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SUMMER LOUISE AND AMY STIMPSON CHAT ABOUT 5K YOUR WAY AND THE DOVER WATERFRONT PARKRUN · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Okay, this is Kevin Sports Very Daily bringing you the
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  Speaker 1: Folkstone and High Sports Show right here on Radio Folkston.
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  Speaker 2: On today's show, we have two special guests joining me.
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  Speaker 1: We have some of Louise who is a cancer survivor
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  Speaker 1: and started an initiative within the Dover Waterfront Park Run
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  Speaker 1: called five K Your Way and very shortly five K
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  Speaker 1: Your Way will be celebrating their first birthday. And we're
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  Speaker 1: also joined by Amy Stimpson, who is a run director
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  Speaker 1: from the Dover Waterfront Park Run. You have their third
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  Speaker 1: birthday celebrations approaching soon, and Amy will be telling us
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  Speaker 1: what goes on behind the scenes at a park run. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing a bit of research during the week
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  Speaker 1: and I've been doing research about famous music artists who
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  Speaker 1: are cancer survivors, and I've come up with quite a
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  Speaker 1: list actually, So we're going to start the show with
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  Speaker 1: cancer survivor guitarist of the Rolling Stones of Ronnie Wood. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Ronnie beat lung cancer in twenty seventeen and a secondary
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  Speaker 1: lung cancer called small cell camarsinoma in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Ronnie was playing guitar on this nineteen seventy eight track.
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  Speaker 1: So sit back and listen. To Miss You via the
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  Speaker 1: Rolling Stones.
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  Speaker 2: There we go from nineteen seventy eight.
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  Speaker 1: They're the Rolling Stones and Miss You and you might
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  Speaker 1: have covered by now that the theme is going to
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  Speaker 1: be I've picked out some songs and it's surprising actually
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  Speaker 1: about cancer survivors. And we were just saying off air
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  Speaker 1: that cancer doesn't discriminate whether you're rich, famous, or what.
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  Speaker 2: You can still get it.
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  Speaker 1: But this morning it's on a lighter note the fact
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  Speaker 1: that we've got some great songs in the playlist and
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  Speaker 1: they are cancer survivors. So let's not to hang about.
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  Speaker 1: Let's to introduce our guests to take it today. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to to talk to some of Luis Hello, somehow
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  Speaker 1: are you? Hello?
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  Speaker 3: And good?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, brilliant and so good for you to come out.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it's been a year since it must
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  Speaker 1: be almost to the day that you were back in.
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  Speaker 2: And also you want to introduce Amy Stimpson. Hello, Amy,
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  Speaker 2: you're okay, good afternoon. I'm okay, good good.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got two special birthdays coming up, so we're
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  Speaker 1: going to try and to keep it sort of a
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  Speaker 1: happy and birthday mode. So I think we'll start with
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  Speaker 1: you a summer. So some you don't mind us talking
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  Speaker 1: about the fact you're a cancer survivor.
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  Speaker 3: Not as all.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So let's take us back to those days when, if
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  Speaker 1: you like you were diagnosed, to sort of give us
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  Speaker 1: a little rundown of of how it affected you, the
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  Speaker 1: family and what the next you know, the future brought
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  Speaker 1: for you at the time, treatments, etc.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course I was eighteen at the time, and
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  Speaker 4: like you say, it doesn't discriminate, and it's not until
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  Speaker 4: it really hits home where you realize that that's the
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  Speaker 4: fact and exactly that. It was just devastating, shocking. If anything,
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  Speaker 4: I was so adamant it wasn't cancer. I never even
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  Speaker 4: considered cancer as the option of why I was so ill.
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  Speaker 4: I had acutelym for blastic.
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  Speaker 3: Leukemia right right, So I was.
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  Speaker 4: Covered in breezes, really tired, yellowing, and if anything, I
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  Speaker 4: thought maybe iron was the problem.
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  Speaker 1: But did someone else spot it? I mean, you must
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  Speaker 1: have been feeling lower and the rest of it. But
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  Speaker 1: as you thought, now you know, I'll be right next week.
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  Speaker 1: Did some almost say you've got to go to the doctor?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, my nan. Actually I visited her and I remember
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  Speaker 4: her saying, you really need to get that blood test,
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  Speaker 4: and I did and twenty four hours later I was
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  Speaker 4: diagnosed with cancer.
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  Speaker 2: So there was no time lost the tool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, right, okay, So the journey was it was
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  Speaker 1: it painful you was up in the hospital in London,
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  Speaker 1: or just just to the next little phase.
