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RECAP PART 2 OF 2025 SPORTY INTERVIEWS WITH ELLIE CURRAN CARLY MORGAN AND DEN KELLY ON RADIO FOLKESTONE · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin's Sports every daily.
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  Speaker 2: In the second hour of this recap of twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: a sporting bonenza.
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  Speaker 1: Now this how we recap the.
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  Speaker 2: Memories of three local athletes who ticked all the boxes
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  Speaker 2: for me. They were local, they were running for charity,
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  Speaker 2: and they'd never run a marathon before.
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  Speaker 1: So let's not hang about. Let's get this.
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  Speaker 3: Out on the way.
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  Speaker 2: This song sends the shivers up the spine if you
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  Speaker 2: run in the London. This is the TV thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually called the Trap. So there we have it.
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  Speaker 2: A theme tuned to the London Marathon as iconic music.
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  Speaker 2: That really is okay, So this hour we are going
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  Speaker 2: to dedicate it to three local athletes. Now, every year
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  Speaker 2: I set myself a little task, really a little mission,
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  Speaker 2: to find three local runners that have never run a
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  Speaker 2: marathon before, but they're running it for charity and get
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  Speaker 2: them in before all. These three interviews were recorded before
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  Speaker 2: they ran the marathon, so they're all a bit nervous
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  Speaker 2: the trepidation of the twenty six mile and all the
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  Speaker 2: other logistics that go with it, and they weren't recorded
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  Speaker 2: in the studio actually because of time constraints and trying
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  Speaker 2: to track people down. These were recorded in one of
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  Speaker 2: the rooms up at the Three Hills, so it's if
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  Speaker 2: you hear noises in the background, snooker balls and people
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  Speaker 2: cutting the grass and things like that. I do apologize
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  Speaker 2: now our first lady. Well, we've got two ladies and
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  Speaker 2: one gentleman, and this is a lovely story and I
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  Speaker 2: really I'm really pleased to share it because I've seen
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  Speaker 2: this lady at races since and she's still out there running.
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  Speaker 2: Some people do the London Marathon and throw their trainers
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  Speaker 2: away never again, but not this lady. So please sit
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  Speaker 2: back and listen to Ellie Kurn. So what made you
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  Speaker 2: decide to run London? When you started running, did you
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  Speaker 2: run with the intention of running a marathon or just
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  Speaker 2: because you wanted to keep fit.
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  Speaker 4: No, I had no intention ever in my life to
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  Speaker 4: run a marathon. I've always said that I hate running
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  Speaker 4: and I'm not very good at it. But last year
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  Speaker 4: my daughter became quite unwell and I decided I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to run for a charity that had supported her. And
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  Speaker 4: everybody wants to do London because it's iconic and it's
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  Speaker 4: the marathon, isn't it London Marathon? So I definitely seemed
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  Speaker 4: like the best one to do.
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  Speaker 3: Right, And what's the charity you've chosen.
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  Speaker 4: It's Young Lives versus cancer.
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  Speaker 3: Right, And that's because your daughter wasn't well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So in January last year, she was always really
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  Speaker 4: the healthiest out of my three children. I think she'd
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  Speaker 4: only ever been to the doctors about once in her
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  Speaker 4: whole life. She got up in the morning and she
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  Speaker 4: got a phone call from her from my bedroom, which
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  Speaker 4: isn't unusual because she's lazy. Mum, can you come to
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  Speaker 4: my room? I mean so much pain? And I went
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  Speaker 4: in her bedroom and she's sort of rolling around on
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  Speaker 4: the floor, and I thought, it's Sunday, She's got school tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Could this be some sort of ploy to try and
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  Speaker 4: get out of school? But as the day went on,
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  Speaker 4: I sort of realized she really was unwell, and I
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  Speaker 4: took her to A and E and they kept us
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  Speaker 4: in and sort of all felt like a bit of
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  Speaker 4: a waste of time, and I was thinking, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: what's going on. They're going to let us home many
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  Speaker 4: times soon. And by the time, yeah, I think they'd
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  Speaker 4: done a few treatments which sort of helped her, and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: she seemed better, and she was she'd been sent for
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  Speaker 4: an ultrasound. I remember in the ultrasound they called some
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  Speaker 4: other people in and they were all sort of talking
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  Speaker 4: in riddles and it didn't really make any sense to me.
