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LISTEN BACK TO MOTHER AND SON MICHALA AND WILL LUFF TELLING ME ABOUT THEIR LONDON MARATHON CHALLENGE · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports Very Daily bringing you a London
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  Speaker 1: Marathon special show featuring four local people who have never
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  Speaker 1: run a marathon before their most their first marathon is
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  Speaker 1: in London on Sunday and they're running for a charity.
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  Speaker 1: The Kayla Laugh and ur Sam Will are running for
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  Speaker 1: Alzheimer's Research UK, Phil King is running for the Aspinall
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  Speaker 1: Foundation and Lois Stabley for They Shine. So over the
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  Speaker 1: next two hours, sit back and listen to their stories.
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  Speaker 1: And what better way to start the show than the
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  Speaker 1: London Marathon theme song made every year.
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  Speaker 2: On the telly at the start of the race. So
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  Speaker 2: do you have it?
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  Speaker 1: That's the London Marathon theme and that one actually is
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  Speaker 1: played on the TV and none of the runners really
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  Speaker 1: hear it, although I expect it is pumping around the
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  Speaker 1: Black Heath at the start. So let's crack on and
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  Speaker 1: see what we've got today. Well, now, my first set
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  Speaker 1: of guests came into the studio during the week, but
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately we had a well I had a few technical
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  Speaker 1: issues when editing their interviews out, so you might have
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  Speaker 1: to turn this one up a little bit louder than normal.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, sit back and have a listen. This is
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Day on radio folks, then bringing you my first
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  Speaker 1: set of guests who will be running on Sunday in
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  Speaker 1: London at the marathon. So let's say hello to Mikayla
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  Speaker 1: Love Hello, and Mikayla how are you hello?
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  Speaker 3: Kevin On Fine, thank you very much, joving.
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  Speaker 1: Us on, thanks for coming in. And I want to
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  Speaker 1: say hello to Mikayla's son Will.
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  Speaker 2: How are you Will?
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  Speaker 4: I'm great, Kevin? How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Good and good? So was this your idea? Was
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  Speaker 2: this running marathon? Look?
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  Speaker 5: I think we sort of had a bit of a no,
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  Speaker 5: Will it was your idea? Yeah, it was my idea
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  Speaker 5: very much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you go along with that straight away? Have
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  Speaker 1: you got a run in history?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I used to run a bit through my twenties, more
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  Speaker 6: in my thirties, a little bit in my forties, and
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  Speaker 6: then lap for about eight years until September when we
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  Speaker 6: had to start.
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  Speaker 3: Training for this.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you've gone without running for a long time
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  Speaker 1: and then it was straight into Mariiton training.
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  Speaker 6: I was in my forties then now I'm in my fifties.
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  Speaker 6: It's been difficult.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah we're getting there.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So I mean, how did you start?
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  Speaker 1: Did you sort of start with a couch to five
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  Speaker 1: K or I did.
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  Speaker 6: I did, So we entered the ballot. We've done it
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  Speaker 6: a few times before, never been successful. And then you said,
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  Speaker 6: come on, why don't we go for a charity place?
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  Speaker 6: So we'll talk about the charity. I'm sure, but it
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  Speaker 6: was a pretty obvious choice for us. So we had
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  Speaker 6: a conversation with a charity and we won the place.
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  Speaker 6: So first of September was when training kicked off. He
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  Speaker 6: realized I was going to have to start at the beginning.
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  Speaker 6: So the charity group, we were involved with a Facebook
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  Speaker 6: group for the charity and they were very helpful advised
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  Speaker 6: starting with couch to five K. So that's what I
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  Speaker 6: did for the first sort of eight weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Right, What's what time were you was this?
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  Speaker 3: When was this first September?
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  Speaker 2: Was it September? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: So a year So it's always been quite a long
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  Speaker 1: journey then, really, isn't it has? Because if you like
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  Speaker 1: established runners that are running, you know, probably start training
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  Speaker 1: in January.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a little bit behind, wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know it was.
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  Speaker 6: A tall order, but I was determined to do well.
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  Speaker 6: It's the hardest deadline I think I've.
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  Speaker 4: Ever had it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah right, okay, Well so what about you, what's what's
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  Speaker 1: your sort of sporty background.
