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TERRY TALKS DARTS CHLOE AND MEL TALK LONDON MARATHON · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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That was better their local music by Carris Now sport Wise on the Telly just
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last week there was only one sport people were talking about, and that was
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darts. And there's a young man there that captured the imagination of the whole
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dark community and so I feel I just wanted to talk about it. So
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what I've done, I've invited Terry done him in. Hello Terry Kevin.
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Yeah, you're right, Yeah, good, thanks actually writing me back in.
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Yeah, thanks for coming in on a Saturday morning, dragging you out
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of bed. But now the whole nation was captured by darts and I mean
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you're our darts guru, our dance representative Academy FM. And did it go
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ballistic in your family when the darts was on? Oh? It always is.
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We always say Christmas Lever starts until the World Championship starts, so that's
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Christmas and been like that for many years. Yeah. Yeah. And because
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a lot of people paid a bit more attention to towards the end of the
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of the tournament because Luke Litler was coming through but not so much at the
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start. He's made a great impact when we talk about that later. But
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you have been you've been up to Ali Pally, haven't you. Yeah,
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been up a couple of times now, so tell us, tell us what
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it's like up there. That's hard to explain. It's just an unbelievable atmosphere.
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Everyone's in good spirits, you know. It's just it's just a fun
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place to be and lucky enough you get to watch a few people throw some
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decent darts as well. Yeah, yeah, it must be great. I
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mean it is now. It's almost Carnival, isn't it now? It is?
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Yeah. I mean people like fancy dress are like a sing song,
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and I think I think that adds to it, that, you know,
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get the crowd participating the players and now playing up to them. I think
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I just think it as the spectacle. I think it's a good thing,
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and I think because of the focus that he's got. I did have some
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figures here. I think it was over four million people tuned in towards the
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darts. I would say that it's getting a bit more respect from the public
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now, this game, isn't it. Yeah, most definitely. I mean
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you go back plenty years ago it was seen as you know, a man's
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game in a pub of Friday night, you know, fag's beer that's what
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it was. Now it's been taken seriously as a proper sport. Yeah,
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if you look at some of the players, they take their fitness quite seriously.
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I mean, I know it's hard to believe, but there is a
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few people that actually do that. Yeah. The chat I was reading about
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Luke Humphor is actually he lost a lot of weight and whilst he's got a
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bit of stick for it as well, but he said it helped him get
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through a game. He said on some of the high profile games when he
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was carrying too much weight towards the end, he was kind of mentally drained
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as well as physically, So it's done him a lot of good obviously.
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Yeah. I mean you think you're playing that Okay, it doesn't seem long
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watching it on Telly, but standing there throwing darts for that amount of time
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it is quite stamina sapping. So you do see the player now out and
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about concentrating on the fitness. Yeah yeah, right, Well let's just recap
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actually a bit terry, because let's talk about what you do with darts,
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because you've got two youngsters that play darts, haven't you, Yep, fifteen
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and fourteen and sixteen now see fourteen and sixteen, and this Luke Littler does
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look older. I know he's getting a lot of stick for it, but
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he's seventeen on the twenty first of January. So I mean, can you
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imagine Evan a Sun that's like sixteen as a world champion. I know I've
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already tried told one, So I out and Bucket's ideas up a bit.
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Yeah, Harry out and buy mere house. Yeah, And they pretty much
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were the words that I threw out him. Yeah, it's it's phenomenal.
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What's what he's done at that age and how far he's got it. I
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don't think you'll see that again for a very very long time, or at
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least in our lifetime. So let's get back to grassroots, to legs like
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your son that are good at darts. Where are they in the in their
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sort of darts ladder so to speak. So they obviously go to academies on
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a Saturday up in Canterbury. So they do that, which is every week,
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played local leagues with me and have done now for probably five years.
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Again, found out they were doing pretty well at that, So push them
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into county youth. I've got one that playing for Kent Youth, one playing
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for London Youth. And they now do what's called the JDC Foundation Tour.
