It's

Holy Rush and this is episode 577 of marathon talk. I'm going to do. So, On this week's show I speak to 1984 Olympic champion and two-time Boston winner Joan Benoit-Samuelson. The Brit clocks super-fast times on the

track in California. There are heated debates about whether runners should be wearing

face masks. 45 athletes go under 210 in Japan and

training talk is all about returning to racing post lockdown. Holly Rush, how are you doing?

Oh, yeah, I'm pretty good actually. I'm feeling spring is in the air.

It's been so lovely actually this week and it's

sprung a little bit.

It's sprung a little bit.

Yeah, I mean I know you're you know on the Riviera so you probably have a bit more

than me but no it's been it's been lovely to get out.

Although it's been blinking cold in the morning still,

I went out quite early this morning,

and my hands knocked out 10 by 3 minutes,

and my hands were freezing.

And so I'm sort of like, it's a bit of a juggles to know what to wear but

but no it's been just yeah it's been so lovely and there's like flowers blooming in the

garden and you can hear the birds chirping in the morning and at night.

So yeah, it's been really nice to get out and enjoy the sun.

How about you?

Good.

Yeah, I have been enjoying a little bit of sunshine too. In fact, one of the things I've been wanting to do for a while, and so I did as I went and loved it. It was last Saturday, didn't run, instead I went for a walk and walked from home, really enjoyed it, you know, spent probably seven hours out, which is a long time, I know. Does it count as exercise? Of course always. It's a long walk isn't it?

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