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LISTEN BACK TO ME CHATTING WITH AMY BUMSTEAD ABOUT FOLKESTONE OPTIMISTS AND THE RHINO PLUS AN INTERVIEW WITH CF SUFFERER BETH WOOD · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports her daily here on one O
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  Speaker 1: five point nine Radio Folkston with the Folkston and Hive
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  Speaker 1: Sports Show. On today's show we have a local football,
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  Speaker 1: a rugby, netball and wheelchair basketball as if we can
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  Speaker 1: squeeze them all in. And our special guest is Amy Bumstead,
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  Speaker 1: who will have two hats on today. One we will
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  Speaker 1: be talking about her Folkston Optimist Hockey Club and then
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  Speaker 1: the other hat she will be wearing is one for
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  Speaker 1: the Aspinall Foundation where she's part of the fundraising team
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  Speaker 1: ahead of Sunday's five k Eastern Rhino Run, the course
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  Speaker 1: taking you around the grounds of the Wild Animal Park
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  Speaker 1: before it's open to the public. And also on the show,
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  Speaker 1: I shall be playing out an interview with the cystic
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  Speaker 1: fibrosis sufferer Beth Wood who's going to run ten marathons,
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  Speaker 1: her tenth one being in London. And I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: what you don't want to miss this what this brave
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  Speaker 1: lady is putting herself through to raise money for a
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  Speaker 1: cystic fibrocis charity. So this song, the first song is
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  Speaker 1: going out to Henry Akson and Amy Owen, both members
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  Speaker 1: of the Folks Then a running club. They are both
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  Speaker 1: very keen runners and they're getting married on Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 1: all looking for something dumb to do.
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  Speaker 2: And then go on and marry you. Is it this
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  Speaker 2: dancing juice?
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  Speaker 1: As Bruno mar there, I think I want to marry you.
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  Speaker 1: And that was for Henry Axson and Amy O, you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting married on Sunday. And I'll be telling you a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about the park run. Hopefully we're going to
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  Speaker 1: have a wedding style park run on Saturday and you're
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to that. So now then we got to
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  Speaker 1: a lovely guesting today and I want to welcome Amy
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  Speaker 1: Bumpstain from the hockey Club.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Amy, how are you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm good care how are you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Excellent, lovely to see you.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a while, but because I mean, it's that
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  Speaker 1: you're so busy and the hockey club is so busy,
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  Speaker 1: but so it's really nice to pin you down. So
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  Speaker 1: but we're also going to talk about know you've changed roles.
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  Speaker 1: Now your what's your other what's your day job? If
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  Speaker 1: you like so?
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  Speaker 4: I now work for the Aspinal Foundation based over at
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  Speaker 4: Portland Wild Animal Park, working for the fundraising team that
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  Speaker 4: deal with all the overseas projects that we run.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but you're doubling up today because we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk also about the runner how it's the five K
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  Speaker 1: Easter rhino Rhino runers. That's right, that's what they call,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it yet?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Five K Rhino run Yeah, happening this Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you what. Every time I go over there,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get told off. It's not a zoo, it's a
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  Speaker 1: World animal park.
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  Speaker 4: No, yeah, we're quite specifically yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, so I'll have to remember that on Sunday. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about the hockey club.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're the communication officer, and first of all, I've
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  Speaker 1: got to say you do an absolutely sterling job to
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  Speaker 1: get all those scores and reports in my inbox by Monday.
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  Speaker 1: So how are things generally down the hockey club? It
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  Speaker 1: always seems thriving, got so many things. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what's the buzz down there and the out lot like
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  Speaker 1: at the moment.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been a really good season. Obviously, every year
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  Speaker 4: the club gets bigger. We've always got new players joining,
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  Speaker 4: new juniors, new joined juniors joining. So yeah, the atmosphere
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  Speaker 4: is great. We're such a wonderful welcoming club that once
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  Speaker 4: people are in, they don't tend to leave either. And
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  Speaker 4: we're really so family orientated that there really is a
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  Speaker 4: place for everyone in the club.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean I don't cover it so much, and
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  Speaker 1: I should do, really, But you've got to thrive in
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  Speaker 1: youth section, haven't you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah we have. I think we've probably got about two
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  Speaker 4: hundred and fifty juniors playing for us now. We welcome
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  Speaker 4: them from age about four, kind of when they're in nursery,
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  Speaker 4: they go into our little cage. Yeah, it's very much
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  Speaker 4: kind of running around. It's fun for them, but give
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  Speaker 4: them a bit of an intro to under eighteens.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a I think basketball was probably one
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  Speaker 1: of the vastest growing sports in Folkston that I can
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  Speaker 1: remember from doing this job for a number of years,
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  Speaker 1: But now our hockey is really getting close to it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, who would have thought all those years ago
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  Speaker 1: that you'd have so many youngsters, you know, going back
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  Speaker 1: over ten years when we used to be at the
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  Speaker 1: old cricket pavilion, it's just grown and grown and grown,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The difference from kind of when we were in our
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  Speaker 4: old Pavilion based again kind of where we are now,
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  Speaker 4: where we had sort of maybe fifty sixty juniors that
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  Speaker 4: were more playing adult hockey to what we've got now.
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  Speaker 4: We're a full dedicated junior section, a very successful junior
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  Speaker 4: section as well. It's incredible and the kids are so
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  Speaker 4: good now because they've got place and time to practice.
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  Speaker 1: It is good because I don't know, years ago, hockey
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  Speaker 1: was a bit of a I meant, going back even further,
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  Speaker 1: when I grew up, it was either football or cricket.
