Jo Pavey

The whole thing, just trying to keep up, which is, I mean, it was just, and it's-

A bit like me and Joe Pavey all those years ago.

[laughs] Yes.

Try and hold on to her.

I can tell you for sure.

I'm definitely following the Jo Pavey training plan from 1990s and 2000s.

I wish, because I went to Exeter College and when she was, so this was in 2016, 17, when she was still running.

I wish I went to the track and met her, but for the whole two years, I never met her.

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And then because you were a- amongst a group, so you certainly weren't on your own, and because you weren't on your own you felt like you were sharing this wonderful occasion with people.

And that in itself, of course, also made it quite lovely because of that shared, um, excitement and enthusiasm.

And yeah, and, and we j- and I generally felt, Jo, that we were all there for each other.

Nobody was there for themselves or wanted to be, you know, the king or the queen.

He o- he organizes the, the Antrim Coast Half Marathon.

But he, he basically, John was pacing the elite females a few years back, so he was like, "Mate, do you wanna come along and go to this talk?" So, uh, they had like Joe Pavey and Mo Ali, Scott Overall and, and just loads of these like elite level athletes there, and someone actually asked that same question.

They said to Joe Pavey, and then they said to like, I think the guy, Mo Ali, "When do you do your strength training?" And they both had different answers.

Mm.

And I think basically like they're all world class athl- uh, world class athletes, so I think I would take their word for it.

You know? Like basically Joe Pavey, I think she says she likes to do it close together, and then the other guy says, "Look, I find it more beneficial if I leave it a couple of days and do it, do it another day." So yeah, I think if you can find something that works for you, you should definitely stick with it.

But again, just make sure you've got enough kind of recovery between the two.

Yeah.