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CHATTING ABOUT THE CLIFFTOP CHALLENGE WITH CHANTELE AND PHIL PLUS MUCH MORE!! · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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This is Kevin Sports Pirit Daily here on one of five point nine Radio Folkston
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bringing you the Folkstone and Hive Sports Show. On the show today we have
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a roundup of the local cricket scores, my report on Folkstone's Race for Life
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report from Folkston Rowing Club after their choppy regatta down at Eastbourne. I had
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a special interview with Chantelle and Phil Rashbrook as the Cliff Top Challenge passes through
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our Folkston area and no doubt we'll find a few extra sportshnippets to chuck in
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for good measure. Okay, let's start the show. We're a bit of
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take that and Shine. Just such a big start to me. You everything
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I want to be. We're a good start to the show there and take
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that and Shine. Now. During the week I caught up with the organizers
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of the Cliff Top Challenge and that's Phil and Chantelle Rashbrook. On Saturday,
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it celebrates its tenth birthday. So first of all, let's listen to Chantal
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tellings all about it. Joined now by one of the founder members of the
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Cliff Top Challenge, Chantell Rashbrook. Hello, Chantell, how are you?
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Thanks you? Yeah, excellently. I love to see you. And now
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there's a big day coming up on Saturday. But let's take us back.
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Tell us exactly remind everybody what the cliff Top Challenges and how it all began.
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Clifftop Challenge is a running event with lots of different distances, and it
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started ten years ago after I was diagnosed with breast cancer now and I felt
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I wanted to raise money for breast cancer now and being a runner at the
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time, I thought, what's best than doing a running event? Right?
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So at that time, did you, I mean, this has grown so
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much in the last ten years. Was it a small event that you took
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part in? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it was Yeah,
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it was mister scrown and grown. Yeah yeah yeah right. So I mean
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race for Life and things like that. Have you done any of those?
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Yes? I did. Before I started running myself many years ago, a
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friend of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer at quite a young age. So
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I thought I'd start the race for life by doing the Race for life,
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and that got me the bug to run, right, So I continued with
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that, and then I sort of brought in my own running group and deal
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for beginners women and got everyone else running as well. Right, so when
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you did Race for Life, you am I right, you you were sponsoring
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somebody else, yeah, Brisken, Yeah, and you were okay, yeah,
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I was not diagnosed at that point. Yea. Yeah. Right.
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Well I do remember one of the races hearing about the Rashbrook runners and we
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heard a laugh about this and I thought, where where's Rashbrook? I've never
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heard of it, but I didn't realize it was your name and your team.
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Yeah. But yeah, so that's good. Now, what sort of
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distances is the cliff Top Challenge, right, Well, we've got a couple
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of ultra distances. We've got fifty five which starts in Hastings, and then
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we got thirty six and then you've got twenty six, fifteen, ten and
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five. So it's for all abilities really yeah, so they can join join,
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you know, at any point there. Yeah. But so I do
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understand it's the sold out event. Yeah, totally sold out. We've got
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more runners than never this year. Okay. Yeah, tell us about your
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journey since you've had brush cancer and you know what you've had to undergo.
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I was diagnosed in twenty twelve. Then I had a reoccurrence in fourteen where
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it'd come back secondaries, which I'm still living with now to this day.
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I went through another bout of chemo after my first initial chemo in twelve and
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then they put me on this amazing drug called Kadzila, which I'm still now
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on and it costs a lot of money, but I'm very grateful to be
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on it because it's for my particular type of breast cancer. And that's one
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of the reasons why I'm still here. Really, it is because of that
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drug, is it? Yeah? And how often do you have to have
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to have blood chicks? And yeah, every three weeks, which do sometimes
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comes around a bit too quick for my lik him, but yeah, blood's
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on a Tuesday and followed by the treatment on the Thursday. It's only half
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an hour treatment and very minimal side effects thankfully. Right, so ohing,
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we're in the tenth fear now, I mean, here's the fundraising corn.