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  Speaker 2: Have you got had an interesting sport?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So I played a lot of rugby growing up,
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  Speaker 5: so I had a base level line of fitness, really
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  Speaker 5: go to the gym quite often as well. So I
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  Speaker 5: was lucky enough to sort of go into this with
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  Speaker 5: sort of you know, just that like that base level
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  Speaker 5: line of fitness. But this is a completely different football game.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not a runner lover at all really, but I'm
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  Speaker 5: learning to love it. And I think it's important to
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  Speaker 5: have a plan and that's what we've stuck to and
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  Speaker 5: you know, and now we're in this position where hopefully,
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  Speaker 5: on someday we're going to be running.
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  Speaker 2: Did you play rugby locally or was it a universe steals?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I played for Folks and Rugby Club for
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  Speaker 4: about ten years.
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  Speaker 2: Oh did you Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, no, I've got I'll keep in contact with
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  Speaker 1: the with the Folks and Rugby Club. Yeah, there's there
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  Speaker 1: are good bunch down there. So Mikhayla, so you started,
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  Speaker 1: you did your five couch to five K. When you
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  Speaker 1: got to five k, did you sort of think Oh
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  Speaker 1: my word, I've got like another eighteen miles to go.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen miles, yeah, a little bit. When did the reality
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  Speaker 1: you hit you that you've got to run twenty six miles.
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  Speaker 6: Fairly early on, if I'm honest, Yeah, the early days
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  Speaker 6: that through September, middle of October, my dad was My
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  Speaker 6: dad's health was deteriorating quite a lot then. So it's difficult,
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  Speaker 6: and I work full time as well, so it's difficult
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  Speaker 6: to fit everything in. And the breathing. The breathing was
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  Speaker 6: the worst. I'm never going to now, the breathing, And
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  Speaker 6: all of a sudden it just clicked.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: So from that five k just a run seven eight
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  Speaker 6: miles and that's when breathing sort of really started to
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  Speaker 6: get easier.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And from.
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  Speaker 3: There I just pushed it a little bit further each week.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right, do you know what? I think that that
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  Speaker 1: is the hardest part of running. If you want to run,
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  Speaker 1: it's going from zero to you know, to like six
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  Speaker 1: or a ten k once. If you're running ten k's regularly,
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  Speaker 1: then it's not a bad thing, you know, But the
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  Speaker 1: hardest part is going from sort of zero to ten k.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I think once I've got that base level of fitness,
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  Speaker 6: and I've followed the plan. I have followed the plan
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  Speaker 6: I think it was, and took the advice of you know,
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  Speaker 6: the professionals on the group. And really it was a
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  Speaker 6: small medium long run each week, the long run getting
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  Speaker 6: a bit longer each week, with the short and medium
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  Speaker 6: run staying about the same. And that's really how And
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  Speaker 6: then you think, well, I've run thirteen miles today, and
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  Speaker 6: then your brain thinks I's still thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's only halfway. And that was the journey for you.
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  Speaker 1: Will You obviously had this baseline fitness and probably you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously a head start on your mum. So what was
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  Speaker 1: your first steps into training for the marathon?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I think that the running game is People
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  Speaker 5: will disagree, but I think it's eighty percent mental, twenty
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  Speaker 5: percent fitness. And I really do believe anybody can run
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  Speaker 5: a marathon. Some days you go out the door and
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  Speaker 5: you can barely run a mile, and some days you
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  Speaker 5: go out and you can run ten miles. And I
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  Speaker 5: think it's that fluctuation and you know, positive and negative
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  Speaker 5: thoughts and but yeah, yeah, it's been mostly positive, but
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  Speaker 5: it's just about you know, keeping that motivation up and
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  Speaker 5: definitely do it with my mum helps.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you this is a tough one. Did you
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  Speaker 1: do your own training and just get together once a
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  Speaker 1: week or how did that work?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: So I think we've tried to train together where we can.
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  Speaker 5: My gate and my running pace is slightly different to mums,
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  Speaker 5: but it's it's definitely helpful having somebody there, you know,
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  Speaker 5: sort of with you at the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's quite a lonely job actually, if you're running on
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  Speaker 1: your own. I mean my very first marathon, I ran
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  Speaker 1: up in Yorkshire and because we had some family up
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  Speaker 1: there and so I was combining the weekend away and
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  Speaker 1: there was a point it was a city marathon, but
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't a big one, And there was one point
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  Speaker 1: in the marathon where I looked ahead of me I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't see anybody. Look behind me, I couldn't see anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, oh god, my lost, you know, and then
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  Speaker 1: I saw a sign and I was happy. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: my other marathon was in Thant that was busy, and
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  Speaker 1: then in my third marathon was London. But the training,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your twenty miler on your own is a
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  Speaker 1: tough one.
