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LISTEN BACK TO ROB SMALL ORGANISER OF A ''SELF GUIDING'' RUN IN WINGHAM CALLED 'BEAT THE BELL' RAISING MONEY FOR CHARITY. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Daley from Radio Folks and I'm joined
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  Speaker 1: today by Rob Small, who's going to tell us about
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  Speaker 1: a charity run with a difference.
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  Speaker 2: Hello Rob, how are you? Yeah? Hi Dayah? Doing really good?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks good, Thanks thanks for joining me today, Rob. Now,
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  Speaker 1: now before we go into the run itself, you're raising
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  Speaker 1: money for two charities, So tell us what they are,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about them.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So yeah, the two charities are Young Lives Foundation
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  Speaker 3: and Some John's Ambulance. So the Young Lives Foundation, the
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  Speaker 3: idea of them is to help people become more resilient, confident,
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  Speaker 3: able to reach their potential, and particularly those who have
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  Speaker 3: experienced difficult circumstances being being care risk of solution, struggling
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  Speaker 3: with mental health.
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  Speaker 2: And we all know that. I mean, it's really hard
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  Speaker 2: for young.
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  Speaker 3: People generally, and if you haven't had the best start
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  Speaker 3: in life, and it just makes it ten times worse.
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  Speaker 3: And so the idea of a Young Lives Foundation is that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they come in and they have an advocacy program,
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  Speaker 3: so they help young people have their voices heard when
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  Speaker 3: important decisions are being made about their lives, you know,
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  Speaker 3: such as social care education. They provide mentoring, so they
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  Speaker 3: provide trained volunteer mentors who work one on one with
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  Speaker 3: the young people to build up confidence, improve the behavior,
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  Speaker 3: develop life skills.
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  Speaker 2: And all that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: And also have a befriending scheme which is independent visitors
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  Speaker 3: where they match volunteers with children care who may have
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  Speaker 3: little or no contact with family, give them a consistent,
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  Speaker 3: trusted adult who offers companionship for encouragement and opportunities to
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  Speaker 3: experience new activities. And then there's John's Ambulance. Everybody knows
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  Speaker 3: who John's Ambrudance are. You know that they provide teaching
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  Speaker 3: life saving aid, delivering first aid, training of schools, workplaces, communities,
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  Speaker 3: event medical.
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  Speaker 2: Cover like beat the Beat the Right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So I mean we all know John Zamao's like
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  Speaker 1: you say, and most of them are volunteers, but they
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  Speaker 1: still need equipment, don't they and training exercises. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a very important charity. So there's two great charities. So
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  Speaker 1: we're done to you. So now it's time to tell
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  Speaker 1: us about the race itself. So let's start with the basics,
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  Speaker 1: where and when is the race and then we go
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  Speaker 1: into detail after that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So the races in Wingham it's on the sixteenth
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  Speaker 3: of August and it starts at eleven am. So and
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  Speaker 3: all routes will start and finish at the anchor.
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  Speaker 1: The anchor, So that's a pub in the village, is it, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: finish on the high street, so I mean the anchor.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously you must have approached them and asked them about
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  Speaker 1: this idea, and it sounds like they've been very supportive,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've been absolutely brilliant. Kevin Michel, the landlord and landlady.
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  Speaker 3: I approached them initially and said that I was looking
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  Speaker 3: to put on this run that they Yeah, they've they've
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  Speaker 3: been supportive along all the way along. They have flyers
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  Speaker 3: and they've passed information around all around the village. They
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  Speaker 3: could get quite a few runners who go into the
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  Speaker 3: pub after races, and they've been promoting it to them
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, they've been they've been equally helpful in excelling it.
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  Speaker 1: So now I said earlier as a race with a difference,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously a lot of thoughts goes into this. I
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  Speaker 1: suppose now I know what it is. But what I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do now is hand over to you to
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  Speaker 1: tell us that the whole concept of the race and
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  Speaker 1: what it's all about.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So the whole idea of it is it's meant
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  Speaker 3: to be as inclusive possible for runners of all abilities.
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  Speaker 2: So I call it on the Finder race.
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  Speaker 3: I call it one mile to Ultra because it's ten
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  Speaker 3: separate routes between one and ten miles, So Route one
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  Speaker 3: is one mile, Route two too, all the way up
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  Speaker 3: to Route ten ten miles and you can run as
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  Speaker 3: many or.
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  Speaker 2: As few as you want.
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  Speaker 3: So if you're a park runner, you might run routes
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  Speaker 3: one and two or Route three. Yeah, if you're a
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  Speaker 3: marathon runner, you might run routes ten, nine and seven.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, does make twenty six? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: have to do a.
