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LISTEN BACK TO PAUL EGAN AND HIS SON CHARLIE RECALL THEIR EPIC 147 MILE BIKE RIDE FOR CHARITY · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Good morning, sports fans of folks done, Good morning and
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: welcome to the Saturday morning Sports Show with me Andie Dawks,
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  Speaker 1: and of course we've also got Kevin the Sports ferrit Daily.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Kevin. Hell yeah, you doing not too bad mate,
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  Speaker 1: Lovely Sunday day. I love it. It's beautiful out there
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  Speaker 1: this morning, and we've got a pretty patched studio here
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  Speaker 1: this morning. We've got Paul and Charlie Egan here. He's
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: going to tell us all about his cycling ride for charity.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: What else we've got coming up today? Kevin?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I think we should explain that
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  Speaker 2: we couldn't make it last week, could we be? We
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: were at Sporty Venues, I was at the Diamond League
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  Speaker 2: Athletics in London and you were on away day with
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  Speaker 2: the folks and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, up at Bradford. What a journey that was. The
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: twenty five, the EM eleven, the m whatever it was
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  Speaker 1: was not playing Born. It took us six and a
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  Speaker 1: half hours to get there last Friday, but hey ho,
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  Speaker 1: it was good fun. We come away with the two
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  Speaker 1: Neil victory. We've got time while I'll have a chat
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  Speaker 1: about that a little bit later on. But well, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we've got our special guesting today. It is
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  Speaker 2: the new Romney. Last year they were the under thirteens.
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  Speaker 2: Now next year there will be the under fourteens. But
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  Speaker 2: they undertook a massive bike ride for a charity and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be telling us all about it later.
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  Speaker 2: So we welcome Paul Eagan and his son Charlie fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Charlotte and Alfie, so they'll be kin an
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  Speaker 2: one us make sure we get the job done properly,
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  Speaker 2: but we could just have a chat find out what
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  Speaker 2: it takes. They so icled one hundred and forty seven miles,
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  Speaker 2: but we've got a little time to find out exactly
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  Speaker 2: how it went. The highs and the lows and the
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  Speaker 2: punctures we little gamble. I think how many punctures they've
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  Speaker 2: got over eighty children. So we'll let you get on
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  Speaker 2: with some music.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, yeah, we was certainly will and well
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  Speaker 1: are they they're all heroes, aren't they? So well, we've
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  Speaker 1: working David Bowie this morning and this one from nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy seven. This one is called self the main title
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  Speaker 1: of Heroes. We go glad you Vid Bowie and Heroes.
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  Speaker 2: What a track that is good, that brilliant and it
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  Speaker 2: just sums up what we're glad to talk about, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: So today we're in the studio of radio Folks on
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  Speaker 2: the Sady Sports Show, and I'm joined today by Paul Egan. Hello, Paul,
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  Speaker 2: good morning, right, you're good and Charlie good morning. How
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  Speaker 2: are you morning? I'm good, thank you good, excellent. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So now then, Paul, I'm going to hand over to
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  Speaker 2: you really for a little while. So just tell us
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  Speaker 2: what you was up to a few weekends ago. It
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  Speaker 2: was the hottest one at the time. It was the
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  Speaker 2: hottest weekend of the year. But you chose to do
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  Speaker 2: something to I don't know, normally most people wouldn't have done.
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  Speaker 2: But tell us all about it. What you've been up
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  Speaker 2: to then.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, last Friday or Friday before we set off
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  Speaker 3: on a bit of a journey, really a bit of
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  Speaker 3: a challenge. There was a challenge set for one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and forty seven miles in three days. There was myself
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  Speaker 3: and the three coaches, Tommy, Sam and Frankie and eight
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  Speaker 3: young lads decided to set off.
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  Speaker 4: On this challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Eight of you. Yeah, So Charlie, Charlie come in, so Charlie,
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  Speaker 2: when your dad said to you as your fancy cycling
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and forty seven miles, what was your first reaction.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if I'd be able to do it
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  Speaker 5: at first, to be honest, ye, quiet challenge. Yeah, to
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  Speaker 5: even think of it, it was like, it's going to
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  Speaker 5: hurt so bad. Yeah, but I think we'll push for
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  Speaker 5: it very well towards good three days.
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  Speaker 2: And you obviously wrote some of your teammates into it.
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  Speaker 2: Were they were they excited about it or a bit
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  Speaker 2: scared of it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the train session before we were all very scared
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  Speaker 5: about it because it was morally just the four of
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  Speaker 5: one hundred miles. It really does think with ut Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: but yeah, we all push for it and it was
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  Speaker 5: a very exciting thing. Yeah, and it was good to
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  Speaker 5: get like teamwork got built up a bit more and
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  Speaker 5: helping each other.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, right, how do you actually train to do this?
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  Speaker 1: I mean obviously you all ride bikes normally during the
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  Speaker 1: week or whatever, But how do you actually trained to
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  Speaker 1: do that sort of a distance?
