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Marathon Talk

Episode 53 - Mike Bushell - Happy 1st Birthday Marathon Talk

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7994 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2011

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

It's our 1st Birthday! What an amazing year. On this weeks show we talk to BBC Sport presenter and all round action man Mike Bushell about his plans for his first ever Virgin London Marathon in 2011. Tony tells us about his Birthday Olympics. There's news of our super cool running challenge 'Jantastic' and some race results and we talk intervals for marathon running.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams, and this is Marathon Talk. It's Wednesday the 12th of January 2011 and this is episode 53 of Marathon Talk.

0:28.0

On this week's show we speak to BBC Sport breakfast presenter Mike Bushelall he's running this year's Virgin

0:34.2

London marathon we've got news of jantastic rate your run cross-country running and a

0:39.7

couple of your events Tony tells us how he's getting on in his weekly trials. We rant, we rave,

0:47.0

we winner of the week and training talk is all about intervals. Let's go.

0:53.0

Tom, what have you been doing?

0:55.0

Well, I've been doing loads of stuff actually.

0:58.0

First of all, I've been marathon talking.

1:00.0

We held a marathon evening in Leeds, High Park Harris, my club hosted it. I spoke at it and we spent two hours gassing all about marathons and loads of marathon talk listeners turned up. It was a completely free event to turn up and listen to me ramble on for

1:15.1

a couple of hours about marathon running and it was good and we had a really good time,

1:19.1

really good laugh, amazed by how many people came and people seem to love it.

1:22.8

So watch this space, I think we'll probably do another one,

1:25.4

give it a little more advertising next time.

1:28.2

We'll probably do another one towards the end of March on race week and race day.

1:31.2

So that was really, really good. I was also measuring a new

1:34.6

park run course at Pelington Flash thanks to our announcement on the show.

1:37.9

We had quite a few listeners email in about helping out there and that looks like it's

1:41.8

going to go ahead pretty soon.

1:43.0

Delivering training at Bolton I hung out with a mate of yours. Paul Freery.

1:48.0

Really? It's a long time to have heard that name.

1:50.0

Yeah, I bet it is. He now has a shop in Bolton called Foot Traffic. I said I'd give him a bit of a plug on the show. Nice guy. And I think he said he just used to beat you every time you ran together. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, he did every single time. I've also been to the cinema and watched 127 hours.

2:08.0

What a film, loved it.

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