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Oh, it's just gone incredible. We're up to one ninety k aboute hundred
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ninety k now, and we're hoping to hit well, I don't know,
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we'll see how it goes. Two hundred love to do you imagine if it
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was a cough of a million pounds a lovely figure. Yeah, it's just
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crazy. And that stands to the people taking part. Their entry fee goes
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to the charity direct and then we've got the amazing runners that on the day
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just raise money, you know through just giving for breast cancer. Yeah.
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But I will say that the amount of years I've been involved with it,
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I found that the town of Deal have warned so much to you and your
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family and to this event, and they are They come in and they droves,
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don't they. Yeah, yeah, even if they've not been personally affected
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by it, it's I guess supporting me. You know a lot of people
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do know me and my family, and yeah, they do the whole of
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Deal. Come out just to enjoy the day. Come down on the green.
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Yeah, spend some money on the raft f but make more money for
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the charity and listen to the bands and cheer the runners in and just enjoy
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it. So what's the what's the program for Saturday? What's a time from?
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Sorry, no, well what sort of time is it going to?
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Yeah? From about to have thirty onwards? Yeah, yeah, we've got
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the rock Choir at to have thirty. I think we've got a huge amount
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of women and men that are going to be singing that day at that time,
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and then followed by two bands after that, the Hudson Ban, then
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Shivra, who will be finishing off the night well afternoon usually finishes about eight
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o'clock a half seven eight. Yeah, And I mean it really really gets
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the whole town behind you, doesn't it. I mean, what about sponsors.
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Do you have trouble getting sponsors? No, we're very lucky with our
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sponsors. You know, deals a small town, but everyone supports us hugely
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with sponsorship, which if we didn't have the sponsors, we couldn't hold the
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event, so it we're forever grateful for them sponsoring this every year, yes,
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and always coming back. And there seems to be more and more every
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year, doesn't it. Those flags with their names on that that row of
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flags seems to get longer and longer. No, it does. And I
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mean how many sort of spectators you get down? I know it's a difficult
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one to gauge, but expecting a big crowd, yeah, yeah, I
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hope. So if it's the same as every you know, as every other
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year, it's we're looking at hundreds hundreds of people come down, spend a
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day down here. I've noticed on the finish that, I mean, some
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of the families come through together and their faces are absolutely electric. They're loving
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it. What sort of distances do do the families run? Do they just
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do the five miles? Yeah, with the bigger groups, they tend to
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do the fives tens or if you've got others that are running further, they
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tend to meet up and then all coming together as a group. Yeah.
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So they do their run and they meet Yeah, a few hundred dollars up
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there, right, yeah, exactly, Yeah, excellent. So there's one
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particular family that have been really really supportive and tell us about them. That's
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Lee Rainbridge. Actually went to school with Lee Rainbridge many many years ago,
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and unfortunately his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer for a few years back now
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and passed away. So from then he's he's been a huge supporter of US
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and the charity and the event, and every year he just grabs so many
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people to get involved. And I think he's got over eighty people running on
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his team this year. Yeah, and he's including his children, Beggan's children.
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Yeah. Yeah, and they raise a huge amount for us, which
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is just fantastic. I've seen them across the line, yeah, you know,
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and it's just brilliant, So you'll be looking forward to seeing him.
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So I just want to bring your husband Phil in. Hello, Peel,
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how are you? Yeah? All right? Kevin yourself? Yeah? Good,
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good? Thanks. I mean you make such a great team, you
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know. And so what we're going to do now, we're going to ever
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to chat with you. But your job really is kind of behind the scenes,
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isn't it. Yeah, mostly mine. Basically, Chantelle's very good at
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organizing a party. I'm better at organizing endurance events, so I tell to
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be in charge of charge, but organizing the running side of things. Yeah,
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so things like the roots selection, marking the route and all this kind
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of things. So okay, right, excellent. Well, what we're going
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to do now, going to take a break, play a bit of music,
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and then we're going to come and find out what it's all about from
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behind the scenes. From your point of view, Well, Spencer there,
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the Spencer Davis group there, keep on running and that song it's kind of
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been adopted by the cliff Top Challenge and just every now and then I've done
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played the whole thing right through. Just play a little burst of keep on
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running, and just to remind us of what everybody is doing on the day.