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  Speaker 5: Don't know. We just we sometimes when I was a
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  Speaker 5: team just around for like a few miles, most like
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  Speaker 5: weekends and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, cool getting back to you, Paul, I mean, and
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  Speaker 2: it's bad enough for children to do it, But how
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  Speaker 2: did you feel about So? I like thin one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty seven miles.
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  Speaker 3: Coming from someone who's I wouldn't say, spent a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time on a bike, it was quite daunting. It
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  Speaker 3: started off exciting at the beginning, and then as we
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  Speaker 3: got closer and closer the realizations started to hit as
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  Speaker 3: and forty seven miles yeah, yeah, sat on a seat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but we must must point out that it was
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  Speaker 2: over what three days, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 4: It was? Yeah, So I'll.
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  Speaker 2: Tell you what run us through if you're like a
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  Speaker 2: day at a time, so you know, take us from
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  Speaker 2: where you started and how far you've got on the
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  Speaker 2: first day.
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  Speaker 3: So we set off from Euromney. So we set off
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  Speaker 3: from the Marsh Academy. We cycled up through great Stone
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  Speaker 3: into Dungeness. We've done the route all the way through
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  Speaker 3: to Rye. We hit Camber. We stopped off at Camber.
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  Speaker 3: There was a cafe there that supplied ice creams and
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  Speaker 3: drinks for the boys. And then the journey took us
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  Speaker 3: through into Ashrad the other side of Ashfred where we
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  Speaker 3: stopped off and that was our first camp site.
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  Speaker 4: So we yeah, set off there and set up for
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  Speaker 4: the night. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So so the first night of camping, I take it
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  Speaker 2: you had a support team following you with all the
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  Speaker 2: gear inside.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a and that followed us from start
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  Speaker 3: to finish. Really, so we had Serena, we had Faye,
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  Speaker 3: and we had the parents, Cassie and Bradley, who the
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  Speaker 3: charity that we were doing it for.
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  Speaker 2: Right, We'll talk about the charity in a minute. But
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  Speaker 2: Charlie come in. And so Charlie, when that first day
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  Speaker 2: was out of the way, did you think, do you
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  Speaker 2: know what I could do this? Or do you think,
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  Speaker 2: oh my no, I'm not word. What am I going
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  Speaker 2: to do for the next two days?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Looking forward, it was very hard to think of the
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  Speaker 5: amount of males that we still had left from the
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  Speaker 5: first day. But yeah, it was not as painful.
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  Speaker 2: Right right, Okay, And I must, I must this is
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  Speaker 2: a question I think. I think I ask Adrian as
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  Speaker 2: well because I'm curious. We're going to have a guess.
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  Speaker 2: So how many bikes were actually on on the on
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  Speaker 2: the course? So there was there was eight youngsters and
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  Speaker 2: how many seniors were there?
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  Speaker 3: So there was four seniors. So yeah, myself, Tommy, Frank
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  Speaker 3: and Sam.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so there's twelve bikes, so over three days, how
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  Speaker 2: many punch as you? Reckon, Adrian?
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  Speaker 1: I mean these days they took the tires and everything
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  Speaker 1: and a lot better than they were in are they.
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  Speaker 2: It's got a bit a couple of days, surely reckon six.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say four four?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, come on, Paul.
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  Speaker 3: So there was one person that I think reached double figures,
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  Speaker 3: and that was Sam, who was in front, who was
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  Speaker 3: our guide.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was the man who had so.
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  Speaker 2: He took it for the team. Did he drove over
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  Speaker 2: all the nails in the road?
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  Speaker 3: And I think Harry got I think Harry got two.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, the rest of us come away unscathed.
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  Speaker 1: How do you sort that out? On route? If you
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  Speaker 1: get a punch, the support team help you?
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  Speaker 3: No, I think Sam he's quite an experienced cyclist. I
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  Speaker 3: for one sat and amazed how he changed the tires
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  Speaker 3: so quick. It was literally a couple of minutes. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was literally like that. I think at one point.
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  Speaker 2: Did his look when he got better? Us have been
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  Speaker 2: like a sticky glass r all over it.
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  Speaker 3: We got to the folks in Harbor arm on the
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  Speaker 3: last bit, and he did decide to change he's inner
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  Speaker 3: tube and yeah, swapped over.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So so Charlie moving in. So Charlie, you hit
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  Speaker 2: the first night, and and do you have to put
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  Speaker 2: your own tents up or did the support team do
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  Speaker 2: that for you?
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  Speaker 5: No, that's not ourselves. Some of us had pop up
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  Speaker 5: tents and some had proper tents. You have to hang
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  Speaker 5: down stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So what was the feeling like on that first night?
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  Speaker 2: You must have been buzzing, you know, you must have
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  Speaker 2: been the team spirit must have been really high.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we were all tired, but we played
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  Speaker 5: football cricket that night for quite a well quite shocking,
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  Speaker 5: but yeah, still like helping each other on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay. And did you sleep well or was
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  Speaker 2: it because it was a very hot weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Wasn't it very hot, especially with the tent very crammed in? Yes,
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  Speaker 5: let well, and we're just ready for the next day.