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So that's where the so called better players or you know, you can get
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them from all around the country, Ireland where some things, people from Morta,
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Germany. They just have like a big knockout competition over a weekend and
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obviously you can win some you know for that age decent prize money. Right,
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And we spoke before, but you know, let's play for the county,
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don't they Yeah, one for Kent, one for London. Yet one
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for Kent and one for London. Had a bit of a transfer this this
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summer. Can you do that? You can? Indeed? Oh right,
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okay, we won't go into the politics of that. But will they be
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playing against each other? Then? That's so funny enough you should say that
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they did this year when they played each other, and funny enough to draw
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works out that they played each other. Oh really yeah, And as a
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parent it wasn't fun Be're totally honest. Yeah, yeah, you're we're like,
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oh what do I do now? Yeah, pretty much? And nerve
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wracking, yeah yeah. And do they practice together at home sort of thing
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they do? Yeah, I mean, one practice is more than the other.
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I won't I won't throw the other one under the buzz but yeah,
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one one you can't get off the board and the other one sometimes you struggle
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to get on it. But yeah, they both they both do practice well
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together. Okay, good, Well, we're gonna have a little break now
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and play a bit of music because we're going to come back and talk about
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World Championship darts. But it's nice to know that there are youngsters out there
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like your two boys. I mean they must I suppose they must think there
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are a million miles away from being like Luke Littler. But there's every opportunity
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there isn't there. Oh Now, nowadays there's plenty of opportunity to progress and
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grow and go further in the sport. So yeah, there's there's definitely opportunities
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for any youngster out there now. Excellent, Okay, So let's have a
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little listen to what we've got coming up. A bit of a rock the
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boat by the Huge Corporation, roped the boat there by Huge Corporation. Well,
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we're back in the studio and we are talking darts. It's the sport
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of the moment. If you was tuned in last week and you must have
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been really excited at this final and perhaps you learn a bit more about darts
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as well. So I'm joined back in the studio by Terry. You're right,
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Terry, You're good now. Terry. You say you've been up to
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Ali Palli a couple of times and it's a kind of an atmosphere. So
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what do you think. Do you think that helps the darts players or it
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puts them off? I think there's a combination of both, depending if the
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crowd's on your side. I mean we've we've seen it with a few people
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I know, go in Price, probably Darryl Gurney a few times the crowd,
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crowd get on top of you, it can play in your mind.
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But again, if you've got the crowd back in, like quite a few
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of them have, then I think it can spur you on, just you
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know that little bit more. Yeah, yeah, I mean Luke Littler,
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he did kind of rise to the crowd, didn't he. For a youngster
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I'll say, with little experiences, But that's not quite true because I was
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looking up his Wikipedia and he's been playing darts for a long time. In
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fact, I can tell you here was it here that he did he did
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a nine dart finish at the age of thirteen. I mean, have you
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ever done a night dark fish? I'd love to know coasters? I've ever
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gott coast. I've got six I think. But it's one of those things,
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you know, it's the holy grail for darts players in a nine dart
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finish, and to say you've done it at thirteen, it's yeah, I
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suppose it's like it's like a golf that does a hole in one or a
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snooker player against one four seven that is that it's one of those things that's
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harder to hit a nine darts or one four seven or a hole in one.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, brilliant. So anyway, Luke Litlter is
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he's set the nation of light with his darts. And do you think it's
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now going to make an impact on youngsters who might want tom you know,
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think, oh, I just try to you know, go a little bit
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better than playing in the shed. I mean I think it will. I
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mean I hope it will. I mean you don't get anywhere without youth progressing
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and coming through no matter what sport you play, say with its football,
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cricket, darts rugby. You've got to have the youth to come through for
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that next generation. So I think it will spare a few people on.
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I mean, my eldest at schools telling me his old year was tuned in
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to watch the darts and they were constantly on about him. Oh do you
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know him? You know, how's he getting on and things like that.