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  Speaker 4: And then we went back up to the ward and
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  Speaker 4: I was thinking, Oh, they must let us home soon,
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  Speaker 4: and I haven't had any clean clothes yet, and tired
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  Speaker 4: of been here since yesterday. And she was asleep on
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  Speaker 4: the bed and the consultant came around and said, all, Mum,
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  Speaker 4: can we have a quick chat? Bring your phone with you,
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  Speaker 4: And I thought maybe they're going to tell us we
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  Speaker 4: can go home. And when I got to the room,
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  Speaker 4: there was another nurse there waiting, and she said, we
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  Speaker 4: found a mass and it's a felled the size of
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  Speaker 4: a house brick. And she was tiny, so I didn't
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  Speaker 4: quite know how she hidden that away for so long.
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  Speaker 4: And she said, we have to tell you. We think
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  Speaker 4: it could be cancer. Worst cases, it's advanced and it's spread,
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  Speaker 4: and best cases it's benign. And I just, honestly I
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  Speaker 4: could not believe it. I just I thought, how could
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  Speaker 4: somebody that was so healthy yesterday and so well yesterday
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  Speaker 4: have a tune of the size of a house brick.
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  Speaker 4: It was just unreal, really, and it was the most
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  Speaker 4: surreal thing. And then you're being told, all we're going
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  Speaker 4: to refer you to the Royal Marsden and you need
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  Speaker 4: to go down to X ray now because we want
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  Speaker 4: to check there's nothing nasty on her lungs. And all
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  Speaker 4: I could think the whole time was she was just
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  Speaker 4: laying there asleep, and you know, innocent and young and
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  Speaker 4: twelve years old. How could they possibly be saying that
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  Speaker 4: she's got cancer. It was just, honestly such a shock.
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  Speaker 4: I've never experienced shock like it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a terrible blow. I mean, it's the worst
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  Speaker 3: night there isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you just don't everythink things like that are going
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  Speaker 4: to happen to you. Hear about it happening to other people,
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  Speaker 4: but you never think, you know, that would happen to
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  Speaker 4: your child. You know. It was just awful. And the
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  Speaker 4: other thing was that they said, oh, don't tell her anything,
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  Speaker 4: will you. So I had to finish at that appointment
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  Speaker 4: and go back to the ward where she was in
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  Speaker 4: completing ut of shock and just act like nothing had happened.
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  Speaker 3: And it was just it was awful, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm moving on from there, What was the next
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  Speaker 2: move with your daughter? A series of treatments obviously.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So we were referred to the Marsden and we
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  Speaker 4: had we were given a really terrible preliminary diagnosis which
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  Speaker 4: I briefly googled it, which was regrettable, but it was
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  Speaker 4: it had a really poor survival rate. I think the
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  Speaker 4: survival rate when I looked it said poor prognosis. About
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  Speaker 4: twenty percent of people live five years, I think it said.
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  Speaker 4: And I was just completely devastated. So I think the
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  Speaker 4: Marsden then referred us to London for biopsy, which fortunately
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  Speaker 4: was quite quick. I remember the time when we were
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  Speaker 4: waiting for the biopsy, feeling devastated, like nothing in the
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  Speaker 4: world would have made me feel better. If I'd won
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  Speaker 4: a hundred million pounds, I wouldn't have felt better. Nothing
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  Speaker 4: mattered anymore. I felt annoyed at how ungrateful I'd been
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  Speaker 4: throughout my life and how I hadn't you know, I'd
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  Speaker 4: taken it all for granted, that my life was good
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  Speaker 4: and happy, and I could potentially lose my child and
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  Speaker 4: it would have just.
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  Speaker 2: Been well, you can't describe it, can they? Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'd say it's the parents' worst night. Yeah, and you
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  Speaker 2: know you feel so helpless and so.
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  Speaker 3: Moving on. Obviously it looks like Rihanna's.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was fantastic. We've got a really good outcome
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  Speaker 4: in the end. It was a type of cancer that
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  Speaker 4: was very chemo sensitive. She had four rounds of chemo.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, she's doing so so well, and we are
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  Speaker 4: so lucky, and we feel so grateful with everything that's
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  Speaker 4: happened that she's so well, that she's okay, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: forever thinking about those children still there at that hospital
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  Speaker 4: that aren't as lucky as we are.
