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JODIE JACKMAN RECALLS HER NORTH DOWNS WAY 100 MILE RUN PLUS LOADS OF OTHER LOCAL SPORT REPORTS. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports Very Daily here on Radio Folkston,
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Speaker 1: bringing you the folks in the Hive Sports Show. On
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Speaker 1: today's show, we'll be bringing you reports on the local cricket,
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Speaker 1: the Friday night Mixed hockey league.
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Speaker 2: We've got some rugby and football news.
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Speaker 1: We've got a little report on the mount from ten
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Speaker 1: k We've got some news from them Folkston Ski Race Club.
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Speaker 1: And we've got a little extra item. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: chuck in about the Duke of Edinburgh Ward and we
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Speaker 1: welcome back Jody Jackman into the studio to tell us
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Speaker 1: how she copes on a mammoth one hundred mile North
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Speaker 1: downs Way, a trail run. So from nineteen ninety one,
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Speaker 1: let's get crack in and start the show with Irim
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Speaker 1: and losing my religion from nineteen ninety one, there were
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Speaker 1: losing my religion from Rim. Now we've got a little
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Speaker 1: extra item on the agenda today and it's about the
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Speaker 1: Duke of Edinburgh a warts. Now it's a sort of
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Speaker 1: little phrase that rolls off the tongue.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: We know it's all been around for a very long time,
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Speaker 1: but do we know anything about it now?
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Speaker 2: I don't.
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Speaker 1: And there's a little story I'm going to tell you
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Speaker 1: later about how this came to my attention so very
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Speaker 1: quickly this morning I did a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: searching on the internet and basically it's for fourteen to
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Speaker 1: twenty four year olds and there's four sections to complete
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Speaker 1: at the Bronze and silver level and five at the
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Speaker 1: Gold level. Now these days, what it means is that
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Speaker 1: they involve helping the community, the environment, becoming fitter and healthier,
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Speaker 1: developing new skills, planning and training for an expedition, and
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Speaker 1: similar stuff like that. Now, isn't the competition about being first.
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Speaker 1: It's about setting personal challenges and pushing a personal boundaries. Now,
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Speaker 1: to be a be fair, I lifted that off the website.
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Speaker 1: But with the closing of the Sports Center, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: there's some parents that might think that they need to
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Speaker 1: something extra for their teenage son or daughter, the need
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Speaker 1: to channel their energy into some thing, something to get
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Speaker 1: involved with, and I thought that how do you go
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Speaker 1: about finding out about the Duke of Edinburgh Awards. So
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Speaker 1: we're going to be asking a few questions a little
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Speaker 1: bit later. Anyway, Now, this all came about my interest
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Speaker 1: thanks to my fourteen year old neighbor Eve and her dad, Joe. Now,
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Speaker 1: they asked me the other day, Well, it was quite
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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. To be fair, if I would
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Speaker 1: mind if Evie cooked me five different dishes under the
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Speaker 1: guidance of her dad. So of course I jumped at
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Speaker 1: the chance of being waited on for five days now
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Speaker 1: because of the nature of the occupation. If you like
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Speaker 1: being in the kitchen, her daddad to keep an eye
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Speaker 1: on her a bit of health and safety, heavy dishes
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Speaker 1: and hot stuff and all the rest of it. But
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what she did. She prepared five dishes,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to tell you all about them. She
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Speaker 1: prepared a lovely, lovely shepherd's pie. It was red hot,
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Speaker 1: the dish was read. It's tasted so good, you know.
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Speaker 1: But the next one, to be fair, I did. I
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Speaker 1: did tell that Joe, I wasn't too sure about this one.
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Speaker 1: It was a miso terry archy glazed tofu and rice. Well,
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Speaker 1: I had to admit I didn't know what the hell
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Speaker 1: that was. So I tried a little bit of everything
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Speaker 1: that they served me. But I did say to them,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's not my cup of tea. But it
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Speaker 1: was so well presented and everything, and the next one
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Speaker 1: was a lovely piece of baked fish which was done
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Speaker 1: in foil, and that was probably the easiest one to do.
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Speaker 1: The following day I had a perfectly cooked chicken stir
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Speaker 1: fry and that was lovely, it really was. But last
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Speaker 1: night I had a good old fashioned toad in the owl,
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Speaker 1: and this one had proper sausages from the butchers, and
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Speaker 1: proper mashed potatoes and lovely, lovely juicy gravy, which I
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Speaker 1: think I like the most. I think I preferred that
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Speaker 1: one a good old fashioned English grub. Anyway, Eve did
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Speaker 1: all the research for the recipes. The chopping, the peeling,
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Speaker 1: and the slicing all done. It was all done prepared
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Speaker 1: in the oven and no microwaves involved. We had to
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Speaker 1: take some pictures of the dishes with the two of us,
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Speaker 1: obviously for her coursework or whatever it is they do.
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Speaker 1: And as I said, it was under the guidance of
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Speaker 1: her dad Joe, because we didn't want to chop in
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Speaker 1: any fingers off and ending up in my chicken stir
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Speaker 1: fry or anything like that. But she did a great
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Speaker 1: job out there, and I want to say well done
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Speaker 1: to you.