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  Speaker 1: There was nothing else around. But it's really attracting this. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's great to see. Okay, so let's get back to
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  Speaker 1: the seniors. I mean, is there any chance of any
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  Speaker 1: victories or anything really brewing up in the seniors.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've had a good season. We've got four teams
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  Speaker 4: at the moment that are looking at either guaranteed promotion
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  Speaker 4: or guaranteed league winners. So our men's ones last week
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  Speaker 4: were confirmed as champions as the Southeast East Division, so
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  Speaker 4: they'll go into Southeast prem next year. Thanks to their
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  Speaker 4: second place team slips up a little bit, but they
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  Speaker 4: did the job, they got the win. They're guaranteed champions,
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  Speaker 4: and then our men's thirds, and our men's sevens and
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  Speaker 4: our Ladies fives are all guaranteed top two finishes, so
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  Speaker 4: she'd all be getting promoted next season. And they've still
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  Speaker 4: all got chances of finishing the top of their leads.
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  Speaker 4: We're all very close.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I'm having palpitations about your presentation night already.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so's tell us what teams you play for.
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  Speaker 4: So I played for the Ladies twos at the moment,
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  Speaker 4: so we're kind of we bring a lot of juniors
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  Speaker 4: through to then obviously bring up to our first eleven
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  Speaker 4: and kind of yeah, we're that sort of that next level,
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  Speaker 4: next level down.
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  Speaker 2: So you're playing gold, don't you?
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  Speaker 4: I do? Yes? Now they called the lunatic.
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  Speaker 2: Now did see last week that used the lunatic in
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  Speaker 2: the first team?
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  Speaker 1: An?
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  Speaker 2: There?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, little trip out are our regular Ladies ones keeper.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately she was pulled away from work. So I had
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  Speaker 4: a nice little road trip down to Eastbourne.
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  Speaker 2: This is not like I got to play a couple of.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, a couple of hours in the minibus, but really
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  Speaker 4: good group of girls. We had a nice day, really
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  Speaker 4: good game. Eastbourne kind of really went for it, but
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  Speaker 4: we went to tie with them. We went up. Unfortunately
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  Speaker 4: weren't quite able to hold on for the win, but
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  Speaker 4: it was a really good draw in a really even game.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And is it a playing wise, is it a
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  Speaker 1: big jump from the second team to the first team?
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  Speaker 2: The standard?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the standards, so our ladies playing in Southeast prem
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  Speaker 4: Our first eleven, so it is a very very good standard.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of just below national league level. So there's
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  Speaker 4: some very experienced players as very quick players, very quick,
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  Speaker 4: very skillful youngsters that the older members of us in
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  Speaker 4: the squad kind of a little bit resentful of. But no,
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  Speaker 4: it's cracking and it's such a good standard to play out.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent and it's not must be good for you actually,
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  Speaker 1: just to like go up and experience it, knowing that
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  Speaker 1: if you like, you haven't got to do it, if
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  Speaker 1: you've been there and you haven't got to do it
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  Speaker 1: every week, and then go back with the girls in
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  Speaker 1: the second team. Did you get many other players coming
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  Speaker 1: up from the second scene to the first team because
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  Speaker 1: they are deserved to be out there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I've had a few of our sort of teenagers this
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  Speaker 4: year that have come into the twos at the beginning
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  Speaker 4: of the season kind of had the first half of
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  Speaker 4: the season with us and then have stepped up it
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  Speaker 4: either to kind of fill some gaps when people aren't available,
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  Speaker 4: or have kind of actually gone into the ones, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and have stayed there since they've gone up. So we
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  Speaker 4: do try and get those juniors in really kind of
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  Speaker 4: get them used to that quicker standard of hockey, and
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  Speaker 4: then bring them up to the first team for the future.
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  Speaker 1: Oh great, that's perfect. That's how it should be, isn't
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  Speaker 1: It gives everybody in the second team and possibly below
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  Speaker 1: the encouragement to know that they can make their way
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  Speaker 1: up into the.
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  Speaker 4: First Yeah, definitely. I mean we've and it works the
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  Speaker 4: other way as well. So we've got players that are
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  Speaker 4: currently playing in our ladies fives that are x first
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  Speaker 4: eleven players gone away, had children. They can now bring
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  Speaker 4: their experience to help kind of new players and young
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  Speaker 4: players come through and develop.
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  Speaker 1: I noticed that, actually, I've noticed a few names that
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  Speaker 1: have been, if you like, in the lower teams. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure she was in the first team time years ago.
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  Speaker 1: But it happens to everybody, you know, you know, especially
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  Speaker 1: with ladies and things, and but it's just great to
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  Speaker 1: see that they stay with the club isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: It is, And a lot of them they may go away,
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  Speaker 4: have children, they come back and then when their children
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  Speaker 4: are all off based up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So we've got a few dads and sons playing together,
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  Speaker 4: moms and daughters play together. It's a really lovely feel.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got the fillers there, haven't you. And Janet's
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  Speaker 2: still banging in the goals.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Janet's still banging in the girls not as she's
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  Speaker 4: not got a chance for the top scorer this year.
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  Speaker 4: One of our gents has put away forty one this season.
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  Speaker 4: Matt Carter, he plays for. He knows how to hit
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  Speaker 4: a ball and he knows where the goal is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent, Right, So last was it last year or
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  Speaker 1: the year before you put on an extra team?
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  Speaker 2: Is there still? Are you like mixed out with teams now?