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  Speaker 3: And she herself was she during that period.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it was awful. She had to take a
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  Speaker 4: lot of time off school. Initially, you know, friends were
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  Speaker 4: very attentive, but as time went on, you know, kids,
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  Speaker 4: they're busy with their own lives, and I think she
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  Speaker 4: sort of felt like she was being left behind. And
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  Speaker 4: there was other things that she lost her hair, which
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  Speaker 4: was awful for her. She had lovely long hair. She
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  Speaker 4: got quite sick. She was sick a lot with the chemo.
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  Speaker 4: Her friends would be on things like school trips, or
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  Speaker 4: she'd see the things that they were doing on social media,
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  Speaker 4: and she had really poor immunity from the chemo, so
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  Speaker 4: she wasn't able to socialize with people as much as
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  Speaker 4: she would have lied and it was really difficult for
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  Speaker 4: her and it was heartbreaking to see her going through that.
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  Speaker 3: But she's had the all clear.
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  Speaker 4: Now she's had the all clear, she's doing really well.
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  Speaker 3: What did you feel about that? Completely in flips are.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't it? It was amazing? And that is what has
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  Speaker 4: led me on to doing this marathon. I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: do something. I wanted to give something back. I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to focus that wasn't cancer and worrying about relapses because
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  Speaker 4: of course that will always be a worry for us.
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  Speaker 3: Now, okay, so let's know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's it's like a happy sad story for
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  Speaker 2: any parent that's out there listening. Wouldn't want to spot
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  Speaker 2: places with you would So the charity itself Young Lis
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  Speaker 2: Versus Cancer. So when you go up on the day,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, have they been supportive for you? Is the
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  Speaker 2: cheerstations on your car?
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  Speaker 4: There's quite a few young large cheer stations. I think
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  Speaker 4: there's one at mile seventeen miles, thirteen miles.
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  Speaker 5: I think twenty two.
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  Speaker 4: I think we just were looking at I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm in a Facebook group with other people and
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  Speaker 4: most of the other people that are running have similar
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  Speaker 4: stories to.
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  Speaker 3: Me, so I imagine you're not alone.
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  Speaker 4: Quite emotional, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I can imagine. Yeah, Ellie. You know, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: close this interview now, but it's been an eye opener
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  Speaker 2: for me, and I think people that are going to
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  Speaker 2: listen to this will realize that you're such an inspiring
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  Speaker 2: mum and you're showing other people that you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can get out and do something, you know, sort of
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  Speaker 2: out of the box. And so I've just got nothing
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  Speaker 2: but admiration for you, Ellie. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: change listen, selling us your story. What can I say,
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  Speaker 2: Just have a fantastic day, don't worry about the watch ever,
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  Speaker 2: look around, take it in because it's a day you'll
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  Speaker 2: never forget.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So what a really brave lady.
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  Speaker 2: She was actually Ellie coming on and sharing the story
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  Speaker 2: about her daughter, who luckily is on of men now.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, just to kind of when she when
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  Speaker 2: she was speaking to me, she was like in the zone.
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  Speaker 2: She was just she's just reliving of what she'd been through.
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  Speaker 2: It really was an emotional time and just got to
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  Speaker 2: admire her and the whole family sticking together, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a lovely story that the daughters come out the other side.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose it's something that it never really goes away,
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  Speaker 1: does it.
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  Speaker 2: But she's been given the all clear and they'd be
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  Speaker 2: just check ups every six months or so, I suppose.
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  Speaker 2: So this was a song that I think really really
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  Speaker 2: suits Ellie because after all the trauma of her daughter,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she wanted to do something running wise, and
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  Speaker 2: this is what she did. She heard London calling, barn.
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  Speaker 3: Down the.
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  Speaker 2: Clash there and that was for Ellie because she couldn't
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  Speaker 2: do anything else. Once she heard London calling, she had
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  Speaker 2: to run that marathon and she finished successfully, well done,
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  Speaker 2: raising loads of money for young lies versus cancer or
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  Speaker 2: a fantastic story. Okay, if you're just tuning in, this
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  Speaker 2: is Kevin sports her at Daily and we are recapping
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. In this hour, we've got three athletes
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  Speaker 2: who run the London Marathon.