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Speaker 2: Ev.
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Speaker 1: It really was an excellent exercise and I'm glad I
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Speaker 1: was the guinea pig. So anybody out there has either
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Speaker 1: done the Duke of Edinburgh Awards or been through them,
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Speaker 1: or does anybody out there got any contact?
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Speaker 2: How do you get in touch?
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Speaker 1: Is there a local branch or what is it you
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Speaker 1: do to get involved to get started? And please please
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Speaker 1: get hold of me via my Facebook page Kevin Daily
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Speaker 1: and send me a little message.
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Speaker 2: And so there you go.
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Speaker 1: That's all about the Duke of Edinburgh and it was
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Speaker 1: a pleasant surprise to do that last minute. A bit
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Speaker 1: of research this morning. Now, I've been checking out our
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Speaker 1: playlist and I found this lovely, lovely song. I was
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Speaker 1: looking for songs with you know, stir Frye and I
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Speaker 1: couldn't find one. Tony Old couldn't find one, but I
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Speaker 1: found this one is by a group called Limy and
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Speaker 1: Family Cooking, so we would change that to Evi and
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Speaker 1: Family Cooking, and is called you can do Magic.
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Speaker 3: Folkston's radio station Radio Folkson.
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Speaker 4: You took the rain dressed field.
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Speaker 1: Where you go, That's what Evie did for the last
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Speaker 1: five days. She did magic and that was by Limmy
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Speaker 1: and Family Cooking. Okay, jump for a bit of a
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Speaker 1: cricket now, we start with Folkston folks in first eleven
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Speaker 1: were they batted first, making two hundred and sixty nine
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Speaker 1: for eight in their fifty overs. Chin May Suit are
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Speaker 1: making one hundred and twenty five, but they were playing
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Speaker 1: the scene od Quacko. We're going to that in a minute.
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Speaker 1: They bowled them out then for one hundred and seventy five,
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Speaker 1: winning the game by ninety four runs, putting them back
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Speaker 1: top of the table as Bromley Common, who are now
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Speaker 1: in second place, were beaten by kings Hill or our
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Speaker 1: third This week is an away trip to fourth place Gravesend.
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Speaker 1: So another test, tough test, and the mystery of what
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Speaker 1: od quaco stands for is an amalgamation of two cricket teams.
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Speaker 1: It was the Old Dunstonians and the Commercial Union they
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Speaker 1: joined together and so od Quacko stands for the Old
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Speaker 1: Dunstonians Commercial Union Assurance Company cricket team. So a big
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Speaker 1: thank you to everybody there at O d Quacko, because
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Speaker 1: I did get in touch with them and did ask
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Speaker 1: them and they got back to me on that one.
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Speaker 1: Moving on, Hawkins visited top of the table Sheppy last
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Speaker 1: week but found them on top of the table form
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Speaker 1: bat in first and making two hundred and fourteen. Hawkins
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Speaker 1: were then bowled out for eighty one, losing by one
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three runs. This Saturday is a home
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Speaker 1: game against Bapchi which means a trip to sitting Ball
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Speaker 1: Hawkings and our sixth and a Bapchild are tenth out
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Speaker 1: of ten teams. Hive Cricket Club were put into bat
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Speaker 1: by Nelson Cricket Club over there in Thanet and they
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Speaker 1: made one hundred and sixty eight for eight. I have
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Speaker 1: then easily made one hundred and sixty nine for two,
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Speaker 1: winning the game by eight wickets. On Saturday, They're welcome
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Speaker 1: Worth to the grove. Hive are currently top and Worth
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Speaker 1: our bottom. However, Worth may be bottom club but in
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Speaker 1: an exciting high scoring game last week against Hive Green,
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Speaker 1: Worth batted first, making two hundred and thirty for eight
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Speaker 1: in their forty overs. So I did Bukari, scoring one
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Speaker 1: hundred and one not out. The Green then, even with
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Speaker 1: the help of Emmanuel Burns one hundred and fourteen not out,
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Speaker 1: couldn't quite make it as they scored two hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty eight in their forty overs. So that must have
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Speaker 1: been one last tense over that last over and so
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Speaker 1: Worth won the game by just about two runs. So
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Speaker 1: this week the Green are home to Folkeston third eleven.
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Speaker 1: Silward lost at home to Kennington by four wickets. This
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Speaker 1: week they're away to Edgerton. This is a bit of
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Speaker 1: a kind of a mid table clash really. Editon of
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Speaker 1: fifth and Saltwood r seventh Simpton Park had a fine
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty one sorry, a one hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty run victory at home against Ashford Town. Next up
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Speaker 1: it's an away game against a Moat cricket club, which
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Speaker 1: means a trip to Maidstown Maidstone. Now Saturday looks bright
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Speaker 1: and breezy with no rainfall costs, so we should get
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Speaker 1: all our local games in without any interruption. Hopefully there'll
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Speaker 1: be a no rain stop play. Okay, time, little bit
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Speaker 1: of music and this one is Color Blast by Killer,
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Speaker 1: Color Blast and Killer. Right now, my special guest today
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Speaker 1: is a lady Runner who was in the studio just
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Speaker 1: two weeks ago, but so much has happened in that
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Speaker 1: short pace of time I just had to ask her back.