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You're raising money for a breast cancer now and we want to say a
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big thank you to Mark Cutting and his crew, the Cutting crew that provides
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all the sound system. So let's go back and listen to Pheel now because
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and find out what goes on behind the scenes. We're back now with Phil
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and so Phil, what have you been doing? Let's say today it's a
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few days before the event now, so let's ask you what you've been up
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to today today, I was up up very early this morning doing the emails
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from the runners. We have quite a few runners that are trying to change
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distances and changing and trying to change runners' names as well, so I have
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to deal with all that that comes in. And once I finished that for
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a couple of hours this morning, I spent another six hours out marking the
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route. So when I over to Hastings and I've marked the route from Hastings
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around to Lym Castle now, which is basically from the fifty five mile to
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start through the thirty six at Apple Door onto Lym Castle where the marathon starts.
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So that was today and then tomorrow I go and mark the marathon route.
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So let's turn the clock back to ten years ago, twenty fourteen.
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Your wife comes up with this wonderful idea and says that, oh, yeah,
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by the way, Phil, you've got to go all the way to
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Hastings and set out of course, So what was it like on that first
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day? The thing was initially was trying to find the route, and it's
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trying to work out what would make a good route and how we could make
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it something different to what would just be perhaps you know, a ten mile
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start point and you run ten miles and be done with it. So I
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wanted to make it a challenge for lots of different capabilities. So it's selecting
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a route initially, which way we run. Do we run towards the wind
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that's normally southwesterlies or do we run with the wind behind us, and these
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kind of things. It's trying to work out a good route. Once we'd
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worked out the route, it's then going and actually running it and making sure
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it is possible to do it, working out what the distances are, working
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out the timings. But did you think at that time when you were planning
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this, that you know you might have started from Deal and gone out,
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gone five miles, gone ten miles, and thought, oh, let's go
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with the marathon. Did you think at the time that you would end up,
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like, you know, fifty five miles away from Deal? Not perhaps
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not in the first place. Now, it's not a distance I'd ever run
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before. Well, I tell them now I had done many, many years
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ago when I was a lot younger. But it's not a distance generally I
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think a lot of runners even think about doing. But there was a natural
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progression of following what turns out to be the Royal Military Canal, the Sacks
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and shore one the north downs right and if you look at where that starts,
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the Royal Military Canal starts just this side of Hastings. So it kind
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of flowed naturally in that respect. So you did the first route and was
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it was it? Did you have many ultras? There were four of us
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the first for the first year. We had eighty eight runners in total the
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first year, or eighty eight registered for all this the whole distances. Yeah,
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four ultures and you're sold out this year. So how many of you
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got five hundred and fifty registered this year? With eighteen doing the ulture?
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Eighteen ultras. Yeah, right, So getting back to the Ultra, you
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start our Hastings and we're talking about finishing in Warmer at sort of twelve hoplos
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twelve. What time do the ultras the ultures the fifty five ultures leave Hastings
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at two o'clock in the morning, so the first couple of hours are running
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the dark, so they're all had torched up and then they're all being well
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the weather allows, we see a nice sun rise down on the canal and
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then yeah, and then they just work their way back to Deal. Yeah,
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yeah, Okay, So the runner start from Hastings to fifty five mile
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point. So where's the next sort of pickup point that the runners start.
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So from after Hastings we've got Apple Door, which is where the thirty six
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mileers start. We then move on to Lym Castle where the marathon starts,
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and then from lim Castle we obviously pass through Folkston and move up to Capel
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at the fifteen mile start point, where we get a lot of local runners
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from Folkstone and support us and folks and coming to join us and joining the
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last fifteen miles of the event through Oh okay, So what you're saying is
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some of the supporters whilst they say goodbye to their loved ones, they jump
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in the car and go to the Yeah. Yeah, a lot of them
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do. Yeah, And we've got we've got a few. We've got a
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few ultras this year from Folkston running. They quite often have supporters with them,
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and the supporters will jump ahead of them to keep it. Gets a
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dover seafront. Yeah, you ghet the dover seafront and you've still got that
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ten miles to go up over the cliffs. Yeah, and you've already done
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forty five. It's they're on a safety point of view, these runners,
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the Ultras are starting at two o'clock in the morning. You mentioned the head
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torches, but what other sort of basic emergency kit do they have to bring?
