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Episode 53 - Mike Bushell & Happy 1st Birthday to us
Released: Wednesday 12th January 2011
It's our 1st Birthday! What an amazing year. On this weeks show we talk to BBC Sport presenter and all round action man Mike Bushell about his plans for his first ever Virgin London Marathon in 2011. Tony tells us about his Birthday Olympics. There's news of our super cool running challenge 'Jantastic' and some race results and we talk intervals for marathon running.
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Show Notes
00:00 - Intro
- Jantastic update - 585 entrants - how many are on 100%?
- Prize addition: Win a FREE place in the 2011 Edinburgh Marathon! (standard and club entries are closed).
To enter:
- On this weeks show notes enter the total number of runs that you think all Jantastic entrants will log during January.
- Once someone has guessed a number you can’t guess it again.
- Include your full name and the total number.
- Closing date for entries is Sunday 23rd Jan at 1200 midnight.
- The winner is the person who gets the closest total guess and will be announced in the show on Weds Feb 2nd 2011. (where that number is equally less or more, i.e., not spot on, the first person to have entered will be the winner).
- Fancy joining Martin and Liz Yelling for a Marathon Training Workshop?
They will be in Scotland doing a training day for the Edinburgh on Sunday March 13th.
Marathon talk listeners can get a 50% discount and come along for £20. Use the code "training50" when booking online.
Sign up here
- The Enigma Quadzilla! Four Marathons in Four Days in Feb.
Enter here
10:30 - News
- Rate Your Run - 146 ratings with an average of 7.8.
- Paula Radcliffe gets bitten by a dog! Link
- Tiberias Marathon. Isreal Link
- Disney Marathon: Report here
- Great North XC: Results and reports here
20:20 - Tony's Trials
The grueling Birthday Olympics
24:35 - Training Talk - Get going with some Intervals
What’s wrong with running at one pace? Won’t that be enough to get me round my marathon?
Intervals:
- Stop you being a one paced plodder
- Help you explore the breadth of the running spectrum
- Helping your understand of pacing
- Running faster makes MP feel easier!
- Boosts your fitness faster
- Helps you avoid hitting a plateau and going stale
- Are great for motivation with others
Start these early on in your marathon prep and be a stronger, faster runner.
36:00 - Rant and RaveTom raves about shoulder to shoulder racing.
Martin rants about people who say one thing and do another.
38:28 - Interview - Mike Bushell BBC TV Sports presenter & 2011 Virgin London Marathon runner
Mike Bushell presents BBC Breakfast sport on Friday and Saturday. As well as reporting on the mainstream sports he's well known for getting stuck into some lesser known sports. Over the last 5 years he's tried over 270 different sports. In 2011 it's not a one off for Mike as he's doing his first ever Virgin London Marathon.
(Link)
01:12:55 - Winner of the Week
Tony Hayhoe and John Dunn.
Nominated by Graham McLachlan. ‘Both have helped me immensely over the last year to rediscover some of my running form , they both put up with my slower pace in training and always run back from the finish of races to then encourage me across the line, they often give me a lift to races and not forgetting the fact that they always have spare safety pins cos I nearly always forget mine’
01:14:05 - Close
- Don't forget to Rate You Run
- Definitely don't forget to log your Jantastic efforts
- Pop over to our events pages and stick your name down
- Clothing – thanks for your orders – teal hoody has been discontinued by the supplier! Boo. We are looking for alternatives.
- Marathon Countdown - what's happening when.
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James Murray
12th January 2011 06:32:16
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Tim Cooke
6970 runs
13th January 2011 08:15:07
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Howard Clark
Another great podcast and loads of great information. I enjoyed listening to your advice and guidance on interval training and wholeheartedly agree.
My group at Portsmouth Joggers Club run some form of interval/resistance training every Tue. This week we ran 4 sets of 200m-400m-600m-800m reps. Between each rep we jogged 200m as a short recovery. So each set had 2000m of hard work and 800m of recovery. I tend to run my speedwork/intervals at LT pace which equates to 5:50mm to 6:00mm which for me is ideal for marathon training for a 2:50 marathon. Believe me I was blowing at the end of this session but feel so much better and stronger for it.
I only wish the slower groups at my club took a leaf out of our book and tried something similar in order to improve their performance rather than do the same thing week in week out and not get any better.