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  Speaker 1: For the first time.
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  Speaker 2: They're all local and they raise money for their respective charity.
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  Speaker 2: Something is a mission that I try and do every year,
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  Speaker 2: and it does. It is a bit tough sometimes to
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  Speaker 2: find these athletes and then the next thing is is
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  Speaker 2: to get them in. But these three stories are brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: I love them, So don't go away anywhere, right, So
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a bit of a running our
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  Speaker 2: theme music. So I found this one. I do love
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  Speaker 2: this one, this way back from seventy eight. You might
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  Speaker 2: not remember this, but I love this one. And this
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  Speaker 2: is Linda's fire. That's Linda's far running for home, as
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  Speaker 2: did all the London Marathons last year and next year
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  Speaker 2: as well. Now our second athlete to tell her story
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  Speaker 2: is Carl Carlsburg Morgan now trying to fit training and
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  Speaker 2: it was difficult due to a job, but she managed
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  Speaker 2: it and she was so excited about doing the London Marathon.
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  Speaker 2: So sit back and listen to Carl's story. Tell us
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  Speaker 2: a bit about yourself. Did you enjoy sport as a youngster?
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  Speaker 2: You know how long you've been running? Tell us a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about your background.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, cool? So did I enjoy sport as a youngster?
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  Speaker 6: Probably up until twelve, and then I got a little
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  Speaker 6: bit overly competitive and couldn't handle losing, so I jacked
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  Speaker 6: it in. I used to play netball a little bit
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  Speaker 6: of school and really enjoyed that. I certainly was not
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  Speaker 6: a runner. I would have panic attacks at the thought
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  Speaker 6: of cross country runs.
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  Speaker 5: I would dodge it.
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  Speaker 6: I'd be sick that day from school. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 6: wouldn't class myself as a sporty kid as such, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: perhaps a bit more sporty adult, right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So what was it about cross country running that
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  Speaker 2: you didn't like?
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  Speaker 3: Was it just just not in you? Or was there
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  Speaker 3: any other reasons I struggled.
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  Speaker 5: I really struggled with the with running. I wanted to go.
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  Speaker 6: Faster and then I'd totally lose lose the ability to
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  Speaker 6: go far.
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  Speaker 5: And I struggle with asthma.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do you.
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  Speaker 5: So I was diagnosed with asthma at about seven years old.
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  Speaker 5: Not serious asthma, but.
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  Speaker 6: It would certainly kick in when I was trying to
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  Speaker 6: do any kind of running or sports and stuff. And
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  Speaker 6: so it's just too overwhelming to consider a cross country right.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean when you was younger, did you kind
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  Speaker 3: of use it as a little lever? Absolutely not, another
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  Speaker 3: note from your mum, and.
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  Speaker 5: You can't. Cross country's a bit of a flare up.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well we're joking about it.
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  Speaker 2: But as a child, asthma in normal day events must
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  Speaker 2: have been a bit of a bit of a struggle
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  Speaker 2: growing up with yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Very much.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 6: The thing with asthma that I find is you don't
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  Speaker 6: really notice it until you think about it, and the
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  Speaker 6: moment you start thinking about it, especially if you're trying
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  Speaker 6: to do anything sporting it, it just kicks into your
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  Speaker 6: mindset and it can really limit you.
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  Speaker 2: Right, okay, so how did you get back into running?
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  Speaker 2: What sort of spurs you want to come this far
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  Speaker 2: to do challenge the London Marathon.
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  Speaker 6: So about three years ago, I was on holiday with
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  Speaker 6: the family. So I've got a husband and two kids.
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  Speaker 6: We were over in Cyprus, which is one of our
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  Speaker 6: favorite places to go. And mums will know this. You're
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  Speaker 6: always the one that get ups early. You know, you're
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  Speaker 6: getting everyone ready for breakfast and stuff. So I was
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  Speaker 6: up early. Everyone else was still snoozing, and I looked
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  Speaker 6: out the window and there's this beautiful view of the
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  Speaker 6: sea and loads.
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  Speaker 5: Of people out walking and running.