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  Speaker 2: Really great, So Paul come back. So the next day
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  Speaker 2: when you get up, when you're all aching, did you
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  Speaker 2: get give you give a warm up before you got
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  Speaker 2: in your bikes? And where'd you go for breakfast?
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  Speaker 3: So breakfast was provided by the sports team so they
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  Speaker 3: brought us of cereals and crossants and things like that,
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  Speaker 3: so coffees were made. The morning for me was probably
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  Speaker 3: the worst bit, as the tent that was advertised was
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  Speaker 3: seven foot It wasn't seven, but quite a relief to
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  Speaker 3: undo the tent door and stretch. But the boys there
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  Speaker 3: were great spirits. The young lads were up. We had
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  Speaker 3: a shower, we started to pack the tents down to
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  Speaker 3: put back into the van and yeah, they was ready
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  Speaker 3: to go.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, I think we take a little break now
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  Speaker 2: and play some music, Gagent, So what have you got
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  Speaker 2: for us there?
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  Speaker 1: It's one of them songs that I've been listening to
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  Speaker 1: through the week and you can't get out of your head.
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  Speaker 1: This one is by in Excess, another band I went
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  Speaker 1: to see thankfully when they were Michael Hudgens was still
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  Speaker 1: alive and this one's called Mystifi Well was missing.
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  Speaker 7: Streets, Almend Books, Michael Hutchins there in Excess from nineteen
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  Speaker 7: eighty nine and mister Pie.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was about nineteen ninety when I went
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  Speaker 1: to see them at the Smith.
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  Speaker 2: Odian Odeon is the big one. The Odion was kind
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  Speaker 2: of a cinema.
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  Speaker 1: That I remember I was definitely hammer smith stomach Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway back to Paul and Charlie.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Paul and Charlie, now I think, excuse me, we
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: have been chatting, but I think it's a time we
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: started a bit of name drop in. So Charlie come
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  Speaker 2: in so so tell us, tell us all the names,
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: just to just see Christian names of the rest of
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  Speaker 2: your team in case they're listening.
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  Speaker 5: So we had Vinnie, Oscar Harley, Me, Frank, Archie, harrisy
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  Speaker 5: and Aiden Aiden.
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  Speaker 2: Right. So, I mean it's a tough call for you know,
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  Speaker 2: lads your age, and I should think some handled it
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  Speaker 2: better than others. But was there anything humorous that happened?
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  Speaker 2: You know, any any stories you want to tell that
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: you don't have to because what's stays on tour, you know,
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: goes stays on tour. But I was I'm sure you
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  Speaker 2: must have had some really funny moments.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, down near like Whitsball, we had Frank who
• 11:28
  Speaker 5: was smiling at a camera and didn't see this like
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  Speaker 5: metal like pole thing in front of him and went
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  Speaker 5: straight into very funny moment.
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  Speaker 1: How was the bike?
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  Speaker 5: It was all right after Actually he just got up
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  Speaker 5: and just kind of laughed it off, which was surprising,
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  Speaker 5: but did you get it on camera? You can hear
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  Speaker 5: the bike like you can't see it because the camera
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  Speaker 5: went down very quick. And then there's a nickname for Frank,
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  Speaker 5: which is an actual name as Frank Gilbert. Were now
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  Speaker 5: nickname him Hilbert Hilbert because about hated all the hills.
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  Speaker 2: So Hilbert, if you're listening, you're famous, and get out
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  Speaker 2: and get on that bike and do some training. But no,
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  Speaker 2: it's just what you What you did was daunting for you,
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  Speaker 2: would have been daunting for an adult that hasn't that
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  Speaker 2: much cycling experience. So okay, Paul, So we're into day two,
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  Speaker 2: we're at Ashford. Now what was the next port call?
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  Speaker 2: You obviously had these days mapped out, so where were
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  Speaker 2: you aiming for?
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  Speaker 3: So our next port call really was Warmer. So our
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  Speaker 3: challenge was to leave Ashford, cut up through why then
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: going into Canterbury, through the Canterbury to Whitstable Herne Bay
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  Speaker 3: and then the challenge we'll see from Whitstaball to Margate.
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  Speaker 4: Was the headwind was?
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  Speaker 2: It was that the toughest bit. I was very flat
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  Speaker 2: over there. But if it's testing, if you've got the
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  Speaker 2: wind against your wem that that day then.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, so we stopped at whitstaball we've refueled, We got
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: the boys some pizza and some drinks, and then we
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: hit the seafront, which was the probably i would say,
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  Speaker 3: the biggest challenge to a lot of the boys and
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  Speaker 3: for us sort of adults.
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  Speaker 4: The headwind was so strong.
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  Speaker 3: You've got visuals from Reculver looking through to Margate and
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  Speaker 3: then yeah, it doesn't get any closer the longer you
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: go in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I've walked in and I remember years ago
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  Speaker 2: running along that. It's like a prominen I'd buy to say,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it? And it just like it disappears into the distance,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it? Yeah, never ending, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Never ending.
