Andrew Thompson? Who is he? How is he running 1.46 in his second year competing in the event? What is his link to Northern Ireland and what led him to signing with North Belfast Harriers? The man from Carrickfergus shares it all in this bonus episode. We hope you enjoy it!

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*PRE-ORDER YOUR BACK STRAIGHT MERCH NOW - Link in bio on Instagram!* Big interview this week Back Straight gang! We have the brilliant Rebekah Osborne in the house to chat about how Faith Kipyegon is going to take down the legendary 4-minute mile barrier! Plenty of great insights for every runner out there on how to get the most from your races and training. Big thanks to Rebekah for giving up her time and we look forward to seeing how Faith gets on in Paris. We also get stuck into some race results from the BMC Belfast (hint, Griggs is back!), some other BMC and Diamond League results, Lisburn 10k and half marathon, Comber 10k, Downpatrick 5k and the BCM Women's 10k! We hope you enjoyed this episode, let us know if there is anything you want us to include in future episodes. Until then, hooroo!

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It's a slightly shorter episode this week (we will explain later hopefully!) but we have a great guest and some good chat about some local performances! First off we recap recent results like the CS Lewis 5 Mile and some international performances before we are joined by Mark Kirk for a thorough BMC Belfast preview ahead of the meet this coming weekend. We hope you enjoyed this episode, let us know if there is anything you want us to include in future episodes. Until then, hooroo!

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