I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom March 2011 and this is episode 60 of marathon talk on this week's show

we talked a top British finisher at last year's Virgin London marathon and 2 hour

13 runner Andrew L'Ementello. There's some great news from the Tokyo Marathon. We do the

fabulous winners draw and Marchfulness kicks off. Rate your run is super high.

Training talk is about dealing with training blips.

There's Tony's Trials,

you rant and rave, and there's a great winner of the week.

Tom, how was your weekend PB hunting? It was painful, really, really painful.

As we said last week I was doing Snake Lane 10, 10-Miler, I've never broken 60 minutes before,

I think my half-marath in P.B is about 60-50 pace and I felt like I was going really

well in training. I've not been training particularly hard. I've certainly not been training with any

focus. I have been doing some interval sessions and I've been getting a lot of runs in.

And so I thought, you know what, I fancy a crack at this. I ended it months ago and thought I'll decide

in Race Week what I'll do and race week I felt good so I went for it and I thought I'm going to sit at six minute

Miling touch under maybe if I can and just hang on I was motivated by that great interview with Grown Mo Brie from Vello Club Don Logan

where he said for the world our record he'd just go off at the right pace and then just not slow down.

And I thought, well, how hard can it be?

I just won't slow down. And how hard was it? Unbelievably hard

hardest thing I've ever done and I did slow down. The hardest thing you've ever done? I tell you

what it was it wasn't it certainly wasn't hardest I've ever done but in terms of

challenging myself cardiovascularly, it probably was about the hardest I've ever pushed myself from a

CV point of view. You know, towards the end of a marathon, it can be much harder and your legs are really hanging on and

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