Marathon Talk

In 1954 Sir Chris Chataway paced Roger Banister to the first ever sub four minute mile, broke the World 5,000m record, won Commonwealth gold over three miles, and European silver over 5,000m... and became the first ever BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Haile Gebrselassie is regarded by most as the greatest endurance runner of the modern era, we also heard all about the Kenyan marathon superstars, Jantastic continued in style, we got ready for Febulous, there was a tee-total winner of the week, Tony couldn't give two hoots, and we announced three more amazing interviewees!

John Fisher's preparing for his 11th London Marathon post heart transplant, we bring you up to speed with Jantastic and intro Febulous. There’s amazing news from the USA Olympic Marathon trials in Houston as well as long awaited update on the team of ‘probables’ from Kenya. There’s news from a positive drugs test for an Irish marathoner. You tell us about your runs in rate your run and the Marathon Talk podium. There’s Tony’s trials and a legendary winner of the week!

It's our second birthday! Tom, Martin, and Tony brought us their interview highlights from 2011 including Matt Dixon, Steve Jones, Liz McColgan, Rob De Castella, Ron Hill, and Greg McMillan, listener Rob Bane created his own Marathon Talk rap, we talked training volumes, speedy Americans and Kenyans, rants, raves, and Winner of the Week.

It's been a rocky road for Liz Yelling in her quest to reach her third Olympics, Tom found out how she's pulled through some tough times and how she plans to zip up her training man-suit in preparation for this April's London Marathon. There was sad news with the passing of Frank Horwill and Zithulele Sinqe, Tony cheered us up with a video version of his Trials, and Jantastic kicked off in serious style.

Happy Christmas 2011. This weeks show is slightly different that normal. We've not got all the weekly news or regular features but instead have a wonderful interview with true old school running legend Bruce Tulloh. 1962 European 5000m champion famous for racing barefoot, set new British and European records for three miles and six miles and competed in 2 European, 2 Commonwealth and one Olympic Games. In 1969 he broke the record for running from Los Angeles to New York. Coached Mike Boit and Richard Nerurkar. Coaching Editor of Runners World for 15years and the author of many books including 'Running is Easy' and 'Running over 40'. Aged 60 he ran a 36min 10k, 57min 10miler, and a 76min half marathon!

Chris Finill has run every single London Marathon there's ever been... in under three hours! He's also broken three hours across five decades, crossed the line first in the 2012 Olympic marathon test evet, and run across America in 79 days. We also bring you news from the World of running, all the usual features, and a festive Tony's Trials.

On this weeks show we have the second half of the amazing interview with British running icon and marathon legend Steve Jones. There is an update on the sassy new Marathon Talk adidas technical clothing. We talk spring mojo and jantastic. There is news of the female elite field for the 2012 Virgin London Marathon and some stellar running from the Brit pack at the European cross country championships. We have a raspberry of the week and Tony goes off on one.

Part one of the interview we've all been waiting for... Welsh running legend Steve Jones still holds the British marathon record thanks to his amazing 2:07:13 from Chicago 1985... having also crossed the finish line first in New York and London and, previous to his 2:07 in Chicago, a 2:08:05 on the same course was a World record back in 1984. Enough said for this week we think!

On this weeks show we bring you up to date with Jantastic. We have an interview with the NYC front running Italian chat room favourite Tito Tiberti. One of our listeners is going to run the Mumbai Marathon. Rate your run, winner of the week, a rave and a 'non-gender' biased rant. With winter drawing closer we talk treadmill running in training talk. Tony mounts a reindeer and we tell you how to get your hands on some technical adidas MT kit.