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So just just by one sixteen year old doing that, you've got you know,
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a whole whole year at school now watching darts and that's on a minimal
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scale. Yeah, yeah, right. Then we were talking off before the
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start of the show that you went to Romania. Yeah, twenty two went
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out to Romainia Open just as a went with a friend, got dragged along
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and you know, have a go. I was like, okay, what's
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the worst that could happen? Well, you were playing, yeah, very
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badly, but it doesn't matter. You were there, so how did you
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get roped into that? Then old friend of mine was out there, he's
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done a couple before, the Lithuanian and something else, and he was like,
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oh, come along, what's the worst that can happen? I need
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I need a pairs partner. I see. Yeah, yeah, you know
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jawn off on a little holiday, never been to Romania before, and yeah,
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next next thing, I know, I've rocked up in this building and
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yeah there's former world champions you know, champions elect, World champions elect there.
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It was a bit like oh, a right, different league, very
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different. Yeah, yeah, for did you yet? Oh didn't even go
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past the first round, didn't even win a game? Really, But I
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saw Luke Litler's name against them of Romania. Was that the same year?
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It was the same year. Yeah, come across him, watched a few
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of his games, even watched him in the final and he I think he
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beat a former world world champion in yellow classen in the final. Work he
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was only what fifteen then as well? Wow? Yeah, so that that
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never came to anybody's attention, did it? Well, we might have done
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in the darts community, but I certainly keep an eye on what's going on
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in sport. And I must admit I'd never heard of the name Luke Littler
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until this competition. But you knew, you knew he was in the circles,
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didn't you. Yeah, I've had loaded name for what sort of three
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four years now? I mean obviously with my boys playing you for you obviously
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here who are the good young players around? And then you know, you'
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sort of keep tabs. You just keep an eye out every time you see
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and hear the name. And yeah, he's just grown and grown in this
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year on the youth circuit. He's pretty much won everything there is to win.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, excuse me. So it's going to change
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his life, isn't it. I mean he's now going to be asked to
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advertise darts flights and you know, dart boards and things like that. Do
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you think you can't stop anyone progressing? But do you think it's come too
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soon for him? It depends how you want to look at it depends how
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he handles it, I think. Yeah. I mean there was the old
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sayings that if you're good enough, you're old enough, right, Yeah,
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and he's certainly proved he's good enough. I think you know, his family
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and his management they're probably keeping grounded. Yeah, I mean I think they've
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dealt with him quite well. I mean, British media doesn't help. It
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doesn't help anyone who's successful. So you're right they like to jump on him
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straight away, didn't they exactly? And a few people have you know,
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a few of the experienced processa just leave them alone. Let him play darts.
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So I think as long as he's looked after, I don't think it'll
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phase him. And he's respected, isn't he by by the other dance players.
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He's not just like, I've got to beat this kid. You know,
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it's I'm really I'm really up against it today. And what did I
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hear? I remember it. I was reading about Luke Humphreys. During the
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game, he said to himself, I've really got to up my game.
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I've got to beat this this opponent. He didn't call him a child or
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a boy or anything. He said because he's going to be around for a
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long time. And that's what spurred him on, because he knew that this
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Luke Littler was going to be knocking on the door for you know, in
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the next few years. So he hasn't a respect of others. Do you
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think you might encourage more dance players to play locally as well in your league?
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Yeah, I mean it can do it. I mean this time of
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year, you know, everyone gets the buzz of darts. It's that time
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of year. So I mean there's I know there's a few local leagues finishing
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up at the end of the season. You know, they're always looking out
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for more players, more teams, so opportunities there for more people to join.
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Yeah yeah, okay, and before we go, I mean, is
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there anything that's really kind of struck a nerve with you, really really brought
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home the game what he's done to the game. I think he's taken it
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to another level without shadow of a doubt. I mean, you know,
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back in the day, you had Eric Bristow who was the flamboyant one,
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you had that Phil Taylor who dominated for years. I mean Michael Van Gerwin
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then come through and sort of took it. I think I think Luke will
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take it to another level again. I think, but for the slightly younger
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generation and give them an idol to follow. Yeah yeah, that's great.
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As we said, he doesn't look sixteen, but he's going to get that
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stick all the time, isn't he? And he certainly needs to shave.