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  Speaker 2: Have you done your twenty mile?
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  Speaker 6: It is thee loneliness of the long distance runner, isn't it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I've spent a lot of time running out. I live
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  Speaker 6: in New Romney, so the back roads of the Marsh
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  Speaker 6: had been my friend over.
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  Speaker 3: The last few months.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always windy.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Mother's Day we took a long run. Persuaded Will
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  Speaker 6: to come out on a long run with me, and
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  Speaker 6: we were aiming for seventeen miles. Two hours running into
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  Speaker 6: the wind. We threw in the town at fourteen miles
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  Speaker 6: and felt like.
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  Speaker 3: We'd failed, even though we'd run fourteen miles. But yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's that time of you though.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of runners, as I say, established runners might
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  Speaker 1: start training in January. They've run through the cold weather
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden it starts getting warmer, and
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  Speaker 1: you just hope that it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not too warm on marathon day, don't you?
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  Speaker 3: Please?
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  Speaker 6: Everybody keep fingers crossed and pray for all the runners
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  Speaker 6: that it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Like you say, you won't be on your own, It'll
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  Speaker 1: be about fifty thousand other people that are in the
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  Speaker 1: same position.
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  Speaker 2: And what about you, Will? Did where'd you live?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? So I live more local here in Folkston.
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  Speaker 2: So where where do you do your training or where
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  Speaker 2: did you?
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  Speaker 4: So? I live over in the barracks and I.
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  Speaker 2: Run from over there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and then get the down towards the lees and
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  Speaker 5: you know, sometimes if I time it right, I'll sort
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  Speaker 5: of tag along with the rest of the park run.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I try and keep it as flat as possible because
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  Speaker 5: there are some obviously hilly areas over here.
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  Speaker 4: Really.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, you're right, And so are you looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to the big day?
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  Speaker 2: Are you dreading it?
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  Speaker 5: One hundred percent? I think it's it's widely known as
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  Speaker 5: sort of victory lap. You've worked really hard to get
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  Speaker 5: to that point, so once you actually get to the day,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it's it's it's easy to actually get in
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  Speaker 5: the zone, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And would you say that obviously you both taking
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  Speaker 1: this seriously because you can't take take a marathon, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with contempt it as you have to make lifestyle changes,
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  Speaker 1: like you diet and watch what you eat, and you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: recovery and jails and things like that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Education, it's it's all a bit new to us, really.
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  Speaker 5: I was obviously had a little bit of knowledge around
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  Speaker 5: gym and dietary requirements, et cetera. But this is completely different,
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  Speaker 5: you know, eating so many more carbs and the gels,
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  Speaker 5: the jails are whole different ballgame.
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  Speaker 4: But it's just it's it's.
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  Speaker 5: Mostly just about fueling yourself properly and keeping that tank
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  Speaker 5: fueled up already, rather than obviously fueling yourself from nothing.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a recovery as well, isn't it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to go out and start running. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you what. Have you had any injuries? This is
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  Speaker 1: a classic one for marathon runners.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. So the most common one that people get is
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  Speaker 5: the IT band And I've definitely got a really tight
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  Speaker 5: IT band at the minute, and my hips are screaming
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  Speaker 5: at me. And even when you take a week off,
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  Speaker 5: your legs are still screaming at you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Well, I think the difference is that on
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  Speaker 1: the day that is totally different. You forget all that
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  Speaker 1: and as you say, the mental approach kicks in and
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  Speaker 1: no matter if you're brobably screaming at you, You're going
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  Speaker 1: to get it done, aren't you?
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  Speaker 4: One hundred percent?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, Makalaila, have you had any injuries?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I've approached the whole thing like a project really in
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  Speaker 6: terms of nutrition, always got a sore lower back, so
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  Speaker 6: I've made quite good friends with the osteopath.
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  Speaker 3: I've been having weekly sports massages. I eat, I eat
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  Speaker 3: quite well anyway.
