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Runner Tim Hewitt hopes to maintain his track record at the upcoming City 2 Surf averaging about 3.11 min/km · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now. There is a lot happening over the dry season.
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  Speaker 1: There always is, and Territorians are stretching up and preparing
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  Speaker 1: for the fiftieth NT City to Serve. It's taking place
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  Speaker 1: this Sunday morning. Hundreds are expecting to gather to take
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  Speaker 1: part in the twelve kilometer, the four kilometer and the
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  Speaker 1: one point nine to five k events. And joining me
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  Speaker 1: on the line is well known Territory and he's an
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  Speaker 1: absolute superstar runner, winner of last year's event. His name
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  Speaker 1: is Tim Hewitt and he's on the line. Good morning
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  Speaker 1: to you, Tim.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 3: Lovely lovely to have you on the show, mate. How
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  Speaker 3: are you How are you faring ahead of Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully you're going okay. I've jumped out of the
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  Speaker 2: video event trying to get somebody ready to go. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: not a bit good. It's always a great race. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'll keep coming back for as soon as I can. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: feeling good now mate.
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  Speaker 1: Last year you won the event in a time of
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  Speaker 1: forty minutes and twenty six seconds, So that's averaging for
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  Speaker 1: our listeners out there who aren't runners, that is averaging
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  Speaker 1: just around three minutes eleven a kilometer.
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  Speaker 3: That is bloody fast.
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  Speaker 1: There's no other way of putting it, but to keep
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  Speaker 1: it that speed for that distance is phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, run a bit bend off old age.
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  Speaker 2: So hoping to go smilar similar this year. We'll see
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  Speaker 2: how it goes.
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  Speaker 3: I had a look. I've done a bit of research.
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  Speaker 1: I like to do my research before interviews, and I
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  Speaker 1: had to look at the at the previous years as well.
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  Speaker 1: You won the year prior as well, but it looked
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  Speaker 1: like you'd done a good improvement on your time last
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  Speaker 1: year comparatively to the year prior.
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  Speaker 3: What did you attribute that to team?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've had and the year before as well. That
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  Speaker 2: was in October. That was in the peak of COVID,
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  Speaker 2: so that was ather time because it was bloody high
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  Speaker 2: and then sick that year the next year, and then yeah,
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  Speaker 2: last year, I think, yeah, I was in a better spot,
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  Speaker 2: doing a bit more training, and conditions were good, so
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  Speaker 2: it all sort of came together a bit more and
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping, yeah that this year. Yeah, I think it
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  Speaker 2: looks like conditions to be good and yeah, the body's
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  Speaker 2: still holding up, so hopefully it will be something similar
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  Speaker 2: to last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Looking like it's going to be nice and cool, which
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  Speaker 1: will hopefully be a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to it. It's nice to
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  Speaker 2: get this kind of early early dry season conditions in here.
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  Speaker 1: Tim, How is it to win such an iconic event,
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  Speaker 1: you know here in Darwin it is something that everybody
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  Speaker 1: loves getting out to each and every dry season. I
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  Speaker 1: know we had that one year when it happened when
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  Speaker 1: it was very.
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  Speaker 3: Hot in October and it was much tougher run.
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  Speaker 1: But mate, how you know, how good is it to
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  Speaker 1: get out and be part of such an iconic event,
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  Speaker 1: but not only be part of it, to cross that
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  Speaker 1: finish line first.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it's it's great. I'm fortunate to be able
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  Speaker 2: to have done it there a couple of times. But
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  Speaker 2: it's a great event I always. Yeah, it's something I
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  Speaker 2: look forward to every year and I really appreciate that
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  Speaker 2: that it gets you know, that it gets put on.
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  Speaker 2: It's you know, the Darwin Fury doesn't have as quite
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  Speaker 2: a bigger running scene as some of the other major cities,
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  Speaker 2: so it's really nice to have, you know, this event
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  Speaker 2: which is really well put together and great course and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like a really good atmosphere. So it's it's always good
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  Speaker 2: and tim for.
