Running a marathon – we’d sooner pluck our lady moustache hair by hair… But kudos to 2 Aussies who have smashed the nation’s long-standing marathon records within hours of each other over the weekend. At the Fukuoka International Marathon in Japan, 2-time Olympian Brett Robinson eclipsed the record time set by Aussie legend Rob de Castella when he won the 1986 Boston Marathon and set a new record for the Oceania region to boot. The 31yo finished 4th with a time of 2 hours, 7 minutes and 31 seconds – 20 seconds under de Castella’s record. And at the Valencia Marathon in Spain, fellow Olympian Sinead Diver one-upped the previous women’s record held by Benita Willis since 2006, setting a new record of 2 hours, 21 minutes and 34 seconds for the 42.195km course. The pair are training partners under coach Nic Bideau, who is likely to find his services are now in hot demand – just not from us…