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But I mean, we know he's sixteen because it says that last last last
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year he was studying for his GCSS and he said he'd be glad when he
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passes his driving says, so dead don't have to drive a bit like you,
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so they don't have to drive him around everywhere. Yeah, save a
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bit on Petro wuldn't it. Yeah, I mean at that level they probably
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get all that paid for him. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure. Yeah,
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well I'll tell you I'm so glad you come in to Terry because it's
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nice to know that, even like grassroots level like you play Roundy Folkston and
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yourself, that you've been in, if you like in the same competition as
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a current world champion, it's you didn't know that at the time, of
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course, But no, I didn't he you know, you knew he was
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going to go and do great things, but at the time, you know,
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he was just you've champion. You probably thought, oh, he's going
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to be a good plot dance player one day, but you probably never thought
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he'd make world champion at the age of sixteen. No. I mean,
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like I said, out there as well was Bo Greaves and she's a two
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time Ladies champion at the age of nineteen. Yeah, she was out there
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at the time. So yeah, I mean you had former world champions,
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so it's yeah, you can go and mix it with these people. Yeah,
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that's great. So what advice would you give to people that they like,
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they like to play a little bit dancing in the shed, but they've
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seen they've seen Luke Litler and what can do and it wants to entire them
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to, you know, get a bit more involved. What can what advice
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can you give to people that want to get involved in dance? How would
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they go about it? Be confident, believing yourself and re out. Like
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I said, there's there's you've got team leagues locally, you've got singles leagues,
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and there's always next steps if you know, if you find that you
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want to go and push yourself, there are there are other levels to go
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a lot, super league. So you know that there's plenty out there for
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people that even want to play on their own or they want to be part
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of a team. It's there's definitely plenty out there. I mean we can
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always point them in directions needed for whatever they want. So people can drop
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you a little message. Yeah, always happy to help. Terry. Thank
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you so much for coming in. It really has opened my eyes to do
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we we've we've highlighted dance before before all this has happened, but I never
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thought we'd be sitting here talking about you playing in the same tournament as a
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world champion me neither. Thanks Terry, thank you. In the meantime,
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I'm joined by two lovely ladies now and I want to just say hello to
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Meil. Good morning, Mail, Morning keV. How are you doing?
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Yeah, I'm good, thank you good. Okay, So we're going to
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talk about London Marathon, but I want to say good morning Chloe. Morning,
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Chloe, morning, cav. How are you doing? IM good?
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Thank you? Right, we start with you first, Chloe, because now
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let's you've you've put in for the London Marathon, is that right? Yeah?
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And have you ever done a marathon before? Nope? And you're running
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for charity yep. No, there you go. You ticked all the boxes.
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It's been great, Evan, you're on the show. Thank you very
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much. Joking Okay, Chloe, So let's go back. How did you
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start getting into running? So last April i'd come back and one of my
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local work friends had said that she joined a club called Beginners to Runners.
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Okay, yeah, so I thought why not sign up to it. During
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the beginner's course was a hit or miss, like everyone said, oh,
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you're not going to stick to it. I've stuck to it. Ever,
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since, just because the pure fact everyone was like, you're not going to
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stick to it. Mel was like, oh, we're doing the London marathons.
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You want to join. I was like, yeah, why not?
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I can't run five k yet? But right, well, but that's the
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sort of determination you need. And sometimes it's best if you don't know,
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for hep rounding, because you don't know what's ahead. Miler and I have
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been down there, we've run marathons, and but you've got this this young,
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enthusiastic approach to the whole thing. And so at what level are you?
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Now? How far are you been running? The furthest I've ran is
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ten k, but that was back in August last year, and then I
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had a knee injury. Right recently, I've just got to eight k again.
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Yeah. Yeah, and that's with a push with my club manager.
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He really pushes me, Like I'll go to club and say I'm running five
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k and he's like no, not and I'm like, oh, okay,
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you're running more than that. Yeah. And so having this club is that
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that's helped you sort of motivate you to yeah massively. Yeah. I wouldn't
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have signed up to most my bases if it wasn't for my club. They
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do really push everyone to succeed and there's a lot of people in the club
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that have like gone from not running at all to like doing ultras this year.
