It's Wednesday the 11th of March. I'm Holly to do you. I'm going to So, On this week's show Martin interviews Pat Butcher, the World Half Teams are

announced after the big half. Lots of marathons are cancelled or postponed due to the

coronavirus. Japan confirmed their Olympic marathon teams, plus you guys

rate your runs and share your kit around the world. Welcome Martin, how are you?

Good, really good. Welcome Martin, how are you? Good.

Really good.

Honestly, never been better.

Really?

Really?

Why that?

Absolutely majestic. aren't you?

aren't you?

Yeah, no, I'm not too bad.

I feel at the moment that the UK is just bathed in this warm light of certainty of joy, of happiness, you know, of warmth. I mean mean what a special place in our time at the moment isn't it

You've you been drinking is this like a Christmas dinner episode?

What I'm trying to do is kick the show off with a little bit of positivity.

Yeah, I know I think it's probably the best.

I think because there's a lot of unfortunate uncertainty, should we say, happening in the running community, and yeah people need a bit of

upbeat, a bit of positivity, a bit of loving.

The reality is that the other day the children came down in the morning, looked at the window and they went,

what's that yellow in the garden? And it was the sun.

You know, and I was like, oh that's sunshine remember that remember when we went out

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