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  Speaker 6: So I thought, right, I'll go for a walk. Went
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  Speaker 6: for a little walk. People are running past me. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: quite fancy, little trot. So I just started and that
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  Speaker 6: was about one point eight k r. The rest is history.
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  Speaker 6: It grew from there.
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  Speaker 2: So that was the turning point very much. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: came from a nun runner to a runner. What a
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  Speaker 2: lovely venue to restart your running career.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, hot but lovely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, straight back in the pool before breakfast. Right okay,
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  Speaker 2: So again on a serious note, let's let's go back.
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  Speaker 2: So that was the turning point. So how did you decide?
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  Speaker 2: How did you end up running the London Marathon?
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  Speaker 5: What a question?
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  Speaker 6: So I started obviously after this holiday doing.
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  Speaker 5: The odd five k here and there. I built up
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  Speaker 5: to that first off. Then one of my very.
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  Speaker 6: Very bestest friends, Debbie Dause, she just invited me for a.
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  Speaker 5: Run one day.
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  Speaker 6: Now, Debbie I had watched from the sideline. She lives
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  Speaker 6: in our village. Debbie has done a marathon. She was
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  Speaker 6: training through COVID and Debbie is like missus fit. She
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  Speaker 6: could run un It always looked like she had a
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  Speaker 6: big backpack on and she was just like super super
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  Speaker 6: amazing runner.
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  Speaker 3: I hate then, yeah, now I love it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah and so and she said to me our sons
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  Speaker 6: play cricket together. And she said to me one day
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  Speaker 6: when we were watching the boys, you know, if you
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  Speaker 6: have a fancy going for a run and I thought, oh, nah,
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  Speaker 6: there's no way.
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  Speaker 5: I could ever run with Debbie.
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  Speaker 6: Anyway, I plucked up the courage and I said, yes,
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  Speaker 6: let's do it, and we went for I think it
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  Speaker 6: must have been about a six k run something like
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  Speaker 6: that around our village. We're chatting all the way, and
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  Speaker 6: I realized, oh, I can I can do this, and
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  Speaker 6: I've got a bit of courage. And not only did
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  Speaker 6: I have the courage, but I really loved it. And
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  Speaker 6: so we just started running and for a good couple
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  Speaker 6: of years we've been running.
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  Speaker 5: Every other day. We started doing ten k's every other day.
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  Speaker 6: Chat chat chatting start of the working day totally helps
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: your mental health. And then one day I saw a
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: post about the lot of marathon. I thought, oh, I
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: might fancy that. I might see if I can push
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: myself to prove I can do hard things.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: So did you go down the ballot route or did
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: you have to get a charity?
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I went for a charity place.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: I'm running for asthma and lung UK Obviously that's really
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: close to my heart.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I've been fundraising for them ever since.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Right, I mean, I'm thinking about the asthma and the
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: first thing is these people out of breath. So I mean,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: it's great that you're running for this charity, but I mean,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: how has in later life, how has the asthma affected
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: your running? Does it not slowed you down?
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Not at all? If anything, it's got better. Absolutely.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: So I would always get seasonal asthma, so when the
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: hay fever kicked in or in the cold weather.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: That's when your asthma would get worse.
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: But when I go running, it's almost like it clears
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: clears my airways, it opens up the lungs. I've not
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: had touchwood, I've not had a flare up since I've
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: been doing the more longer runs. And also I'm managing
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: my medication better i used to be.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, you can talk to my husband.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: He tell you I would use my inhaler when a
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: flare up APPA or if I was worried about an attack.
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: I wasn't preventing the asthma in any way. And now
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: because I'm running, I take my asthma and halo every
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: single day and I take it with me on runs
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: and it's it's.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: Definitely made a massive TI.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: So I mean, do you need you need to take
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: it on a run. So on a run like twenty
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: six point two miles. I don't know anything about Inhaler's.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Is it just one in Haler or do you need.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: To take a couple.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: I have like a combination in Halo that has a
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: preventative and a sort of like a reactive one in
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: there together. I take mine Halo on my long runs
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: when I've been training. So far, I've not had to
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: use it once, but it's really yeah, definitely, but for
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: an asthmatic it's a nice safety blanket. Yes, it's almost
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: good for the mind to know that you've got it
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: in case you need it.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: And the charity Asthma in Long UK, I mean they
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: have they been helpful supporting you.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Have they got a cheer station?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, there's cheer stations they've been putting on webinars
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: and enough to help and give advice both for how
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: to raise funds obviously, but also how to how to
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: run if you are an asthmetic.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: There's lots of advice.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's good, isn't it. Okay, so let's get back
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: to your training. So how's training been going? And we
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: understand we've got a common common friend that.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, coach Quinny Aaron Quinn.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, So where I mean, where does she come in?
