then you've got three great disciplines and he's in

really good form coming to the end of his season and his peak races. It's always

great to have a really good run out. It was funny because he's obviously a really nice lad and he's really modest and I was chatting to him afterwards and he'd,

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