It's Wednesday the 15th of March 2017. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams and this is

episode 375 of marathon talk. I'm going to do. On this week's show we remember the world record-breaking masters athlete the great Ed Whitlock

Tony's here with his trials. There's a breaking two update. There's no Commonwealth games in Durbin in 22. There's a Breaking 2 update. There's no Commonwealth games in Durban in 22.

There's a super windy race in France. The pacemaker takes the win in Barcelona and

Chris Froom responds. You flash your kit around the world, rate your run, stand atop the podium, and tell us what would make you run faster.

We're going to kick off this week's show with the sad news that the world record-breaking

Masters athlete and former interviewee of the show Ed Whitlock passed away this

week in a statement from the Canada running series by Paul Gaines they wrote just a week after

his 86th birthday the ever so gracious and remarkably talented long distance runner Ed Whitlock has died at the

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto. In a statement issued this morning his

family wrote the family of Ed Whitlock is saddened to report his passing on March the 13th

2017 of prostate cancer. His 86th birthday was on March the 6th.

His wisdom, guidance and strength of character will be greatly missed by his wife, Brenda, sons,

Neil and Clive and sister Catherine. The family requests privacy at this time.

Although he's an accomplished British club runner in his high school

in university, Whitlock put the sport on hold while he embarked on an engineering

career in Canada as a master's runner he quickly established his credentials

becoming the first septogenarian to go under the three-hour

mark with a 70-plus world marathon record of 259-10 at the 2003 Scotia Bank Toronto Waterfront Marathon.

A year later he improved that record with the 254 49 at 73.

Eventually he set World Marathon Masters records age 75 plus, 80 plus and most recently 85 plus with a time of

356 38 for men aged 85 or over last October 2016 in Toronto. In all, he set roughly 25

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