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  Speaker 4: Nearly?
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 4: We've gone to a men's eights this year, so that
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  Speaker 4: sort of a dedicated development side for our men, which
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  Speaker 4: means that kids when they hit twelve can come into
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  Speaker 4: that side to start playing adult hockey to get used
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  Speaker 4: to it before they then move up. We're debating a
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  Speaker 4: lady sixes. Yeah, we've got to look at numbers and
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  Speaker 4: we can't fill it with kids if you've got no
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  Speaker 4: adults to games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, we talked quickly about the we we mentioned
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  Speaker 1: the youth teams, but there's two particular teams that are
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  Speaker 1: in top of the tree in national finals.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us about those.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we've got two of our youth teams going to
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  Speaker 4: national finals this year are under fourteen boys and are
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  Speaker 4: under eighteen girls. Actually the second year in a row
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  Speaker 4: for our under fourteen boys, so they're looking to defend
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  Speaker 4: their national title. So it's fantastic. It's great to see
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  Speaker 4: these kids kind of really performing on a big stage
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  Speaker 4: and putting our name on the map as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I was having a little chat with
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  Speaker 1: dri Enn, who was the coach of the fourteens last
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  Speaker 1: year who won the trophy with the boys, of course,
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: because they're still growing. Then she told me, and it's
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: amazing statistic that there's seven thems, seven of them still
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  Speaker 1: playing in the under fourteens and the others have gone
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  Speaker 1: up to the sixteenes. So those seven must have had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of experience and have been been there and
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  Speaker 1: are really really really pour it, aren't they.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they definitely are, so where they were kind of
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  Speaker 4: the younger members of the squad last year that maybe
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  Speaker 4: didn't have the experience or didn't get as much game time.
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  Speaker 4: They're now the older members of that squad who are
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  Speaker 4: bringing the next the kind of the next year groups. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: really helping and supporting, supporting them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they know that they you know, they'll be
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  Speaker 1: going up to the under sixteenes next year.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now I went down to watch the under fourteens in
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  Speaker 1: the semi final and it's been spoken about, but we
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  Speaker 1: must have a chat about this. And they were six
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  Speaker 1: Niel up at halftime and I honestly thought it was
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  Speaker 1: going to be ten or fifteen nil. But when they
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: came back on the pitch at halftime, it was like
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  Speaker 1: two different teams turned up and the tables were turned.
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  Speaker 4: It can happen sometimes. We actually said it ourselves on
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  Speaker 4: Saturday that sometimes half time comes at the wrong time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're actually you're in your rhythm, you're in your grouth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't want to stop, no, No.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously Gilford had a really good halftime team talk and
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  Speaker 4: came back and really went for him. Fair played to
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  Speaker 4: them too, Ye that close because Gilfrid a good side
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  Speaker 4: and would be a good club.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, they know that second half, Well it
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  Speaker 1: was some squeaky bump dy in the last five minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Well we like to make it exactly was yeah. Yeah girls.
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  Speaker 4: However, they just they just went.
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  Speaker 2: Through and yeah they won six nil.
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  Speaker 4: Then yeah they won six nil. They had a really
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  Speaker 4: long trip up to Manchester because they would drawn against
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  Speaker 4: the Isle of man So those girls came across and
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  Speaker 4: the ferry eyes went up on the coach and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: six nil win.
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  Speaker 2: They really did the job right, excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we're going to take a little break now
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  Speaker 1: and we might talk a little bit more hockey after
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  Speaker 1: the break, but we will be talking about the the
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  Speaker 1: Rhino Run and this is a song that and there's
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  Speaker 1: a little story we've got to tell you about the
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: tigers and especially if you were in a high very's
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  Speaker 1: vest and anyway, this is what I will be playing
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  Speaker 1: when the runners set off to run around the animal park.
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  Speaker 1: This is mud and tiger feet. Where there you go,
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: that's mud there tiger feet. And we're going to be
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: playing that on Sunday morning. If you are going over
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  Speaker 1: to the how it's hang on. Let me get this right,
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  Speaker 1: Wild Animal Park on Sunday for the five don't forget.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a big note here.
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  Speaker 1: Clocks go forward, right, remember that bring forward, So just
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: make sure you're going to set your clock. Well, if
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  Speaker 1: you've got one of them digital trendy clocks, you know
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  Speaker 1: they change overnight, don't they.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so Amy, you're still here and welcome back. So
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted us going back to the hockey. Actually
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  Speaker 1: we never spoke about the over thirty fives ladies. Now
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  Speaker 1: they've been doing well, but they fell at the last two,
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  Speaker 1: didn't they.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we had a good run this year. Quite often
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  Speaker 4: so we entered as an over thirty five team into
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  Speaker 4: a national cup competition. Quite often we get drawn against
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: Canterbury who bring their their superstars out. They might have
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: an ex Olympian in their side, it's fine, and then
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  Speaker 4: we normally fall at that hurdle. But this year England
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  Speaker 4: Hockey changed how things set up, so even though we
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  Speaker 4: lost to Canterbury, we then got to go into a
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  Speaker 4: different layer of the competition. So we then had a
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  Speaker 4: few games. We played Ashford, burnt ash Old Cranleians and
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: then we got drawn against Surbiton in the quarter final
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  Speaker 4: and in hockey terms, Surbiton are a bit of a powerhouse.
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  Speaker 4: We had a really good game. It was Neil nil
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: at halftime. Unfortunately we did end up losing for one,
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  Speaker 4: but it was a really good game and it's really
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  Speaker 4: nice for us to have to have a good run.