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: What's she been doing to help you?
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: So I engaged with Karen in September last year. She's
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: been she's a family friend. She's known my husband for many,
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: many years. They grew up together and we bumped into
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: each other a year or so ago, and she'd seen
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: my running on Strava, good old Strava. And as soon
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: as I had signed up for the for the marathon
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: and got a place, I got in contact with her
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: to say.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Help because I had absolutely no.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: Know and I'm very the sort of work I do.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: I like to.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: I like to get expertise when you don't have it.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: It helps you. You need the right methods in order
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: to get the results you want. And so Karen has
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: been able to give me all the advice and and
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: a full training plan every single month, and so far it's.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Been going really well, oh brilliant.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: So just as we're beginning to close now, just tell
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: us a little bit what you know about the charity.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: It's self explanatory. ASTHMA and along UK we did we
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: did say earlier on they've been a great help.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: But of their support. Has that been important to years
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: as an asthma sufferer? Is it something that you want
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: to get the message over to other asthma suffers?
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it does feel like I mean with all of
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: these sort of charity groups, you get into a community,
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: you know, and it definitely feels from this particular charity.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: People have chosen it because they're asthma sufferers, or they
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: might have lost people because of sadly because of asthma.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: I have a friend who lost her boyfriend really earlier
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: when they were younger, because you had an asthma attack,
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: and it's just devastating. I think lots of people think
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: that asthma is not a massive deal, but it can
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: be such a huge deal.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: And so for me, it's.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Kind of raising awareness to say, even if you have
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: got asthma, you can.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Still do it.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: You can still do it. You can train your body
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: to think differently.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, now, so you're raising money for the charity. You
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: set yourself a target. What was your target?
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: I think my target was two grand.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: And what is it at now?
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: One hundred and five?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Well, with a bit of gift, with a bit of gift,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: I've got it written down from it's just over twoy
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: and four hundred, so that is fantastic. Okay, well, Carly,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: it's been absolutely wonderful speaking to you. I've learned a
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: lot more about asthma than like you say, you just
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: I always thought people a couple of pumps and it
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: had gone. There's more to it than that, and you're
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: you're proving that and you're proving it to other asthma sufferers.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: So a big, big thank you. There is anything else
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: you want to want to say before you go? You know,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: any other any other points we've missed?
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: You think?
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: No, I think that captures most of it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Just the best of luck to anyone doing anything like this,
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: any other marathon runners out there.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Of good luck to everyone doing it. It's going to
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: be an epic event.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: It's amazing.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: You know, you set yourself a target and you just
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: focused on it, and it's what you're doing is just
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: raising awareness for other people to so that they just
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: know that they can do it as well. Honestly, Carl
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: has been really nice talk with you, and what can
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I say? Just have a great day, make sure you
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: get Probably the best runner in the marathon. I love
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: that you need a big T shirt to put all
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: that on. So thanks and this will be going out
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: on the Saturday, so basically when this is being played,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: you will be running tomorrow, so we'll be looking at
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: for her.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: We'll get that number and start tracking. Much thank you.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: So there go.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: That was carl Morgan there and a very busy, bubbly
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: lady there and so excited about running the London Marathon.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And that little chuckle at the end In case we.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Were talking about it early earlier in the interview, it
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: might have been in the first half where some of
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: it was edited out, but the family caller Kylsburg, Carlie,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Carlesburg and Morgan, and they were saying they were going
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: to get some T shirts and some flags out and
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: on them they wanted to get printed the probably the
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: best runner in the London Marathon, and it did make
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: me chuckle. Anyway, Carly once again she did it. She
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: did the London Marathon, finished in one piece, and she's
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: set an example to other marathon, matt Marathon, other asthma sufferers. Okay,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: so we're sticking with the London theme now and this
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: is an ELO and last train to London, so last
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: train to London, so we just tuned in This is
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Kevin's Sports Furit Daily. We are doing a recap of
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five and in this hour it's all about
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the London Marathon and our three runners.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: We've got one wall to go.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: We're going to be chatting to Den Kelly or we're
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: going to be listening back to then just after this song,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: but another running song, dug this one out.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Listen to this lionel Richie.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: M that was Lona Richie there and running with the
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Knights and now then finally achieved his ambition of running
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: the London Marathon. So let's listen back to Den's story.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: For example, I mean, did you like sport of school?