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So they got to wear they've got to have head torches, they've got
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to have a mobile phone fully charge. They've got to have a warm jacket,
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got to have a warm hat. We ask them to carry at least
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a leads to a water because we meet them every ten miles, so that
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gives us the opportunity for that. They have a list of telephone numbers they
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can contact us, and also we stick a red night stick on the on
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the backs, so if any of them did actually have an accident lane somewhere,
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we've got a marker on them that we can help to find them.
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So what about the sort of first aid cover in that respect? First aid,
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I've got to train medics that are a part of our mobile support team,
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and then Saint John join us with I think normally on average we've got
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two or three ambulance type vehicles and about tens and John's join us at Limb
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Castle and then they basically spread themselves out along the route and provide the cover
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right the way through to the finish Well. I'll tell you what, this
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has been a real insight for runners and spectators from what you were telling us,
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because what started ten years ago with how many runners was it eighty eight
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has now gone to five hundred and fifty. But there's so much goes on
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behind the scenes. I know you've been doing it for ten years now and
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you've learned a lot, but you still have to get out there, don't
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you and put those signs. And what's the other thing you have to do
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in the race is finish ta when everyone else is having a beer and party,
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you know, and then have to think about taking all the signs back
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in the couple of days, so they're all in within the weeks. Yeah,
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yeah, okay, So it's a busy to very busy two or three
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weeks for us around the event, dew Chantell. I mean, you must
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be so proud of yourself and the family and all your helpers. I know
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it's a tough one, but is there any thank you that you want to
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say? Obviously, my dad who works extremely hard getting all our sponsorships,
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and just from using a computer, he's getting better, getting better. So
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yeah, no, he works very hard and title to see walking around town
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speaking to local shopkeepers, et cetera. So yeah, my dad, and
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obviously feel the hard work he puts into it, and everyone on the day.
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Yeah, from everyone that's you know, our guys selling food drinks,
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to our massage guys, and to all my marshals because again, we couldn't
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do it without the marshals, I mean for five miles of marshals guys with
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Phil, Yeah exactly. And then my lot, I've been helping you for
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a number of years now, and I just love coming over here, and
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I love the way that the town is warm to you and You've been recognized
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by various charities for raising money and which you deservedly to be recognized and feel
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for all the whole what you've done the man behind the scenes. So I
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just want to thank you and we shoot both of you the real best of
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luck and I'll see you both on Saturday. Cheers, CA, thanks care
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much, appreciate it Saturday, so they have it. The one thing they
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can't control on Saturday is the weather, unfortunately, and it doesn't look too
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good. So let's hope it's a dry all day. Excuse me, now,
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one person, excuse me, a bit of a going for it today.
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Now. One person who will be running on Saturday is the Undernines manager
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for Folks in Victor, Jonathan Sparks, who will be doing the marathon distance
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and his son Charlie will be running five miles. John and Charlie are raising
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money as part of the Rembridge Family. John's friend Megan Rembridge lost her bowt
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wever six years ago, but since then the amazing Reenbridge family have raised nearly
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sixty five thousand pound and this year Team Rembridge, as chan Tell said,
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could consist of as many as eighty taking part. So please have your three
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come over to walmcgreen for a fantastic day raising money for breast cancer. Now
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whatever the weather. Okay, so time for a bit of music now,
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and I can't find it, so I'll just hit the button. Is that?
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So? That's Walking on Broken Glass there, written and sung by Annie
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Lennox from nineteen ninety two. Okay, time for a round up of the
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cricket scores. Now, let's start with Folkston first eleven, who traveled to
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Beckenham to play O D Quacko, who won the toss and decided to bat,
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making two hundred and four all out. Now, folks there must have
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had a bit of an off day as they only made one hundred and sixty
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five so lost the match by thirty nine runs. This put Folkston down into
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second place, as Harville beat Bexley by a mere five runs and Halfville jump
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into the top position on Saturday and welcomed gravesend to the Three Hills. Hawkins
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were at home to Minster from the Alas Shebbey, who won the toss and
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decided to bat, making ninety three runs. Now Hawkins must have thought,
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yeah, you know what, we can do this, but unfortunately they were
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bowled out for fifty, so they lost this one by forty three runs.