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  Speaker 4: And we went back to their clubhouse. They've got all
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  Speaker 4: their GB shirts. Yeah, three pitches and digital screens. It's
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: it's a whole other world.
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  Speaker 1: Was it. Yeah, And it's I mean, we're lucky to
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: have the three Heels, but then you step up another
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  Speaker 1: level to like National League clubs and that.
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  Speaker 4: It's a big change. I mean, yeah, we're fantastically lucky.
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  Speaker 4: We've what We've got so many other clubs in the
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  Speaker 4: areas I reliant on schools or council pitches and things
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  Speaker 4: like that. So for us to have our own ground,
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  Speaker 4: our own club, we're incredibly lucky. But yeah, going up
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  Speaker 4: to those National league teams, it's a whole different world.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So just to wrap up the hockey side of things,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if there's anybody out there, perhaps parents have
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: got juniors moved to the area, how can I get
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: in touch with anybody at the hockey club?
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: Best thing to do so we can either go through
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  Speaker 4: our website is FOHC dot co dot uk or we
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: are on all the socials, Facebook, Instagram, all those kind
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  Speaker 4: of stuff, So give us a search. We're normally under
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  Speaker 4: focused and ops. Yeah, and we'll be there and it
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  Speaker 4: will probably be me that would reply excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So we're going to move on to Sunday now,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: So Sunday sees the five k. I'm not sure I've
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: been doing it a few years now, but it really
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: is a fun run around the animal park. So from
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: your perspective, because I'm always stuck at the start, finished
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: see the course of a race right now. You were
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: telling me that you walked walk the course during the week,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: so what our runners expected to see on their route.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: So it's cracking, Like it's such a different event compared
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: to any other five k you'll do. So you're literally
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: going past the start. You've got lions, tigers, there's giant anteaters,
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: there's gorillas, primates, anything you can think of. So it's
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: it's a pretty different kind of course to any kind
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: of other run.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they do unique.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so if they let the tigers out, there'll
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: be a few PBS, I should think.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: So, I hope. So we've got we've got a few
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: speedy animals over there.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now I've told this story several times because I
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: tried to keep the noise. When you've got a PA system,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: it's a bit of a job to keep the noise down.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: But every year I try and keep the noise down.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: But the keeper comes out and says, or could you
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: could you think you could turn the music down? The
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: tigers are getting a bit restless, Is that right?
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Do they?
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a few of them. They get they're a
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: little bit sensitive maybe sometimes. The thing I actually found
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: out when we were walking in the course the other
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: day is that the tigers really don't like the high
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: vis vests.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Oh dear, I think.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's the brightness or the color.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: But yeah, we've had to do a little bit of
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: wiggling around with our marshals. Have you back to the
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: tiger put your high VI's on the front, just not
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: to freak them out.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Who's listening to this? If they're marshaling the cos they
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: don't put me by the tigers, that's fine, fine, Oh
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: that's great.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: So the money raised goes to the Espinal Foundation. Now
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I briefly know what they do. But you tell me
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: what do the Espinal Foundation do.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: So the Aspinal Foundation ourselves obviously we've got our partner
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: parks with Portland and Howlett's. But what we do is
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: we fundraise for our overseas projects. So we have projects
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: all over the world. Our main ones are in places
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: like Congo and Goabon. We've got Indonesia, South Africa where
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: we do kind of rewilding and kind of rescue of
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: wild animals, and we've got projects and partners kind of
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: in lots of other countries across the world as well.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Right, So, and is this an ongoing thing.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So the Foundation was set up in nineteen eighty
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: four by John Aspinall obviously massive love of gorillas for
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: him and was very much wanted to get them back
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: into the wild. So it all started with that. Our
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: gorilla rewilding project is the most successful in the world.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: We're the only people who do what we do so successfully.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Literally having meetings this morning about kind of how all
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: the different gorillas are doing and kind of where they
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: are and kind of how their families have grown and
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: things like that. So it's amazing to be able to
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: hear that we really do give them success and kind
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: of give them a new lease.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Of life, right and apart from the five K on Sunday,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: is there any other events you do or is there
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: anything else that you know that people can help to.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Contribute to the Espinal Foundation?
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: So we can. Yeah, people can support through loads of
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: different ways. We kind of obviously we take one off donations,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: We take regular sort of monthly direct debit donations. We
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: do a really big adoption project as well, where you
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: can adopt an animal through one of the ones that
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: we work with. And then yeah, that you can kind
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: of sponsor that adopt that you kind of get a
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: toy certificate, You get updates about kind of how the
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: animals are doing kind of both in park and out
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: in the wild, and you.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Get the schools involved at all. Did they come over
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: the projects?
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of schools, local schools do come over.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: As I was leaving this afternoon and well this morning
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: there was a primary school coming in, so yeah, they
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: get to come in. They do obviously go on their
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: safarias they learn from our rangers about kind of what
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: goes on in the parks and where these animals come from.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: It's brilliant yea.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: So it is I mean, it's nice to call them
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: wild animal parks is apart from zoo because the fact
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: that you're putting them back into the world is a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: great thing that when you used to go as a kid,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: used to go to London Zoo and they used to
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: ship the animals over and that was it for the
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: rest of their life, wasn't it. So it's the things
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: they've moved on in wildlife conservation. So anything else you
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: want to tell us about the trust the foundation.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: So with the run, obviously we've called it the Rhino Run.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: What this one is supporting is actually rewilding off three
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: black rhino back to Tanzania.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Are they Are they at Hamlets or are they at Portland?
