It's Wednesday, the 6th of January 2021. I'm Martin yelling, she's Holly Rush and this is episode 573 of marathon Talk. Talk. I'm going to On this week's show, Holly and I catch up after our Christmas break and compare, compare, can get my words out in 2021 and compare

training diaries. I speak to British Rowa and three-time Olympic gold medalist Pete Reed

about life after his spinal stroke in 2019.

We look back at something on social and the world of running and training talk is back

with the benefits of going easy in lockdown. Holly Rush. What have you been up to?

Hey Martin yelling, it's just us. Home alone in our sheds. We are alone, of course. We're going to chat a little bit about

potential changes to this show and what it might look like, but regular listeners to the to marathon talk will already know that I think

it was a 24th December Christmas Eve or 23rd of December was our last show with Tony and Tom. It was wasn't it? Yeah it was a

long show and it was us sort of reminiscing about the good old days and talking about...

It was totally most, wasn't it?

Yeah, it was really good actually.

Have you actually listened back to it properly?

I was both kind of, you know, it's odd for me because Tony and Tom have been and myself you know we started

marathon talk in 2011 and of course to see those guys step away, you know, often people will go, oh well why have they stopped

doing it?

But actually for me it's quite rewarding when you have the strength to leave something and I know

that seems quite odd but sometimes life just

you know life just works differently and it's healthy to do different things and Tom and I often joked about Tom doing things in five year stints and then going off and doing something else.

And lots of people get so stuck wearing the same set of slippers for a long time, you know, that they, do

I mean, they just don't have the confidence sometimes to wear anything different.

And Tom's got busy with Park Run and Tony you know love

Tony loads and Tony's you know life you know Tony Mrs Ruth I think and a lot of those things have been really complicated for Tony and so although it's hard to see them both go

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