I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams, and this of Marathon Talk. In this episode we've got our regular news, some

training talk and this week it's about running longer. We've got an interview with a really

inspirational marathon runner called Mike Hare, a great Tony's trials, our

usual rant and rave and winner of the week and we'll be answering some of your questions.

But what have you been at to this week Tom?

Well this weekend just gone I ran the Brass Monkey Half Marathon it was a big race

It was a big race everybody in kind of Yorkshire's calendar every year it sells out in about a day in September and everybody spends

October and November thinking they're going to run the race of their life in in January

only to be thwarted by Christmas halfway through and too much pud but of, and of course with the snow, an extra helping of snow this year,

we all felt like we were a bit behind and we discussed that last week.

But I had a great run actually.

I teamed up with a few mates and we ran together and

motivate each other and we were quite aggressive pushed it quite hard and I came in

just two minutes off my PB so I think around 121 29 or something so I was just under two minutes down on the best I've ever done it

so I'm really pleased with that because my training's not gone wonderful and you know and

I've been a bit under the weather I've missed a few sessions so that

that's great and it gives me confidence that I've got a much better base than I

thought that I can build from. And so yeah so that was me really and ever

since then all I've been doing I've just been busy having sore legs

So how about you? Your whole weeks just focus on the brass monkey brilliant what a life you must leave

Yeah, yeah, that's it. I'm either being massage, 10 hours a day sleeping or thinking about the

boss monkey and that's it. It's lovely. Excellent. Good. Well, some of us have been busy in other ways i've had a bit of

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