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Oh well yeah, okay, So that having that environment around you inspires
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you to keep going, doesn't it. Yeah? Okay, great, we're
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gonna switch to you. No mel now, Meil, you're unexperienced runner.
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You've been around the block a few times, as they say, but you've
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got tell us about your family. Your family are getting together on this occasion,
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aren't they to run the London So tell us about that. Yeah.
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Well, I've been trying for several years through my own running club, South
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Kent Harriers here locally and folks done. I've been trying to get a place
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into London for several years and not being able to. So I thought this
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year, okay, I would like to do it for charity. So my
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husband, as you know, Royd, I knew he would come along with
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me because he always does. So we've Yeah, we've signed up to Children's
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Cancer, which is an amazing cancer sorry excuse me, an amazing charity.
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And I've just managed to rope all the family in so I've got Chloe,
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her boyfriend Stephen, who is my nephew. I've got my daughter Neelie she's
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doing it, and my son Liam, he's also doing it. He's an
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experienced runner, he's done a marathon before. And then I've got my sister
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in lawd Dawn. She again, she hasn't done a marathon at all,
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she's just starting out like Chloe. Unfortunately, she's also had a knee injury,
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but she's very determined, so she'll get around. My nephew Oscar.
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And so there's eight of us altogether, and you all live close by.
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I mean, can you sort of I know it's difficult, but can you
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train me one or two of these or are they all doing their own thing.
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We're in two parts of the country, so there is myself, Royd,
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Chloe and my daughter here in Folkstone and then the rest of my family
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live in North Devon, so they are all down in Devon training my nephew
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Stephen, he's joined a local running club, as well as my sister in
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lord Dawn. My son he runs a lot anyway. But yeah, so
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there's four of them down here and four of us are okay, So the
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next time you see each other, will be on the start line. Yeah,
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and actually that that might be tough because I don't know have you been
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told what start color you're in. I think we're I think we're red.
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Yeah, you're all red. Yeah, I think we're great. Yeah.
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Well that makes a great difference because I've known runners that are trained together and
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they've got different start zones. And quite frankly, if you bunk in,
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you're all right. I don't don't mind too much. So that's a great
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story. So how many of you in total? Eight? Did you say?
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Yeah? There's yeah, eight of us, eight of us, And
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so you're all running, all running for this charity. We're all running for
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the same charity. We're all running, we're all fundraising, and we've all
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got our Facebook pages. So please do have a look on Facebook pages all
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of our friends. Well before before the show's out. You can remind me
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of any connections that you've got and how we can crack on. So Chloe
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and beginners to run us. Whereabouts are they? So they are all over
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the country, but I'm based in Hive at the Cricket Club. You can
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find them on Facebook as a club and then you can find your local one,
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okay, Yeah, No, I've compared a lot of races over the
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years in Kent and I've often seen a big gaggle of green fluorescent shirts there
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and I thought, all that must be beginners to run us. But I
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never know until I go and speak to them where they come from. And
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I understand that you were at a race or at one time when I think
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it was up a port Limb, there was a huge amount of them uppert
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Port Limb and I thought I must go and find out where they come from.
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Was you one of those? Yeah, I was one of them.
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And then there was a big green parade of us at the Portland Run.
