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Marathon Talk

Episode Nine - Adam Grice

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2010

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Live from Lanzarote - Adam Grice was the British Universities 10,000m champion and came top five in the World Mountain Running Championships however eventually lost the battle against a lack of funding and gave up competitive running at the age of 24 to pursue a career in medicine. We answer a few listeners questions, have a bit of a rant and rave, catch up with Tony and his trials and chat about how to approach build up races.

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0:00.0

I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams, and this is Marathon Talk. Welcome to episode 9 of marathon talk. Coming up on today's show we've got some

0:26.8

great news about Facebook and online community we've got a mantra which I think we've

0:31.4

forgotten to last couple of weeks actually so we've got a great mantra about keeping going and dealing in when you're training.

0:37.3

We've got some interesting new ways to subscribe to the show and we've got some plugs, some good websites and so on we've got

0:43.8

Tony's trials. We've got training talk about how to approach racing in the

0:48.2

marathon buildup. We've got rant and rave. I know I'm ranting about or I'm raving about I'm raving about.

0:55.0

I'm not sure what Martin's ranting about. We've got an interview with a

1:00.1

really talented young athlete by the name of Adam Grice.

1:03.4

We've got our questions, we've got a winner of the week,

1:07.0

and that's about it.

1:08.0

So Martin, the big deal of the week, what are you up to?

1:11.6

Well, you know what, Tom? we're not as close as we normally

1:14.6

are unfortunately this week you're stuck in the dales but I'm selling myself here in

1:20.0

Landerotti we're on I'm on a camp I'm on a running and triathlon camp that I've set up. We've got

1:26.4

about 30 people out here and you know we are having a brilliant time. I'd just like to share

1:32.4

with you that the weather is fantastic.

1:36.0

A similar to here then.

1:38.0

No, no, no, actually today, you know what? Today has been really overcast and it actually rained so unfortunately it's kind of not as

1:48.0

sunny as I'm making out but I thought I'd make it out anyway just to make you feel really good. We are having a good time. We've been doing

1:55.2

loads of running. We've got a very busy schedule, a mixture of people doing some

2:00.5

spring marathons and some Iron Man triathlons and a whole mixture of abilities as well from,

2:06.3

you know, kind of first timers to people trying to break three hours and people trying to break ten hours.

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