It's Wednesday the 14th of April 2021. I'm Holly to do. I'm going to do. On this week's show Martin speaks to Chris Thompson about his recent selection

for the Tokyo Olympics marathon team Racing is back with Beth Potter running a 5K

British record at the podium 5K.

The GB marathon team is selected

for the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.

There is a new half marathon women's world record.

Des Linden is going for the 50K world record right now and there is a new vet 70

national record. Racing is back Martin. Welcome back as well.

Do you know what? It sounds like, it sounded like a proper running intro for the first time in what feels like a very long time this running podcast is able to talk about running

hooray we didn't mention in the in the intro that junior Park Run kicked off in some locations around the UK as well.

I'm really looking forward to getting back to that but it wasn't for us this weekend but it was lovely to see more pictures of people not running all on their own again, you know, all over social media.

It was just nice to see like people out running with friends, people at events, like more than one person on a start line.

There's a little glimmer of running hope on the horizon.

Yeah, do you know what? That is actually actually that's one thing I did last week is I did the big old trip to Bristol which took me half an hour and I was saying that I was going to do a 5K time trial with someone I saw coach.

And it was so lovely to actually run with someone, because I haven't run with anyone at

all because Pete's been injured as well, I've just been running with a dog.

So I turned up and then another friend came to hold lemy for me and Pete was taking photographs.

So we did a run round and I'd say it was a really nasty part of Ristle.

It was like loads of litter. I don't believe there are any nasty parts of Bristol.

Quite a lot of dog poop.

Careful. But I have to say, I had such great time and then afterwards we sat in the grass around the dog poop and we had

pastries and we had a flask of coffee because I think was open but I came back and I just felt like oh my word I didn't realize

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