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  Speaker 6: I don't drink very much anymore, definitely don't smoke. So
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  Speaker 6: taken more protein probably, Yeah, so fueling up. As Will
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  Speaker 6: says before runs, we're eating some protein.
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  Speaker 3: They think.
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  Speaker 6: I understand women need some protein within thirty minutes of
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  Speaker 6: finishing a run. So I've been trying to do that, right,
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  Speaker 6: Like blug of chocolate milk when I finish a run,
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  Speaker 6: and then some beans and cheese and toast or whatever.
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  Speaker 6: And I've taken it really steady, so no injuries as such,
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  Speaker 6: apart from you know, getting on top of the lower
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  Speaker 6: back issue. Yeah, but I think I'm fifty four, I'm
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  Speaker 6: flat footed and I'm hyper mobile, so I've had to
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  Speaker 6: take this really steady, right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, we're going to take a little music break
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  Speaker 1: now and we're going to play a song that's You've
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  Speaker 1: chosen this song, Will, Is this any special reason for
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  Speaker 1: this song?
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  Speaker 5: Not really, It's just one of the songs that comes
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  Speaker 5: up on my marathon playlist when I'm jogging around.
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  Speaker 4: It's just quite positive.
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  Speaker 2: And learn some music then do you Yeah, yeah, try
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  Speaker 2: to right, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, sit back and listen to this one. This one
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  Speaker 1: is to get your dancing. This is Billy Idol and
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  Speaker 1: dancing with myself.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: That was Billie idol a dancing with myself and that's
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  Speaker 1: on Will's playlist. It's an interesting point actually because basically
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  Speaker 1: at running races you're not allowed to use headphones unless
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  Speaker 1: they're what they're called bone conducting headphones. So, but music
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  Speaker 1: is very important to a lot of runners. Mikayla, do
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  Speaker 1: you use music at all?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I listened to music.
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  Speaker 6: I've been listening to podcasts on long runs. I've listened
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  Speaker 6: to audio books. I'll listen to three or four episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Of anything to take your mind off runing, is it exactly?
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  Speaker 6: I I've listened to quite a fan of the show
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  Speaker 6: Lamies Robs. I've listened to the original cast recording that's
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  Speaker 6: about two and a half hours.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a fan of a couple of podcasts, so I
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  Speaker 6: download some episodes and just play those out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I will say that on the on the London
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  Speaker 1: it is totally different. I don't think you're going to
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  Speaker 1: need your music until you really get into the sort
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  Speaker 1: of the zone of about eighteen miles because there is
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  Speaker 1: so much going on, it's so pumped up, and it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you haven't say a nice day. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the sights of London and you can look around and
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  Speaker 1: that just takes your mind off. You just your legs
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  Speaker 1: are just going naturally. So let's talk about the actual
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  Speaker 1: day itself. So we'll you'd be traveling up together, you
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  Speaker 1: staying the night before, lots of family coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us about that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so we're going up on the Saturday. We've got
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: to go to the XL Expo, grab our beer and
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: the last few bits that we need, and then we'll
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  Speaker 5: be staying on the Sunday night as well. All right, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I've got a few family members coming up as well,
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  Speaker 5: so more than marya kind of thing, and I definitely
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  Speaker 5: think it's going to help.
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  Speaker 4: You know, having that familiar face on the sideline will do.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you from experience and from speaking to
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  Speaker 1: other runners, you know that just seeing a familiar face
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  Speaker 1: just kind of puts that little spring back in your step.
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  Speaker 2: So make sure that they see you.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know the charity, we start talking about
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  Speaker 1: the charity now and you're fundraising, so you decided to
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  Speaker 1: go down the charity route, which is a tough call
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  Speaker 1: these days, so especially being as there's two.
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  Speaker 2: Of you, so how much of you had to raise?
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  Speaker 6: So they we were running for Alzheimer's Research UK. They're
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  Speaker 6: the only UK charity solely focused on finding a cure
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  Speaker 6: for dementia, which is the umbrella term for Alzheimer's, vascular
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  Speaker 6: dementia and other types of dementia. And it was a
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  Speaker 6: pretty obvious choice given that my dad had been living
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  Speaker 6: with vascular dementia and Alzheimer's for five years at that point.
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  Speaker 6: So the commitment is to raise three thousand pounds each
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  Speaker 6: right charity so we could work as a team. They
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  Speaker 6: accept team fundraising, so we've got our own just giving pages.
