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Hello there and welcome to another gathering of the Run Pod Run Club where all runners unite. I'm Jenny Faulkner and in this episode, I'm joined by someone else who likes to unite runners.

He's the man in charge of many a running event.

In fact, you may have run yourself at one of his races.

He is co-founder and event director at Brighton Marathon Weekend,

which is actually coming up very soon indeed.

But here today to talk about not only that, also the importance of us signing up to races.

Why races can be so much fun.

And also to try and get us to encourage us to try trail running.

It's Tom Naylor.

Hello there.

Hi, good afternoon.

How are you?

Not bad.

I do have to think about it. We're five weeks out from marathon. So each day, well, we're pretty tired now. We've done nine weeks full gas.

And because it's still just the beginning of March, it feels like a long way to still to April.

But we've got to get everything.

There's an awful lot of moving parts at this point in the year.

Getting all the permissions in place, finishing off all the contracts with contractors,

signing, finishing off all the charities, putting all the partnerships together.

So everyone's working extremely hard. And this is the little

window of about four to six weeks where it feels like you've got a million jobs still to do and

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