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  Speaker 1: Three hundred and eighty five yards somewhere, but yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can see where you're coming from.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, if you're an ultra runner, have a go
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  Speaker 2: trial ten.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's fifty five miles if you've done that,
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  Speaker 3: and it's fifty five miles in ten hours.
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  Speaker 2: So it is a challenge. It's doable, but it's a
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  Speaker 2: real challenge for ult runners as well.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a different in itself. But also there's
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  Speaker 1: two words that I think the runners should realize What
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  Speaker 1: is also different about this race is it self guiding,
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  Speaker 1: So tell us about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that there won't be marshals out on the routes,
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  Speaker 3: there won't be any road closures or anything.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the routes are going to be on roads
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  Speaker 2: that have less traffic.
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  Speaker 3: Or footpaths, but there are a couple where you need
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  Speaker 3: to cross over busy roads and so you need to
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  Speaker 3: be careful. But there's there's lots of ways that they
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  Speaker 3: can navigate. There will be signposts all out around the route,
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  Speaker 3: which me and my me and my misses will be
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  Speaker 3: spending Friday night and Saturday putting all around and it's
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  Speaker 3: going to take all day because there's a lot to do.
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  Speaker 3: And there's there's videos online of each of the routes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing that I picked up on. You've
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  Speaker 1: actually got videos online. So what you're saying is this
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  Speaker 1: just picked the one mile run for example, So you've
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  Speaker 1: had to go round and video the one mile route
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  Speaker 1: and then download it and prepare it and make sure
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  Speaker 1: it's that a user friendly for somebody that's running the
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  Speaker 1: one mile race?
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  Speaker 2: Is that right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, So I start every route, I start from the
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  Speaker 3: anchor and I record which direction I'm going in every
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  Speaker 3: turn that you turn off, record that any pitfalls and
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  Speaker 3: things that need to look out for you, Like some of.
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  Speaker 2: The roots when I ran them were particularly muddy.
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  Speaker 3: Now obviously we've had a period of extended sunshine, so
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  Speaker 3: it's they're unlikely to be money, but it's ye know,
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  Speaker 3: there's things that people can take care of the places
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  Speaker 3: where they're most likely to get lost.
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple of roots where there's cows in the fields.
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  Speaker 1: So this must have taken you. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: long did it tell you to get so how long
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  Speaker 1: did it tell you to get all those roots together?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't do it in one hit and every
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  Speaker 2: season by the sound of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So so I'll start a few months back.
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  Speaker 3: Just every week I'd run one or two. Sometimes for
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  Speaker 3: the short one, I do three routes. And then just
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  Speaker 3: because obviously, yeah, recording the videos, that takes a lot
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  Speaker 3: of extra time as well, because you know there might
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  Speaker 3: be a bit where I've record.
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  Speaker 2: Is a bit and I've done that wrong. Let me
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  Speaker 2: go back and do that again. It's taken several months, but.
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  Speaker 1: And I imagine in all kinds of weather, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it did you sort of get home and it was
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  Speaker 1: pouring the rain.
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  Speaker 2: You think, oh no, I'll.
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  Speaker 1: Have to do that on a sunny day.
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  Speaker 3: There are a couple of times where I'd run a
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  Speaker 3: route and it might start absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Chucking it down halfway through. I can't use it. I
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  Speaker 2: can't even I even touch my phone.
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  Speaker 3: I can't record all stops, so I'd have to go
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  Speaker 3: around and do that route again. And yeah, so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean you'll see on the videos there's there's lots
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  Speaker 3: of different weather conditions and I kind of pick the
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  Speaker 3: best ones out of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's a tough question this, but
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  Speaker 1: how many miles do you think you covered in filming
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  Speaker 1: that ten mile routes?
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  Speaker 3: Probably influenting the routes I had to rerun probably seventy
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  Speaker 3: eighty miles eighty miles.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: And if you do enter this race when you're running
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  Speaker 1: it and just think of rub out there in the
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  Speaker 1: boy and Raine and going back and having to do
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  Speaker 1: it all over again. Right as a rob, I think
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  Speaker 1: we've covered most things now, So is there anything else
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  Speaker 1: you want to add before we start giving out any
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  Speaker 1: details or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: Really, just that this is your race, so you can
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  Speaker 3: run it in any way that you want.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can walk it if you want. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's no there's no set thing that.
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  Speaker 3: You have to run any route in a certain time
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  Speaker 3: as long as you're back by nine pm before the
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  Speaker 3: last of water bill rings. Every route that you completely
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  Speaker 3: gets counted. You've only got to run a single route.