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  Speaker 2: We don't we don't want to talk about all the
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  Speaker 2: doom and gloom.
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  Speaker 1: I think people should understand, you know, just just what
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  Speaker 1: a cancer pation goes through.
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  Speaker 4: So for me, I was in hospital a lot. For
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  Speaker 4: the first year and a half. I had two and
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  Speaker 4: a half years a chemo, and that first year and
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  Speaker 4: a half I was in pretty much all the time.
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  Speaker 4: I had neutropene acceptsis seven times, many infections, and most
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  Speaker 4: of the time when I was in hospital it was
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  Speaker 4: either chemo or the fact I had an infection of
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  Speaker 4: some sort, because that's not a known thing either. You
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  Speaker 4: can be in hospital, but it's not necessarily because of
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  Speaker 4: the cancer or the treatment. You're so unwell that everything
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  Speaker 4: else takes over as well. But as soon as that
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  Speaker 4: year and a half kind of went, I was able
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  Speaker 4: to be at home or have medication at home, and
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  Speaker 4: then it went into monthly chemo from there, so it
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  Speaker 4: got a bit easier after after that first year and
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  Speaker 4: a bit.
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  Speaker 2: And what's the current situation. You've got the all clear?
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  Speaker 2: I mean you have check ups every six months yearly
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  Speaker 2: or so.
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  Speaker 4: I am still three monthly up until January and pleased
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  Speaker 4: to say I'm going to be discharged in January. And
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  Speaker 4: yesterday I celebrated being seven years cancer free.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, seven years. That's brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent, Okay, we that switch to Amy now, so
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  Speaker 1: Amy now? Then you know it seems I remember you
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  Speaker 1: came in just the first year, you started doing the
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  Speaker 1: part round when we were down in the other studio,
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  Speaker 1: and you came in last year, so you start with
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  Speaker 1: the journey three years.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where to start really, tell us, let's
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  Speaker 2: just go back to the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bit a bit like some of there. What
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  Speaker 1: made you think about a park running over?
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  Speaker 3: So at the time, I was part of Dover road Runners, right,
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  Speaker 3: and there was just talk about wouldn't it be great
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  Speaker 3: if we had one. In the past, people had approached
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  Speaker 3: it was called over harbor board back then, and there
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  Speaker 3: was lots of hurdles for them to cross and they
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  Speaker 3: it never it never got going.
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  Speaker 2: So you picked up the mentor and said, oh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to do this.
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  Speaker 3: I did. They said who can get a park run?
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  Speaker 3: And my name was floated around and here we are.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So so you had a few hurdles. You obviously overcome
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  Speaker 1: them because you're still with us now. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: was it like was it admin or was it like
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  Speaker 1: getting permissions or was it insurances or stuff like that everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so a lot of people don't know, but the
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  Speaker 3: seafront on Dover is private property. It's owned by Port
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  Speaker 3: of Dover. There's a very small section that's owned by
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  Speaker 3: the council and that's up by the ferry Port. Lots
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  Speaker 3: of red tape. You know, we are the busiest port
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  Speaker 3: in Europe?
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  Speaker 4: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 3: So you know there's always security risks and then when
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  Speaker 3: you've got hundreds of people down there, that comes with
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  Speaker 3: its added problems as well.
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  Speaker 2: So was it was it ever? It probably wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: But was it ever suggested that there should be another
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  Speaker 1: venue before you started going through these these hurdles.
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  Speaker 3: I never even considered another venue.
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  Speaker 2: She went straight straight for the jug.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. We went fast and flat as well as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's turned out to be a fantastic venue. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the very I remember the very first day
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  Speaker 1: it opened, and I can remember the lady winner Joe Daniels.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I can't remember when who won the first one?
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  Speaker 1: Can you remember put you on the spot there before
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  Speaker 1: the show goes it goes out, you can check your results.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I remember Joe Daniels winning it, you know, because the ladies, Yeah, yeah, Joseph, jo.
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  Speaker 2: Hannah, Yeah, that's it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But on that first day, did you did you think, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: one's going to turn out or was it really worried.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's really funny and things have changed in three
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  Speaker 3: years now, but at the time you have to do
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  Speaker 3: like a soft launch, so you're not allowed to let
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  Speaker 3: many people know, and the people that you do tell
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  Speaker 3: you hope that they haven't spread the word too far.