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: They're currently at Portland and we've got three ladies, kiss them,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: ut Chauna and Mizzy. I hope I'll pronounce all those right,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: But yeah, they're they're at Portland and we're hoping, fingers
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: crossed towards the end of the year they'll be going
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: back out to Tanzania.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Really and have they been there since the birth or I.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Believe I believe at least a couple of them have
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: been there since birth.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's nice also that well
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: back in my running days, there's a path right at
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the bottom there where you can run past.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: It's better in the in the winter actually, because the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: foliage doesn't grow up over the fence and you can
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: sneak in and see that there used to be the giraffes.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: You could get right close up to the giraffe.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, became very popular during lockdown, that limb of that
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: loop because everyone's like, oh, I can go and spot
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: the giraffe. So yeah, we do know a lot of
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: people go for a wander around the on the canal.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: But that's that's the joy of Portland, the fact that
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: the animals are kind of free to wander around and
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: they're not closed in.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: I must tell you this that there was one time
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: where I was I was running down that path and
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: there was no foliage and there was a group of
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: school kids coming around in the great big three ton truck,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you know. So I had to look up the path
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: one way, I had to look a path up the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: path another way.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: There was no one about. So what I did.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I jumped up on the fence and I was rattling
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the fence and making but making munkey noises out and
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: the old teachers going no, the animals are this way,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and they go.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Look at that man over there. No, that's not right anyway.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Nice work dot Org are the main event organizers on
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the racing side of things, and I do understand there
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: are still plenty of spaces available. So if you're listening
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: to this and you want to there's a little bonus,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: isn't there After runners go around the zoo, they can
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: go back in and.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so anyone that's that enters into the five k,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: they can go back into the park for the day
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: for free, and there's going to be a little discount
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: offer for any sort of friends and families are the
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: runners as well.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, so the weather's looking good?
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Is that right?
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Aim?
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: If you had a look, yeah, weather's looking good. Nice
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: mother's day treat.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so they are what a great way to
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: take your mum to the animal part and you know
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: it's such a great environment for runners to run around
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: to go to a Nice Work dot org and it
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: looks like but always check before you travel and you
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: might avoid disappointment that you might be able to enter
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: on the day. If it's a really nice race, then
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: there will be as always there will be a high
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: and late interest, and once we hit that mark of
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: nearly six hundred, then that's it. You know, for safety
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and health and safety reasons, we can't let any more
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: people come in. So Amy, last word from you about
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the Aspinal Foundation. Now you've not long been there, and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: was you an animal lover or was it just you
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: wanted a job or a bit of both.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: I've always been an animal lover kind of. Now that
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I've got this job, I do have a memory of
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: kind of thinking when I was very small all that
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I wanted to be a zoo keeper. So this is
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: probably the next best thing. So it's lovely getting to
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: work in an environment where, yeah, I can go around
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: and see all the animals and obviously do such a
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: wonderful thing to help them in the future.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Excellent, Well, Amy, thank you so much for coming in.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: You're such a mind of information.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: It's so easy when you come in and we talk.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: It's just weak to spend a couple of hours talking
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: about animals and hockey and sport. So thanks for telling
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: us about the hockey club. And we'll see you on Sunday.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, see you bright and early Sunday morning.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't wear high visves near the tigers though.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: No. Okay, right, so thank you so much for that.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Now we're going to play a little song now, yeah,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: this is a great one.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: What we're going to do.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: We're going to play this by hang On. I've just
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: got to move things around a little bit this year.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Is there we go. We've got Pink coming out.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Get the party started, which is what we're going to
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: do on Sunday. Pink, get the party started. That's what
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: we're going to do on Sunday. Well, what a lovely,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: lovely lady is Amy. She's such a busy lady, active
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: all the time, and it's so nice that she can
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: get in here and have a chat. And then now
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: it's good that we speak about the hockey and the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Rhino run. Now I must get this in. I did promise,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: made a few promises about this interview, so I might
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: have to neglect some of the sport. But while do
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I'll pass some reports onto Ad for his Saturday show
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: and we're doing them then. Now. Next up is an
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: interview I recorded during the week between myself and an
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: amazing lady called Beth Wood. I'll say no more, stop
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: what you're doing and ever listen to the Please excuse
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: there's a little bit of distortion at the start of this,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: but this is well worth a listen. I'm enjoyed today
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: by Beth Wood, who I set herself a massive challenge
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: of running ten marathons in two months, the final marathon
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: being in London on April the twenty seventh.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Beth, how are you today?
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: I'm good? Thank you.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: You run a marathon yesterday, didn't you? Yes?
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: I did. Yeah.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: So how's your legs today?
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: They feel all right, a bit sore, but we're you know,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: I'm still walking around.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: That's good. Okay.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: So we before we talk about your ten marathon challenge,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about yourself, about your background
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: and if you like, how long you've been running.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: So yeah, So I'm Beth. I from Folkston and the
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: surrounds and area. I have been if for over thirty years.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: We'll keep it about that to hide my age. I
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: was diagnosed with assistic fibrosis when.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: I was two. I suppose one of the big things.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: About me is I'm a mum's two lovely girls, one
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: who's two of one who's eight. I went to school
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: locally in Hawkinge and all my family have lived deaf
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: for well over eighty years.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're right a local girl then, yes, yeah,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: that's great. Yeah.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Now, if you like to some of our listeners that
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: might not understand what cystic fibrosis shortened per CF, tell
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: us a little bit about the actual problem yourself.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: So cystic fibrosis is a genetic condition, so both parents
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: have to carry the gene for people to get cystic
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: fibrosis and be born with it. One in twenty five
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: of us are carriers of the CF gene.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: I was diagnosed when I was two.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: It is a illness where you build up mucus in
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: all of your organs in your body, but the main
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: areas it will affect are your lungs. So for example,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: my lung capacity is below half of what a standard
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: healthy woman of my age, size, weight and height would be.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: It also affects your pancreas that builds up with mucus,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: so most people with cystic fibrosis develop diabetes because our
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: prancrest doesn't create insulin. So yeah, it affects all of
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: your body. Is a build up of mucus around your body, right, Okay.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: So is it something that can be treated or are
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: you stuck with it for your life?
