It's Wednesday the 18th of March 2020. I'm Tony Ordenshaw. She's Holly Rush. He's Martin Yelling and this is episode 532 of marathon talk. I'm going to do. So, On this week's show we talk about the impact of the coronavirus on the race calendar

and running in general and offer some practical advice and positivity to help ride the storm.

We talked to Park Run C.O.

Tom Williams about his full-on week.

I've got a few training ideas.

You rate your runs and share your marathon talk kit around the world

and your relentless positivity.

Now before we chirp on about relentless positivity, we do think it's important to

you know raise the fact that this is an unprecedented situation across the globe and specifically

in the UK with the coronavirus where many of us will live. We don't quite know how to respond and things are changing rapidly. This affects everyone,

all of us, we do believe we have a responsibility to each other. We'll do our best to keep you

company when you run and when you don't. But forgive us if we don't

always get it right, these are stressful times. We'll try to be our normal upbeat and positive

selves whilst also acknowledging the seriousness of the current situation and the many

people it impacts every day. We do love our marathon talk community. We remind you to keep up with

the government's guidelines and advise for your own health and

importantly the health and lives of those around you. Holly Rush, what you've been doing?

Oh hello Martin, well it seems like a lot has changed over the last

seven days from when we last spoke. It feels very very different but I am still

running I'm still outside in the fresh air as fresh as it is but yes

unfortunately due to everything's gone on I've had to cancel my plans which were I

was going to be getting out to Nepal which I was really

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