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Did you bunk off school because of sport? And how
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: long have you running? Just a little bit about yourself,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: So I.
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: Think probably the biggest part of my life was twenty
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: one years in the Armed forces, so that was the
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: ref So part of that is obviously there was an
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: element of staying physically fit, and during that time I
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: played quite a lot of hockey. So my coaches always
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: used to tell me off for playing sport to keep
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: fit and not keeping fit to play sport. So I
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: was never the greatest runner. I think it would be
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: fair to say, but I've always had that kind of
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: base level there, so for really coming out of that,
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: coming out or leaving the military, So just over thirteen
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: years ago now, the kind of like the gym stuff,
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: really kind of stopped to played a little bit of golf,
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: didn't play stop playing hockey. So really it was something
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: I've come to a time in my life really that
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: with it was something I wanted to achieve, and with
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: the charity aspect of it as well, it kind of
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: felt like the right time.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: The right time. Yeah, so how long you've been running.
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: In so I've been training for sixteen weeks with stops
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: and starts, with the training setbacks that I think everybody
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: will go through. But I said, there's always been kind
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: of like that base that I would go to the
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: gym occasionally, and a couple of years ago, I spent
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: some time away overseas and during that time when I
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: was away from my family, joined COVID, spent quite a
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: lot of time.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: In the gym there.
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: So fortunately that fitness was there, it was just time
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: on the road.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: So you had a basis of fitness, which you've obviously
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: done most of your life.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: But so what decided running and London Marathon.
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: Well, there's a couple of things really. I mean, I've
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: always been a fan of the London Marathon. I remember
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: way back when I was a boy watching Charlie Spedding
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: back in the early eighties, I think, doing the London Marathon.
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: So it was all be the you know, watching the
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: marathon on a Sunday morning, So there was always that interest.
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: I've had family members that have done lots and lots
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: of marathons, so for me that was always kind of
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: sitting in the background as a bucket list. But I've
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: never been a long distance runner, so to be honest,
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: I didn't think it was achievable. But then when I
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: turned fifty a couple of years ago, it kind of
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: got more of a goal that I wanted to do.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: And then a couple of things that have happened sort
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: of to me personally, and when I got married last year,
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: Penny's mum and stepdad, I've done so much for the
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: RBL and I'm now taking a bit of a back seat,
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: or they will say they're taking a bit of a
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: back seat, but they're still very, very busy.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: So the RBL explain to her listeners what the LBL is.
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: So that's a Royal British Legion, so obviously very well
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: known for the Poppy Appeal and do so much work
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: for servicemen both current and former serving. Lots and lots
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: of awareness that have been around this particular charity. But
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: what I wanted to do was really kind of focus
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: on a local level. So we have the Choton and
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: mare Hall Raw British Legion branch, which again does so
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: much work in the local area, and really it was
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: kind of raised a little bit awareness about that really
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: trying to generate some new members, trying to generate again
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: if people have got time on their hand to because
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: they need offices as well as you know, people just
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: to become members. So really it was it was twofold really.
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: So the Raw British Legion also helped me as well
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: a couple of years ago when you know you're kind
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: of having tougher times, especially when you're transitioning from the
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: military into Civillian street. So they've always been super supportive
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: for me. They've been super supporters and some very close friends.
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: Unfortune one lost his life last year to cancer and
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: the support that they gave their family was really just
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: tremendous and that really was the springboarding to go right.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: This is the right time, right, So I did you
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: was it that with your connections with your rb IL,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: was it quite easy to get a charity place?
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Absolutely?
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: So it was way back in May last year I
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: volunteered for the to run for the Raw British Legion.