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  Speaker 3: But now there's Facebook groups, you know, they encourage bigger
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  Speaker 3: numbers of their first one. But I just remember having
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  Speaker 3: no sleep the night before, very bad anxiety. So I'm pleased.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really pleased. I think we had about one hundred
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  Speaker 3: odd people. Yeah, and it was really lovely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there was one outstanding day where you had
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  Speaker 1: an absolutely record number.
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  Speaker 2: Can you remember that for d Runs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so for D Runs contacted us prior to them
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  Speaker 3: just turning up with their two coach loads, which was
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  Speaker 3: amazing the support that they gave. They offered volunteers because
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  Speaker 3: obviously we can't run the event without volunteers, and so
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  Speaker 3: they provide I did volunteers for us. They all stayed,
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  Speaker 3: They all stayed till the very last runner, and the
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  Speaker 3: atmosphere was just absolutely electric. It was like you were
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  Speaker 3: at a race, an actual organized race, not a park
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  Speaker 3: ground was.
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  Speaker 2: Run director that day.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I were well, I mean there's highs and lows,
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  Speaker 1: isn't there, But you've forgot all about all the trials
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  Speaker 1: and tribulations and just had a great day that day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I write someone now I am coming back to
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  Speaker 1: you now. I mean, music is a very important part
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  Speaker 1: of most people's lives. But you have slipped now and then.
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  Speaker 1: But you did a bit singing in your time.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I did when I was a lot younger.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, we won't ask you to burst into song
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  Speaker 1: this morning, but so we're going to play our first
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  Speaker 1: song of the afternoon. But this is something a little
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  Speaker 1: special for you, isn't it. Tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about this song and what it means to you.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, the film came out while I was on treatment
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  Speaker 4: and I remember hearing this song for the first time
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  Speaker 4: and it gave me that push that I needed and
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  Speaker 4: it helped me remember that I am doing enough and
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  Speaker 4: I am strong. And then I got the opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: sing with Click Sergeant and sing that song, which was incredible.
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  Speaker 4: And now I have the honor of my daughter Kelly
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  Speaker 4: watching that video and she and she's saying, that's mummy song,
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  Speaker 4: which brings me the most pride and joy. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: thank you for playing this today. It's going to be amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think I think you better introduce it because
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  Speaker 1: it's all lined up ready to go, So just tell
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  Speaker 1: our listeners what it is.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, yes, it's this is Me from the Greatest Showman.
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  Speaker 2: I Am not a stranger to the dark.
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  Speaker 1: They say, they go, that's a song that inspired some
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  Speaker 1: are while she was undergoing treatment for cancer.
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  Speaker 2: And so getting back to you, Summers.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, I know we've discussed this before, but
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't only affect the person who's got cancer. It
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  Speaker 1: affects friends, family, isn't it. I mean, how are your family.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a silly question to ask, but I
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  Speaker 1: do need to sort of tell the listeners that what
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  Speaker 1: goes on when somebody of some member of the family
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  Speaker 1: gets cancer, So who read it round?
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  Speaker 4: It's not a silly question at all, and it was
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  Speaker 4: a point that really does need to be made a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people rightfully, so go straight to the person
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  Speaker 4: with cancer. But it is those around you, And for me,
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  Speaker 4: my mum and dad were buying my side every single
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  Speaker 4: day for those two and a half years, and it's
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  Speaker 4: it's devastating because for me, I feel some sort of
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  Speaker 4: in control because I can decide when to take the
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  Speaker 4: tablets if I feel well enough to do it. They
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  Speaker 4: just have to sit there and watch you. And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I watched my parents' break and I know they won't
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  Speaker 4: Mummy saying it because it is. It's so so tough,
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  Speaker 4: and I felt, really I felt awful for it because
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  Speaker 4: I just thought looked right. And again, it wasn't my
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  Speaker 4: fault either, but I felt like I'd just broken the
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  Speaker 4: family just by by getting diagnosed.
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  Speaker 1: You almost felt guilty, yeah, and I still do.
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  Speaker 4: It's really really tough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's glad that you've come out the other side,
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  Speaker 1: and you know that's what mums and dads are for,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest, And now you're a mum yourself, you
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  Speaker 1: can see, you know, see their mindset, can't you.
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  Speaker 4: I would not have done it without them, good days
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  Speaker 4: or bad, they were there no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So you slowly got better.
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  Speaker 1: And I suppose there's always that threat, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: you slowly improved and you got back to normal life.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, is there a day goes by where you
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  Speaker 1: don't think about it?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it never goes away. I am forever affected. I
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  Speaker 4: have a disability now that's life long because of it,
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  Speaker 4: my mobility is affected. So it is a part of
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  Speaker 4: my everyday life and the scare of it coming back
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  Speaker 4: never goes And I know that's not nice for the
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  Speaker 4: listeners to hear, but in.
