It's Wednesday, the 9th of June, 2021.

I'm Holly Rush, and he is Martin yelling,

and this is episode 584 of Marathon Talk. I'm going to do. On this week's show I interviewed British athletics coach and former elite

athlete Joe Wilkinson. There are national track titles and Olympic qualifiers at the Mueller trials in Birmingham.

There's a new 10,000 meter women's track world record. Sir Mo Farris offers a shock defeat.

Damien Hall sets a new Wainwright's coast-to-coast record and for this

week's training talk we discuss our techniques to improve mental toughness when racing.

Throughout June the show is sponsored by Rundawear, a small brand in Dorset,

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exclusive competitions so keep listening and following our social channels throughout June to find out more.

And Martin catches up with Jamie for Wonderair later on in the show.

Hello Martin, how are you?

Hello Holly Rush, I'm alright actually, I'll tell you what I'm enjoying the sunshine.

Are you you? You are a bit of a sunshine boy, aren't you? Well, I think we may have said this a few weeks ago in the show, but I'm definitely a summer over winter person.

Yeah you did say that. Yeah Tom and I always used to joke that you know he comes alive

in the Viking. He comes he comes alive in the winter and sits on the sofa all summer and I am in a cave all winter and running around outside like a luditic from 5 a.m. in the summer hunting things. Not really but you know what I mean.

Hucking trees. Yeah it's almost as if you know like Neanderthal man who's been tucked away all winter suddenly appears.

And what's funny after years and years and years of understanding those rhythms,

I also see it in my running too. So I see a similar pattern of like running

fitness in certain months of the year or running motivations in certain months of the

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