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  Speaker 3: So there was a few moments I think Tommy had
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  Speaker 3: a few of the boys where we sort of they
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: were struggling.
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  Speaker 4: They're really really struggling.
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  Speaker 3: I think you could tell morale was probably getting a
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: bit low at that point. But I think there was
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: a few words that this is the reason why we're
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: doing this. Yeah, take yourself back, look what we're doing,
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  Speaker 3: the awareness and stuff that we're doing at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well you made a good point there. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about what happened over three days. But I think we
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: should go back to to basics really and and why
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: you're doing it. So, I mean, how did it come about?
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: What is there a connection with young lies versus cancer?
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  Speaker 1: There is?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So Tommy the one of the coaches managers, we
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: the club have been supporting the front of the players
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: shirts for a number of years now with with the
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: logo it refers back to Tommy's nephew sadly passed away at
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: young age. That the charity still supports the family now
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: from and unfortunately they lost young Arthur. So this is
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: the main reason why we're supporting the charity.
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  Speaker 2: Right right, So there's a lot of motivation. Perhaps they've
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: always I suppose you know, at that young age. They
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: probably don't realize. I don't know whether it did sink
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: in as they as they took on this challenge, Paul,
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: but it is. It is a driving force to keep
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: keep people going, isn't it? Okay? So while we're on
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: the subject, I mean, I saw initially that your target
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: was about one thousand pounds fifteen hundred pounds. Great, so
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: you've surpassed that immensely. So tell us how much was
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: the latest shout.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we well, Tommy, Sam, Frankie, I think Serena
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  Speaker 3: and Arthur's family has set out a target of one
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: thousand pounds. We have at the moments have passed that
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: to four thousand, five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 3: Incredible, absolutely incredible from support from the local people of
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: New Romney. There's family, friends, even other football clubs. The
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: boys played a friendly with a club just before the
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: season ended who donated fifty pounds. The club that I've
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: recently signed for, over Rangers. Each player donated money and
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: also money out of their fines pot went into the
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: charity as well.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing. Yeah, it's just wonderful that they are. Well,
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: any sport really, but football, especially for youngsters, can just
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: kind of bring people together for a common cause, isn't it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, Yeah. The conversations we've had prior to this has
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: been Yeah, it's been great. I think the coverage, like
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: say from yourselves, even like just discussions at match days
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: and things like that, it's been really really good.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Okay, so we're halfway through day two. You've just
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: got through the hardest part of the of the bike ride,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: and so you're coming up to Margate but you had
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: a few issues in Margaie, didn't you.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: We certainly did.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: We didn't realize that Margate now has quite a few
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: trendy bars along the front, so we had to navigate
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: through quite a large amount of people to get up
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: to Cliftonville itself. I see everyone sees Margate seafront with
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: the amusements, so it was quite a challenge also to
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: get on to the top of the right.
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  Speaker 2: And did you did you get much support along the way?
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  Speaker 2: Did the people, you know, just obviously all you were
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: doing something?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Oh, it's fantastic.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I think as we was going through whitstaball going through Westgate,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: people that were outside their beach huts clapping.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: Four boys, you can do it.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: It really was fantastic and it does at that point
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: those boys needed a bit of a lift.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Charlie, Charlie. Was that that bit of recolver
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: and that that head straight was that was the toughest
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: part of the three days.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: You think it just felt like it was never ending.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: We just kept from going and going and going, and
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: then you had the smell of the seaweed which was
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: making everyone. But yeah, it was really hard to get
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: through it. That's just helping each other.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: So you're probably about well halfway through the journey then,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: and I mean did that kind of get you down?
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Did you think? Oh?
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: No?
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: But of course the rest of the journey wasn't as
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: bad as that.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Was it?
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: No, I mean it started to get a bit downhill
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: towards like the end of the day. It was just
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: getting past Margateway that was just yeah, it was.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Hurting, okay from Marv So from Margot I've got you
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: went around Broadstays Ramsgate. Was that because there was just
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: a little bit hilly around there Broadstairs. I've done a
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: couple of bike rides from the Viking boat and.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a there was a few hills to navigate.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: We I think that the worst bit was actually cutting
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: back onto the main road and then coming off where
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: the Viking ship is. Yeah, the nature bit was beautiful,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: cutting through there the reserve and we passing that's the
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: way yeah, yeah, really really nice, and then passing Port's
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: golf course.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Because actually on that very fast piece of road there
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: there is a cycle track. Isn't that You took that?
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we took that route and then through into Deal.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: I think The worst challenge was getting from the bottom
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: and going up the hill to the camp site.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I think that was that was the last all. That
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: must have really been nice for your friend that I
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: didn't like. The hills.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there was a few.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: There was a few words said as he was cycling
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: up that I don't think for the radio.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: We were Yeah anyway, so you hit deal, so big relief,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I should think. So the second night. Was there still
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: football and cricket on the second night? Or was it
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: straight into the sleeping bags?
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: It was straight? It was just yeah, everyone was hurting, exhausted.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good. Did you sleep well that night?
