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MARTIN,JON AND EVE CAME INTO THE STUDIO TO TELL US ABOUT THEIR BIKE,PADDLE,HIKE CHALLENGE FOR CHARITY. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports for a daily bringing you the
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  Speaker 1: Saturday sports show right here on Radio Folkestone. Well, there's
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  Speaker 1: no AD today as he'll be at Western Supermare commentating
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  Speaker 1: on Folkestone Invictus away game for Seasiders Radio. However, we
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  Speaker 1: do have a busy show as three guests join us
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  Speaker 1: to tell us all about a sporty challenge they completed
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  Speaker 1: earlier on in the year, raising money for action and
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  Speaker 1: medical research. Now, I was hoping it would be the
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  Speaker 1: full team of four, but one of the team is
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday morning children's club taxi duties. So very shortly,
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  Speaker 1: we will introduce them all after a birthday wish to
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  Speaker 1: Mitch Ewer. And Mitch Ewer is 73 today. And Mitch
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  Speaker 1: was the frontman of Ultravox in the 80s. And in 1981,
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  Speaker 1: this track was released as a single and spent four
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  Speaker 1: weeks in at number two in the UK charts. So
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  Speaker 1: sit back and enjoy Ultravox and Vienna. Classic track from
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  Speaker 1: 1981 there, Ultravox, Vienna. Quite a different sound, actually, that one.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of took a lot of people by surprise,
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  Speaker 1: but it stood the test of time. It's still out there. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm joined in the studio now by three members of
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  Speaker 1: Team Quad Goals. We've got Martin Murray, John Morton and
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  Speaker 1: Eve Gardner. So let's go around the table. Let's say
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  Speaker 1: good morning to Martin. Morning, Martin. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, morning, Kev. I'm good, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I know your event was some time ago, but you're
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  Speaker 1: fully recovered. Did it take a lot of recovery after
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  Speaker 1: doing that?
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  Speaker 2: A couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: Did it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. We'll describe the event in more detail very shortly.
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  Speaker 1: We want to say good morning to Eve.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Eve. Morning. That's it. How are you? Are
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  Speaker 1: you all right? Yes, thank you. Okay, good. Well, now,
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  Speaker 1: good morning to John.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Kev.
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  Speaker 1: Morning, how are you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say you're probably one of
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  Speaker 1: the fittest blokes around at the moment, still playing rugby,
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  Speaker 1: but you're injured, aren't you?
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  Speaker 4: I am injured, yeah. I got injured a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago up in Newcastle.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a long-term injury?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to need an operation.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, are you?
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  Speaker 4: Next week or the week after.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really? Is that bad, is it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I tore my bicep tendon.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: So that's going to be reattaching.
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  Speaker 1: You was obviously playing at the time.
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  Speaker 4: I was 10 minutes in.
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  Speaker 1: Was you?
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  Speaker 4: 10 minutes in, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 1: Right. That's the whole season gone then, isn't it? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is it the career?
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  Speaker 2: Is it the career?
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  Speaker 4: I think it might be.
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  Speaker 2: I think it might be.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, dear. Can't have that. But now, coming back to
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  Speaker 1: you then, Martin. Now, you've been a sporty man and
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  Speaker 1: you still are in your time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So you played rugby for a long time and then you,
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  Speaker 1: what happened next after your rugby?
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  Speaker 2: I started on the running. Yeah. So I do see
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  Speaker 2: you frequently out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Look forward to the shout out to the end of
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  Speaker 2: the race.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right. So then this event occurred. Now, did it
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  Speaker 1: happen like down the pub one evening when you'd all
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  Speaker 1: been drinking or was it really structured that you should
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  Speaker 1: do this event?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think it did happen at my 40th birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And the girls were talking, and they decided after a
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  Speaker 3: few drinks that this was going to be a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So did you then start looking for an event,
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  Speaker 1: or did you have this one in mind?
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  Speaker 2: I think Rachel had it in mind.
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  Speaker 5: Rachel definitely instigated it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was definitely Rachel's idea.
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  Speaker 1: Was it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we blame her because she's not here this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so for the listeners who are dying to know
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  Speaker 1: what it was, so tell us exactly what you did
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  Speaker 1: on this event.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was a bit of a triathlon.
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  Speaker 3: So it was a 32 mile bike, two mile kayak
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  Speaker 3: and a nine mile hike just to finish it off.
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  Speaker 1: Right. So quite a full on day. And we're going
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  Speaker 1: to go through the training procedures a little bit later on.
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  Speaker 1: But Eve, hang on a sec, Eve. So Eve, were
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  Speaker 1: you a sporty person, you know, from school and things
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  Speaker 1: like that? Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I play netball and done a bit of running as well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, good. So when this challenge was sort of thrown out,
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  Speaker 1: was you under the influence as well, or did you think, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go for this?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I got roped in by Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, did you?
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  Speaker 6: It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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  Speaker 1: And, I mean, the training, did you suffer in the training?
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  Speaker 1: Because there was, I mean, the kayaking for a start,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to talk about that.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we didn't actually do any training for that.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, did you do any training
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  Speaker 1: for that at all?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: No? Okay, so... um you had the bike and did
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  Speaker 1: you all get out on.
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  Speaker 7: The bike yeah got out on the bike did a
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  Speaker 7: few together obviously the logistics of trying to get all
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  Speaker 7: four of us out with kids and life um so
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  Speaker 7: yeah early morning stints out on the bike.