Keep up the great work Martin and Tom
13th January 2011 09:38:10
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Maggie Cooper
1750 runs for Jantastic. Not totally sure I want to risk winning a place in another marathon but maybe fate will dictate that!
14th January 2011 09:05:54
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Craig Wood
Recently discovered the site and am loving the podcasts. Exactly what i've been looking for and am slowly making my way through the archived shows. Have had a very stop start 2010 and definately feel my mojo returning. Looking to do the Bournemouth 10k in April and possibly the New Forest marathon in september. I was wondering if you could answer my question? How often should I have my gait analysed (last time was 2008)? Keep up the good work gents!
15th January 2011 03:26:16
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Rustyrusk
My spreadsheet says 7876.6.
15th January 2011 06:45:48
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Maggie Cooper
7001 runs. My maths isn't what it was - I forgot there are 4 weeks in January!
15th January 2011 06:59:11
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Helen Elliott
7342 runs
15th January 2011 07:56:34
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Paul O'Brien
6738 runs in Jantastic. Looking forward to listening this weeks podcast on my LSR tomorrow
15th January 2011 08:23:44
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Martin Fraser
Thanks for the podcast Martin & Tom. I couldn't' hear Mike Bushell too well this week either I'm a bit deaf, Mike's mic was a bit far away or my headphones are rubbish when its windy outside.
6279 runs will be logged in January.
16th January 2011 01:09:41
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Jim Murray
This is James Murray UK Version....... my Guess is 7777, Dont let me win coz i will have to go and do it! Got Stockhom then Dartmoor Discovery the following 2 weeks but the carrot has now been dangled :-)
16th January 2011 01:43:51
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Phil Avery
Well I'll hazard a guess of 7400 runs ... but please oh please let me be wrong!
16th January 2011 03:53:37
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Scott Milne
I'll have a crack with 8004 runs in January.
16th January 2011 07:40:31
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Timt
3677 runs will be logged
16th January 2011 08:33:59
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Colin Grace
Colin Grace here: my fantastically sophisticated and top secret Excel algorithm (i.e. guesswork!) is that there will be exactly 4524 runs registered in January. A place in Edinburgh marathon would be fantastic!
17th January 2011 01:19:07
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Rick Evans
There will be 5364 runs logged for Jantastic. Keep up the great work guys!
17th January 2011 05:17:50
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Jason Juszczak
Well, I am not going to do any calculating of any kind, just a good 'ole guess of 6,127 runs. Awesome show guys and keep up the great work!
18th January 2011 08:09:06
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Scrimboss
Love the podcast guys, helping me get through my long runs in the build up to Paris... Be great to bag a place for Edinburgh too, I hear its a nice easy downhill course ;-)
My Guess is 8,643 total runs logged
20th January 2011 01:38:17
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Scott Murphy
My Jantastic guess: 8800
20th January 2011 08:37:02
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Ralph Kidner
Hi Tom & Martin.
Here's my Jantastic guess: 5961
Would be great to joggle the Edinburgh marathon!
20th January 2011 09:15:59
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Stephen Andrews
I'll guess 7471
20th January 2011 09:55:59
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Richard McChesney
5501. I have put it all through the spreadsheet and applied various mathematical theories re probability, calculus, trigonometry, standard deviation, a bit of multiplication and long division, multiplied by pie and the square root of the denominator, etc. You know, all that complicated stuff that we learnt in college, and also taking into account the long range weather forecast through to the end of the month in each of the countries that the registered Jantastic entrants are from (representing) plus the fluctuating exchange rates in each country and the issues with the economy as a whole, and also considering that possibility that some entrants may get injured between now and the end of the month and have to reduce their training substantially, I have worked out with almost 100% certainty that it will be more than 1.
21st January 2011 09:33:03
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Roger Taylor
I'll go for 5736
21st January 2011 10:11:45
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Iain Wallace
I've used black magic to come up with the Jantastic figure of 6666. Fingers (and hooves) crossed!
21st January 2011 10:44:45
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john tougher
My guess is 6800 runs will be posted in January. If its looking short i might do 60 runs in my final couple of days to make it up!!
wee slot in the Edinburgh marathon would be great. Surely cant be as warm again this year!
22nd January 2011 08:13:48
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