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: No, we were on a hill that you were just
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: if you got in your slipping down your tent, something
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: like crawl back up your tent.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Sounds like the other way buncles, isn't it? Okay? So Paul,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: we've covered day two, So day three. What was the
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: morale like when they got up Day three?
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Day three was really good. I think everyone was sore,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: everyone was hurting. I'd say there was a few tears,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: a few blisters from Saturday. But the boys got up.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: They knew the challenge that we had. It was shorter.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: I'll see the previous day we cycle for ten hours.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that stint was the worst. So from the
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: first day to the middle section of ten hours, that
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: was tough, really really tough.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you, you say you cycled during
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the day, what sort of hours did you did first?
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: And then the second He's just said ten hours for
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the second day.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So the first day was relatively steady.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: It was a nice steady pace.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: So we set off at about half past nine Friday,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: and we think we got to camp probably about four
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: o'clock so, and then not see the middle day ten
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: hours cycling was extremely tough for the boys.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: But the morale on the third day I was, once
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: you got going, you realized that was it. You're heading
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: for home. So Charlie coming, How did it feel once
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: you got going thinking this is the last day? Or
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: word was that it kind of lifts you a bit.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, you had loads of adrenaline and just
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: knowing that it was just save front some downhill and
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: when we got just to where you could see like
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: the promenade where Folks is, yeah, everyone was just like, right,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: let's let's push through it now.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, Yeah, it was just it was great. So
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I saw some pictures of your folks them. Was it
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: a schedule stop? Did you stop when never drink or
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: some Yeah?
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: I think we needed a break and that bit. I
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: just wanted to get there on time as well. So
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: it's just cutting down a bit of time. Yeah, having
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: a little break, drink break.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: So when you're coming back, if you've been up to
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: North Kent and now you're sort of coming the other way,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: was was the wind behind you? Because I mean it's
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: a nice flat stretch from Folkston to New Romney, But
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: was the wind behind you that that that that way?
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: It was a bit of fifty to fifty, had some
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: coming in front, it kept them changing really yeah, but
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: yeah it was going downhill, so it weren't too bad.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, okay, Paul. So we're coming to the end
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: of the third day. You're let's say, ten miles from
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: New Romney. Did the older change a few gears and
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: let's get it over with or what was that feeling
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the last it?
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: We I think everyone was positive to get back. We
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: reached so as we come out of Hive there was
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: a few beeps along the main road there and then
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Sam decided to have another puncture, So there was a
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: bit of a schedule break there. The boys, they were
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: so excited to get home see family. So yeah, the
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: giars certainly did sort of go up a bit.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, good good and Charlie when you came back, and
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I've seen the footage of you a lot of turning up.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: It's just by the station, there, wasn't it. Yeah, what
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: was that feeling like? Did you expect anybody to be
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: there or do you think, oh, that's it, just just
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: the bike away.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: And yeah, there was a lot more people thunexpected, a
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: very emotional returning. Was it just to see family? It
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: was nice?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: And just to know how much we raised when we
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: got back was really nice.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got back, I mean, did you find
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: that the adults are emotional as well?
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: I think you all.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: I think it was quiet for the first few minutes.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: It suddenly hit obviously what we had achieved with the boys.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: It wasn't easy. It was a lot harder than we thought.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: It was nice to get a nice cold beer, I
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: must say. Captain Howie put on a great, great sort
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: of celebration for us and the balloons and everything, and
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: provided everyone with a free drink to welcome us back.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Brilliant.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: So so, Charlie, when you'd got back, was it school
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: the next day?
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Straight in school the next day. Yeah yeah, which
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: was painful.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: But when when did.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: It Sorry, I was just going to say, you went
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: back to school the next day. How did the school
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: react to know what you've done?
