Hello there and welcome to Run Pod, the Run Club of the podcast world, where runners unite.

I'm talking good runners, fast runners, slow runners, new runners, lazy runners, any other runner that you can think of.

Today I'm joined by someone who I am very excited about joining the Rompodron Club, not only

because he knows a thing or two about prepping for races, and there are many of us who are in full

training mode for an autumn race, but also he's a bit of a speedster himself.

His marathon Peebbock, they'll correct me if I'm wrong, 2.13, and considering the European championships in Munich's just got gold for 210, I'd say that that's a pretty impressive time.

This guest is now a coach himself and his son is smashing it on the race circuit just now.

We will discuss more in a moment.

First though, welcome to Run Pod, the fabulous.

Jeff Whiteman. Hello there.

Hello. Thanks for having me. No, thank you. Is that right? 213. Yeah, 213. That's probably before you were born, Jenny. That was 1991, Berlin. I ran a couple of championship marathons. In fact,

I ran the European Championship Marathon the previous year. I was sixth in that and got engaged that night. So I remember it well.

As part of the celebration?

Yeah, just to a random woman.

I mean, it's pretty good. How fast could you do a marathon now?

Now, now. Oh, I don't know. I mean, I still cover 100 miles a month, and I still write it all down,

but a proportion of that is walking these days.

So I train with Chris Fennell, who's been one of your guests.

He's the ever-present, the London Marathon who's run all 42 of them.

And I do well to hang on to him at about eight-minute mile pace.

He's quite gentle with me, but I can do, I can probably still do five miles at eight minute pace, which isn't very good, but I'm

quite old. They do say though, don't you? Get someone who is a little bit faster to be your

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