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  Speaker 1: Was yeah yeah okay so the event took place uh
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  Speaker 1: around about july time so excuse me leading up to
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  Speaker 1: it and how was the weather was you still sort
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  Speaker 1: of coming out of these sort of springtime or was
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  Speaker 1: it you have some rainy mornings when you was training.
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  Speaker 7: Um i personally didn't did you boys I think the
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  Speaker 7: weather was okay.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was pretty mild and we were quite fortunate.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's good. You are then, because sometimes people train
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  Speaker 1: for the London Marathon, which is in April, train for
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  Speaker 1: the winter. And all of a sudden that April day
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  Speaker 1: is like mega hot and they all suffer. So John,
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  Speaker 1: John come in. So at the time you were, you
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  Speaker 1: were fighting for it, raring to go. I take it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you were cycling a natural thing for you or did
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  Speaker 1: you have to go out and buy a bike?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not. No, I had to go out and buy
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  Speaker 4: a bike.
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  Speaker 1: Did you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I got it through the cycle to work scheme, through work,
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  Speaker 5: went into Halford, picked a hybrid. which done the job.
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  Speaker 5: I think a road bike might have been a little easier,
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  Speaker 5: but the hybrid's a bit more practical long-term.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Have you still got it, or have you
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  Speaker 1: kind of put it away after the event?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, I've been out on it twice.
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  Speaker 5: Me and Martin went out a month or so ago,
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  Speaker 5: and it chucked down with rain, so it's stayed in
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  Speaker 5: the garage since.
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  Speaker 1: So are you like a fair weather cyclist?
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  Speaker 4: I'm a fair weather everything.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, well, we're going to play
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  Speaker 1: a little song now, and then we're going to come
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  Speaker 1: back to these three, because I can feel we've hardly
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  Speaker 1: touched the surface of this morning's interview. So I've got
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  Speaker 1: a little song in here, and really, Julie Wallace. Good morning, Julie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're listening. Now, a little while ago, we
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  Speaker 1: did a special on your three grandchildren, or Fila, and
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  Speaker 1: we played a couple of their songs back-to-back. First time
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  Speaker 1: I've ever done that. Now, I've been in touch with Matt,
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  Speaker 1: and he's told me that he's got some more songs
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  Speaker 1: that he had on his playlist. The ones I played
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  Speaker 1: were their early ones, but this one was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later. So I've put another three or four songs
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  Speaker 1: on the playlist. So really, this is for you, Julie.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a later song by Orfila, and this
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  Speaker 1: is called Hit the Ground Running. Pretty powerful song. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like them, actually. I was listening to that a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times during the week, and their early stuff
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  Speaker 1: was more of a lovely, melodic country style, but that's
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  Speaker 1: a real punchy one. That's great. I love it. So
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  Speaker 1: hit the ground running, that's what these three guys did. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I hope they didn't hit the ground, literally. But we're
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  Speaker 1: going to hear how it all went on the day.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, coming back to you, Martin. Now, am
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  Speaker 1: I right in saying this was at the Cheddar Gorge,
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  Speaker 1: this event?
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  Speaker 2: It was, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And, I mean, that's a pretty fair old drive down
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  Speaker 1: to Somerset there. So what was the logistics? Did you
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  Speaker 1: all go out the day before? Let's just start from
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  Speaker 1: the basic stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we all went the day before. What?
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  Speaker 3: We had sports day for our kids, Rachel and I.
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  Speaker 3: So we left a lot later than, uh, John and Eve.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We went down a bit earlier and we had a
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  Speaker 3: little like mobile home type thing, um, down.
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  Speaker 2: There for a couple of days. So it was nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So had a hot tub. So we needed that for
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  Speaker 2: the recovery. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Um, so I mean, four bikes, well, you took two,
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  Speaker 1: obviously geared up for that with a cycle rack and that.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Um, So you got there, was it a Sunday event?
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  Speaker 2: Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday, so you got there Friday night, was it literally
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  Speaker 1: straight into it Saturday morning then?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right. So early start, were you far from the start?
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  Speaker 3: We were about a mile from the start, so we
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  Speaker 3: cycled down to the start, which meant we had to
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  Speaker 3: cycle back up the hill at the.
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  Speaker 2: End, which wasn't pleasant.
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  Speaker 1: Not the best of things, was it? No.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's like 8 o'clock start in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, 8 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Nice and early.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got four of you in this mobile home thing,
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  Speaker 1: as you call it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, get any sleep? Nervous?
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  Speaker 2: No, I was not nervous.
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not like rugby. No.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me. So you cycled down there. So let's just
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  Speaker 1: briefly go through the route. A tough, I could imagine,
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  Speaker 1: tough route on the cycle, was it? Was it a
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  Speaker 1: lot of terrain, a lot of elevation?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of elevation, yeah. Really steep, right from the start.
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  Speaker 1: Was that a shock? I mean, it's quite hilly round here,
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  Speaker 1: but were you training up.
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  Speaker 2: We were training all round the hills.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We'd been out to Etch and Hill quite a few times,
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  Speaker 2: up to Hawkins. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But still, it was tough.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, really tough. Was it? Nothing round here prepares you
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  Speaker 2: for it.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, okay. Yeah, yeah. And so the cycle, 32 miles.
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  Speaker 1: How long was that? this event was all in one
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  Speaker 1: day wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: It it was yeah so it's three three hours 47
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  Speaker 3: minutes we've done the cycle yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right um so let's switch to uh somebody else now
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  Speaker 1: eve come in eve how did you find the cycle
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  Speaker 1: had you been out up and down the tough hills
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  Speaker 1: because you know both families have got young children and
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  Speaker 1: as you say it's a job to get together and
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  Speaker 1: at times probably just mum and dad to get out
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  Speaker 1: together so was your training ready for the uh cheddar
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  Speaker 1: gorge on the bike.