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  Speaker 2: Fact we've got to face up to it. Yeah, in
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  Speaker 2: your head in the sand.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can remember I might have said this
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  Speaker 1: last time because kind of things are coming back. There
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  Speaker 1: used to have been an event over her in Bay.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even remember what it was cool, but basically
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  Speaker 1: it was the opposite of Race for Life, When Race
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  Speaker 1: for Life was all ladies.
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  Speaker 2: This man on the run, that was it.
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  Speaker 1: It was for all all male runners and they used
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  Speaker 1: to get young football teams and.
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  Speaker 2: You know some of them were just entered.
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  Speaker 1: It could ever laugh, but we had to give this
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  Speaker 1: this message out to men as well that you know,
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  Speaker 1: listen to your body, have a little feel of your testicles.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be frightened to because you know it could lead
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  Speaker 1: to something and you could sort of nip it in
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  Speaker 1: the bud before it's too late. So right, you're getting
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  Speaker 1: back to normal life, and I expect your life is
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  Speaker 1: changing for the more positive things. So you probably think
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about five K your way now,
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  Speaker 1: so you're probably thinking about something to do, something to
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  Speaker 1: give back.
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  Speaker 2: So was that hair five K you always started?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely? For years, I was looking at a way to
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  Speaker 4: give back to the community. Where I was in London,
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  Speaker 4: I was treated as a young teen, where locally I
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  Speaker 4: was an adult. So I was eighteen and I'd be
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  Speaker 4: around people who were a lot older than me, and
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  Speaker 4: that was where it kind of stemmed from and giving
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  Speaker 4: back to the cancer community. And I just wanted a
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  Speaker 4: place where no matter how old or young you were,
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  Speaker 4: whether you had cancer or someone you knew had it,
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted that safe space. So that's kind of
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  Speaker 4: where it stemmed from. And then me meeting the lovely
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  Speaker 4: Amy and yeah, things kind of came together really nicely.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, so switching to you, Amy, I mean, what
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  Speaker 1: happened when Summer came to you and.
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  Speaker 2: Said about five k your way?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously it's been a positive move all round, but did
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  Speaker 1: that prove any difficulties with I don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like risk assessments and stuff like that, insurances, you know,
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  Speaker 1: permissions or did it just again slotted nicely?
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  Speaker 3: It's actually something I'd never heard of, but I do
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  Speaker 3: know they've got They had one locally in Warmer and deal,
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's right. And then the main one is that
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  Speaker 3: Labourn Lakes. Yes, it's just kind of north from us.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, some approached me. I didn't really have anything
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  Speaker 3: to do. It was all summer. She just said can
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  Speaker 3: we do this? And I said fabulous, Yeah, go for it.
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  Speaker 3: What some have found the most challenging, I think is
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  Speaker 3: finding the ambassadors, because you need a certain amount of support,
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  Speaker 3: as you do for all these things, and also the fundraising.
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  Speaker 3: And we were just talking earlier about how like this
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  Speaker 3: time last year someone was saying we need to raise
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  Speaker 3: x amount of money. But the community came together and
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  Speaker 3: with Summer and the team here we are a year on.
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  Speaker 2: Year on yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so let's switch our attentions back to your
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  Speaker 1: part run and the waterfront.
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  Speaker 2: Are they supportive?
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  Speaker 1: They obviously must be after three years, but you must
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  Speaker 1: have issues when it's like a bad summer holiday weekend
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  Speaker 1: which has recently happened, and the traffic and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the poor old people from Dover can't get down.
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  Speaker 2: How many times a year do you expect that to happen?
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what? This year, touch Wood, the traffic
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  Speaker 3: has been okay. I've put tap the team, you know,
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  Speaker 3: our core volunteers, and I say, listen, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be busy. Walk down if you can. I message Summer
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  Speaker 3: and say, we're not sure what the traffic's doing. Plan carefully.
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  Speaker 3: We put Facebook posts out asking people to maybe not
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  Speaker 3: talk to us if they don't want to get stuck,
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  Speaker 3: but touch with this year we've been okay. It's usually
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  Speaker 3: the Easter holiday that catches us out.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And that's because I suppose it's shorter and people like
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  Speaker 3: to travel for the full two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, your tourists, now you're on a port and we
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  Speaker 1: do get cruise ships in and I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: anybody's ever got for cruise ship and don your run.