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Yeah, very vocal and noisy, and I do remember yeah giving me a
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giving me a hard time. But now it's great. I see him all
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over the place and say, if I do see them, I want to
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go over and find out where they come from. So have you got any
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other races lined up? Chloe? So I've signed up to the Canterbury ten
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miler. Oh yeah. Then I've got the half marathon in Headcorn in February
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and the dim Church ten k in February, and then I've also got a
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ten miler in march called the Drop, which is a new race. Signed
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up to it last year. All Right noted that one quite a lot of
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us from club are doing it. And you basically you get blindfolded and put
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on a bus and they take you out into a ten mile radius of the
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Hate center and you have to find your way back. It's a bit different,
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so it could be longer than ten hours get the bus back. It
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could be five. Yeah, oh no, that sounds interesting because it does
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mix it up and it makes it rather than just pounding the streets. And
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you know, when I was doing might I've done three marathons and my time
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was such that I didn't have much time, so I was pounding the streets
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on my own. And my very very very first marathon was up in Yorkshire
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and I remember looking in front of me, absolutely no one in front of
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me, looking behind me, no one behind me. I thought, am
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I lost of augh? And then I saw somebody. So it is important
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to have company. Okay, we're going to take a little bit little break
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now, have a little bit of music, but we will be back to
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talk marathons, Temptations and my Girl. That song is kind of a bit
22:42
of a wedding song. Now at it when Dad wants to get up,
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thinks he can sing sings to his daughter. Everyone falls about laughing, but
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they all have a great time. So we're back in the studio now talking
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the London marathons and we're back with Chloe and Meil. So let's turn to
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you Mail. How many marathons have you done in the past. I think
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I've done about seven or eight. Now, have you ever done in London?
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No, you've never done in London, so that'll be a first for
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you. Although you don't tick all my boxes. You're very welcome to coming
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on the show today. But it's nice to have someone with a bit of
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experience as well, because I really am eager to get to the runners who
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are running London for the first time raising money for a charity. But under
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your guidance, meal you can do. You find that you can help your
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little group or they kind of just doing their own thing. They don't know,
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they just want to be left alone to do it. No, they've
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obviously because they know that I've been running for a while and I'm part of
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South Kent Area as a running club. They know they've been asking me questions.
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You know, with regards to what kind of shoes do we need?
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What about our socks? You know, do we need to buy new ones?
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Do we need to you know, wear the men. So it's been
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nice to be able to give them a couple of tear it. I must
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say your experience, because it does make a difference because you can make mistakes.
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I mean, people think, oh, yeah, I'm running a London
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marathon. I'll buy a new pair of trainers and wear them on the day.
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Big mistake, isn't it. Yeah? So and what else do they
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ask you? Do they ask about hitting the wall or the pain barriers or
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yeah? Definitely myself personally, I've been lucky because I've never hit that barrier.
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But yeah, we have been talking about that because one thing that I've
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learnt myself is it's very easily to get carried away with the atmosphere of everything
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going on around you, you know, to kind of lose concentration with regards
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to your pace. So I have been saying to them, don't go out
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there, don't push it to begin with. You really do need to stick
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to your plans, stick to your time and your pace because it's important.
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It's a long way, yeah, exactly. And I mean I can remember
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in the day I did. I did a twenty miler. I think on
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my own and thought twenty miles great, you know, then it hit me
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I've got six six more miles to go. Yeah. But I think that
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that enthusiasm on the day as well, when you've got people around you cheering
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you on. And Chloe, whatever you do, get your name on your
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T shirt. Right when I run the London Marathon, I had Ferret written
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on the T shirt, right, yeah, sports Ferry. I had Ferret
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on the T shirt. And the amount of stick I got, Well,
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come on, where's your Fareite down your traisers and one blow said to me,
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I've got a ferry home. We can run faster than you. Yeah.
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But it made me chuckle, It made me lifted me, you know.
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And when I was coming down the final straight at horse Guards there there
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was a big commentator doing the sort of thing that I do most Sundays,
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and she went very posh she was. She went, oh, welcome home,
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We want to welcome home. Mister Farray must have thought I was friends
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or something. I said, it's not fire, it's far It. But
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yeah, so Chloe, you need to get your name back to you,
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Chloe, and to you both mail. Actually will you be running in sort
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of cancer T shirts or you? Yeah, so we have to run in
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them, don't we? Mouth oh for the charity? Cool? Yeah yeah,
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yeah yeah. I've just placed my order for my T shirt and I
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do actually get iron on letters sent with it because I've raised over one hundred
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pounds already. Okay, yeah, yeah, I've just put my name.
