It's Wednesday the 9th of November 2011. I'm Martin to do. I'm going to do. On this week's show we talk super fast racing and the ultimate elite

women's negative split in the final world marathon major of the Year in the Big Apple.

Our interview this week is with First Time Marathoner Diane Acroyd.

She shares her apprehensions and excitement about the journey ahead.

You rate your run, rant and rave and winner of the week and

Tony's all blocked up doing voiceovers. Tom I see you've been dropping some

k-gs. Oh yes, I am shrinking the incredible shrinking man what you down to what

What are you down to now? Well, I'm down to my five day average of the last five days it's 77.1

kilos. I have lost 1.1 kilos since we started two and a bit weeks ago.

Well done you. Very good. In fact, me and my dad we've got a 20 kG challenge

to lose 20 kilos in 15 weeks

we're 0.4 of a kilo behind but we are tied at the minute 1.1 kilos each

2.2 kilos to the good so over 10% there. Bring it on.

And you also did the Guy Fawkes 10 at the weekend?

Yes and in fact I have to say it was great. I really enjoyed it. It's a brilliant event.

It's the best I felt running in a very very very long time. I don't think I felt right since I went for that

sub 60 10 mile away back in February at Snake Lane 10 and it was great. I started off really steady and just gradually picked it up and picked it up and could not have given it another inch.

It's probably the best I felt in a run for eight months or something like that and it was good. I was four minutes slower than last year but

it's got the hilliest road hill the hilliest hill in a UK road race apparently

and I'm a stone heavy than I was last year so stone four minutes I reckon that's

about right what's the hilliest hill in a UK road race?

Really? What gradient is it?

...