I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams November and this is episode 44 of Marathon Talk.

On this week's show we bring you some talk about New York plus the announcement of

H.G's retirement.

Wow, we hear how you rate your runs. of H.G's retirement.G's retirement. Wow.

We hear how you rate your runs,

news of a new star on the ultra scene.

Tony brings us his weekly trials,

and we talk getting down and dirty with cross-country running.

There's an interview with top American triathlete and marathon runner Deseret Ficker.

We rant, we rave and we winner of the week.

But first Tom's going to tell us just how many press-ups he's been doing.

Well actually I'm up to 48 yesterday. We're recording this on Tuesday on Monday I did 48. Today I'm doing 48 again actually because one of the rules, we're doing it as a group, and one of the rules of doing this little press-up challenge. I think there's six of us doing it is that we do it together all the way. So if there's a day when someone doesn't

complete their press-ups, then we all wait and we do the same number again and again

until we're all back up to speed. And Sammy yesterday wasn't feeling very well, so he

missed out yesterday. So we all did our 48 so

it's 48 again today 49's Wednesday and then the big push to 50 which were a big thing

it's getting really hard I know loads of people out there are doing it which is

really really cool it starts easy when you start with

your three by one, three by two, three by three's. We found it got really tough between kind of

of 35 and for me up to about 45, really, really tough. But actually, you know, a couple of us feel like we've

kind of come out of the other side a little bit now and it's just got a little bit easier.

It's still really challenging. The thought of doing, I mean if I'm up to 48, the thought of doing

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