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Yeah yeah, make sure you get your name and I'll tell you what if
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you need somewhere to put your name, go down down Tonton Street and see
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Sarah Harvey because she put the names on my own there. So a little
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little bit of good morning Sarah, a little bit of a free advertising for
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you. So getting down to the nitty gritty, Chloe, you know you
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go to sleep at night you think, oh my word, I've got the
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London Marathon coming up. Is it really a challenge or you relishing it,
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you're really looking forward to it, or you're dreading it. When I think
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about it and I'm not running, I'm really excited to just see how far
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I can mentally push myself. Yeah, but when I'm running my five k
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and eight k, I'm thinking Oh my god, I've got so many more
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to run. Yeah, I was speaking to Oh no, it was no.
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We played an interview back from Gary and Marie Brazier over the last few
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days, and I said to Marie, I said, can you really enjoy
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a marathon? She said, well, you can't really because you're focusing on
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what you want to do. And if you start, as Meal says,
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you get carried away and you know you're running too fast, you can you
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can have a bad experience. So I'm hoping that all these runners that I'm
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going to speak to, we'll have a brilliant experience. Listen to people like
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a male who've been there and done it and learn from it. So so
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the charity is it? What's the charity again? Children's cancer? Children's cancer?
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I mean, how fantastic is that if you raise a few grand for
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them? And that's the other thing. If you've got people giving you money,
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you think, oh you mustn't let them down. Yeah, that's what's
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that's what's helped pushing as well. Yeah, it's really important. Have you
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got are you working to a program at the moment or are you just kind
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of hoping to build up the knowledge as you go. So the London Marathon
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actually sent us all one, so you picked one out of the three.
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And I'm kind of incorporating it with my friends one as well because she's running
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it as well for a different charity. Yeah, so I'm kind of mixing
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the two together because mine's more time on your feet and hers is distance.
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So HER's this more like five k than five k and then an eight k
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at the weekend. So I'm trying to incorporate the two just because. And
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will your if you like your lifestyle, will that get in the way in
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as much that are you free at weekends because a lot of people do their
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long run at weekends, or are you tied up at the moment. I'm
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I'm okay for time, yeah, but when I start like working and it's
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four days on, four days off, that might get a bit tricky,
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all right, Yes, yes, I've got to work out how I can
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fit in there. Yeah. Sometimes it does work to your advantage because I
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was a shift worker on Eurotunnel for a number of years and whilst it can
29:15
be a pain, you might get like a four day window during the week
29:18
where there's no one about and you can just go out and do your own
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thing without any pressure. So mail you've been there before, but have you
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got a training program or you're just going to go out and do a lot
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of local races and build a mileage up on your own from your own experience.
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Yeah, I will still do those local races because you try and incorporate
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the distances of any races going between now and then. I'll be doing the
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counter Prey ten mile Royd and I will definitely put in to do the LID
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twenty when that comes around. So yeah, I'll still do those, but
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I'll do a plan. I've got to trying to do a plan for myself
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actually because I've just qualified with the England Athletics as a qualified coach. Yeah,
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so I'm putting together my own plan which we will follow. But work
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does impact. It is very difficult and especially with the darker evenings as well
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and dark mornings. Yeah yeah, it gets in the way a bit,
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isn't it. Yeah, Well, before we go, I mean, any
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thank you there, any mentions you want to make me, Yeah, I
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mean I would like to personally thank my because with regards to my fundraising where
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I'm currently working, I work for our HK groups and I'm the registered manager
30:33
at Parkview Care Center in Ashford, so we are going to be doing a
30:38
lot of fundraising. We'd like to be able to bring the community in too,
30:42
joining with us and family and friends where we're planning some events with our
30:48
residents. We're going to do a couple of little running events outside in our
30:52
car parks and the gardens. We're going to do a little wheelchair race and
30:55
get the staff to do a little three legged race and do some training.
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So it's going to be exciting. But I think for thank you, I
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mean we'd like a big thank you for the charity itself, you know,
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Children's Cancer, because we are quite a big group and they've been so helpful
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and supported because we have got so many of us that are first time marathon
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runners. We've met them. Actually we've met Emma, the lady that's running
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it, in a couple of running events, and she's been lovely and supportive.