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  Speaker 6: We've also got a team just giving page and we
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  Speaker 6: started sharing that pretty much straight.
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  Speaker 2: Away and how's it going.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, within.
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  Speaker 6: A month or six weeks or so, we'd raised over
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  Speaker 6: a thousand just through people we know donating, sharing it
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  Speaker 6: on our socials, friends and family. I've got a manager
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  Speaker 6: shop over at the Ashroid outlet. I've got a collecting
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  Speaker 6: tin and a poster in the shop. So people have
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: been fi and in there. We held a big quiz
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: night at Folks and Rugby Club last Friday. That was
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: the tenth of April. Over one hundred people came. I've
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: yet to count all the coins, but that's just over
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: sixteen hundred.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's good.
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah. My sister in law works for a big law firm.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: She donated three hundred pounds and they've match funded that,
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: so that's another six hundred pound. It's surprising how it
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: mounts out. We think we're about yet to totter up
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: five three hundred, so we're very close to town.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: That is amazing because it really is a tough call.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: So let's move on to charity. So Alzheimer's. It was
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: the Alzheimer's Research UK. Now this is obviously a little
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: bit close to home. So tell us a little bit
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: about your dad and what happened and why he chose
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: his charity.
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, my dad was just the most amazing man, good kind,
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: He was hard worker, ran his own business for nearly
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: thirty years, worked six days a week, loved his kids,
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: loved his grandkids. He was a rotarian for many years,
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: so really into his charity works he did. He was
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: on the front of When we Live, We lived in
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: Bexy Heath for many years. He was on the front
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: of the local paper. He did a press up a
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: thon for Demelza Hospice, raised over one thousand pounds himself.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: He was on the front of the local paper. Press
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: Up Pete they called him, did over a thousand press ups.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: The press came took a photo of him, and he
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: loved all that. He was a beaver leader when we
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: moved down to limming In. Later most of the family
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: moved down to Lyminge and we lived there for twenty years.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: Really popular with the local children. His name was Puffing.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: His the name was Puffing.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Some of my friends grown up sons now still.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: Referred him as Puffing. At the funeral, they came along
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: and paid their respects to Puffin Pete.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: He was a good man.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: Not long after he retired we started to notice that
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: there were differences in his behavior. He started to repeat
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: himself show some confusion. He had a stroke, had an
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: MRI and that indicated that there had been episodes in
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: his brain and he was diagnosed with vascular dementia and Alzheimer's,
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: so mixed dementia and from there it was a five
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: six year journey.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Into It's terrible, isn't it.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I Mean I've had some experience of what you've been through,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: and it's just it's nothing you can do about it.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Just to see you love one kind of deteriorating in
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: front of your very eyes.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: It's really sad, isn't it.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: It's terrible.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: It's terrible, and it's very, very tough, and so we've
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: become quite passionate about supporting this charity.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: So that was obviously your first choice of if there's
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: going to be a choice of the charity, had to
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: be this one straight away, isn't it.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: You've got to hope that they will find some way
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: of beating this for our children, our children's children, future generations.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, one in two people.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I mean the London Marathon. It just raises billions for charities.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I mean what would these charities do without without the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: London Marathon. I mean I've been a sort of advocate
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: for cancer research for many years and it's just so
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: much time and effort goes in from people that have
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: been touched by cancer. And it's not just people that
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: have you know, survivors. It affects everybody, doesn't it. It just
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: doesn't affect the person that's actually got the disease, it
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: affects all the family, and you've all got a club
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: together and look after each other, and so will was
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: this pretty tough for you watching your granddad?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Did turi eate?