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  Speaker 2: They they don't tell you.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps see Yeah, not that I'm love, but I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: But the most that we get recently are people traveling
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  Speaker 3: from across the country to get on our ferries to
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  Speaker 3: go over to Calais and they're getting in a part
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: run before they leave.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Go yeah, yeah, you know, I remember that is your
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: last birthday. I went along and there was a family
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: from Holland or somewhere to just did apart run. They said,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: we've got to go and now we've got to get
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: a ferry. Yeah that's a great touch, isn't it. But
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: for anyone that hasn't done the Dover Waterfront part run,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: get over there because it is iconic actually, and I
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: get I mean, I've been over there a few times,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: so I've been chatting to people first time as tourists
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: and just as you as you start and you go
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: around the sort of bend of the seafront there and
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: you hit the fairies and you can see the castle
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: and you realize you're running.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: You're the closest ones to France, aren't you?
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: We're the closest ones to Calais.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: To Calais, yes, yeah, yeah, so it's very distinctive. Okay,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: so we're getting up to your third birthday. Do you
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: still get extra people coming along or is it a
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: tourist venue that you get you get loads and loads
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: of people drifting and out.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: You still get your regulars.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we still get the local cane, which is fabulous.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: You know, we've got lots of running clubs starting up
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: and over now and so that's really great. We've got
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: more andmore volunteers coming forward, which I just I can't
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: ask more than that, because of some days it's an
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: absolute struggle to get the roster field. But for the
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: last I think three or four weeks, we haven't even
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: had to put please out, so you know that is
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: I just thank everybody so much for helping us in
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: that In that way.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Do you think the message is finally getting through? You
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: know that people want to run is free, but someone's
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: got to do some work, haven't they? And I must
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: admit I've been to been to several part rounds several
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: times and seeing people and I think I've never seen
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: you volunteering, you know.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: No, And it used to really upset me. But then
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: you've got to change your mindset. So some people only
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: get half an hour on a Saturday because they're dealing
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: with parents that they're after, children that they're looking after,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: and you know, and if they want to come down
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: and be supported and run and just have half an
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: hour where they're not thinking about their normal life, then
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: you know, let's leave them to enjoy that. But if
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: you can volunteer and you've got a spare hour on
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: a Saturday morning, please just help your local park run
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: because it's absolute gold to us.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: It's a great message.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Okay, So we're going to switch our attention
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: back to music now. And we've said this so many
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: times on the show that music is so important in
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: people's lives.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: When you're growing.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Up and your first boyfriend, girlfriend in holiday and sadly
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: a funeral song that does stick in your mind. The
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: highs and loads of music if you like. But on
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: the high side, though, you've got a lovely little song
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: lined up revenue that we're going to play, So tell
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: us a little story about your song.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: So when I was growing up, we did have expensive
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: holidays and we just packed up the car and went
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: camping and it was my mum, my brother, my auntie
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: and my uncle, and I would just always remember the
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: evening entertainment at these little campsites, you know, being with
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: my family. And it's your family that molds what you
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: become as adults. So you know, you've just got to
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: you've just got to cherish those moments.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So go on and introduce it.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: This is Crocodile Rock by Elton John.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: I remember when Raa.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: So Crocodile Rock there from nineteen seventy two, and Amy's
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: reliving her youth here, she's bouncing up and down and
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: sit back in the chair. Amy, for goodness, she thinks
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: she's like a teenager. Right, Okay, so we're going to
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: switch back to summer. And now the reason, one of
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the big reasons we're here is to talk about five
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: K your Way. So you've decided you wanted to give
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: something back to the community, and five K your Way
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: popped up. Now, I remember the very first time you
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: ran it a whole year ago, so let's sort of
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: recap that this last year. We're doing the first birthday
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: on the twenty ninth of August.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Has that journey been It has been a journey.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: As Amy was saying earlier, the first journey was to
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: get ambassadors and like the regular volunteers that you rely
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: on for Park Run. It's quite the feat because rather
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: than having different volunteers every time, I have the same
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: team on the last sasday every month, which is amazing.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: But yeah, getting there was very, very difficult, and we
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: also had to raise one thousand pound. So yeah, the
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: last time I was here, I was asking for donations
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: and help and I'm so so pleased to say that
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: the community raised five hundred pound. The Ported Dover donated
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: five hundred pound and then Ashford Try Club also donated
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: five hundred pounds, so it meant we got on our
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: feet and had clothes for everyone, so excellent. Yeah, it
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: was amazing.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: So if someone's tuning into this and thinks five K
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Your Way what all about?