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We've had a lot of merchandise given us for the fundraising aspect of it,
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which is really good, really helpful. Thanks just thanks to anybody really,
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friends and family that you know are going to help us fundraise. It
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is a great charity. We do welcome any kind of help and support from
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anybody, so please do get on our Facebook pages. I'd like to personally
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give a big thank you to all the marshals that we meet. You know,
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all those races that we go to, we really do build nice relationships.
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I mean you and Ike have I seen you a most all of my
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races, and you're very aware that me and Royd come across the line on
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ro But the marshals they do a great job. You know, they're out
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in all weathers as well. So that's my big thank you to all the
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marshals and all the races I just mentioned on that point, and to our
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listeners there that I've talked about my time in Cyprus on the show before now
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and I've also mentioned that Melanroyd were out in Cyprus, and it's funny how
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the tables were turned because I was a marshal four different races and all of
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a sudden the ball was on the other foot. I did feel a little
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bit strange. I feel a bit isolated one particular point out there in that
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forest. But there was one point where I shared the pain of a marshal
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because on the last day on the ten K I was marshaling at a point
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right on the corner and it was a really really windy, choppy day and
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I was right on the seafront and I got absolutely soaked and it wasn't even
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raining people. I went back to the finish and people said, oh,
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we missed the rain and I'll come back. I was absolutely dropping, but
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it was such good fun. So yeah, I agree, marshalling on a
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cold, windy day, especially if it's a long race, can be really
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tough. And the marshals do think they're do need those thanks? Anything else
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than me before we go? No, I think that's all just We're going
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to be doing a lot of advertising from part viewcres Cent. We really would
33:30
like to bring the community into come and support ONET, to support ourselves and
33:35
our lovely residents and stuff, but also support the charity. So we will
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be doing some advertising with our events. So hopefully you will get in touch
33:44
and pop along and join us. Thank you. Okay, now, Chloe,
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last word with you. You're new to running, but has anybody helped
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you in particular or as a group so far? And you can see them
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kind of latching onto them for support. I must say my club manager,
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he's done a fantastic job. The Portland Run was my first race, and
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the last bit as you got to the top of the hill. I mean
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I worked there for quite a while, so I knew the route already.
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But the last hill I said to him, I was like, I can't.
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He ran with me the whole way. I said, you don't need
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to run with me, you're a lot faster. If you want to go
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ahead, that's fine. But he stayed with me the whole time, and
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the last bit I said to him, I was like, I can't run
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anymore. I was like, I'm going to be sick. I can't do
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it. And he was like, no, just keep going. When you
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get to the top, we'll walk for ten seconds and then we're running all
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the way to the finish line. And I did. I stopped, and
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he came behind me and pushed me. And since then, like he's pushed
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me in every single club run. He's really there to like support me.
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Oh great, okay, I'll tell you a little story about the Portland Run.
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I was there, as you know, playing the music and and as
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the runners come in, I turned it up and got it going and one
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of the I think it was the head keeper came over and he said,
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excuse me, mister DJ, do you think you could turn the music down?
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The lions are getting a bit agitated, pacing up and down in there
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cases. Okay, last word from you, Chloe, anything else you want
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to say, because what we will be doing is we will be Chloe and
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Mail will be sending me their Facebook links. They're just giving links and we
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can share them, so we won't it's always difficult to try and remember just
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giving links, so please look out. I'll be posting them both on my
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Facebook page. So, Chloe, any lost words from you? No,
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I think there's everything. I think Male's covered all the thank yous. I
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would like to say big thank you to Mail for actually getting me involved and
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pushing me to sign up. I want to My final word is I want
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to thank both of you for coming in at such short notice, and I
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will be following your progress Chloe, so I'll be breathing Daniel neck and find
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out what's going on every week. I want a race report from Mew.
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So it's time with a bit of music. Now, thank you once again,
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and good luck on your London marathons. Time for a bit of proud
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Mary and credence, clear, war