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, He's I've always said that he was the
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: smartest man. I knew he was great at quizzes and
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: but ironic how we did a quiz last week because
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: he probably would have won it himself. He was the
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: fittest man I knew as well. He put me to
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: shame when even when I was thirteen fourteen years old,
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: he was still.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Quicker than me.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: So yeah, it's definitely close to heart. But I think
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: as well, not many people know that not everybody's who
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: is suffering with dementia or Alzheimer's, whatever it may be,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: has the same symptoms. It affects people differently as well,
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: and one in two people are directly affected by it,
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: whether you know they suffered from themselves or a family
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: member and so on. But it's very rarely genetic. And
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: we want to make a difference, you know, in raising
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: some money for a really good charity because in the future,
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, like we said, they want to
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: find a cure, whether that's through blood tests and highlighting
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: that specific gene that people suffer with dementia. So yeah,
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: we really want to make a difference.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Right Okay.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: And the charity itself have they been supportive for this
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: London Marathon journey.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Brilliant, the brilliant.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: It's there's a community out there. We've met some of them.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: They invited us to a training day. We went up
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: to the Olympic Park in January, listen to speeches, really inspiring.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Lady Sue Strachan who's in her seventies and he's running
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: the London Marathon this year. She's been living with vascular dementia.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: It's twenty fourteen and she's a sort of standard bearer
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: for the charity. She up and gave a really emotional speech.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Another guy Stuart Lambee who's run countless marathons. There's a
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: Facebook group they have team coach who's been really helpful,
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: given out of vice on nutrition and training. People share
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: their runs on the group, ask for advice tips. It's
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: just been really lovely to tap into the community.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, brilliant. Okay, we're heading up towards the big day.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I mean how are you feeling, Okaya, Are you just
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: want to get it over with or you really really
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: want to look forward to it and enjoy it every
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: single minute.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: Grew up in Southeast London. We went to watch the
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: very first marathon, and we went every year to watch
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: it and it was such a big event and it
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: still is. It's to be a part of it. I
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: always you stand and think, I wish I could do that,
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: and I am ye moment really, I'm secretly petrified, but
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: I'm just hoping on the day it all come together.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure it will.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I think the hardest thing would probably be the first
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: couple of miles when you're like, you know, you're buzzing,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and then you settle down and get the job done.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: This is a tough one as you've got kind of
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: a different age group. But will you be running together
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: or you're going to do your own thing and and
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: your mum can wait for you at the finish line.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: We quickly found out when we did our long runner
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Mother's Day that I don't believe it's possible for me
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: to run at the same place as mum, But Mum's
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: a trooper. Mum will just keep plodding along for hours
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: and end. I'm a little bit different and you know,
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: my strides are a little bit long, but yeah, I'll
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: be there hopefully waiting at the finish line for you.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Right, We're going off at different times in different.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Waves, are you I was going to there was one
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: of the questions there.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: So basically you say goodbye when you go through the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: first gate and then you're head off in different directions.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Right, it's a battle against ourselves from then on.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we make friends along the route.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: You will do. Yeah, I'm sure you will. Okay, so
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: we are.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: We've been chatting away now for ages. It seems we're
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: slowly running out of time, so it's kind of a
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: time to wind it up now. But we mustn't forget
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: people that have supported you. Apart from all your fundraisers.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, over to you first, Michayla. What about some
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: helloes and some thank you.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: I'd like to say thank you, a big thank you
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: to Ellis, my sports therapist.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: We know Eli, Yeah, we know.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Ellis has come to me weekly over the last few months,
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: kept me going.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Thank my mum.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: She has a lot of hard year helping we club
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: together to care for dad. It's been hard on her
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: support through this. She's put a fair few quid into
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: our pot. Yeah, my daughter who's taken up slack on the.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Dog walks so I can go out and have time
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: to run.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: My wonderful friends Anna, Julie, Beth and Heidi, my work
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: colleagues who've put up with me banging on about this
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: marathon for the last six months.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: And yeah, just there's better to be someone you've forgotten
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and you'll be in trouble. But no, that's like a
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: good role with Horner. What about you, Will, who's been
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: you a running boar at home? Or you know anyone
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: you want to thank for putting.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Up with you.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: Definitely my dad. My dad's you know, put up with
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: all I can playing over the past few months.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: He's put me dinner.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: He's made sure that, you know, my recovery is as
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: best as possible really. But also a massive thank you
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: to everybody that came to our charity fund raising quiz
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: last week. We raised an exceptional, exceptional amount of money
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: and it was so nice to have all of our
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: friends and family in the same place at the same time.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: And you know, finally, a massive thank you to mon
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: because I wouldn't be doing this without you, and you
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: know I wouldn't rather be doing it with anybody else
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: other than yourself.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: So brilliant. Yeah, excellent.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I'll say you the first thing that happens when you
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: cross the line off to your first marathon, as you say,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I'll never again, never doing another one. But once you
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: get over the initial shot, you think, you know what
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: am I just say? If I'll compete that time?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: You know, so be prepared for that. Okay.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: So we want to finish up now with a couple
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: of things. I want, Mikayla, if you could tell us
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: you're just giving page because if there's anybody out there
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: listening and you don't know these two people, but you've
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: been touched by Alzheimer's and you're realizing that just how
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: brave they are. They've never run a marathon before. The
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: first marathon is the London and they're raising money for
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: this special charity, Alzheimer's Research UK. So if you want
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: to donate, how can they donate Michayla.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: They can find us on just Giving. Where will Michayla laugh?