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Speaker 2: So welcome back, Jody Jackman. How are you, Jody?
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Speaker 5: Hi, Kevin, thank you very much for having me back.
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Speaker 2: You're welcome.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, and then we've got so much to talk
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Speaker 1: about this morning. Now, I think we've kind of got
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Speaker 1: over the fact, you know that we know that you
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Speaker 1: attempted to run one hundred miles last time you were in,
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Speaker 1: so so we just kind of turned the clock back now.
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Speaker 1: And first of all, we're just think about you've done
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Speaker 1: all the training, you've you know, you've done all the prep,
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Speaker 1: but now you've got to get up, get yourself up
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Speaker 1: there for race day. So I mean, what happened the
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Speaker 1: day before and just before the race? Did you go
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Speaker 1: up and stay up there?
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Speaker 5: I tend to travel the day before the race just
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Speaker 5: because I can't go and tear mytorways are going to
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Speaker 5: be clear enough. I think it took us coasted to
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Speaker 5: three hours to get up to Farnham. So yeah, so
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Speaker 5: I'm glad we went up the day before. I have
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Speaker 5: lists of what I need to take, so I have
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Speaker 5: all my mandatory kick list, A tick each item as
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Speaker 5: it goes in my bag, so I know that I've
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Speaker 5: definitely got it.
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Speaker 1: Is that is that actually checked on a judico or
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Speaker 1: is it just kind of down to you, you know,
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Speaker 1: like the phones and charges.
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Speaker 5: They do do random kit checks They don't necessarily check
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Speaker 5: every item on there, but they will check that you've
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Speaker 5: got at least a few of the items on there.
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Speaker 2: So okay, so you've got all your stuff to give up.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: I saw a picture of you with a toaster under
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Speaker 2: your arm.
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Speaker 5: Is that right? Yes, that's a picture that was definitely
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Speaker 5: a toaster under my arm. I had to pre warn
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Speaker 5: my husband. I had contacted the hotel and the breakfast
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Speaker 5: wasn't available till half seven in the morning. Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 5: one in a toasted bagel with peanut butter and banana,
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Speaker 5: because that's what I've been using for fuel in There
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Speaker 5: was no guarantee I could have access to a toaster,
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Speaker 5: so I took my own into hotel whe.
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Speaker 2: And they didn't mind the end.
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Speaker 5: They didn't see it going. We put a socko for
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Speaker 5: the smoke alarm in case in case I burnt anything.
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Speaker 5: I won't everyone up at five am?
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Speaker 1: Right, that's good, good chat. Well we blank that bit
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Speaker 1: out when the podcast comes out. Okay, so you managed
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Speaker 1: to get your breakfast all right? And then how far
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Speaker 1: were you from the start?
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Speaker 5: It was probably about ten minute drive from the start.
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Speaker 2: It's nice in place right now. How many approximately how
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Speaker 2: many turned.
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Speaker 5: Up to do this? Mad I think they said there
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Speaker 5: was two hundred and six starters, and now I think
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Speaker 5: it was between a thirty five forty percent drop out
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Speaker 5: right on the day.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I see, thirty five never made it on the day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, those figures are probably about right because ever since COVID,
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Speaker 1: you know, I've done a lot of races, and I
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Speaker 1: get all the race numbers.
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Speaker 2: And the people that turn up and the people that enter.
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Speaker 2: You're right, it's probably about I think it.
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Speaker 5: Was two hundred and fifty entered, two hundred and sixty
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Speaker 5: two hundred and six made the start line, and then
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Speaker 5: over that course not everyone got to one hundred one
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Speaker 5: hundred and four miles.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we come to that shortly. So right, you've got
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Speaker 1: two hundred people on the start line, and do they
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Speaker 1: go off in waves? But at a time it was
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Speaker 1: a mass start.
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Speaker 5: I think post COVID it used to be in waves,
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Speaker 5: but we seem to have gone back to doing a.
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Speaker 1: Mass star now, which is nice. I wonder with an
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Speaker 1: event like that they might you might do waves, but no, no,
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Speaker 1: that's fine. So really you've got to be careful where
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Speaker 1: you're getting that wave, don't you, Because you don't want
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Speaker 1: to be to even those a long distance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Was it a narrow path to start? It was?
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Speaker 5: It was quite congested, I would say for about the
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Speaker 5: first three or four miles. It seemed to be quite
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Speaker 5: bunched up. Yeah, but it was good because it does
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Speaker 5: stop you going out too fast and really helps raining
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Speaker 5: you in a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's those first few miles I'm sure are most important.
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Speaker 1: So how far did you go before you got, if
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Speaker 1: you like, a proper stop.
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Speaker 5: I would say fifty miles. It was my first significantly Yeah,
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Speaker 5: first significant stop. And most of the time I've got
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Speaker 5: sandwich bags in my race. First I will go into
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Speaker 5: an aid station chucks and food and get my water
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Speaker 5: bottles topped up and go straight away.
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Speaker 2: I see.