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  Speaker 6: As well yeah as much as it could much as
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  Speaker 6: it could be yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Rach and i did a few spin classes um but
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  Speaker 7: yeah it's not the same as it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah but it gives you a bit of core strength
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  Speaker 1: though didn't it yeah i mean there was probably times
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  Speaker 1: uh on that first cycle race where you thought god
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  Speaker 1: i wish i'd never gone to martin's birthday party yeah
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  Speaker 1: was it like that yeah yeah was you cursing him
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  Speaker 1: no not all the way no just a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: Just just his fitness because he powers up them hills yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah i suppose the men to be fair have got
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  Speaker 1: the advantage that um you know they've been doing sort
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  Speaker 1: of heart moving stuff and to get their to get
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  Speaker 1: their strength up and you're perhaps a little bit behind
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  Speaker 1: on that i understand that so john come in and
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  Speaker 1: john um 32 miles on the bike how did you
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  Speaker 1: find that.
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  Speaker 4: It was a challenge but it was quite enjoyable as
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  Speaker 4: well As he said.
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  Speaker 1: Mine's really good. You saying that, sorry to interrupt. What
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  Speaker 1: was the weather like that day?
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  Speaker 4: It was so hot, Geoff.
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  Speaker 1: Was it?
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  Speaker 4: 30 odd degrees. It was roasting.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, dear. It's that extreme, yeah? Yeah, so extra fluids.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, was there water stops along the way or
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  Speaker 1: were you just on your own?
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  Speaker 5: There was, yeah. We took, obviously, water bottles on the
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  Speaker 5: bikes and then there was water stations around. It's hard
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  Speaker 5: because you want to sort of not go too hard
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  Speaker 5: because of the sun but then the longer you're out
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  Speaker 5: in the sun the more it.
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  Speaker 1: Is yeah yeah you want to get a fine balance
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  Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah was the terrain apart from hilly was
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  Speaker 1: there any shelter were you i've imagined the cheddar gorgeous
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  Speaker 1: high cliffs or was it open countryside at least yeah.
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  Speaker 5: A bit of both it was there was high cliffs
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  Speaker 5: around um you know there's bits where there's mountain goats
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  Speaker 5: climbing up the side just an indication of how high
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  Speaker 5: you are you've got some really lovely views there wasn't
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  Speaker 5: much escape from the sun but it was an odd.
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  Speaker 1: Bit yeah yeah all right okay so did you all
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  Speaker 1: stay together yeah.
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  Speaker 5: We all stayed together and there was bits where sort
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  Speaker 5: of one of us would be struggling so we'd wait
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  Speaker 5: or you know you'd stop to have a drink and
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  Speaker 5: everyone would stop yeah and so yeah we all done
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  Speaker 5: it started finished together.
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  Speaker 1: Right that's good yeah good teamwork and team quad goals
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  Speaker 1: where did that come from team quad is for you.
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  Speaker 5: I think it came from chat gpt i think it
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  Speaker 5: was uh We had a little vote in there. We
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  Speaker 5: had a WhatsApp group and had a vote in there.
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  Speaker 5: We had a few different names. I can't remember what
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  Speaker 5: they were now. But this is what we ended up on.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right. It sounds like a massive event. Were there
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  Speaker 1: many teams from all over the country?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there was teams from everywhere. There was three different
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  Speaker 5: waves that started. I think there was about 20 different
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  Speaker 5: teams in each wave. You could be a team of
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  Speaker 5: two or a team of four.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I see, two or fours.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Were there many fours? Yeah, there was a few.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was more twos than fours, but there
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  Speaker 4: were some fours.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right. Okay, so Martin, coming back to you. How
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  Speaker 1: did Rachel get on? Unfortunately, she's not with us today,
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  Speaker 1: so we can talk about her as much as we like,
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  Speaker 1: but she's going to hear it anyway, so keep it clean.
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  Speaker 1: So how did Rachel cope? What's her background in the
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  Speaker 1: sporty world?
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  Speaker 2: She's not a very sporty person.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 2: She plays a bit of netball.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of running.
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  Speaker 1: So this was pretty tough for her, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 2: It was a tough, yeah, tough challenge for her, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Well, how did she cope?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, she's done really, really well.
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  Speaker 3: Um like john said we we tended to stick together
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  Speaker 3: mostly but she did drop off a little bit and
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  Speaker 3: got in behind um another team who were just wearing
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  Speaker 3: um budgie smugglers the team budgie smugglers the speedos team
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  Speaker 3: so yeah i did drop back she stayed there did
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  Speaker 3: she yeah she stayed in there right all the way
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  Speaker 3: up the hill just behind them.
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  Speaker 1: I can't go any faster martin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's it she said they really motivated her i.
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  Speaker 1: Did yeah Took her mind off the cycling, did it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I love that. So you left her to it
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  Speaker 1: at that time. I mean, to be fair, if you're
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  Speaker 1: not as fit as perhaps you and John, it must
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  Speaker 1: have been that extra burden. But she coped okay?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she'd got out quite a lot with folks in
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  Speaker 2: the cycling club.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We'd go on a social ride every Sunday, so she
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  Speaker 3: got out quite a few times with them in preparation
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  Speaker 3: for it.