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  Speaker 3: You throughout this year. I know that you are a
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  Speaker 3: fantastic athlete.
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  Speaker 1: Mate.
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  Speaker 3: What else have you got planned? Any goals for the year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the big goal for this year. I'm in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of a sort of marathon training block for Gold
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  Speaker 2: Coast which is early July, so you know this this
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  Speaker 2: is fir fits in nicely to that block. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the big game is Gold Coast Marathon early July. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I've tried to run a PB in that
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, hope the body holds up.
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  Speaker 1: How look in terms of your PB, how will that
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  Speaker 1: sort of set you up comparatively to some of the
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  Speaker 1: other athletes that you're going to be up against. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what kind of I guess what kind of
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  Speaker 1: placing might you be looking at because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Territorians are going to be wanting to see you do well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Australian running I think is majory up at
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  Speaker 2: the moment. So I think it'll be pretty competitive at
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  Speaker 2: Gold Coast. The least international people there as well, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a fast course. I'll be hoping to sort
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  Speaker 2: of run under two twenty five and that will I
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  Speaker 2: guess put me, yeah, somewhere around like the thirtieth sort
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  Speaker 2: of something, depending who shows up. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: there's a big gap to like the the very elite runners.
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  Speaker 2: But you know that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the big thing is, you know, you're like you
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  Speaker 1: are juggling. And this is what I find so admirable,
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  Speaker 1: is you're juggling like you're juggling your training, you're obviously
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  Speaker 1: juggling life in general, and work like it's hard.
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  Speaker 3: It's a hard thing to do. Yeah it is.
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  Speaker 2: We've had our second kid just two months ago now,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, probably not commit to math and block but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so and unfortunately only I'm only working three days at
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  Speaker 2: the moment. But yeah, it is hard, but I guess
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  Speaker 2: it's good. It just forced me to get out the
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  Speaker 2: door early and get it done and then be around
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  Speaker 2: at home, you know, for the responsibility. It's going to work.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful stuff, will make all the very best for the
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  Speaker 1: city to serve. But really keen to catch up with
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  Speaker 1: you as well, you know, when you are heading off
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  Speaker 1: for the Gold Coast Marathon. I think it's fantastic, so
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  Speaker 1: wonderful to see a great territory and doing really wonderful
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  Speaker 1: things and under two twenty five for forty two kilometers, mate,
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  Speaker 1: you are an absolute machine.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I'll have to keep myself accountable now that
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  Speaker 2: I've said that, so yeah, i'll what that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: first thing first, Well we'll go on Sunday and have
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  Speaker 2: a good race and be good to see a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people there and yeah, and hopefully you know people
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  Speaker 2: have enjoyed. And yeah, keep considering getting out and running
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  Speaker 2: as a bit of a hobby.
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  Speaker 1: It is a great thing to do, particularly if your
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  Speaker 1: body can can handle it. How you did mention it
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times? How is yours holding up?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think it's all beings considered, it's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: It's the most cave I've done, you know. Ever, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a few niggles, but nothing that is stopping me yet
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully not for the next next week. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: you know that you're always going to have something, yeah, manage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's It's just one of those things I suppose,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. Your body is going to the further you
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  Speaker 1: push it, you know, the harder. It's going to struggle
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  Speaker 1: at different times, but you keep on keeping on mate.
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  Speaker 1: For our listeners, how many kilometers are you averaging some
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  Speaker 1: weeks when you are training for that marathon?
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  Speaker 2: At the moment, I'm hitting Yeah, maybe like one and
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  Speaker 2: twenty k a week.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's not as much as you know I probably should
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  Speaker 2: be doing, but I feel like it's enough, all things considered.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, all the very best for the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and all the very best with that continuation of your
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  Speaker 1: training for the Gold Coast Marathon. Thanks so much for
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  Speaker 1: your time this morning. We'll catch up with you very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for that. Yeah, I look forward to
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  Speaker 2: catching up for later.
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  Speaker 3: On good stuff. Good on your tim. Thank you.