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On Saturday, Hawkins are away to Bapchild, which means a trip to sitting
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Bourn High Cricket Club welcomed a Nelson Cricket Club from Thanet to the Grove.
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They won the toss, batted first and made one hundred and ninety eight.
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Highest scorer was Grant Shannon seventy two runs. They then bowled Nelson out for
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sixty nine win in the game by one hundred and twenty nine runs, putting
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them in the top spot in the table. Willsboro a second, both having
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played and won five games. Saturday's game is away at Worth and one wonders
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if this will go ahead as Worth conceded their match last week when they were
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due to play Hyghe the Green. Conceding the game normally means the fixture doesn't
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go ahead because the team can't raise a side. I've Green try again this
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week as they make the short journey to the Three Hills to play Folkston thirt
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eleven. Silt would travel to Kennington. Won the toss and put Kennington into
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bat and made two hundred and twenty Siltwood could only make one hundred and eighteen
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and lost the game by one hundred and two runs. This Saturday, the
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visitors are Edgerton, which is just north of Ashford. In a high scoring
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game, Sipton Park were put into bat by Ashford Town and made two hundred
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and thirty one. In a family affair, Andy Allen made forty four,
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his son Ben made fifteen, and his Sonday law Steve Rowe made sixty three
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and Joseph Allen, who batted last, was zero not out. Ashford managed
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one hundred and eighty two, so the SIPs won the game by forty nine
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runs. This week there are home to Mote from Moat Cricket Club from Maidstone.
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Well. The forecast looks a bit iffy for Saturday with the light rain
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forecast, So I wonder just how many reports I'll have for you next week?
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Could it be a case of arrangetop play? Okay? Coming up next,
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We've got courin bally Ray and like a star, a radio folkster,
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just like a star Chris Muska, just like a lane. You love them.
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You have a pit too, like I'm never say, Just like a
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song in my heart, just like all on my hand, little gentle song
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there from korin Bailey Ray and a little song called Like a Star. Now.
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Last Sunday, I was on the mic at the Folks and Race for
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Life on the Leaves. The shy crowd at first stayed away from the stage,
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but with a bit of encouragement, slowly came to the front and listened
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to the important messages about trying to find a cure for cancer. Event manager
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Sarah Jane Winding was really pleased with how it turned out and sent me this
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report. What a brilliant they had by all. The weather was perfect,
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sunshining but not too warm, and the atmosphere was amazing. Seeing all the
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eleven hundred participants set off at once along the leaves was magical. We can't
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thank everyone enough for the money raised going towards vital research. A huge also
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to our wonderful volunteers that gave up their time on the day. We couldn't
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have delivered such a great event without them. So there you go from the
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horse's mouth from Sarah, and she was so pleased with how it went.
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Now, raising money for cancer research UK at Race for Life on Sunday reached
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a magnificent total of one hundred and fifteen thousand pounds and there are some awesome
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individual and group efforts. One group the folks that in Victor Andrew Eleven's girls
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team run the race in their black and amber football shirts and pink two two's
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Blossom. Kelly and her formidable team raised over sixteen hundred pounds between them.
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Our ever present bundle of Energy warm up Lady Joe Thompson got the crowd pumping
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and the race was started by four year old Atlas Graves who with his younger
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brother two year old Orion, his parents Elizabeth and Mark, plus uncle Jordan
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joined me on the stage. Atlas is currently having chemotherapy and remember he's only
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four years old. He's having chemotherapy for a brain tumor. But their team
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enjoyed herself and raised over two thousand and five hundred pound Now, the most
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poignant moment was when we had a period of silence whilst we all remembered our
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loved ones that we'd lost to cancer. It was a happy, sad day,
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but one thing that will stay in the memories of people, especially those
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who experienced Race for Life for the first time. Okay, time for a
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bit of music now from a Janet left Devlin and a place called home.