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: So well, So five K Your Way is a support
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: group for anyone living with and beyond cancer. They're families
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: and friends and for those working in cancer services. We're
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: a community is how I like to say it. We're
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: there on the last essay of every month, whether you're
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: there to meet new people in chat or just get
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: out for for a little bit, we're there for you
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: no matter what.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: And I remember the first one and we went and
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: out of coffee and there's lots of people there and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the swapping stories, and do you think people have made
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: new friends through this and it's opened up and felt
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: better about talking about it.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: I'd like to hope. So I would love to say yes.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: We have had people come back and back again. We've
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: had people on treatment, past treatment, they've known people with cancer,
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: and it has been, like you say, just listening to
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: everyone has been really heartwarming and hopefully we are there
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: for them in the right reason. So yeah, I hope.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: So it's a great idea because I mean, Part one
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: is just so good for people's mental health, as they
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: call it these days, people so look forward to it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: For some people it's the very highlight of their life.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: In fact, there was a quote I saw on social
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: media that if they missed their part round, it's a
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: horrible thought.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: They've got to wait another whole week before there's another one.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: The five K your Way.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I found it even just that very first one that
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: there was runners that I had met there, I was
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: talking to a crowd and.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I can't remember where they were from.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I think they came down from Medway and they all
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: wanted to tell me about people they knew that had cancer,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: or people themselves and the journey they'd made.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: So you've done a great thing. You've brought people together.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And I suppose you can feel isolated if you've got cancer,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: and perhaps initially you don't want to talk about it,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: but by talking about it it helps you and other people.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: And of course it just doesn't We've said this before.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: It just doesn't affect you. It affects your mum, your dad,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: your brothers, your sisters, your friends, all sorts of people.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: So what you've done somehow is great for the community.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: You've got them all back and sort of you know,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: just facing up to it that it can happen to anybody.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Thank you, So Amy, Okay, we're talk about park run
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: now generally. So yeah, now there is an eight of
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Z of park Run.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: She's just going to get little notes out there that
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: there's an eight said of park run.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: People try to run ava Ashford right down to Z
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: for Zudu Kirk is it?
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: What's the one who built him? Something like that?
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: I done one in Poland?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh there's a yeah, did.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: You really don't ask me to say it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: No, but you took or your own a little challenge
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: which is nice to run a park run with the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: letters of your name. So tell us where did you
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: go in your travels? How long did it take him?
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: When you thing with park round, you don't have to
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: sit a time limit. You can just do it as and.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: When you can. So I've been part running now since
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: twenty fourteen, but it's only recently when Dover started that
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: I do them like every week and if I plan
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: a holiday, I try and get a park right yeah,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: and my app isn't loading, so I can roughly tell
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: you Ashford, Margate, Margate, Yeah, y Promenade why which is Whales, Yes,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: in the Beacons beautiful, sitting born.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Sitting born for s T T.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Was the Lees in the is Yeah, I was I
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: field Mill Pond which is cruelly another.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Another did you do another one?
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Another?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: You have to to get the challenge. You have to
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Medway made Stone.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: S so Phoenix. You can't sell name now.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: I've even got it in front of me.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: He would have been Pegwell at the moment you're quite local,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: aren't you.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Then another s would have been I said sitting
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Oh sean Woods, sean Wood, Yeah, I was Orpington, Kent
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: again Yeah, and n was Oh it was one in
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Redding area. Oh, I've done Netley Abby, which is down
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: in the New Forest.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, obviously on holiday down there. Yes, right, so
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: there you go.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: So that's that journey is you are? You left Kent there?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I said, we go to Wales and go to the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: New Forest.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Great, So I have done. I've completed the alphabet since
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: we last spoke. Oh have you yes, don't.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Ask me to know.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Oh dear, well, it's a good job.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: You probably know this lady, but I always have trouble
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: spelling shouting out her name and she comes in and
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: for about six or seven races, I didn't get it right.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I've phonally mastered it. Is Ola z Ziblowska. Yeah there is,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: she's got. She normally comes over and says, oh, you've
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: done it right, you're getting better. But last week a
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: deal she come over, give me a big sweaty hug.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: So you got it right, you got it right.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: So Allah is from the town where i'd got my
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: z park run. Oh is it yes?
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah?