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Well, it was some of my teachers donated onto the
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: charity and they were just thanking me, some i'm my
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: mates and just basically saying how well we done.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Nice to get the support from the school as well.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, So when did it really sink in,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Charlie a couple of days later you thought I've done
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: one hundred and forty seven miles and raised all this
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: money for charity.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: I think it was morely when I got to school
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: when everyone was saying to me, I'll hit that I've
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: just done that and helped the charry out a lot.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: So brilliant, brilliant. Okay, Paul, come in, Okay, Paul. We've
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: done most of of the day to day stuff, but
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: I think it's time now that you had a support
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: team behind you. But we know you've been name dropping
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: and we don't want to single anybody out, but I
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: think you need to just sort of run us through
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: your support team and basically anyone else that has supported you,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: and they all need to need to thank you.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: So over to you, oh massively. We had Serena, Faye,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Cassie and Bradley. They supported us from day one. Also
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: the parents the children were coming supplying drinks and things
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: like that. We had obviously stop offs that we had,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: there was support there, but the support team were fantastic.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Every time the boys needed anything, they were there either
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: hanging out, giving gels or water or bananas, so many
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: packets of wine guns. But honestly without that support team, yeah,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: gan usd beeping us, keeping us going.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: They were absolutely fantastic. They really were, Oh brilliant.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, so is the just giving page to open? Do
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: you want to you want to quote that if anyone's listening,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Perhaps someone's listening it might be the very first time
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: they've heard about this. But the charity Young Lies Versus Cancer. Now,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I've spoken about this charity on my show in the
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: past and we've had several people run the London Marathon
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: for it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: So it's a.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Shame because we always prefer I mean Adrian Materia that
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: he is a cancer survivor and it's one of the
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: toughest things to attack the cancer and come out of
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: it at the other end. But when it's a young person,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: it's just so unfair, isn't it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely, yeah, I mean yeah, obviously three years ago
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I went through it and it was it was awful,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: and you know, like support team, like you say, the
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Millan Cancer Trust were fantastic for me if I didn't
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: need to phone them. Still I'm still there for me.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: So but I can't even imagine, you know, somebody as
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: young as the poor person that sadly passed away and
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: what this was all in maid of. You know, I'm sixty.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I if I had gone, I've had a life. Unfortunately
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: that person hasn't. And you know, people suffering from cancer.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: You know, all these charities really do help, and the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: support teams and they need funding from you know, a
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: lot of places, and your four and a half thousand
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: pounds plus whatever else you're going to raise now will
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: go a long way to helping people suffering from cancer.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: And it's you know, I take my imaginary hat off
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: to you and everybody else that does raise cash for
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: cancer charities.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, we're the page is going to probably be open
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: for another couple of weeks.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: How can they get people get hold of it?
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: So there's a new Romney Youth Facebook page is where
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: it's all advertised. I know for a fact on Facebook.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: The senior team also of advertise it as well. So
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: it's still not open. We're still looking to race so
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: much more than four and a half thousand, because we
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: know what this means and the support this charity gifts.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Every penny counts. If you can give them, please do.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, I think if we play our bicycle song and
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: then we'll come back and we wrap it up and
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: we might even get young Alfy over to say a
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: few words.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, as we're doing a bicycle well we do
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: to have a Queen and bicycle race. Here we go.
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: I want you now, I want you to ride.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: The late Freddie Mercury there and Queen and bicycle race
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: all the time. From nineteen seventy eight, Charlie was just
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: telling us off there, it's only been two days ago
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: since he got back on his bike. Since that and
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: how did you feel getting back on the bike.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: It felt weird just to be on a bike. I'm
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: not hurting on a bike. I could imagine riding.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool. Well, we've got your little brother coming in.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: How are you healthy?
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: Thank you?
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Well done?
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Healthy? How old are you healthy?
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: I'm eight years old?
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Hey?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: And you played football? Do you?
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Who? You played?
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: Forels?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Do you right?
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Because you live over that way there now, don't you?
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Oh good? And when you saw your brother doing that,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: did you did you feel like you wanted to ever
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: go or you thought perhaps I'll stay away from more
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: that viking?
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: I was just going to let him go through the pain.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it looks like I reckon. Your dad's got
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: to find another challenge for for you, lot. I don't
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: know what it's going to be. We might have a
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: chat with Paul in a minute. But so as your
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: football going, are you starting again this season or are
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: you training now?
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: I think we're starting soon yep?
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: And what position do you play?
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: I play more like a forward.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Forward scoring goals.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I'm in goal like his dad. Well, i'll tell you what.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: While we're talking about goalkeepers, Paul, I think it's time
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: to just to thank you Elfrey.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: It's just time to I've told this story several times
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: about the day was in boxing day using goal for Hive.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: That's correct.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the moment how many years.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Ago was it?
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: It's that one where he's got a bad back.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: That's the one. Yeah, that was the eight meal. I
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: think you say bit of a drumming.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: We got a bit of a lesson, yeah, on boxing
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: day okay.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: And what happened when you got home.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: So obviously licking our wounds traveling back home, arrive home
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: and on my doorstep there was a box of after
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: eight minutes.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Love it.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, someone down There's no one ever owned up to
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: that even didn't they? Okay? And the other thing Paul,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: before we go, is that we covered this many many
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: years ago. But you did a run yourself, didn't you.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: And I remember coming down to the Hive Imperial and
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: just quickly tell us about what was that, what you
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: did and what was that was all about?
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was for McMillan.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: We decided to run from Brighton through to Hive, so
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: we left on a Friday night and arrived Saturday afternoon
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: at the Imperial.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that coming down. What was your colleagues
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: name that you ran with, Dan, Dan hille Strip, that's right, Dan, Yeah, Okay,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: so we are very seriously running out of time there
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: as always yeah, so I know we should do like
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: a four hour show on a Saturday. So, Paul, I mean,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: praise has been heaped on you and your boys deservedly so,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: and we've said our thank you, So let's wrap it up.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Is there anything else that you really want to say about?