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Speaker 1: So these aide stations weren't place to sit down and
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Speaker 1: put you, you know, have a little rest. But I
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Speaker 1: was choosing not too Yeah, yeah, okay, So I started
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Speaker 1: at seven and fifty miles.
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Speaker 2: What time?
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Speaker 5: What sort of time did you get to I think
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Speaker 5: that was about half seven in the evening, half seven
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Speaker 5: eight o'clockis.
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Speaker 2: In the evening.
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Speaker 5: It about twelve and a half hours I think when
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Speaker 5: I went through the fifty mile mark.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and with the organizers. I mean it's such a
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Speaker 1: massive logistical event. But these people, we will tell you
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Speaker 1: our Centurion Running seems to have a great pedigree, a
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Speaker 1: great background for organizing these mass events. It was there
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Speaker 1: was there a cutoff time for any certain distances.
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Speaker 5: And there was cut off times at each different checkpoint.
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Speaker 5: I had a little print out that I'd laminated, kept
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Speaker 5: it in my short pocket so I could just keep
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Speaker 5: an eye on where I was, making sure I was
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Speaker 5: still well ahead of the checkpoints. I think I went
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Speaker 5: through halfway and I was still two hours ahead of
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Speaker 5: the cutoff.
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Speaker 1: So that was that was reassuring, right, Well, I mean
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Speaker 1: it must be a bit worrying if you're getting close
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Speaker 1: to it. I don't know how strict they are, but
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Speaker 1: if you're getting close to the halfway point and you just.
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Speaker 5: They are very strict. Yeah, if you miss it, you're
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Speaker 5: not arolloud to continue there.
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Speaker 2: So heart breaking after all that training, but there you go.
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Speaker 1: It's put there for your own health and safety years
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Speaker 1: and yeah, okay, so after fifty miles, if you like,
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Speaker 1: the hard work beginns, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: And what was that first fifty miles terrain like.
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Speaker 5: It was, Oh quite care. I'm just trying to think that.
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Speaker 5: I think my brain has actually blocked a lot of
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Speaker 5: the course out South Downs Way, I seem to remember
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Speaker 5: much more. All I know of this course. It was
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Speaker 5: very gnarly, lots of rocks, lots of tree roots, lots
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Speaker 5: of steps going both up and down, so it's really
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Speaker 5: really tough.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: A lot of people who complete South Downs one hundred,
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Speaker 5: they don't then go on to finish North Doowns one hundred,
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Speaker 5: so it is significantly tough for us.
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Speaker 1: Of course, right, Yeah, I suppose it's a little feather
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Speaker 1: in your cap for you because you've done the both
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Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, yeah, excellent, And did you have any
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Speaker 1: mishaps on the course?
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Speaker 5: So anytime I fell over twice within about five minutes,
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Speaker 5: I think I was about twenty twenty two miles in
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Speaker 5: and I did hit the ground significantly. I've still got
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Speaker 5: a lump on one elbow, bruising to my stomach. At
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Speaker 5: one point I ended up with gritting my teeth, so
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Speaker 5: I'm quite fortunate you've got Yeah, I'm still fortunate to
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Speaker 5: have a full set of teeth.
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Speaker 1: That's true grit. Okay, So we get past the fifty
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Speaker 1: and what time would that be? Seven to seven? So
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Speaker 1: probably getting dark at about eight or nine o'clock.
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Speaker 5: I think it was about half eight nine issues getting dark.
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Speaker 2: But the sun did come up. The weather was quite pleasant.
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Speaker 5: It wasn't I don't call it being really bright direct sunlight.
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Speaker 5: It was very very humid, but we had a little
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Speaker 5: cloud cover which was actually quite pleasant to run him.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So that that dark period, when I say dark
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Speaker 1: at nighttime, is that a bit worrying for you? Was
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Speaker 1: you running with anybody had a pace?
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Speaker 5: My friend John had come up from Hayward's Teeth. He
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Speaker 5: met mer Oxford, which is fifty four and a half miles,
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Speaker 5: and he run through the finish with me.
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Speaker 2: That's very real assuring for you, wasn't it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: So what was his name?
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Speaker 5: John?
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Speaker 2: John?
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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you very much John for looking after Jody. Right,
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Speaker 1: so the sun's comeing up. Does it give you a
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Speaker 1: little boost to think I've either got through the night
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Speaker 1: or do you think, oh my, we'd still got going.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: You remember my brain was all over the place. It
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Speaker 5: was a bit like good, it's daylight. We're in We're
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Speaker 5: into the final bit. Obviously, we crossed Jade's Bridge, at
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Speaker 5: debt Ling and someone had said it early on, if
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Speaker 5: you've made Jade's Bridge, you will finish it, right, So
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Speaker 5: but it's eighty two miles and still knowing you've got
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Speaker 5: another twenty two yeah miles to go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it did all your all your sort of battery
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Speaker 1: operated phones and GPS and that, and did they all
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Speaker 1: work all right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, even over that long period.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I did take a power bank with me. I picked
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Speaker 5: that up when I picked my pacer up, just in
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Speaker 5: case I needed a charge at any point. I gave
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Speaker 5: my watch a little bit of a charge I think
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Speaker 5: at Ranscomb, which was about seventy six seventy miles.
