It's

on 21st of October 2020. I'm Tony Aldenshaw, she's Holly Rush,

and this is episode 563 of Marathon Talk. marathon talk. I'm going to On this week's show Martin interviews the founder and CEO of Run Friendly Scott Kane. Records fall at the World Half Marathon Championships.

Big's Batyard Ultra is still going on. You rate your runs and share your marathon talk kit around the world.

Holly, what have you been up to the rumors are?

You've actually done a race? I know well.

Hello Tony anyway how are you haven't spoke to me for ages.

Yeah no I did a race at the weekend like an actual road race because I have done one race since lockdown and that was a trail race

Which was lovely and but the road race was on the Sunday and and yeah I've got I've got be honest I was a bit out of principle about it because I thought I don't know if I really want to do it because well

Firstly I'd done the virtual marathon which was the week before was it two weeks ago I can't remember and

since then actually my back had been a bit cranky and I just thought oh do I want to go again? And I thought, actually, with everything that's going on recently,

I thought, this could be the last time I actually get to do a race this year.

So I thought, no, I'll do it.

It's only like 45 minutes up the road.

I did it last year.

It's a lovely atmosphere. I'll go and do it.

Anyway, it was the Hull-avington half marathon. So hello to everyone who did it.

A few people came up to have a chat with me afterwards and talked about marathon talks that was nice. But yeah it was just weird because the race basically

started at 10 a.m. But I didn't start until 10.24 because we were set off in waves and there was quite a few people in fact I got it a little

bit wrong because we got we got sent a few days before you got sent the list obviously in your

start time and we were set off in

groups of six and there was like 200 runners but I obviously didn't realize there was

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