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: Michayla hasn't got any in it, so will and Michayla,
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: M I C h A L A laugh is LU
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: double F search for us.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I'm just giving.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: You'll find our team page. Yeah, any support gratefully and
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: received part felt.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Thanks right, well, I'll put that link up on my page.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: And I just hope that you have a fantastic day.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I want to thank you both for coming in and
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: thank you will and thank you. I think you've been
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: so supportive of your family, especially your mum. And what
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: a stupid idea running America And honestly, who.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Ever thought of that?
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Afterwards?
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's great. Okay.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Now, Mikayla, this is a special song, and so I
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: want you to tell me a little bit about the
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: special song which we're going to play to finish off
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the interview.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: It's a plan in my dad's funeral late November. His
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: funeral was on the eighth of December last year. Thinking
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: about the music, it's a tough one.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: You reflect on the life and think of memories and
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: hark back to our happier times when we were kids
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: in the seventies and eighties. We used to go to
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: quite a lot of school discos. That was our parents entertainment.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: You know, you take along your own food and drink
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: and about in the school hall. They always used to
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: play this song towards the end of the night and
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: my dad would be straight up there Strautney's moves on
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: the dance floor to this song. And this is the
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: song that we played to sort of see Dad out.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: If you like it his funeral, he loved it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Hi hold silver lining. Well we're going to round off
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the show. Massive thank you to Will and MICHAELA for
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: coming in. I'll be up there on the twenty sixth
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: of April at the Cutty Sock and I'll be looking
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: at for those orange tops. So what better way to
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: finish the show than Hi host silver lining and Jeff
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Beck you're everywhere and nowhere baby, that's where you're at.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Go down and Bubby her side.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: So high host silver lining for Will and Mikayla.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: And Peter of course, and what a great song anyway,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: what a lovely, lovely interview that was. As I said before,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Mikayla and Will came in during the week and they
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: couldn't make it today. And it was so nice to
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: see a mother and son jill in for one common
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: cause and how brave are they to run the London
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Marathon together.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Well, they won't quite be together.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: They would be together right up till the first gate
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and then they're on their own. But that's what the
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: marathon's all about, isn't it. And Mickayla made a great quote.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: She said, Oh, I'll probably make friends along the way,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: which is what you do, you do. I've been up
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: in London and you know that people are chatting and
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: they've all got the same goal to get across that line.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Never met each other. You might make friends for life,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: but have a brilliant day and I shall certainly be
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: looking out for you.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: So this is Kevin Day on the Radio Folks and
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: doing the two hour Marathon special. So it's going to
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: be the songs are going to be a little bit
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: run orientated, and I've dug.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Them all out.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: You've heard them all before, but they've got to be played.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And I just absolutely love this one. This is Linda's
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: fun and this is what Mikayla and will be doing.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: They'd be run for home.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: So running with a night there lied or Richie another
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: running song.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: So yeah, this is Kevin Daily and this is the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: first hour of the Radio Folks in two hour Marathon
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Special and we've got a couple of guests coming on
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: in the next hour.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: We've got Leis Staveley and Phil King.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I won't do too much about it now because you
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: know we've just got a well you got a wait.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: I want you to stay tuned in and just stay
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: with us now, Okay. So what I'm going to do
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: now is I'm going to just run through some of
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the members of folkst And Running Club that are actually
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: going up to London. And now I'll be on the coach.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Who's the coach running from Folkston to the London Marathon
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: on Sunday And I'll be on it and we are
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: going to meet well hopefully you meet the runners at
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the cut he sock. So anyway, a little roll of honor.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: First of all, Folks and Running Club runners. These are