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: So you're born with it and it's there forever. You
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: can't get rid of it. You can manage it, and
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: you can maintain it in many ways with treatment. So
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: I take above fifty tablets a day injections. I do
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: two to three rounds of phisio a day, which exercises
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: included in that whatever I can do to clear the
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: mucus in my lungs and the infection in my lungs.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: So exo is a massive part of that. But there
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: is rounds of phissio. When I was younger, they used
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: to do. Probably an image that a lot of people
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: remember is the percussion, so you're back's padded, which is
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: where you clear the mucus.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: I still do.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: That now and yes, so it's a lot of treatment
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: in a day to keep it maintained as well as
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: you can. But it is something that is there forever.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Oh dear, I mean, there's something you.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Just got to manage and like you just get on
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: with it, really, isn't it.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I always say my parents very much,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: I love the mantra that c is what have it
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: doesn't have me.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: It's there.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: It's part of my daily life. You get up and
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: probably have a coffee in the morning. I get up
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: and I take fifty tablets and do my physio.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: It's just part of my day, I know, no different.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, So when you was growing up, I mean,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: let's say when you was at school and kids are
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: running around, did it really affect you then? Yeah?
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: So when I was younger, my health wasn't too bad.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I remained active even when I was younger. But for example,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: most children when they were off having their lunch, I
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: would be off doing physio with my physio at school,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: so I would instead of going and having a lunch break,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: I'd do half an hour of my physio at school instead.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: So it affected me in that way. Really.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's so tough.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Cool really, So when you're younger, if you like, and
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: you're getting older, does the problem does it get worse better?
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: I mean for myself, and I can only speak for myself, obviously,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: there's eleven thousand of us and everyone is very different.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: For me, it's it has got worse as I've got older.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: The infections have got worse, the scarring all my lungs
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: has got worse. So my lung capacity has gradually got
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: worse over the years. But yeah, it's something that it
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: will get worse as you get older. Obviously, there are
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: treatments that come out nowadays, which is why we raise
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: money so that we can get these treatments approved that.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: We do change that.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: But yeah, unfortunately for me, my body now will just
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: decline as I get older.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Oh dear right, but you've been a tough cookie. I'm
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: sure you can manage that and get Yeah.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, okay, So let's turn their attention to running now,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: So when did you start running?
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: I actually started running five years ago? It was, yeah,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: about five years ago I started running and I ran
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: my first marathon.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: But yeah, four or five.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Years ago, right, I mean when you started running? I
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: mean that sounds like it's probably the worst thing you
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: could do when you've got lungs full of stuff.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: But what was it really? You challenge or did it
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: kind of clear it and help?
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Yes, it was to start with, it was a challenge,
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: I mean to start with. I remember when I first
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: went out and tried to run a five.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: K and I actually ended up in bed for a week.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: My lungs just didn't like it. They were angry. So
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: I just started slow.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: I started walking a bit, started running a bit, just
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: like I think everyone does when I start trying and
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: run and walk run, walk, run, And then I just
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: built up and realized that it's something that I wanted
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: to push myself with.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Tell us what made you think of running ten marathons?
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I mean for most people, even like myself, the thought
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: of running one marathon back in the day was oh
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: my words, you know, three months training, but ten marathons
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: gool and tell us what made you think of that?
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: So I've always fundraised and done some sort of activity
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: for the charity to raise money and awareness for them,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: and this is going to be my retirement challenge.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to be doing anything big like this again.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: And I went back and forth and just something some
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: probably in balance in my brain decided that ten felt
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: like a good round number. And then I came up
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: with the legacy ten. I wanted something to leave behind
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: for my gals that they would have that would stand
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: out for them.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Right, I mean, this is an amazing challenge. I mean
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: at the CF charity itself, I mean that you've been
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: in close contact with them.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So this year for twenty twenty five we
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: are I'm the ambassador for them for their fundraising to
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: get people out and doing these active things for them
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: to raise.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: Money and awareness. But also just I think they've chosen.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Me this year as to be an ambassador, so that
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: it just brings a bit of hope. It hopefully is
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: going to push the next generations of people have to
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: get exercises straight away and get.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: Their lungs moving and their body move in. So.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've been working really closely with them. I've
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: been really blessed with them.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Right, I mean, if there's a research that you're going
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: on into, you know, trying to improve people's.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Lives in that, yeah, absolutely, probably more now so than ever.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: I think they're doing an awful lot of work into
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: new treatments and new medications, trying to push for the
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: ten percent of people see that there is nothing for
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: it the minute, trying to make sure we can find
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: something for them. I don't think I've probably ever seen
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: so much research.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: And st turn into it is at the moment.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I suppose that I've been an ambassador, then sometimes
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: you see what goes on on the other side of
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the fence instead of just running. You know what goes on,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: you know with research and fundraising, and.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: You're supposed to do the Hastings Half yesterday and then
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: do another half on top, but the Hastings was canceled
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: due to unfortunate circumstances.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: So what did you do yesterday?