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  Speaker 2: To get a medal.
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  Speaker 3: So so you know, if you're if you're a park runner,
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  Speaker 3: just one and two. Yeah, and you get mad of it, but.
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  Speaker 1: We must point out whilst it's it's a fun run,
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  Speaker 1: you've had to go through some hoops, haven't you to
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  Speaker 1: get this run underway? And because you know, you just
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  Speaker 1: can't turn up and put a run on. And this
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  Speaker 1: is just a few of you, but this is like
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  Speaker 1: you've had to get ambulance cover anything else you've had
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've got to get ambulance covered because you're
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  Speaker 3: obviously you always you always hope for the best, but
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  Speaker 3: you're playing for the worst. I hope that nobody gets
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  Speaker 3: injured at all, but if you do, then you're covered.
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  Speaker 2: But then there's also things.
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  Speaker 3: Like public liability insurance you have to go through dovercounts
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  Speaker 3: or to get to approve of that and their safety
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  Speaker 3: advisory group, and there's you know, printing materials and all
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  Speaker 3: the flyers and things, and the cover for the food
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  Speaker 3: and the day. So again on the Saturday night, me
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  Speaker 3: and my good lady will be making sandwiches of every
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  Speaker 3: various description you can imagine, just trying to cover everyone's
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  Speaker 3: sort of nutritional needs as they go through.
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  Speaker 2: It as well.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, so I think we've covered everything wrong. So
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  Speaker 1: the thing that people will want to know is the
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  Speaker 1: facts about the race and how can they get in
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  Speaker 1: touch and where do they go to and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So let's give them out some details.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, the races entry fees twenty pound. We've currently
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  Speaker 3: got sixty two runners signed up. We've got a limit
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  Speaker 3: of one hundred for the insurance purposes, thirty eight spots
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  Speaker 3: remaining if you want it.
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  Speaker 2: So if you want to sign up, you can sign
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  Speaker 2: up find.
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  Speaker 3: A race dot com, slash events, slash beat Dash the
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  Speaker 3: Dash Bell, or you can just go through the website
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  Speaker 3: Beat the Bell dot UK and there's a link on there.
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  Speaker 2: That will take you through to the registration page.
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  Speaker 3: If you want any information about the race, you can
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  Speaker 3: go to infot Beat the Bell just email info at
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  Speaker 3: Beat the Build at UK and I'll get back.
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  Speaker 2: To you and answer any questions you need.
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  Speaker 1: Right, excellent, Rob, Now, so we've got what have we got?
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  Speaker 1: Is about just over a week to go, now, is it? Yeah? So,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that normally a race kind of as
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  Speaker 1: it reaches its start date. I think you're going to
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  Speaker 1: find you will get well. I hope you do get
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  Speaker 1: those extra numbers. I mean you've put in all the work.
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  Speaker 1: You're put in miles of training, you put in miles
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  Speaker 1: of running, and you and the anchor really need to
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  Speaker 1: have a little pat on the back because you've done
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  Speaker 1: so much work raising money for two charities and I
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  Speaker 1: really really hope that it all goes well for you day.
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  Speaker 1: So on the day, sorry, I can't be there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: comparing the race somewhere else, but I shall be thinking
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  Speaker 1: of you and looking out for reports and so is
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  Speaker 1: anything else you want to add before we wind up? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: I should mention as well the fantastic sponsors that we've had.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a Gibson's Farm Shop that they provided a
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  Speaker 3: hamper which I'll be presenting to the person who's run
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  Speaker 3: the greatest distance in the shortest time. So if there's
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  Speaker 3: two runners that have run all fifty five, make sure
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  Speaker 3: you are getting at your best time that you possibly can.
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  Speaker 3: There's a wing of Central Stores that they're providing the medals,
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  Speaker 3: and there's red flooring.
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  Speaker 2: There's a flooring.
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  Speaker 3: Shop which is just actually two doors down for the
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  Speaker 3: anchor they've decided to support. Well, so yeah it's and
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  Speaker 3: I can't forget Wingham Will's Water who are providing all
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  Speaker 3: the water.
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  Speaker 1: For Wow, so important these days actually this climate and
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  Speaker 1: that Yeah excellent, yeah, excellent, right, Rob, Well, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: taking the time to come and have a chat. I
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  Speaker 1: really do hope it's successful and the charities gain and
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  Speaker 1: and just good lutch everyone on the day, and I
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  Speaker 1: hope you have a fantastic day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks very much and it's bringing great talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you,