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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, so we're heading downhill. Now, what was the
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Speaker 2: second half of the course, Like, can you remember.
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Speaker 5: Rocks three routes? Yeah, it was just so tough underfoot.
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Speaker 5: I know when i'd rerecord the last half there was
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Speaker 5: me trotting along going, oh, these are some nice runnaball
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Speaker 5: sections and true to what we said on the training runs, Yeah,
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Speaker 5: my legs weren't feeling running at that point.
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Speaker 1: Right, So let's move right on then to the sort
19:24
Speaker 1: of last It must be so disheartening when your GPS
19:30
Speaker 1: comes around and you've done one hundred miles, You've done
19:32
Speaker 1: the North Down's one hundred miles, but you still got
19:34
Speaker 1: was three miles ago, was it?
19:36
Speaker 5: It was closer to one hundred and four, was Yeah,
19:38
Speaker 5: by the time I got back. Yeah, I was aware
19:41
Speaker 5: of that before I started, so I knew. Don't look
19:45
Speaker 5: at it and think, oh, it's one hundred miles and
19:48
Speaker 5: then get disheartened. You just got to keep going.
19:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, right now, I purposely went outside the stadium and
19:56
Speaker 1: I was watching some runners coming in, and actually I
19:59
Speaker 1: had to end up com marshal because the entrance to
20:02
Speaker 1: the stadium was actually past the main the main gate,
20:05
Speaker 1: wasn't it. Yeah, So I helped a few, So no,
20:07
Speaker 1: you've got to go around there. But I saw you
20:09
Speaker 1: and you gave me a lovely hug, and it was
20:13
Speaker 1: so emotional we both nearly ended up with tears. So
20:18
Speaker 1: then you had their last little bit. You met your
20:20
Speaker 1: family on the corner. Just tell us what it was
20:23
Speaker 1: like to come in. I know the stadium was quiet,
20:25
Speaker 1: and but you know, we've both run into sort of
20:30
Speaker 1: stadium to Julie rosebyfore now.
20:31
Speaker 2: But that must have been one special man, and it's.
20:34
Speaker 5: Just brilliant knowing you've got this one little lap and
20:37
Speaker 5: that's it. It's done. You've got your buckle. Knowing your
20:40
Speaker 5: family and friends they're obviously seeing out seeing you outside
20:44
Speaker 5: the stadium. Took a while for me to recognize who
20:46
Speaker 5: you were and think you lose that way you ent me.
20:49
Speaker 5: I think I was just tired and confused by that point.
20:54
Speaker 1: It's easy than when people see me get tired and
20:56
Speaker 1: confused anyway, So by this time I was by the
21:00
Speaker 1: finish line, and all of a sudden you gained a
21:03
Speaker 1: whole new family. Then you're not new family, but all
21:05
Speaker 1: you gained your family as they all did one last little.
21:08
Speaker 5: That with Yeah, my kids run with me, and my
21:11
Speaker 5: cousin and her kids came up as well, so I
21:14
Speaker 5: had her liplands running around the track with me as well,
21:17
Speaker 5: which is lovely.
21:19
Speaker 1: Well, there was a nice little gesture at the end
21:21
Speaker 1: because a very special lady was waiting for you to finish.
21:24
Speaker 1: All the family kind of disappeared, So tell us what
21:26
Speaker 1: I am.
21:26
Speaker 5: Then my land whose eighty eight was stood on the
21:29
Speaker 5: finish line. She's never seen me do one of my
21:32
Speaker 5: big races before because I'm generally away from home because
21:36
Speaker 5: of the time of day was she was up awake
21:38
Speaker 5: and out of bed, so my mum had brought her
21:40
Speaker 5: to Ashford. Say my land managed to finish and cross
21:43
Speaker 5: the line with me.
21:44
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, We've got some great pictures of that
21:47
Speaker 1: magic moment. And now you refer to your buckle. But
21:51
Speaker 1: it's kind of a memento medal, isn't it. But it's
21:53
Speaker 1: a little bit different. Tell us what it looks like.
21:56
Speaker 1: We will get a picture of it and put it
21:57
Speaker 1: on my Facebook page.
21:58
Speaker 5: It is a buckle that you can actually attached to
22:01
Speaker 5: a belt, so it's sort of more an oval shape.
22:04
Speaker 5: It has got a centurion engraved on it.
22:07
Speaker 2: It's got the race and are you going to put
22:10
Speaker 2: it on a special bill or are you going to I'm.
22:12
Speaker 5: Probably going to frame it in a box frame. I've
22:14
Speaker 5: kept my race number as well, put up in a
22:17
Speaker 5: nice frame.
22:18
Speaker 2: Right, excellent. I mean it's been a great journey, Joe.
22:22
Speaker 2: It's not over yet.
22:23
Speaker 1: But now we were chatting afterwards and I did a
22:29
Speaker 1: little interview which is on my podcast if you want
22:32
Speaker 1: to track that down. And everything was fine. I went home,
22:37
Speaker 1: your family started drifting off, your husband had to go
22:39
Speaker 1: to work.