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That's woman there by zach Abel. Now. Last weekend it was Eastbourne Regatta
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and Salie Watkins from the Folks and Rowing Club sent me this report and I
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shall read it out just as she sent it. Sally says she really didn't
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expect the regatta to go ahead, having seen the forecast. Our junior men,
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Sam Botting and Billy Graham won their third pairs race in event three,
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when the tide was rising, but not at it's worse. Sarah Moss,
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new to racing in the skulls, brave the worsening conditions but unfortunately capsized on
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the start line, followed shortly by three more capsizes. We were anxious they
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may cancel it the remaining races as they did two years ago. The new
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combination in the women's masters, Joe Anderson, Sally Watkins, Emma Keating and
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Leslie Woodsford roade of fine race, narrowly missing out on first place. The
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junior men with Sam Botting, Dan Harris, Noah Hawkins and Ben Fairclough had
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very rough conditions. Novice Ben was bounced off his sea after the boat hit
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a wave, but they took third place. Joe and Sarah Rode an amazing
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race in the women's double skulls, taking second place, and the last race
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of the day, the mixed quad skulls, saw a strange course of four
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kilometers, rowing around the boy number one, rowing up to Boy twelve,
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then out to sea, around a larger boy, heading inland for another boy,
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then easterly towards yet another boy, returning to the finish line. Now
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the course is similar to those used in offshore races which are now becoming very
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popular. Folkston Crewe, Sarah, Andy, Joe and Ben took the lead
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over at Eastbourne, but allowed them to catch up as both crews couldn't find
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the inland boy, which had accidentally been removed. Folkston continued the course,
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finally finishing several lengths ahead. With everybody completely exhausted and me too. Sally
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says she was at the bank Cox in a very long day but rewarding day.
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Now we've got several new rowers and hoped to get a new novice women's
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crew and a men's novice crew out at Folkeston. So big thanks to Sally
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Watkins for that report. It sounded a bit scary to me, but it
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was a successful day. So let's hope the caes are a bit calmer.
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On Sunday, the thirtieth of June when Folkston Rowing Club and your regatta on
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the Sangate sea Front. Now, if you want to adopt a race for
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the for your business or just show support for the club, then please go
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to the Folkston Rowing Club Facebook page. All the details are there, all
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the links there and you can catch up with somebody and you could do something
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good and sponsored a race. Okay, time for now. A crowded house,
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fall at your feet, Folkestone's come Unity Radio Station Radio Folkstone. Crowded
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house there so we don't hear very often and it's quite pleasant, isn't it?
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Fall at your feet? Now? During the week, former guest of
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the show, Alista Griggs traveled to Finland to take part in the European Powerlifting
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competition, performing well and lifting three peeb's. It wasn't quite enough, as
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he lifted one hundred and forty kilogram on the bench, one hundred and ninety
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kilogram squads and two hundred five fifty kilogram deadlift, coming second in his category.
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Now, despite coming second, you couldn't ask for much more lifting three
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pbs, could you so massive? Well? Dones to you there alistair Greeks.
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Now, yesterday I spent a wonderful day back at Eurotunnel. Believe it
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or not. I was invited back to compare their thirtieth birthday and started very
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early with a walk and the run, and the participants were taken into the
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service tunnel and work their way back. So that is a unique feature.
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So I just want to say a big, big thank you to Natalie Benville.
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Because of that invitation, I bumped into absolutely loads of people that I
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used to work with and I had a really fantastic day. Okay, so
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what that's it from me for another week? Friday night I will be on
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the mic at the charing Ten k with nice work and that noisy lot that
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are the Ashford Striders. Saturday at the cliff Top Challenge. And Sunday,
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well, I've got a day off and I'll tell you what. I'm going
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to play this one because I don't know if I'm tempting fake, but I've
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just rechecked the weather forecast and it doesn't look good. So this might sum
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up my weekend. Every nice beginning. Everyone stay dry? Is it because
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I lied when I was seventy rain on even when the sun is shining,
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I can add casting myself on business