I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams September and this is episode 38 of marathon talk.

This week we've got news from two of the best marathons in the world in Berlin and Toronto,

plus some other random marathon chit chat. Training talk is about

race energy requirements. We answer your question on waterproof skin.

Tony Talk's goodie bags. Liz tells us how she's getting on with less than two weeks to go until the Chicago marathon, we rant, we rave, we winner of the week, and we've got the first of a two-part interview with the King of

Comrades Ultra-Marathon nine times winner Bruce Fordice. Let's get going.

Tom, how are you? Well the last week for me has been a game of two halves I think.

The first week, first half start off great. I chatted to Bruce Ford Ice which was just

amazing. I really, really enjoyed it. I hope the listeners get a lot from it because it was just such a fascinating insight into an amazing athlete.

And then we came down to Paul and had a great time with you guys down and pool and went for runs and played with

rubs and helped out races and it was really good.

And I came back obviously yesterday and then last night I went to bed really early, feeling

you know a bit tired but I thought I have a good night to sleep and feel great

woke up at one o'clock in the morning with an earache spent the rest of the night in

a and e and at about six o'clock this morning my ear drum burst into a thousand

pieces and I spent all day lying in bed with gunk coming out of it.

So I'm taking one for the team tonight.

I've stepped up to the plate.

I'm a wounded soldier and I'm here, I'm here at the show.

A wounded soldier with one ear. Well I'm going to try to try not to talk

talk too loudly boom boom. Okay well for me you know as I said last week I've been getting over a cold and you know what,

it's lingered, so we're both a couple of poorly soldiers.

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