22:40
Speaker 2: Tell us what happened?
22:41
Speaker 5: Next I decided to go for a shower. I had
22:45
Speaker 5: a nice little natter with some of the ladies down
22:47
Speaker 5: in the shower room, sort of started getting myself ready
22:51
Speaker 5: to go in the shower, put my towel around me,
22:53
Speaker 5: and then I wasn't very well at all and felt
22:57
Speaker 5: very very very sick, very dizzy. I ended up laying
23:00
Speaker 5: I put myself down on the floor so I didn't
23:03
Speaker 5: fall down on the floor. Yeah, and I ended up
23:06
Speaker 5: having to have the event medics come in and see me.
23:11
Speaker 2: Oh dear, so do you remember anything after that? What happened? Then?
23:16
Speaker 5: It was a little bit of a blur. They took
23:18
Speaker 5: my blood pressure, remember that, being very very low. I
23:21
Speaker 5: think it was about eighty five over fifty one, which
23:24
Speaker 5: was a concern. I had an ECG DNE. There was
23:28
Speaker 5: something not right there. Yeah. I was really quite poorly
23:32
Speaker 5: at that stage.
23:33
Speaker 2: And where did you end up? Then?
23:34
Speaker 5: They ended up having to cut me off to the
23:36
Speaker 5: William Harvey Hospital. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So what was the diagnosis?
23:41
Speaker 5: Something called rabdomielosis. It's basically skeletal muscles broken down. It
23:47
Speaker 5: releases proteins into your blood and your kidneys can't process it.
23:52
Speaker 5: So I mean the staff at the William Harvey. I
23:55
Speaker 5: know some of our hospitals get flack, but they were
23:58
Speaker 5: absolutely outstanding. Cannot praise them enough for my care.
24:02
Speaker 1: Right, And is this just through to I mean, what's
24:07
Speaker 1: the cause? Obviously you'd run one hundred miles, but is
24:10
Speaker 1: it something in your body breaks down?
24:12
Speaker 5: I don't think I'll ever really know the cause. It
24:15
Speaker 5: could have been the heat and the humidity, it could
24:17
Speaker 5: have been the distance. The week before obviously I had
24:20
Speaker 5: a bit of a shock on my job news, so
24:23
Speaker 5: it could have been stressed related to that. We don't
24:27
Speaker 5: honestly know, right, So how long was you in William Harvey.
24:33
Speaker 5: I went in Sunday afternoon and I finally got let
24:37
Speaker 5: out on Tuesday evening, probably.
24:39
Speaker 1: About six in the evening. We were watching you for
24:41
Speaker 1: like two nights then, yes, yeah, And how do you
24:45
Speaker 1: feel now?
24:45
Speaker 2: Then?
24:47
Speaker 5: I'm definitely on the ND. I've been doing quite a
24:49
Speaker 5: bit of walking. I'm still very tired, but it is
24:53
Speaker 5: what only ten days or so out of the race.
24:56
Speaker 5: It's not even two weeks, so it's to be expected.
24:59
Speaker 5: So I've just got to be very careful. Rest lots
25:03
Speaker 5: carry on with hydrating, and it's good.
25:05
Speaker 2: Food and we were talking off.
25:08
Speaker 1: You've got a message to pass on to other runners
25:11
Speaker 1: that don't feel well.
25:12
Speaker 5: Perhaps, yes, if you have done any kind of particularly
25:16
Speaker 5: long distance event, this rab demilosis can be characterized with
25:21
Speaker 5: dark color during I did not have that. I hydrated well,
25:25
Speaker 5: everything seemed okay. It was just the being sick and
25:32
Speaker 5: the feeling very faint. If you feel that, please go
25:35
Speaker 5: and get blood pressure checks. Maybe just ask for a
25:39
Speaker 5: quick blood test, get checked over. Please don't become a casualty.
25:44
Speaker 1: Right excellent, Well, Jody, it's been keep saying, it's been
25:47
Speaker 1: a wonderful journey. It's even longer journey for you.
25:49
Speaker 2: But thank you. You're very brave to come back in today.
25:53
Speaker 1: We did ask you, you know, sort very carefully if
25:55
Speaker 1: you did mine speaking about the hospitalization, and it's good
26:00
Speaker 1: for you to share it. And it's also good for
26:02
Speaker 1: people to think out there that well, people might think
26:06
Speaker 1: you're like superhuman. We're all pretty human after all that, Jody,
26:12
Speaker 1: until the next one, keep you quiet, get plenty of rests,
26:15
Speaker 1: and I'm sure when you start feeling better and more
26:17
Speaker 1: active and you have something else up.
26:20
Speaker 5: Your sleep, definitely, thank you. Kevin.
26:22
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks Holds, you're on there are you ready for love? Okay?
