It's Wednesday, 17th of June, 2020. I'm Martin yelling. She's Holly Rush and this is episode 545 of Marathon Talk. Look. I'm going to see. On this week's show Holly speaks to Northern Irish Marathina Steve Steve Scullion. The Great North Run is cancelled.

Brendan Foster gives his views on London going ahead.

UK athletics are looking for new bosses, you rate your runs and share your marathon talk

kit around the corner from your house.

So Holly Rush, you haven't been with us for the last few weeks.

It's not been the best couple of weeks for you, has it?

No, hello everyone.

Thanks.

Thanks, it's been nice to come back. I'm sorry it took so long to be here. I was just a little bit heartbroken, really.

Oh, wait. Oh, yeah, well I thought it was best that we kicked this show off like with a bit of an

open discussion on why you've been away and why it's meant so much to you really.

Yeah, I mean, I know everyone who listens to the show and follows me on

Instagram and Twitter and stuff.

I, as you all know that I had mole hadn't been he had very well I had cancer and it was basically a day by day thing to see how long we'd have him for and you know after his initial scan we actually did have

11 weeks with him in the end but it doesn't really matter how long it is it's just never long enough and unfortunately

yeah just two weeks ago he he got really sick very quickly and unfortunately we

had to have him put to sleep and it was just the hardest, awfulest thing that I've had to deal with.

And I just feel like it's so weird saying I remember that I actually recorded marathon talk

I think it was the day or the day after my father died which was only seven months

ago maybe not even that. And I was sort of reasonably okay. You know within reason?

For me it was like a big, with my dad, I mean again lots of people what happened there, like my dad had cancer and he fought it for a long time and I ended up like caring for him, especially the last month or so, and it was just really, really hard.

Anyone that's had to, you care for someone who's got cancer, it was just really, really hard.

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