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Absolutely anything, anything you might have forgotten earlier on But
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: to fire away, I.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Think it's really just.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: We had a bit of a conversation via tex with
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: the coaches, and I know the coaches are just ever
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: so proud of these eight young lads, the task they
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: took on, the challenge they completed, and the togiveness I
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: think Charlie touched on, like how they were geeing each
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: other up, they were ringing their bells, they were trying
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: to get everyone motivated, and it's an exceptional challenge that
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: they've done for such young lads to be able to
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: complete that challenge and to be low on the second day,
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: but to themselves back up. I think they can take
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: that into their football over the next coming years.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: And memory exactly. I mean you were saying earlier that
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: they've they've all been together as a team since they
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: were about five years of age, and you know, all
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: that togetherness and this has probably helped bond them together
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: even more.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I reckon they're going to have a great season next week.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Does it changes there? You know, if they can do that,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: you know, I remember when I run my very first marathon, thought,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: if I can run the marathon, I can run through
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: that brick walk with It just gives you so much confidence.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: So Charlie Big will dones to you. Yeah, any sort
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: of memories that you know really jump out in your
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: mind that over those three days. The first thing you
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: think of.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: I think it might be where Franklin into the poll that.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Was great, Well don't heal it? Yeah?
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: Done very well.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Funny you should say that the next song is going
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: to be dedicated to him?
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Is it.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Paul?
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: So I just want to say thank you for coming in.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: It's been a great morning, and we're going to share
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: this on the podcast for everybody to listen to it
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: and get some inspiration. If these lads are eight years old,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, fourteen under fourteens can do one hundred and
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: forty seven miles, then anybody else out there can just
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: have a go challenge step outside the box and do
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: something for something else, for another cause, to raise money
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: and awareness. So that's about it from a ageing anything
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: else you want to add.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: No, no, nothing at all. I mean you've covered everything,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: and you know they've If you can give anything else
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: that they're just give him page and please do and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully they can raise as much money as possible.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I say, Kevin, obviously you supported forout any
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: charities that we've done, so I appreciate you both for
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: inviting us in today.
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  Speaker 1: Brilliant more than welcome.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: So we say goodbye to him individually. So goodbye to you, Paul,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: thank you, Goodbye to you, Alphie, good bye, Goodbye to
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: the hero, Charlie Well and Charlie.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Thank you, and goodbye to money.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: In the background, Yeah, of course I'm very quiet. Yeah, yeah,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: she's what you don't come out on the radio, but.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Usually not very good on the radio. Okay, as I say,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: thank you very much guys for coming in. And this
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: one goes to your friend Hilbert Hilbert, and this one's
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: by that crash test dummies and this is called.
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  Speaker 4: Um what.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I was as cute guardian. There you go, um um
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: um crush test dummies. That's for you, Hilbert. Hilbert, just
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: think that's start of the one. I couldn't think of
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: anything else with crashing it. So right, well, yeah, I
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: mean we've onready got less than ten minutes left. But yeah,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: it was fantastically hearing them and they're hearing their stories.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: And Charlie was a good speaker, wasn't he fantastic?
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know for someone as younger Zi, Yeah, yeah,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: to a duck to water. Yeah yeah, really really good.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Right, So we haven't got much time left. So what
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about now? I think we should
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: mention the fact that you went to up North last week,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: so tell us about that.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, A bit of a strange preseason friendly as far
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: as preseason friendlies go. We were playing Bradford Park Avenue,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: former Football League club from the fifties excuse me forties fifties.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: They're famous for one reason, going from the First Division
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: to the fourth division seasons. They've not had a very
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: good time since they were voted out of the league
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy by Cambridge United. They struggled in non
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: league terms and they actually started off as a had
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to restart as a Sunday Morning team and then they
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: finally rose through the ranks and the last few seasons
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: they've not had very good time, so they're just beginning
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: to get themselves back onto a level playing field. But
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: the reason why we went up to Bradford our new manager,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Jay Saunders. He's a advocate of bringing the team together
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: and then he wanted a bonding sort of session. So
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: hence I think Josh Eely's got some sort of ties
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: up in New Yorkshire. So that's obviously where the players went.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: And yeah, they played played last Saturday and played really
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: well with good team performance.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you like the football standard was it
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: was it on a par.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I would definitely say we never looked like losing. Yeah,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: we were defensively, I thought we were brilliant. We never
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: looked like conceded a goal. Not too sure about the
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: two trialist goalkeepers we've got, but they didn't have a
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: lot to do so it's very difficult to say. But
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: when they played against ash Ford, the trialist goalkeeper was
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: not great. He considered a semi Hasler free kick and
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: considered a penalty when he really didn't need to. But
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: you know that's just the one off. Maybe but yeah,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I mean going back to the Saturday game, good all
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: round team performance. I think the manager will be very
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: very happy with the runout. Everybody seemed to put in
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the shift and we had two trialists who have since
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: signed for the club. I can't remember his first name.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I can't remember, Yeah, but trilis eleven. He had two
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: one on ones with the goalkeeper and put it wide
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: of the goal, same place twice. It was other than that,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: he was he looks a good acquisition.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: She'll be saying there today, what's going on today?
