It's Wednesday the 29th of March 2017. I'm Martin yelling. He's Tom Williams. This is episode

377 of marathon talk. So, I'm going to do. On this week's show we follow up last week's chat with Ed Caesar about the Nike Breaking 2 project.

The World Cross Country Championships were dominated by Africans in Uganda.

There's a new indoor marathon world record and a new world record for a half marathon is

suit. What was it? Top marathon number cruncher Barry Smith joins us to talk

perfect pace profiles for the London marathon. Facebook Friday asks who

would win in a Hawkins versus Yuki fight.

You rate your run.

Plus show off your fancy kit all around the world.

Plus Professor Andy Lane is here with more advice and guidance on how to keep your head

in check in your

marathon Tom Williams it's summertime. Oh it is summertime it actually is

summertime isn't it wasn't the weekend absolutely stunning it. Here in the UK the sun was shining there was a

massive orange, warm, orange, yellow, warm ball in the sky. It was wasn't it? I mean we did

fountains Abbey Park Run on Saturday and then afterwards we sat outside at the

cafe for the first time this year since last summer I guess and we sat there

for about three hours while the kids just

ran around the garden got up to mischief and we just sat there in the sun it was oh you

can see why ancient civilizations worship the sun can't you?

Because at the end of, you imagine that first day of sun at the end of a long hard winter,

back in the day when there was no heating and no windows and no anything, it must have just been even more heavenly.

Did you have any offerings in the garden?

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