It's

Holy Rush, and 18. I'm Martin Yelling. She's Holly Rush, and this is episode

430 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to do. So, On this week's show, Tom's away in South Africa and so I'm joined by Holly Rush.

I also speak to World Marathon fourth-placer and Rio Olympian top tenor

Callam Hawkins ahead of the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. Yuki is in winning form,

so is Steve Wei.

And Gwen? The Edinburgh cross country is back on, just not in Edinburgh,

plus you guys rate your own stand on the podium.

Climb on the launch pad.

Holly Rush, what a delight to have you back on the show? Oh, it's lovely, but should I not be called

the competent Holly Rush? Didn't you? Tom got very upset, didn't he?

Well, well, I don't know why.

I mean, clearly I'm competent and I should be on here more often, but

it's not a word I've ever been called before so competent. Do you like it?

It's lovely. I'm sure that most of my friends and my family would say that I'm quite incompetent, but

Is competent to compliment. I'll take it as a compliment. I'll take it as a

compliment. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I'll have it. So yeah that was that was very nice and

thank you Tom. Yeah. Well welcome back of course it's you know one of the

things that we like is to you know have have you present the show with me I

think it's good fun and and Tom is is away again I think he's signing himself yeah

smudglers somewhere it was it something to do with part run apparently but yeah so I but I did notice the two oceans on that weekend as well as a

party atmosphere so yeah anyway how's your week been what you've been up to?

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