26:45
Speaker 1: Now we've still got loads to get through, and to
26:46
Speaker 1: be honest, I don't know if I'm going to do
26:48
Speaker 1: it this week. It's been so interesting up to now. Anyway,
26:51
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the Folks and Ski Race
26:54
Speaker 1: Club right now. One club that said he lost the
26:57
Speaker 1: use of their facilities due to the sports center closing
27:00
Speaker 1: is the Folkston Ski Race Club, who used a dry
27:03
Speaker 1: ski slope. However, the club is itself is still very
27:06
Speaker 1: much alive and traveled to Chatham a couple of weeks
27:09
Speaker 1: ago to compete in the Snow Sports South races and
27:13
Speaker 1: came home with several notable performances. There was podium finishes
27:17
Speaker 1: for Jane, she was first a master's female, Richard third
27:22
Speaker 1: master's third master's male, Selena was second under twenty one female,
27:28
Speaker 1: and congratulations go to Archie for winning all his head
27:31
Speaker 1: to head races and Alicia, who missed out on a
27:34
Speaker 1: podium finish but was fifth female and mini overall. Now,
27:39
Speaker 1: these excellent results have come after a miserable time lately,
27:42
Speaker 1: but proved that the Folks and Ski Race Club can
27:45
Speaker 1: still compete and win things. Unfortunately, they if they want
27:48
Speaker 1: to train regularly they will now have to travel to
27:51
Speaker 1: Chatham and they are one of the many victims of
27:55
Speaker 1: the closure of the sports center. So it's been a
27:58
Speaker 1: little bit quiet in the newslate. But let's just hope
28:00
Speaker 1: the administrators are working behind the scenes and come up
28:04
Speaker 1: with a positive result. Okay, a bit of mixed league
28:08
Speaker 1: hockey news now. Last Friday evening saw the final group
28:11
Speaker 1: games completed. In Group one, Maystone Iguana Dons beat Cliftonville
28:15
Speaker 1: four to three and in Group two ash For Tigers
28:18
Speaker 1: beat South Saxon's four to one. So next Friday we
28:21
Speaker 1: go into two weeks of playoffs before the finals night
28:24
Speaker 1: on the thirtieth of August. So if six teams in
28:26
Speaker 1: each group, I will read out the tables starting with
28:29
Speaker 1: the bottom clubs. In Group one sixth place where Ashford Sharks.
28:33
Speaker 1: Fifth was the Ops Blue Team, Fourth were Keen Police,
28:36
Speaker 1: third with Canterbury Green Team second with Cliftonville and top
28:40
Speaker 1: of the table were Maystone Iguana Dons. In Group two
28:44
Speaker 1: we have a sixth place was Ops White team. In
28:48
Speaker 1: fifth was the Ashford Tigers, in fourth was the Mainstone Lions,
28:52
Speaker 1: Third was the Saxons South Saxon Sorry seconds was the
28:56
Speaker 1: Ops Under twenty one team and top of the table
28:58
Speaker 1: in Group two was Canterbury, a red team. Now the
29:02
Speaker 1: playoff system goes like this, it's fifth versus sixth across
29:06
Speaker 1: the two groups this Friday, then the week after is
29:09
Speaker 1: first versus fourth and second versus third across the groups.
29:14
Speaker 1: So it means that this Friday the Ops Blue team.
29:16
Speaker 1: This is a a bit spooky. This's how this draws
29:18
Speaker 1: worked out. The Folks on Optimist Blue team will play
29:22
Speaker 1: the Folks and Optimist White team and the other playoff
29:25
Speaker 1: game is between the Ashford Sharks and they will be
29:28
Speaker 1: playing the Ashford Tigers. So I just want to say
29:32
Speaker 1: a big thank you once again to Amy, our Folks
29:35
Speaker 1: and Optimist media guru. Okay, time for a bit of music.
29:39
Speaker 1: There we will squeeze in a song if we can.
29:41
Speaker 1: And this is an O two and O two feeling
29:44
Speaker 1: and sown.
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Speaker 5: GI Mi the song and I'll sing it. Luck Am,
29:54
Speaker 5: give me the words and I'll say them like am.
30:05
Speaker 2: There you go? That was the feeling.
