I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams, and this is Marathon Talk. Welcome to episode six. This week we've got some news from around the world. We've got the news

you've all been waiting for the result of the spouse Smackdown. I can tell you it was very, very close. We've got Tony's trials. We've got our

weekly random rave. We've got an interview with Alex Vero and he's a chap who

was a journalist who thought he'd he'd try and see if he could qualify for the Olympics in the

marathon and from a point where he's unable to run even a mile and he's just releasing a documentary

that talks about his journey from that position right to being a really quite a speedy runner.

We've then got some great questions that you guys are sent in via Facebook and via email.

We've got a winner of the week,

and then that'll be about it.

So before we get going, Martin, what have you been up to, mate?

Like you said, Tom, it was the second round round two of the spouse Smackdown at the weekend

Now some of you may remember the spouse Smackdown is not me and Liz engaging in any kind of domestic violence, but rather we set up a small

challenge really to motivate Liz to get back into her running where we would do a solo

race off near where we live and it's over about 5.8 miles on an

out and back route and then last time I beat Liz by 50 seconds which for me is

phenomenal I haven't I don't think I've run fast

and it is for quite some time we did it again and she was really determined this

time she wore flats and everything

instead of high heels that she wore last time? Yeah, funny, funny, laugh, laugh.

I had to, so she set off, did her time and then I set off did my time and actually this time

she improved by one minute and 50 seconds on her last time. So she had a considerable improvement. I improved on my last

time as well and I just managed to come in some 12 seconds faster than Liz. So at the moment in the in the

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