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Today? We traveled up to Tunbridge for Jay Saunders, the manager.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: That's that's the team he managed before Folks and in
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Victor and according to their forum, it's gonna could be
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: a bit lively on the dugout, so it will be
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: a very tough chart of justice. They do. They're in
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the National League South, focusing the Victor in the Isthmian
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Premier League, hoping to try and get out of that
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: league this season. And yeah, it's going to be a tough,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: tough game. I think now that the trialists, I think
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: he's weeded what he wants. He's now got basis of
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: a good team and I think it's now just getting
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: to know each other and what his best starting eleven
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: is for the first game against Jichitter City in a
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: few weeks time.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Of course, the other talking point is the artificial pitch.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: So yes, well, work has finally started. I went over
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: there a couple of days ago and took some more
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: photos and it's beginning to be leveled out now. I
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: think all the top soil and all the grass has gone.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I don't quite know the logistics of everything on how
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: it's going to be done, but yeah, it's well, it
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: just looks like at the moment before. Yeah, they've got
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: to get all the foundations and everything right. And then
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I think it's Velocity. I think that's the name of
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: the it is.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Actually, well I didn't know that, but but I remember
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: doing a special on the Velocity because Velocity used to
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: sponsor I think it was a Kent Senior Cup, and
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: I thought, who are these sponsors?
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: What do they do?
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: And then I immediately found out that they install artificialities
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: and they've been doing it a long time.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Think they are the creme de la creme of the
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: artificial I mean, I don't know if we've employed that.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Folks in Victor have got them to do it, but
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I'm just banding that name out. Velocity are the sponsors
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: of the Velocity League Cup that folks in Victor will
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: be in this season. So yeah, But anyway, the.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Law news because sort of a side issue on this
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: three G or artificial? Is that a ground sharing? I
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: understand they're going to ground share. What's that all about.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, obviously if there was a delay in the
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: pitch being done, so that's now put them back. I
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: believe we've been given a day of October. I don't
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: know if it's beginning or end. These pitches obviously they
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: take time to lay. Yeah, we have to ground share
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: with somebody. Obviously we've got the FA Cup early qualifying
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: rounds as well, so you have to inform the FA
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: of where you're likely to be playing your game. So
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: it's all that to be worked out that we are
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: ground sharing. Unfortunately, Hive and Ashford's I don't think come
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: up to the standard for the Isabian Premier League on
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: a grade in So I don't know the ins and outs,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: but it's been worked out with the folks and Victor
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: board that they are going to be playing their home
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: games at Heartsdowne Park in Maidstone, Sorry not Mainsteon Margate.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Don't go to Maidstone now the people playing that Margate,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I mean it could be two or three games, it
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: could be five or six.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: They artificial, they are they are.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Artificial pitch there.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: Ye.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if anybody actually shares with them, but
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I know they've got like the academy teams and everything.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: And obviously all our games probably won't be on a
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Saturday at three o'clock, but you just have to watch
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: look out on social media to see what times they
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: are kicking off. And I believe there will be transport
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: going to the games. I think it's going to be
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: free for the season ticket holders, and if the coach
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: isn't a full up, then obviously paying customers will be
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: able to go.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Right. So it's all happening, and it sounds like, well,
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: an exciting start to the season in one way or
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: another down in Folks, in a victor after a few
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: trials and tribulations from last year and in sort of
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: off peaks for the season.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, looking at the preseason games I've been too,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: so far the squad's coming together nicely. Yeah, I will
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: say that it's obviously you can't do it overnight. But
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: what I've seen I've been quite impressed with. Yeah, good, good, right,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: new kits as well, new kids. Yeah, we're wearing a
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: blue Away Sky Blue Awake it and it's it's really
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: actually quite nice.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah good. Yeah.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Well we got just ten minutes minute after game we.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Talk we players, so I've only got one minute twenty.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we'll rab it on the until deep.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: I just want to just whip through today's cricket fixtures
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: in case you're thinking of going out. The Folkston are
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: at home to Leeds and Broomfield top of the table.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Hawkings are a way to bet saying a Colliery Hive
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: cricket club or fifth in the same division are away
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: to Willsborough and there's a local derby. Division nine Shepherd
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Section eighth place sal Wood are at home to Hyde
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Green who are fifth and finally in Division five Hurricane
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Section fifth place. Siptom Park are a way too often,
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: who are eighth, which means a trip to a West Mauling.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: That'd be nice afternoon a cricket sunshiny.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the weather dose are too bad, so you just
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: can't tell that, you know, it's this weather, it's English weather,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: and I'm a bit sand to see. Actually in Cyprus,
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of fires out there, which is happening
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: in a lot of trop coolence because I checked the
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: temperatures at Pathos and it was like thirty two degrees
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: feels like forty four degrees. Yeah, so you can understand.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: So okay, that's it for me. I'll be back on Thursday.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Tune into Cavery on Thursday and we'll both be back
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: next Saturday. I'm not sure we've got any guests in
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: and show.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: We'll be working on it.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: We're working on it. Okay, thank you very much for
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: tuning in, and we will see you all again next Saturday.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: By bye, right,