I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams, and this is Marathon Talk. It's Wednesday the 26th of January and this is episode 55 of marathon talk.

On this week's show we've got an interview with a total legend of marathon running the one and only

Ron Hill in training talk we look at Run Walk there's news of Jan Tastic

fabulous and rate your run plus some big and small races, you rant, you rave, and

we've got your winner of the week, plus of course Tony brings us up to speed with his running trials. But first, Tom, what have you been doing?

Well you mentioned Ron Hill there and I've been speaking to the great man and look one of the big aims of this show is to give people like that

a platform so we can we can learn about them and so people understand actually what

they did and the great things they achieved and we all know about Ron Hill

running every day we all know about Ron Hill running every day. We all know about Ron Hill

tracksters, but there's so much more to Ron Hill and he really is one of the

greatest British marathon runners of all time. He really really is and I didn't know a

huge deal about him before I kind of thought about the interview and did a

little bit of research and so it really wasn't eye-opener for me to hopefully the

listeners will really gain a great insight into him as a runner and as a real elite level marathon runner.

It was fascinating. Just some of the things, you know, like when he was back running, you weren't allowed to take a drink before mile 10 in the marathon.

Brilliant. I mean, you know, the marathon. Brilliant.

I mean, you know, imagine it.

No, no drink, sorry, you'll be disqualified if you drink before mile 10.

Just amazing stuff.

His two books are full of brilliant anecdotes from his training and from his racing, fantastic stories.

And really expensive actually when you look on the internet, they're about 50 quid to try and buy one of his books now.

So perhaps we need to have a little book share thing going on I don't

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