I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams October and this is episode 40 of marathon talk.

On this week's show, we've got all the news from Chicago, Melbourne, and a few other marathons,

plus a pretty big triathlon.

Liz gives us her Chicago race review.

Tony brings us his trials.

Training talk is about racing again shortly after a marathon.

We're chatting to the Queen of Mountain Running this year's

UTMB winner Lizzy Hawker. We rant, we rave and we winner of the week. Let's crack on. Tom what have you been doing?

Well for once in that for the first time in a few weeks I've actually been running I can't believe it. I'm really really pleased. My ear is still not fixed, but I think the

infection is probably gone. I'm just deaf and that's not such a bad thing that doesn't stop

you running. So I pulled myself out of bed. Did Park run on Saturday morning with a friend of mine,

then we did a double park run on Sunday morning with a load of us, that was cool.

We did 10K at 10 10 10 10 10 on the 10th of the 10th, which is kind of fun.

All the 10s?

All the 10s and then I've run every day.

I did an easy run on Monday and then I did a little interval session yesterday.

So I've put on a little bit of way and I have my heart rates to about 50 beats higher but I'm back

running and it's great just to be out there doing it so that's fantastic I've

also been press-uping we were chatting a little bit before Mark

weren't we about this new little challenge I couldn't

resist having a little challenge and me and a couple of mates we set ourselves the

target of doing three times 100 press-ups now that sounds to me pretty much impossible.

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