Deepest, muddiest January, when the sky is grey and the cupboards are bare - but the running conditions are good and the year is spread out ahead of us. On a turn around Walthamstow Marshes and Springfield Park, Paul and Rob talk pants, sand dunes, sunken boats and scuttled parkruns, hill reps and Ultra planning and preparation.

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