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the ones that are running. Some of them are very
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: well established runners, some perhaps just only done one or
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: two marathons. So here we go, Nick Steele, Paul Bartlett,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Torbyn Jesson, James Springett, Catherine O'Connor now Catherine very brave lady.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Last weekend she run the Manchester Marathon and she's doing
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: another marathon this weekend. How good is that. Well, let's
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: see after she's done it. Anyway, good luck to you, Catherine,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Vicky scot. Now we've got Greg Dixon. He's running the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: London for the Aspinall Foundation, as is his friend and
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: running buddy Ron Bell. Now, I was the quiz master
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: at two quizzes for these guys to help them make
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: some money, and they're doing very well. Ron Bell texts
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: me this morning and he said, I'll give us a mention, keV.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: He said, it's my first marathon since twenty fourteen. He's
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: done a lot of half marathons, but I think he's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: feeling a little bit. The old nerves are going jangling
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: a little bit. So good luck to Greg and Ron,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Rebecca Stevenson, Julianne, Sophie O'Callahan. Now interesting, Sophie o'callen is
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: running London on Sunday. Yeah, her husband Ja Jace O'Callahan,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: He run Brighton just a couple of weeks ago. Ivanna
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: and Rob.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Collier and Harry Wall.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Now now some of the other people that are actually
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: doing there for marathon for charity is Chloe westthead she's
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: running for Mary Currie, Laura and Annie Laura are running
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: for the Cardycock Foundation, which is just off the A
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: twenty as you go up to Ashford.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Dan Kelly now then was a guest of My show.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: He ticked all the boxes last year, but he's brave
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: enough to go back and he's doing his second London Marathon,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: so good up to you. Then is running for a
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Royal British Legion. Now a friend of mine, Pete Roster,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: he's doing a thing called Virtual and My Ways. You're
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: basically supposed to do the London Marathon virtually. It's on
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: your own doorstep if you like, you can choose your
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: own route, you can choose your own time. But Pete
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: is running the Virtual and My Way of London Marathon
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: on Sunday. And for the moment, last one is Mick McCauley.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Now Mick McCauley is running for SAPPHAH. Now SAPPA stands
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: for Soldiers, Sailors and Emmon Emmon's Families Association. Now this
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: is a this is I've known Mick a long time.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: He came on the show once years ago with a
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: bunch of so he's taking it on again. But he
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: suffered a collapsed lung and feared a serious diagnosis in
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: preparing for this race. So it's knocked him back a bit,
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  Speaker 1: but he really really is hoping to raise a massive
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  Speaker 1: six thousand pounds, So how good is that?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Mick works up at lim Castle and I must catch
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  Speaker 1: up with him sometime. I often bump into him on Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: as you do. But make all the best and just
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  Speaker 1: take it easy and look out for us at the cuts.
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  Speaker 2: His suck.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Now, all you people out there that are running
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  Speaker 1: the Londons and Marathon are heroes. So what about a
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  Speaker 1: great song from m People search for a hero.
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  Speaker 2: There we go and.
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  Speaker 1: People search for yourself, search for the heroes?
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  Speaker 2: Should I say?
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  Speaker 1: But you're going to be all going to be a
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  Speaker 1: hero when you cross that line, because that's what we're
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  Speaker 1: all about.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Day on Radio Focus and bringing you
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  Speaker 1: and we've slowly coming to the end of our first
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  Speaker 1: hour of the two hour London Marathon Special.
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  Speaker 2: And we've got waiting in the wings.
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  Speaker 1: We've got our two gifts, We've got Phil King and
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  Speaker 1: Lois Bennett. Sorry I did call us Davey, but I've
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  Speaker 1: been told if already that's a good starting here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: these people get married and don't change email addresses and
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  Speaker 1: things like that on a loads of them. But let's
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  Speaker 1: get it right. This is Lois Bennett coming in and
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  Speaker 1: I do know the family. Actually, Oliver's been in before
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  Speaker 1: and Lois's mum and dad one year came up to
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  Speaker 1: the London Marathon with us. So yeah, running in the family,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it all? I can play that in the next hour, right,
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  Speaker 1: So what we're going to do now, We're going to
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  Speaker 1: play out and drift out until the next hour. But
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  Speaker 1: this is a classic song now forever I'm at an event,
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  Speaker 1: I love playing this because it does get people pumping.
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  Speaker 1: This is run to you and Brian Adams and we'll
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  Speaker 1: see you later.