Podcast appearances and mentions of andi jones

Dave, Cal, Sean and Katie catch up with a life long member of Salford Harriers. Joe Bailey talks about training at Heaton Park with Andi Jones and his Parkrun record there as well as talking about his impressive shorts. Joe also discusses the marathon attempt and how he thinks Nigel Martin has influenced everyone to slow their runs down. They also discuss training and racing over Christmas, but did Dave eat sprouts? Did Cal have Christmas Pudding? Did Sean survive putting the banner away? And did Katie just agree to a Park Road 5k TT?

Dave, Gav, Callum and Sean interview one of the best runners to come from Tameside, but now lives in Qatar, Andi Jones. Talking about life over in Qatar and his running career back home.Dave also gives his review of Mid Cheshire 5k and Sean talks about his Elite Cheshire Marathon.If you want to find previous episodes, please visit our website www.localrunnerspodcast.co.uk/podcast to listen.

1st Sept2019 - Andi Jones&LynnEdge by Milford Baptist Church

This week we speak to Andi Jones, a volunteer coordinator from Launch Housing Melbourne. Launch Housing is a not-for-profit organisation which was formed from the merger of two of Melbourne's largest and most respected homelessness services. Launch Housing believes that every individual has a right to have a home and it is their goal is to put an end to homelessness, whlist providing support to those who are struggling with a housing crisis. If you like to find out more information about Launch Housing you can visit their website at: https://www.launchhousing.org.au/. If you are experiencing a housing crisis and need assistance you can contact Launch Housing 24/7 at 1800 825 955.If you are interested in volunteering at Launch Housing you can contact: (03) 9288 9600 or info@launchhousing.org.au.

Andi Jones takes Martin's place while the original podfather gets buff in the sun, Jess Coulson speaks to Tom about her running and research, Jo Pavey focuses on Rio, Mo gets back to the track, Kenenisa Bekele talks the talk and Tony's lost his mojo. 

Martin and Tom ran the Greater Manchester Marathon, Ethiopian track legend Kenenisa Bekele his marathon debut in Paris, there was new record in Brighton and it was third time lucky for Andi Jones in Manchester. We also review the Virgin Money London Marathon, can Mo do it? Tony sings about the things you hear the day before a marathon and there's a great interview with blind runner Simon Webb.

We announce the lineup for the Marathon Talk team at the Adidas Thunder Run; MT24. Mo wins in London, Haile sets another world record, we have got a short reminder of Comrades awesomeness and we speak to Andi Jones after his 2:19 Edinburgh marathon, our interview is with Matt Briggs and we have another Tony's Trials.

Martin speaks to one of the UK's top endurance runners, Andi Jones has competed in the World Half Marathon Champsionships as well as the World Cross Country Championships, this year he was selected to run The Commonwealth Games Marathon and the European Championships Marathon for Great Britain. Tony runs through his race week check list, Tom has a roller coaster run in Geneva and we hear all about the World's fastest marathon running wig!