30:06
Speaker 1: It's funny it says two feelings sown and I should
30:10
Speaker 1: know I did actually see the feeling at the two
30:14
Speaker 1: A great evening that was as well. They were frontlining
30:19
Speaker 1: for Jeff Lynn and the Elo as well, and they
30:22
Speaker 1: were brilliant. Right, Okay, enough talking more sport. Rugby News
30:27
Speaker 1: focused on Rugby Club play their first preseason friendly on
30:30
Speaker 1: Saturday when they take a team to Dartford Valley Rugby
30:33
Speaker 1: Club for a twelve thirty kickoff. Last season, after a
30:36
Speaker 1: good first half of the season, they fell away a bit,
30:38
Speaker 1: losing important games, but still finished fourth. This time around,
30:42
Speaker 1: I think they'd be They're going to tighten up and
30:44
Speaker 1: be a bit more consistent now. Their opponents on Saturday,
30:47
Speaker 1: Dartford Valley played in the same league and finished tenth
30:50
Speaker 1: out of twelve teams. But the first run out of
30:52
Speaker 1: the preseason means that getting fit and trying new things
30:55
Speaker 1: and personnel on the pitch. Quick bit of football news
30:59
Speaker 1: now focusing started the season in front of eight hundred
31:01
Speaker 1: and fifty five fans with a one all draw against
31:05
Speaker 1: carl Shulton Athletic. Tuesday evening, they visited the Crabble to
31:08
Speaker 1: play Dover Athletic, final score being a three too thrilling
31:12
Speaker 1: victory for Invictor and the next game is away at
31:16
Speaker 1: Wingate and Finchley. But don't forget to tune in on
31:20
Speaker 1: Saturday between ten and eleven. Adidwks who's doing his sports
31:25
Speaker 1: show now on Saturday, went to both of these games
31:27
Speaker 1: and he would give you a full report on both
31:29
Speaker 1: of them. Hid Tawn won their first league game of
31:32
Speaker 1: the season, beat in Phoenix Sports two to one. They
31:36
Speaker 1: now don't have a game until the twenty fourth. But
31:38
Speaker 1: the big shot news was the resignation of Sammy Moore
31:41
Speaker 1: who was the manager, and that took immediate effect. No
31:45
Speaker 1: explanation was given, but the club did move in very
31:48
Speaker 1: quickly and signed up Nick Davis who's got a lot
31:51
Speaker 1: of managerial skill at that level. And so good luck
31:54
Speaker 1: to Nick and all the people down there at the
31:56
Speaker 1: reach Fields. And finally Hawkinstown lost their first game of
32:00
Speaker 1: the season three two home to a Metro Gas. This
32:03
Speaker 1: Saturday they're at home again, this time to Sporting Club
32:06
Speaker 1: Thamesmead reserves right bit of music again.
32:09
Speaker 2: Let's listen to Blue Cantrail and Breathe.
32:17
Speaker 3: Really Big.
32:20
Speaker 1: Joe wres a song cale Breathe there By a Blue
32:30
Speaker 1: Contrail Featuring's Shanpaul Right now. Last Sunday I was on
32:35
Speaker 1: the mic at the nice work Mount Ephram ten k
32:38
Speaker 1: Road Race two hundred and seventy nine runners brave the
32:41
Speaker 1: heat and the hills in the stunning venue of the
32:43
Speaker 1: Mount Ephraim Gardens. First across the line of South Kent
32:46
Speaker 1: harrier Jared Dobson in thirty eight minutes and one second,
32:50
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds ahead of second A runner James Pottle, but
32:54
Speaker 1: James was being chased by Elliot King, who was just
32:57
Speaker 1: another four seconds behind. Two others took part. John Clayson
33:01
Speaker 1: finished in fifty three minutes fifty one seconds and Sarah
33:05
Speaker 1: Harvey one hour, ten minutes and fourteen seconds. Three athletes
33:09
Speaker 1: from Folks and Running and Athletic Club took part. Simon
33:12
Speaker 1: Coffee running at forty nine fifty two, Martin Salmon fifty
33:16
Speaker 1: to fifty four and Jenny Heathfield fifty nine to fifteen.
33:20
Speaker 1: First female home was this week's in the Yellow Vest
33:23
Speaker 1: of Ashville, CE and now nice to see her back
33:26
Speaker 1: on the running circuit. Notable performances came from Dover Road
33:29
Speaker 1: runner Mark Schleuhman, who won the Male Vet seventy award
33:33
Speaker 1: in a time of fifty two minutes, seventeen seconds, and
33:36
Speaker 1: he was a bit of a family affair from the
33:38
Speaker 1: Deal tri Club with Sally and Andy Russell crossing the
33:42
Speaker 1: line together, as.
33:43
Speaker 2: Did Louise and Paulie Ludwig.
33:46
Speaker 1: First runner home for than road runners was Oliver Reagan
33:49
Speaker 1: in sixth place, but he also won the junior male category,
33:54
Speaker 1: coming in in thirty nine minutes thirty three seconds. And
33:57
Speaker 1: it does look a bit of a prospect for the future.
33:59
Speaker 1: Only a young lads, So we're down to you Oliver
34:03
Speaker 1: right now. The Mali from ten k The last little
34:07
Speaker 1: bit was upper slope. It was about two hundred meters
34:10
Speaker 1: and it was a hot It was a hilly course
34:13
Speaker 1: and I heard somebody say called that last bit that
34:15
Speaker 1: run for home was really tough, and it reminded me
34:18
Speaker 1: of this song from Linda's Farn.
34:21
Speaker 4: Love Travel.
34:24
Speaker 5: With the guitar and behind and the night.
34:31
Speaker 3: Rob for some.
34:51
Speaker 2: That's it for me for this week.
34:53
Speaker 1: As we finished with Linda's Varn, put on a don't
34:57
Speaker 1: forget there's the High Bay trifleon at the week kend.
35:01
Speaker 2: Go along and watch that and what else we've got.
35:03
Speaker 1: Park run reminders no Senior Park run on Saturday due
35:07
Speaker 1: to an event on the lease. Junior Park Run is
35:10
Speaker 1: back Sunday at nine o'clock Radna Park as it for me.
35:14
Speaker 1: This weekend I'll be heading off to Clacton to act
35:17
Speaker 1: as at EMC at the Clacton Half Marathon, so take
35:21
Speaker 1: it easy everybody as we finish off with a run
35:24
Speaker 1: for home. We'll lend his farm and stage Batty Them
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