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Great? I wonder she's got done it time. Yeah right, okay,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: so let's have a my word.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Look at I can't believe I'm never going to get
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: all these songs in about cancer survivors. But the next
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: one is a Carly Simon. Now, Carlie Simon is currently
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: as she's surviving Parkinson's and a thing called basil sail
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: carcinoma which has affected her face. But she's still out
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: there singing. So let's have a little listen to carl Simon.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: You're so vain, you are to the party like you.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: So well.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I was going to fade this out, but the girls
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: will come alive now.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: And I love this song.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: It's from nineteen seventy two, Curly Simon, and I must
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: admit this was a song that seventy two. Yeah, I
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: was just in my twenties then, and I do remember
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: this one, and I do believe we weren't listening closely
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: to it, but there was a Mick Jagger.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: I reckon Mick Jagger's on this song.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: If you go home and listen to this, you'll find
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: that it's nasally sounds of Mick Jagger on this song. Okay,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: so we're going to fade that one out very slightly
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: as we've got so much to get through. But we
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: want to talk about the actual course of the Dover
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Waterfront part run will come to you Amy.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: So you've done a selection of park runs.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Some of them are tough, some of them are You
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: go around his circles all day long. But what described
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: to our listeners who've never been to the Dover Waterfront
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: park run just what the course is like.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: So our course is very flat. I would probably argue
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: that it's one of the quickest in our area. We're
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: the only one in England that runs along a pier
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: and you just get spectacular views of France, the castle,
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: all the history that just surrounds Over. It's just beautiful.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: And it's not exactly altitude, is it? It's about ten
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: foot above sea level depending with the tide, is isn't there?
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: I always have a joke, and I do the first
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: time as briefing that if you end up up the castle,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: you've gone too far because there's no hills and.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Some of There's one point you wanted to bring up
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: that there are certain restrictions in the park round. But
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: there's something that you want to make people aware of,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: isn't it?
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Yes? And there's a reason that I traveled to Dover
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: and picked Dover for our five k away. Not only
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: is it flat, but is accessible, so we have seen
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: w amputees wheelchairs. Amy earlier was talking about that if
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: you are in a mobility scooter and need to as
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: long as you tell the team you can. We've got
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: guide runners and blind runners every single week. It's so accessible,
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: so friendly. I have a disability myself and have to
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: walk when I can. And this is what five k
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: are weighs about. So whether you do the one K,
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: two K or the four five k, they are so
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: welcoming at Dover and yeah, it's amazing.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Excellent, right, so I just want to do this Amy.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I mean you've been run director for Dover for since
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: day one, but when was a lot of time you
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: actually run it.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Oh, I've run a few of them recently. Yes, because
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: people are volunteering.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're getting a not a hardcore, but are
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: more a select not select. You can just get more
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: run directors come along.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we get more volunteers come along.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: So the run director team, they're amazing and we do
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: a couple of months one a month, you know, depending
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: who's around and who's on holiday and things, but just
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: people volunteering enables us to run because we all love
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: running as well.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's right, Yeah, yeah, I can see that. Yeah great.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Right, So we've got a little song coming up, and
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I think you can talk about this one. Now we're
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: talked about music and the people liking songs. This one
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: is from nineteen seventy one and it's from another cancer survivor,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: this gentleman big prostate cancer in twenty sixteen, and well
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: she must be the oldest rocker in the world at
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the moment. So you know what's coming up somewhere. You
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: tell us what's this song and what it means to
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: you and your other off.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: I'm sure Sean won't mind this. But my partner, Sean,
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: who is the most amazing supportive person, grew up listening
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: to Rod Stuart with his dad and still will throw
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: a Rod Stewart album out here and there, so so yeah,
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: thank you for including this today. He'll love it.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: So there we go, Here we go. This is Rod
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Stewart and Maggie May. This is where it all started
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: for Rod Stuart.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Why God, mag thank God. Well there we going.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Nineteen seventy one. Do you remember his haircut. Everyone had
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: a haircut like that, didn't they, Well I didn't. Mine
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: was one was more like Mungo Jerry. It was like
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: a big black cotton wall bud on your head, all right.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: So that was Rodster and Meg and that's for sure.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: And then all the chock goes down at your tunnel
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and I hope you're listening in, guys, and I feel
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: your pain.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: In the last few months has been so hot.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I used to work down in the freight department and
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: people used to think I was a special agent. When
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I said like things like oh MC four and PTB
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: and places like that, they wondered, like, don't talk about
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: it anyway. Go So good luck to you guys there
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: on your next train. Don't be late for the train.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: You will be in trouble, all right. So it's getting
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: near to the end of our chat time. I want
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: to play another couple of songs if I can, but
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: I think it's thank you time now, and so we
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: start with you, Amy. So you've got you must have.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Your number of volunteers has grown recently. But volunteers are
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: so important. But I'm sure there's other people that you
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: want to thank. So where you go.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Thank you. So Max, Max is my co my co
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: event director.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well Max has been in here actually and he
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: had his I've bea Troy Flon head on the year
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: or so back.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so sorry, so Max Rerensley.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So we're the two that sought out all the
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: problems in the background that no one needs to know about.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: And then we've got Angela, id Darren and Emma. They're
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: the run directors and without them we simply wouldn't have
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: a park run. Run director is such an easy role.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: I think people get a bit worried by having to
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: submit results and you know, kind of be in charge
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: of the morning. But we are all one big team.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: A problem shared is a problem halved. So if you'd
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: like some more responsibility at part run or just to
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: be involved a little bit more, again, doesn't have to
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: be bit dover, just go and speak to your local
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: team and they can let you know how to get involved.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: And then I've got Debbie and Ali. They're the volunteer coordinators.