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  Speaker 1: And juggling it. with the children was that a bit
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: of a task in itself.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: That was hard yeah yeah because only one of us
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: could be out at.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: One time or so you probably never trained with her then.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: We trained a couple of times yeah when we got
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: babysitters yeah yeah.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: All right okay so uh we're gonna have a little
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: another music break and then we're gonna come back i
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: think we've covered most of the things on the cycling
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: so we're gonna go on to the next leg which
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: was uh two miles in a kayak with absolutely no
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: training at all so let's uh let's bring this one
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: up to 2021 and this is ed sheeran and bad habits.
• 16:00
  Speaker 10: Every time you come around you know i can't say.
• 16:08
  Speaker 9: Every time the sun goes down, I let you take control.
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: I can feel the paradise before my world implodes. And
• 16:22
  Speaker 9: tonight had something wonderful. My bad habits lead to late
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: nights and then alone.
• 16:33
  Speaker 10: Conversations with a stranger I barely know.
• 16:36
  Speaker 9: Swearing this'll be the last, but it probably won't. I
• 16:41
  Speaker 9: got nothing left to lose, or use, or do My
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: bad habits lead to white eyes staring at space And
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: I know I lose control of the things that I
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: say I was looking for a way out, now I
• 16:54
  Speaker 9: can't escape Nothing happens.
• 16:57
  Speaker 10: After two, it's true, it's true My bad habits lead
• 17:01
  Speaker 10: to you My bad habits lead.
• 17:09
  Speaker 11: To you My bad habits lead to you Every pure
• 17:12
  Speaker 11: intention ends when the good times.
• 17:15
  Speaker 10: Start To reach the first time spark.
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: It started under neon lights And.
• 17:36
  Speaker 10: Then it all got.
• 17:37
  Speaker 11: Dark I only know how to go too far.
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: My bad habits lead to late nights ending alone Conversations
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: with a stranger I barely know Swearing this will be
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: the last but it probably won't I got nothing left
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: to lose or use Or do my bad habits lead
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: to white eyes staring at space And I know I
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: lose control of the things that I say I was
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: looking for a way out now I can't escape Nothing
• 18:14
  Speaker 9: happens after two, it's true It's true, my.
• 18:20
  Speaker 11: Bad habits lead to you.
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: My bad habits.
• 18:27
  Speaker 11: Lead to you We took a long way round And
• 18:30
  Speaker 11: burned till the fun ran out.
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: Now, my bad habits lead to late nights and then alone.
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: Conversations with a stranger I barely know. Swearing this will be.
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: The last, but it probably won't. I got nothing left
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: to lose or use or do.
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: My bad habits lead to.
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: White ice staring at space. And I know I lose
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: control over the things that I say and whisper.
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: It's you and bad habits in 2021.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Right, we're just going to take a little diversion from
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the team called Goals because this is a little interview
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: that I did yesterday. current um i do want to
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: play it so i mean yesterday morning i went up
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to william harvey to see one man do something really
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: special he was raising money for a hospital charity now
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: this short interview will explain all about it so sit
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: back and listen to just two minutes of me talking
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to a former guest of the show we He's a
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: recovering alcoholic, as you will hear, and his name is
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Paul Cousins. So just sit back and listen to this.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Daly from Radio Folkestone, and I'm up
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: at William Harvey Hospital today, and I'm here for a
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: special event. I'm joined now by Paul Cousins.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Paul.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Kev.
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: All right?
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good, thanks. Now, Paul, we know what you're doing,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: but just briefly describe to our listeners... What's going on today?
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so today I'm going to do a 32-mile ultramarathon
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: between three hospitals. I'm going to start at the William
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: Harvey in Ashford, then stop off at the Kenton Canterbury,
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: and then from there finish up at the QEQM in Margate.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: All right, so quite a feat. And looking at the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: weather at the moment, it's very kind to you. But
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you've got a long shift ahead of you, haven't you?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: How long do you think it might take you?
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: Well, I'm hopeful to do it in under eight hours,
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: but I've said it to you before, Kevin, you know,
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: the time is irrelevant.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: It's the challenge, my friend.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And what exactly is the challenge and why are
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: you running today?
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so as we discussed on your program before, I'm
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: a recovering alcoholic. I was taken into the QEQM by
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: ambulance and that place saved my life. And then, bizarrely enough,
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: I ended up working there, and I still work there
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: as a porter, so aiming.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: To give back. Brilliant.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: And the charity, what's the charity called?
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's East Kent Hospitals Charity. So it works with
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: all of the hospitals in the East Kent Foundation. So, yeah,
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: they're going to help out a lot of people with
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: the money we raise.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: And how much is the target? How is it going
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: so far?
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: So I set a target of £ 1, 000, and as it stands,
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: we're at just over £ 2, 500.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, that is brilliant, Paul. It's brilliant. So.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: That adds a little bit of pressure, I suppose, but
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can see you're sort of loosening up
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: and raring to go, and you must be looking forward
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: to this.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I am looking forward to it.