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: Yesterday?
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I just went up and actually found a friend who
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: was doing Hastings Half anyway, so I did. I did
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: a half, and then I found my friend who was
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: also doing Hastings Half, and we ran the second half
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: together and completed the full marathon. So she did the
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: second half of it with me, so I was run
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: it by myself. I just went and it was so
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: lovely yesterday to see loads of people that were meant
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: to be doing Hastings Half actually still outdoing their half,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: still raising their money, still pushing themselves to do.
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: It, and it was really nice. Actually I love to
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: see them.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: It was a massive shame that it happened, because it
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: does take almost a year to organize something like a
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Hastings Half, a great big turnounced like a big city marathon.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I went down and watched it last year. I mean,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: where else have you done your marathons.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: I've done a few Folkston, just around the streets of Folkstone,
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Ryan hast Is. I have actually run a marathon in
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: around Ryan Hastings already and then I've got so that's
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: five I've done now, so sore, halfway there, halfway there, yeah,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: halfway point done.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: How does that mentally sound?
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, does you think that you're on the sort
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: of downward slide now or do you need to get
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: another one?
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: I feel like six feels like the down would count
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: at the minute. I'm still like I've got to do
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: the same thing all over again. But no, it feels
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: nice to tick halfway off. I've only got four left
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: on my own now and then London.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: So and apart from mucistic vibrosis, I mean as you've
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: abody been standing up with any sort of you know,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: in is to your legs or anything like that.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: I injured my foot on Marason one, about five miles in.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: I'd like to pretend it was glamorous, but a twisted
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: man called waiting at a traffic light and that was.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: A bit of a challenge.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: But I've rehabed that well and at the moment, touch
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: wood and everything that's worthy that I seem to be.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, I was back up and I was training
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: this morning to stretch my legs out and move my legs.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: So I'm doing something right. My body is still moving.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: That's good news. Yeah, so they've got to keep on moving. Okay,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: let's turn our attention to the day. Is it a
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: day for you or is it a weekend?
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: It'll be the weekend.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: So I'm going to go up to London on Saturday
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: to the Excel where they have the big Marason show.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: I'll be there for the day with the charity, going around,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: just soaking it in. I love I love the whole
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: weekend is that. I love Marason Weekend, even if I
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: don't run the.
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: Best things ever. So I'm going to be there for
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: the day. I'll be there with a charity.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Doing some bits for them, going around and visiting, just
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: to see a few other stands while I'm there and
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: getting ready and getting my head in the game for Sunday,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: but also just trying to find some time to rest
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: my body a bit ahead of Sunday.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: And maybe you probably won't.
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, probably will. It's the first night i'll be away
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: from I'll probably going to very much be a bed
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: at seven.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: O'clock and your family are they just coming up for
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the day the next day.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: So it's going to be split. My youngest will be
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: at home. She's only just turned to so she's a
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: bit young fresh.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: So you've got two daughters, Yes, I've.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Got thea who's two, and Aurora, who is eight. Aurora
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: for the first time, will we come into London. She's
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: going to come to the whole weekend with me, the
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: whole thing in and secretly.
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: Mummy is maybe hoping that she might catch a bit
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: of running bug.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: And the rest of the family.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Are they going to be dotted around London at sort
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: of locations or are they going to be at a
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: cystic Fibrosi's got cheerstation, Yeah they have, They've got cheerstation.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: So the girl's dad will.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Be up in London with us for the weekend. He's
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: going to come and be dragged around everywhere with us
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: as well, and then Sunday he'll be with my eldest
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: and one of my best friends will be with them
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: as well, following around. They've got their miles that they
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: will be dotted at and then the trust have got
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: stands every I think maybe five six miles here there
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: in London Bridge, which is always the best.
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah Bridge, Yeah yeah.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: But you know when I did the London Marathon, I
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: got stop for an interview. He wanted to interview, but
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I never made a TV probably because I wasn't dressed
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: as a banana or a crocodile or something. Okay, well,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I mean it's time to wrap it up now. So
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: we've just got to get you to say your thank yous,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: your hellos, tell us about your just giving page, so
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: over your gun.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: So the first two thank yous, I mean they have
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: to go to my girls Jess and Hattie, who both
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: of them have run half of a marathon with me,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: which I think in itself should be thanked because they've
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: taken time out of their lives to push their bodies.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: So that I'm not on my own.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: And Kate who actually ran twenty miles off one of
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: them with me as well. They're all from my gym,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: so I'm very grateful to them, my physiote here who
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: is keeping my legs ticking over and thank you to everybody,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: like everybody who has sent messages when I'm out running.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: The messages I get throughout they keep going, keep moving
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: that I mean without them, I mean I don't think
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: i'd probably get to the twenty six miles. So thank
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: you to them, and thank you to everybody who has
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: got behind it, is donated, has shared it, and you
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: know that's why I do it. I'm not here for me,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: I'm here for everything. And thank you to the Trust
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: for just believing that I could do it, because I
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: didn't think I could at many points.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: So thank you to them for being behind me for
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: the whole thing.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: And have you got a just giving page?
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: I have.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's a legacy ten and it's Facistic Fibrosis Trust.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: So you can find it on there under my name.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, and now I see you set yourself a nice
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: round figure. I suppose it goes in with the tens
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: ten thousand pound.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: How's it going?