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  Speaker 3: So they're the ones that when you email in or
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: message us, they're the ones that add you to the roster.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: It's a long task for them that lasts all week,
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: so from Monday right through to the next Sunday. They
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: are filling in the rosters, they're chatting to people, you know,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: they're doing that. They're also the ones that hand out
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: the volunteer vests on the morning. And then we've got
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: the core team and these are the originals that when
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: I very first started, said yep, we'll help you. And
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: that's Jackie, Mark, Sally, John, Jodi, Lee, Nicola and Stuart.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: They will always help when we need them. But again
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: they like to run too, so it's really nice that
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: we're just really sharing the load load out these days.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: And then of course my Jared, he didn't want to help,
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: but he has to. He's there by, he's there by default.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: So you know, yeah, just thank you to everybody. Thank
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: you to those that do come and volunteer when they can.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Thank you to the runners. Without the runners, we wouldn't
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: have a part run.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: And remind us when your third birthday is.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: It is going to be on the twelfth September, right.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: So there you go, date for your diary.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: If you can't make it beforehand, get down to your
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Dover Waterfront and Park run on the twelfth of September.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: I will be there and looking out for you.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I'll be taking names and addresses and I know where
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: you live and that sort of thing. So right, okay,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: in this summer, you've got your big event coming up,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: so you've had a journey of over a year and
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: your turn to say thank you and things like that.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: Yes, So Amy, who sat across from me right now,
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: you Kevin for going to every single event of ours.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: We really appreciate it. Anyone who donated and helped with
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: that five hundred pound and of course our sponsors, support
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: of Dover and Ashford Try Club. Ashford Try Club come
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: to so many of our events and I am incredibly
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: grateful for their love and support throughout this past year.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: Specially Donners could not do it without him. He's like
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: a big emotional support person for me at the moment.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: So he is fantastic my ambassadors. So I've got Sean Donners, Ian, Amy,
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: My Sean, I've got Nathaniel, Lily. There's there's a core
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: team there and I just could not do it without them.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: They take some of the spots of the volunteers on
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: the last sessday of every month. Friends. Family, But really,
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: and he'll probably hate me for this, but my partner
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Sean and my lovely daughter Kelly. Yeah, they're there for me.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, brilliant.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, thank you so much for coming in. It's
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: been a great journey. As I said, to keep using
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: that word journey, but there's what it's been. It's been
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: a lovely journey. And so your five k your way.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: When is your birthday?
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: It's Saturday, the twenty ninth of August.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Right, thank you, thank you, Amy, thank you so much,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: thank you, Summer.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Right, So we're going to play this year.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: We're just going to get a well, to be honest,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: just about a minute of this song because we've been talking.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: These women could talk for England.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Really, I don't know how I'll get a word in
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: on the microphone when I go to their events. This
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: is Anastasia left outside alone because we want to play this.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: She's our survivor. She beat breast cancer in two thousand
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: and three and secondary breast cancer twenty thirteen, underwent a
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: double mastectomy, but she's still out there. Ain't going to
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: say it's been a technical problem and the STAGEA didn't play,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: so we're going to play Cheryl Crow instead. Cheryl Crow.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: She beat breast cancer in two thousand and six. Okay,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: as Ryl Clode plays us out. It's been a great,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: great day today. I'm done now till Saturday when Adi
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: and I are joined by three members of the folks
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: in Rugby Club Ladies section in the studio. We will
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: welcome Ladies Captain Shelley Osborne, a players, also referee Isy
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Cole and Liam the coach. So tune in on Saturday
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: is going to be green and white wherever we go.