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: I mean, it wouldn't be normal if I wasn't apprehensive
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: and a little bit nervous, but that's all good. It's
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: a challenge I set myself, so I know I will
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: finish it. Like I say, eight hours would be great,
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: but if it's ten, so be it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Paul, you're a fine example to everybody, recovering alcoholic to
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: a porter, patient to porter, as it says on your T-shirt.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: All we can do is wish you all the best
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: from Radio Folkestone, and have a great day, and just
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: go after yourself.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Thanks very much.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you. So there you go, that was Paul Cousins yesterday,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: and that was at the start of his ultramarathon 32 miler.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: And I'm pleased to say that he did finish in
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: one piece. I'm not sure of the exact time, but
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I worked it out, he did it in less than
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: eight hours predicted. There was a team following him along
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the way, taking little clips, and if you have a
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: look on my Facebook page, He looked so fresh. He
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: said he was exhausted, but it was such a, I
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: don't know, inspirational man to come on this show. Admit
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: he was an alcoholic, he's a drug user, and he
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: reckoned QEQM saved his life. So a little diversion there
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: from our three guests, but we're back in the studio now.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: And so let's turn to you, John. John, so finishing
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the bike, so you all came across the line on
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the bike together. I mean, how much of a window
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: did you get until you went onto the kayak.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: They didn't time your gaps in between, so you could
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: take as long as you wanted, but we kind of
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: just stopped, had a sandwich. There was some food, drinks
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: provided there, and we also had our own stuff with
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: a sandwich, and then cracked on with a kayak. Unfortunately,
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: you had to walk a fair way to get to
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: the kayak, which is a bit of a nuisance.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Well, when you think about it, though, John, you'd just
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: come off a 36-mile bike, and if you'd gone straight
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: into a kayak, it would have probably... Yeah, yeah. So
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: it gave you a little bit of a looseness, didn't it?
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: um so how did the training go in the kayak.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Uh the training was non-existent for the kayak.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: This is the bit i like so you all got
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: in um uh you're all facing one way i'll take
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: it um first of all you're a big lad and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: so is martin so you've got to get the balance
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: right tell us about that.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: So it's two kayaks which are tethered together um so
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: it's like a bit of wood joining the two kayaks
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: so martin and i went at the back and two
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: girls went at the front martin um and rachel on
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: one side and me and eve on.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: The other i see and you all had paddles we
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: all had paddles right and tell us how that the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: first tell me how the first hundred meters went.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: It didn't seem like we were going too bad until
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: we realized we were probably drifting off course a little
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: bit um sort of pulling to one side or to
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: the other yeah because obviously you've got a road with
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: the same same strength same speed to be able to
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: go in a straight line um so the coordination wasn't
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: as easy we kept having to stop on one side
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: and paddle on the other so we could get back
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: to where we wanted to go.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: So um i'm just picturing you four in the two
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: kayaks um the the start point uh was the finish
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: point the same so was it a circular.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Route yeah it's a reservoir so you do a lap
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: around the reservoir which is which is two miles i
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: mean we've probably done more than two miles of course
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: but it was a two mile route.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Bit of zigzagging was it there was a little bit
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: yeah okay so eve over to you um eve now
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: you are in the front of this this little kayak
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and uh You've got these two guys hopefully pushing you along.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Was it a chance to have a little rest and
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: let them do all the work? I did get.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: Told off a few times for getting my phone out
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: and taking a few selfies on the kayak. But luckily
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: these two behind.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Were probably putting. Was it choppy? I know it was
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: a reservoir.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: It was a little bit actually.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: There was a few boats going around, so you'd see
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: the waves.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: So if you get two in a kayak and they
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: come speeding past you, was there a bit of a
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: wash afterwards?
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: Oh no, like little speed boats were going around.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, I see.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: I guess they were kind of the marshals.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Were they safety boats? Yeah. So they were upsetting your
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: natural rhythm, were they? A little bit.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: I'm not sure how much natural rhythm we had, but yeah.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, so Martin, coming over to you, how did you
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: find the kayaking?
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it went better than when Rachel and I had
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: done a bit of kayaking on holiday once.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: That was a tested relationship. So it went better than that,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I'm pleased to say.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Right. And, I mean, from, let's say, as I said before,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: you've just got off a bike for 32 miles. I mean,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: were you aching in certain parts? Were your legs all wobbly?
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, back of the shoulders were a bit sore, but yeah.
• 26:22
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And how did Rachel get on?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. She enjoyed the kayak, yeah.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I suppose there's little chance to have
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a proper sit down without a saddle between your legs
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: for 32 miles. Yeah. And what about the navigating? Was
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: it kind of you and John working it out between you?
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Was it, obviously it was one, was it like an
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: anti-clockwise route or a clockwise route?
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Anti-clockwise route, yeah.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Anti-clockwise. So whoever's on the inside has to kind of
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: do all the steering, putting in a bit more pace, yeah?
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I suppose by the time you finished, you
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: were just getting the hang of it, was you?
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: And, I mean, did you, like John said, did you
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: go off course a bit? Was it a job to keep?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: It was a job to keep on track, yeah.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: On the bollards? Yeah. And was there safety boats out there?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: There were safety boats out there, yeah, looking after us, yeah.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Were they by your side, because they see you were not? Chucking,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: ready to throw out lifeboats, lifebelts.
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you've done the two kilometres, was it? Did
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: that seem a long two kilometres or was it gone quickly?
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: No, it didn't seem as long as it was, to
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: be fair.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right. So you get off, you all get out
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: of the kayak, aching all over. So what's next? You've
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: got a hike, haven't you?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: The hike, yeah.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: How long was that?
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: The hike was nine miles.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: It took just over three hours to do.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Right, yeah.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Really tough terrain.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say before you even started that was
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: there um you'd have to you probably i don't know
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: if you're still in your cycling kit did you did
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you have backpacks to put on and you know extra
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: kit feet you know change your footwear.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah change the footwear um had a bag ready to
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: go to take the water.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Was there like a little transition area.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: There was a transition yeah it's a rugby club Yeah.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: So they started a rugby club, so there's changing rooms
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: and toilets.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: So you get off the kayak and you've got another
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: kilometre to walk back? Yeah.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Did that help at all? Or did it work against you?
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I don't think it helped Eve.
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: No?