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's going well.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: It's starting to ramp up now we're getting to the
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: second half and I've got a few things going out
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: in the press in the next week or two that
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: will be great.
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: To give it a boost.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: But yeah, so the ten thousand pound it it fitted
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: quite right for the ten marathons.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: Really, I didn't really think another number would work.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, be I mean, is there anything else
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: you want to say before we go?
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: No, no, just thank you, thank you for taking a
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: time to speak to me. And yeah, if anyone else
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: ever wants to run a marathon, do it.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: It's one of the best things you'll ever do.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I say to run ers, if you're going to run
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: a marathon, run London, because my very first marathon was
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: up in your and it was so isolated and I
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: felt so lonely. I could at one point I couldn't
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: see anybody in front of me, anybody behind me. I've
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: no signs, but I hadn't gone wrong, but it was
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: just lonely, Whereas in London, twenty six point two miles
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: of the route is just cover with people.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: It is, and if you're not running and you're about
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: on the twenty seventh, go and watch it. You'll leave
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: their feeling an the happiest person in the world. Okay, Bet,
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: thanks for turning your story. I mean, what can I say?
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: You set yourself an awesome challenge, and I hope people
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: are listening and perhaps understand a bit more about assistic
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: fibrosis and more perhaps some of them might even take
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: up doing a park round or something like that. It
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: obviously works for you, So find a word from you, Beth.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: Get moving, get your legs moving, even a walk, it's
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: good for you. And yeah, if you want to set
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: yourself a goal, maybe not ten, get yourself and do
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: a marathon.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: It's fantastic. Okay, thanks Beth, and good luck on the
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: date and we'll be looking at for you. Well what
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: a story that was.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: A ten marathons over such a short period. I mean,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: with half a normal lung capacity. What an inspiration for
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: anybody to try at least, you know, do a couch
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: to five k Okay, time for a bit of music now,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: and this one is for Beth. This is just the
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: absolute I had to play this and this is the
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: theme from the London Marathon. Well I'm just going to
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: fade that down for a little bit because we have
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: got so much more sport to get through. But that
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: was especially for Beth, ten marathons. Like I say, what
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: an inspiration, And it might be a beneficial you know,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: for cystic fibrosis sufferers to just do a bit of
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: exercise and perhaps it will help clear the stuff in
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: their body and just make for a better life. Okay,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to do a little bit of football,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: and only a little bit, but I must say, and
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: I did promise the team that I would say this.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Congratulations go to the folks in the Victor women's team
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: on winning the league in their first season. After a
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: two to one away victory at Merzam this Sunday they
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: are a way to Lockfield Ladies in the Kent Divisional
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: quarterfinal and can they do the double? Wouldn't that be
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: good in the first season. Perhaps there's asking too much,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: but I don see why not. They're playing very very well.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: If you go to folcusing in Victor website focusing in
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Victor Football Team website, you will see a little clip
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: of their game from last Sunday, so the double could
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: be on the cards. So well done to everybody involved, management,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: players and supporters in their first season.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: And there'd be more.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Football on adi's Saturday show where hopefully this week but
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Ad will be interviewing. Oh Josh, hey you the focusing
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: in Victor chairman. That's the one, so tuning in for that. Okay,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: So another sport we haven't covered it. It's only just
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: started a netball I want to get this one in
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: as well. It looks like it's the netball summer season
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: and of the first set of results. So let me
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: remind you of how it goes after the team's names.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: As you'll quote a player's name, this player was the
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: outstanding member of that team. So here we go. You
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: all soon get the hang of it. These games were
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: played on the eighteenth of March sting Ray's twelve, Mayer
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Viper's sixty four, erin Rough, Diamonds fifteen, Sarah Jets sixty three, Millie,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: now listen to this one, Tiger's thirty nine, Lola Merston
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: thirty nine, Letitia, what game that must have been? Thirty
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: nine or we've never known that before? And finally Panthers
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: forty seven Katie and Scorpions twenty seven imaging. Now on Saturday,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: the nineteenth of April, that's Easter Saturday, there's a super
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: short and mixed netball tournament. This is where I need
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: to get somebody in to tell me the rules, you know.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: But I think super short is where the player is
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: actually they throw the ball from a certain distance. I
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: think it's a bit further than the normal standard area
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: that they're allowed to throw the ball. So I just
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: need to get somebody from the netball team in and
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: tell me all about it. And also this is a
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: new one on me a mixed tournament which means three
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: men are allowed in the team of seven and can
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: only play in certain positions and they are goalkeeper, goal shooter,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: and center, which will all add to the fun. Registration
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: is between nine and nine point thirty and the games
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: I played at the Three Hills starting at ten o'clock
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: and going on till approximately three o'clock depends how they go.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: For all the information, please go to the Facebook page
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: of the Folks and Netball League. Now, if you're a
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: floater that's an individual who likes a game but can't
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: commit to a team, please contact the league and if
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: teams are short, they've got a list then and they
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: can slot you in. And one more thing, the leagues
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: are always looking for umpires and players. They do have
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: a league in Dover as well, and they're always on
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: looking out for floaters for their games. On a Monday evening, well,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: I am rapidly running out of time. Some of this
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: sport news I will pass over to ad and and
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: he will have read it out on Saturday. I won't
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: be there Saturday I'll be at the park run of
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Amy and Henry. They're going to have a little fun
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: park run and they we're looking forward to that. So
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: what more can I say except that if you are
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: going to the Rhino Run, I'll see you there on
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: one oh five point nine, online at Radio Folkston dot com,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: and on your smart speaker.