It's Wednesday, the 17th of February, 2021.

I'm Holly Rush do you know. I'm going to do. So, On this week's show I speak to England National Marathon lead Tom Crags about

training and his coaching philosophy.

Martin and Angie's book, Running in the Mid Pack,

How to be a strong successful, a happy runner is out now.

There's a new women's 5K world record on the road, a new women's park run record,

London Marathon announced the ballot results,

Laura Muir lowers the British 1500 meter indoor record and training talk

gives you all the info about your running injuries.

Martin, how are you?

I'm a bit, m that I think is that a word

Yeah, it is a word. It is a word. It's a it feels like a lockdown word and not wishing to kick this this bi-weekly

marathon talk show off negatively but I am definitely feeling

a bit there and I think that there is a combination of February and February. It's a combination of February

rain, lockdown, injury, you know, lethargy and just general frustration.

A very bleak in your household.

Bleak is a great word.

Yes, bleak is a really good word.

There's, look, there are so many things that are positive that we're seeing at the moment, aren't

there?

They're brilliant. And we'll talk about some of these later on in the

show. Some fantastic new things happening in running particularly around new records. But just

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