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: She had broke her toe the week before, so.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, we've got to come to that, yeah.
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll do that right now. Eve, come in. So, Eve,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: you had a, what would you call it, an industrial
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: accident at home.
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: That's the one, yeah.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Was it at home or at work?
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: It was at work.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I stubbed my toe and well and truly broke it,
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: as I say, the week, well, just over a week before.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: So the hike was definitely the worst part for me.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I bet, yeah.
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: Pretty, yeah, pretty, pretty sore.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: Especially coming downhill.
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you can't.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: And, I mean, your footwear, oh, you've got a broken toe.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Did you have a bandage on it, which made your
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: feet swell up inside a shoe or whatever?
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: I put my hiking boots on for the hike, which
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: were definitely more comfortable than the trainers. And I've got
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: some running trainers that are a size bigger than I.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Would usually wear.
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: So I had a bit of giving everything I wore.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Did you ever think to use these Nordic poles at all?
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: I didn't, but there were people with poles that were
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: doing it.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: But yeah, we didn't use them.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: No.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: To be honest, I did a walk many years ago.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I walked from London to Brighton, 62 miles. And I
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: tried these poles out because when I was walking... all
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: my fingers were getting fat because the blood wasn't circulating
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: properly so they told me to hang on to my
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: rucksack which did work but someone else said why don't
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: you try the poles and I thought no but they
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: worked they worked I was using the poles and it
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: took the pressure off my knees, which I was suffering
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: with at the time. So, yeah, it was too late
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: for you to do that, but it was a good idea. Right, John,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: come in. So you've got out the kayak and you've
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: done your kilometre and you've got all your stuff ready.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: How was the walk for you?
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: It started off really nice and it was flat and
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: you went through a little village and there was a
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: nice little pub and you thought, oh, we could stop
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: there on the way back. That looks lovely. But then
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: it kind of started going uphill again. pretty quickly yeah
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: it was really hot sort of early afternoon at this
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: point yeah um yeah going uphill was a challenge and
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: it just didn't seem to stop going uphill yeah um
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: also when you get to the top there's some amazing
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: views and you could kind of see how far you've
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: come up and how well you've done yeah but it
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: was a long way up yeah um also i expected
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: it to be on sort of a path but it
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: wasn't really it was all all trail was it yeah
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: all trails all like broken bits of rock and all
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: right it's a bit hard.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Did you have any of them um uh styles to
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: get over at all or was.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: It yeah there was a few sort of um like
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: kissing gates and styles that you have to have to traverse.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I do remember that when i did my walk the
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: styles were the worst thing at all lifting your feet
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: up and trying to get over them and most of
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: us uh we took our bags off and passed them
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: over to someone else um so were you all carrying
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: your own rucksacks or did you have like yeah we.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: All had our own rucksacks um there was a load
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: of fruit at the beginning Eve decided she wanted half
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: a dozen apples for some reason so they went in
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: my rucksack and didn't get eaten um so I just
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: carried them around for no.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Reason right and so you're right Eve sometimes coming down
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: even if you haven't got a broken toe can be
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: harder is that right John.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah definitely um especially at that point you know you've
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: you've done the ascent you've seen the views at the
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: top so you've done all the hard work well you
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: think it's a hard work you've got the good bit
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: with the views and you think if we're done now
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: we can get back yeah but you're not done there's
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: still a long way to go.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah so was it like halfway when you got
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: to the top or was it like a little bit unbalanced.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: I think it was a bit it was probably about
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: halfway maybe just over yeah um it just it kind
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: of all rolled into one at the end where you
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: got to the top and then you think oh we'll
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: walk up here and then walk down.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: You're not, you're walking along the top for quite a while.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, I see. Yeah.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: And then you have to come back down again. Yeah.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: And the pass down was tough.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: You do end up at the rugby club.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: You end up back at the rugby club. Yeah.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: So that must've been a nice feeling. Um, so Martin,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: how did Rachel get on with the walk?
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a few moans and groans, but she managed it.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Well, I suppose you've got to keep saying it's psychological
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: because you like on the last event and, uh, you know, um,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, were there between all of you, was there
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: any sort of, down times where you really had to
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: like oh come on we can do.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: This there are a few moments particularly on the hike
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: i think the heat really got to everyone and on
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: that um that climb up was pretty brutal yeah so the.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Bit along the top was a bit of respite but
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: um you thought you knew you gotta go down.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: It wasn't quite respite because the terrain was so uneven
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: so you really had to be have to you wits
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: about you just to make sure you didn't watching what
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: you're putting your foot all the time.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah and did you do any sort of walking practice around.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Here no no a couple just to break the boots
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: in um but yeah yeah all right.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: And were there water stops along the way whether did
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: you see other walkers and um.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah plenty of water stops along the way um which
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: is refreshing because it was so hot when you got
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: your water bottle out it was just warm water so
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: it wasn't yeah it wasn't refreshing.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: No that's all yeah so you're coming down the hill
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: um is it one of these uh terrains where can
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: see the finish in the distance.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: You could see the finish at the top and you
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: thought that's not that far and then you you navigate
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: your way down and then it seemed like we walked
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: forever through that village again yeah around a little industrial
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: estate you didn't stop at the pub well there was
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: a pub and it there was a lot of people
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: by this time there was a lot of people outside
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: you know the beer garden was full and it looked
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: really appealing yeah Were.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: They all walkers from the... No, no, just locals.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Just locals, yeah.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Because I suppose at 30 degrees it was a lovely
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: day to go out and have a drink.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and England were on that evening as well in
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: the World Cup, so yeah, the pubs were full and
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: it looked appealing and I think someone did suggest we
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: did nip in there for a quick cold drink.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: But being true athletes, the true team that you are,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: you decided against it and sold it on, is that right?