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: So I put forward obviously my kind of like little CV,
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: and they were very interested. They got back to me
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: very quickly and said, you know, we would we would
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: love you to run. And the rest, as I say,
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: is history or will be history.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: It was a bit of a shock to the system
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: when when you know, you thought, oh my word, I've
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: really got to train for this, and did you did
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: you have a training plan or did you just go
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: out and do a bit running yourself.
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: So initially it was I was quite conscious about getting
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: miles into my legs really, so I didn't follow a
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: set training plan. Initially, it would just get out on
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: the road doing some park runs, just doing a bit
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: bit of running. And then as we turned into the
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: new year, I then started to follow the sixteen week
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: training plan, of which I kind of some moments I
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: found easier, some moments I found hard, and then the
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: I picked up a hamstring injury after about week six
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: when I started doing some mintival training, and so that
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: obviously set me back sort of five six weeks really,
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: So since then I've been quite wary about being doing
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: too much strength work and just concentrated on getting miles
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: into my legs really right.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: And the RBL on the side of your running, have
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: they been a good support.
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah, tremendously supportive, so especially we're all part of groups
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: on Facebook and the organizers of Victoria at the RBL
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: has been immensely supportive. There's been zoom calls, and there's
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: been regular newsletters with information and hints and tips about
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: what to do and what to expect obviously for the
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: weekend coming right, So yeah, super supportive really.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: So as you as your mileage built up, I mean,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: what was your longest run that you did?
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: So I did the lid Half Marathon that's probably what
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: six weeks ago now, so that was that was a
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: real step into the unknown. That that was the furthest
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: I've previously done was ten miles and that was a
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: very long time ago. So that for me was an
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: important gate post in my training really in how I
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: am in how and really the lessons that I learned
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: from that day, especially with fueling and pace, et cetera.
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: And one of the things that I've really taken on
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: board over the last couple of weeks is my running
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: posture to run better rather than so things like keeping
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: your chin up, keeping your diaphragm expanded, and you know.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Just trying to have a better form.
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: And these are all lessons that I've learned since LID
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: really like the longest run.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: So so do you find because your ship for work
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: then that you're not you're not a member of club
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: or do you run everything been on your own?
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: Is it?
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: So I've had a couple of I would say training partners,
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: but a few people. So Hillary Collins, who is part
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: of the Vocal Running Club, She's done a couple of
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: runs with me, and she's been really supportive a fart
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: as because she's done the marathons before.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: I think she's doing the reverse marathon this year yea.
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: So she's full of all the ideas and tips about
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: things what to do. And every time I have that
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: little emotional crisis and Hillary was falling off, She's coming
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: out with, you know, some really good advice. So I've
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: been plenty of people have My best friend would he
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: He was there for the first park run. He lives
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: up in the Cotswolds, so he was there and we
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: did that first run together to start on the sixteen
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: week training plan. So yeah, it's I'm a bit of
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: a kind of a loaner when it comes to running.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Because some people are actually don't they you know, it
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: suits them, you know some I used to find him
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I was training. If somebody was like half a yard
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: quicker in their natural place, it meant that you were
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: running out as your comfort zone.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so sometimes it is.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: It's nice to have that company, but it's also nice
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: to run on your own as well.
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: Find it quite difficult to talk when I'm running, so
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: to keep them by my breathing, especially on the early
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: days when, as I say, when you're trying to get
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: those miles in your legs. But hopefully now with the
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: pace that I'm running at, hopefully there'll be a few
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: conversations on Sunday.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Well then what else can I say except to have
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: a fantastic day.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Is I'll say this every interview when.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: I talk about marathons. If you're going to run a marathon,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: run London. If you never do another marathon in your life,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: you know the fact that you're running around in London
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: is just a wonderful thing that we'll live with you forever.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: So I just want to say the best of luck
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: and they say you have a good one, thank you
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: so much. Yes, So there you go. That was Den
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Kelly there running for the RBL. And you know what
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: is a bit of a sucker for punishment really because
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: he's only gone and signed up for the twenty twenty
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: six London Marathon so well a great charity and being
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: an ex serviceman as well, and with the family involved,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: it is obviously very close to his heart. Okay, so
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I'm for a bit of music now and this is
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: the Beautiful South from ninety four. Everybody's talking, everybody's talking
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: at me.