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: We did, yeah.
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah, good.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: OK, well, time for another bit of music. We've been
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: doing a lot of talking, which is great, because this
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: is becoming so interesting, and we're going to talk about
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: you crossing the line, how you feel, but we mustn't
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: forget that we want to know why you did it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: So after this song, now, this is Example from 2012
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: and Say Nothing. MUSIC PLAYS From 2012 there, that's Example
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and Say Nothing. OK, now we have got a massively
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: busy show here and we're joined by a special guest.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: And we want to say good morning to Ollie. Good morning, Ollie.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Morning.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: How are you? I'm all right. Good, you're all right. Good,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear it. Now, Ollie, a little birdie
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: tells me you play rugby. Is that right? It is.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: And who do you play for?
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: Folkestone.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: All right. And what age group are you?
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: Under 12.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Under 12. And have you got a game this weekend?
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: I do.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, right. And have you had any games? Is this
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: your first game or have you had a couple of
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: games already? No, this is the second one this season. Right.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: How did you get on in your last game? We
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: did pretty good.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Does that mean you won then?
• 35:50
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we did.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Or are you true? Or you got big in a
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: 50-0 and you don't want to talk about it?
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: No, we won, but we should have done better.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I see.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: And.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Who are you playing today? Do you know you're playing
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: at home or you're playing away?
• 36:02
  Speaker 11: At home.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Against, do you know who it is?
• 36:05
  Speaker 11: Tunbridge.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Tunbridge. Yeah. That sounds a very tough game, actually. Yes. So, Ollie,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: have you been playing rugby long? Yeah. I don't really
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: know how long. Yeah, so long you can't remember.
• 36:17
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good. And what position do you play?
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: Fly half.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Fly half. Oh, right. Okay, that's a good position. And
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: have you scored any tries?
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, quite a lot, actually.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, have you? All right. Oh, good.
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: Good.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: That's great news.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Well, we've had, in recent times, we've had plenty of
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: rugby players in. So, we're going to put you to
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: that list. And thank you for having a little chat. So,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I'm going to pass you over, if you don't mind,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: to John now.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: John.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: John, if... Before we've only got less than 10 minutes left.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: So what I want to do is just if you
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about why you did it,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: why you did this challenge. And then if we've got time,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: we're going to speak to Thea.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: So we set out to raise some money for actual
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: medical research. So a fantastic charity who look after sick,
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: disabled young children.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Really worthwhile.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: We set out to raise £ 2, 000, which we got to yesterday,
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: thanks to your kind top-up, Kev.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: We didn't know it. We was at £ 1, 996, just slightly short.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I could see that for quite a while, and I thought, oh,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: someone is going to put £ 4 on there. You can't,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: you know. So, yeah, I'm glad I did that for you.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we appreciate that.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: And the fundraising bit is a bit that actually takes
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: quite a lot of time and effort. You know, you've
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: got to do your training, get out on your bike,
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: but the fundraising sort of, arranging the quiz which again
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: we're very thankful for you coming down and being our
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: quiz master and then doing fantasy football and then sharing
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: stuff on social media it takes like quite a bit
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: of time and effort to get get the money together
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: but thanks to people's generous donations we're able to make
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: it did you.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Set your own target or was it something that you
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: kind of had to achieve because the charity wanted that
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: it's a.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Preset target yeah yeah from them so yeah 500 pound
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: per person is is doable okay it doesn't come easily
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: does it.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: No no i mean it's um I mean, it's getting
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: tough now because a few years ago, London Marathon, for example,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: was about £ 1, 000. And now what I'm seeing, and I've
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: done a few quiz nights and I've got a few
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: coming up, people are asked to find 2,200, which is
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: a big ask. I mean, with the quiz night, I
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: think I've said to both of you, the more you
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: put into it, the more you get out of it
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: because people are receptive and they give you drinks prizes
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: and then come along and you had a great afternoon
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: actually um you managed to get hold of the pub
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: and uh it was um almost like it was uh
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: just your family and friends you know i mean there
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: was no no punters from that were drinking there might
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: have been one or two but it was a great
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: atmosphere wasn't.
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: It john yeah there was a couple of regulars in
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: there but none in the quiz i don't think so
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: it was all family and friends from from the four
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: of us have kind of put a table together and
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: come down and participate in the quiz and giving us
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: a hard-earned money.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Right excellent uh okay martin so coming back to you
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: i mean that was the challenge that came out of
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: your um your 40th birthday um now your next birthday
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: will you be coming up with something else or have
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: you got something else already lined up or has it
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: put everybody.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Off i don't think we're doing another challenge quite like
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: that yeah i would like to do a few more
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: cycles because i really enjoyed the cycling aspect of it
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: i think say to rachel and talking to her afterwards
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: i think we'd like to do a few more of
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: them longer rides yeah and there's loads around kent that we'd.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Like yeah yeah i think pilgrims have got pilgrims is
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: on the list three choices yeah yeah.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Pilgrims is definitely on the list um The Rotary Club
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: do one in the marsh as well, which is quite
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: a nice one.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I've done that a few times.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I've heard of that. It must be nice and flat,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: a bit different from.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, chair de gorge. Chair de gorge, yeah.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: And Eve, come in. Eve, would you be up for
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: just a cycling challenge?
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's not something that we'd ever done before, really, cycling.
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: So we've all had a go at a bit of
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: running and some other sports.
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: So, yeah, definitely. It's not off the cards for me.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Right. And when you finish, when you'd finally finished your...
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Your Cheddar Gorge Challenge. Did you think, oh, that is it.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: I'm never doing anything like that again. Or is it
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: one of those things that, you know, like once you
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: got over the initial shock, you thought, oh, I've really
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: enjoyed that.
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was good fun. It was a good day out.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: Something a bit different. It was testing, but not unachievable.
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: I think it was, yeah, really good.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: That is a great attitude, actually. Great attitude. Because there
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: are times when you're doing, well, I've done a few
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: marathons and done a long walk and... there's times when
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: you think, oh, why am I doing this? You know,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: but you've got, it's a mental thing, isn't it? You've
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: got to turn it around in your head and, uh,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: you know, well, you had a team, team around you
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: or all of you. Uh, what about you fellas? You
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: two fellas, uh, John, did you have any low points
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: or were you kind of, and Martin always kind of
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: G in the ladies up or did you have any
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: low points?
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: Um, I don't think I had any low points at all.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: I think I might've got a bit grumpy at one
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: point when I was a bit hot and hungry, but
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: other than that, I was, I was okay.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, good.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: All right. Um, So, Martin, this cycling challenge, is this
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: a definite, do you think? It's not a drunken night
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: and you're going to do it. Your experience of cycling
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: has led you on to do more challenges?
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, yeah. I'll keep with the running
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: But, yeah, it's nice.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: How's your running going? I haven't seen you lately at races.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: I was in Copenhagen two weeks ago.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, was you?
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, I did text you and you said you was
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: in Copenhagen.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: What were you doing there? Half Marathon.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Brilliant. Oh, that's another programme to talk about. Oh,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: it's good to see you're still doing it. And John, John,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: come in. I did say we've only got like four
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: minutes left, but tell me briefly about something you support massively.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: It's another charity, the Wooden Spoon Charity. Explain to our listeners.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so the Wooden Spoon Charity.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: Provides facilities for disabled young children across the country. I'm
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: the treasurer for Wooden Spoon Kent. I do a lot
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: of work for them. I enjoy doing charity stuff for them.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: The tournament I went to in Newcastle was a charity
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: tournament organised by them. They have open teams, vets teams,
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: mixed teams. And we're hoping to put out a Kent
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: vets team or a Kent open team against a tour
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: inside next weekend at Folkestone. To raise a bit of money,
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: raise a bit of awareness around.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: What the charity do, who they are.
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: And also have a bit of a social and a
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: nice time on a Saturday evening under floodlights.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: All right. So you've got, is that the game next weekend?
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: That's the game next weekend at Folkestone, yes.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: And what about this touring side that are coming?
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: So we're playing a team called Viper Club Octopus who
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: are based in Ooden in Holland. We have been, we
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: were founded in the same year. We've been there a
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: number of times, sort of a twin club. I can't
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: remember how long it goes back to, but certainly as
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: long as I've been in the club for the last,
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: 30 years they've been a part of it. It used
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: to be an annual fixture. We went a couple of
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: years ago. And yeah, they're coming over to see us
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: for the weekend. So they turn up on Saturday. They're
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: staying in folks on Saturday night. Were due to stay
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: at the Burst Inn, but had to reorganise their plans.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: Then they're off to Harlequins on Sunday to watch Harlequins play.
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: Then they'll go back Sunday night.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: All right. So it's a real... A rugby weekend for
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: them coming over here. And really, London's not too far
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: if they go on the train, is it?
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not too bad at all.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right. So that's next Saturday?
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Next Saturday, yeah.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Next Saturday.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Next Saturday, 5 o'clock at the club.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: 5 o'clock.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Has the first team got a game?
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: The first team kick off at 3 o'clock.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: At home?
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, at home.
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: So we follow in the first team game.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, back to back.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Right, OK. Well, as I say, the time is running.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: So really, I just want to bring you all in
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: because I just want to say our goodbyes. So, Eve,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: let's come to you. Eve, thank you so much for
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: coming in. You seemed a little bit nervous at first,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: but you've done so well telling us about it. And
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: it's good that you've come out of this challenge, come
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: out the other side feeling rather positive. Some people do
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: a marathon for the first time and they go, absolutely
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: never again. So, are you looking forward to a cycling challenge?
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, sounds like we're probably going to go away from
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: this and be discussing it after this.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, I'm going to keep tabs on you now.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: So we want to find out when this next challenge
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: is and, um, want to hear all about it. So John,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: over to you. Now, John, you, you're suffering with this injury,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: which is, must be a real, uh, um, well, pain
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: in the backside because a man of your sporting, uh, experience. Um,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: do you think this, would this stop you from doing
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: other things like cycling or?
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: No, it won't stop me.
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: It'll probably push me towards more, um, or sorry less
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: vigorous activity yeah so rather than playing rugby i might
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: end up doing more cycling yeah walking i've done a
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: few charity events and which i've quite enjoyed so i'm
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: going to sign up for another one for next.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Year martin before we finish um i mean would you
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: take apart from the cycling you think you've sort of
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: overcooked it a little bit doing the the cheddar gorge.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: No, no. I still have plenty to go.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Right. So I'm really sorry to say this. We could
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: have easily done another out here. But thank you all
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: for coming in. Thank you, Martin.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Kev. Thanks for having us.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Cheers, Kev. And thank you, Eve. And thank you to Ollie.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: And sorry, Theo, we didn't have time to talk to you.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: But here we go. It's time for the news.
• 45:37
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