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LISTEN BACK TO MY LONDON MARATHON SPECIAL SHOWCASING LOCAL RUNNERS. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports very daily here on Radio Folks
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  Speaker 1: and bringing you my twenty twenty five a London Marathon special.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The forty fifth London Marathon takes place tomorrow Sunday, the
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh of April, with more than fifty six thousand
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  Speaker 1: people expected to run. But today we will be focusing
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  Speaker 1: on runners taking part from the Folks to then Hive region.
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  Speaker 1: We have interviews from Den, Kelly, Curly, Morgan and Ellie
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  Speaker 1: Curran who are all first timers. And we're joined in
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  Speaker 1: the studio by experienced marathon as Clive and Pam Allen,
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  Speaker 1: along with Marie Brazier. So what better way to start?
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  Speaker 1: And this iconic London Marathon theme by Ron Goodwin. The
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  Speaker 1: London Marathon theme which gives you goose pumps, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 1: And sets your heart racing anyway, Let's welcome our guests
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  Speaker 1: to the show. First of all, hello to Marie Brazier.
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  Speaker 1: Hello Marie, good morning, Kevin.
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  Speaker 3: How are you great?
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  Speaker 1: Great? Thanks and thanks for coming in. You're getting an
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  Speaker 1: old hand at this about running, aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Right? And were welcome to Clive Allen who was in
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  Speaker 1: sometime many years ago but they're still run instill. How
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  Speaker 1: the hello, Clive, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm brilliant?
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  Speaker 1: Actually yeah, Kevin good, yeah, so good to have you
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  Speaker 1: in there, because this show today is a mixture of
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  Speaker 1: first time interviews people that have running how their feelings are.
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  Speaker 1: But we also wanted to have the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the coin, some experience runners like yourselves. So Marie, you
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  Speaker 1: are actually running tomorrow, aren't you?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? I am okay, yes, I've been there on the
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  Speaker 3: start line.
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  Speaker 1: And but yeah, you're going running because you did a
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  Speaker 1: marathon a couple of weeks ago, didn't you.
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  Speaker 3: I did, yes, So I did Newport in Wales. It
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  Speaker 3: will be two weeks tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So why did you do that? Was it just
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  Speaker 1: and when another one of your sort of personal challenges,
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  Speaker 1: another book box to tick?
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  Speaker 3: It was sort of because, as every one knows, it's
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  Speaker 3: very hard to get into London through the ballots, So
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  Speaker 3: I decided to look for a marathon elsewhere, thinking that
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  Speaker 3: my chances of getting London are very slim, like everybody
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  Speaker 3: else and so we decided on Newport because I've done
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  Speaker 3: Mansada and Brighton, so it was somewhere different. So going
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  Speaker 3: to Wales and running at Mouth in Wales is a
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  Speaker 3: litt bit exciting, and then I was fortunate enough to
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  Speaker 3: get my place through London through work, okay, and then
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  Speaker 3: it's London's one of those things that if you get it,
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  Speaker 3: you can't really not do it because it's so iconic.
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  Speaker 3: It's you know, it's London after all. So I decided
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 1: Both, right, supergirl neck Clive, You're not running long distances
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  Speaker 1: at the moment, but you've done a lot of Maria Theres.
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  Speaker 1: How many marathons have you done?
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  Speaker 2: I've done twenty two as yeah far, twenty two and
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  Speaker 2: two ultras. Yeah, I think I did my first one
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  Speaker 2: eighty three where Mike Granton won it and I said
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  Speaker 2: never again, and somehow I've managed.
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  Speaker 1: So you did that was your first London yeah eighty three?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was. And then we did a nice
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  Speaker 2: little celebration around the Folkston Sports Ground and I had
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  Speaker 2: the football ground was around and with our foils on
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  Speaker 2: and with Mike Granton and it.
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  Speaker 1: Was it was alright, us a little bit a better.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Granton.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, it was a great guy. I met him. He's
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  Speaker 2: really really, very very talented. I know it was a
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  Speaker 2: local lad that wasn't ith. Yeah, and his training was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's one hundred miles a week and he
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  Speaker 2: was running and he'd run from Canterbury down to Hyde
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's back as well. I mean it
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  Speaker 2: was just insane training, different level, isn't it. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but great guy, really really friendly and always always willing
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  Speaker 2: to do a speech if necessary. When Folkston gave me
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  Speaker 2: a yell and he did, he did a speech and
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  Speaker 2: motivating speech. And yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well last year it was the fortieth anniversary of the
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  Speaker 1: folks And ten mile race and he was invited back
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  Speaker 1: down and we did a little one to one on
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  Speaker 1: the start line just before he went off, which was great,
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  Speaker 1: and then I managed to get another interview with him
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  Speaker 1: and his partner Amy. Amy had just run the race.
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  Speaker 1: And we do see Mike Gratton out in Cypress when
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  Speaker 1: we go to Cyprus. He does an event out there.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, he's been a great ambassador for the sport
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  Speaker 1: since since packing up his running days. But he still
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  Speaker 1: does a little bit. But it's good to see him
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  Speaker 1: and it's so good that he's giving so much back
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  Speaker 1: to the sport.
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  Speaker 2: And he motivates as well. That's good, that's the great
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  Speaker 2: thing about it.
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  Speaker 1: And Marie well tomorrow with the family going up to
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  Speaker 1: see you, or is it not running another marathon that yes.
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  Speaker 3: They say, you said last year that'd be your last year.
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  Speaker 3: You said the year before that be your last marathon.
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  Speaker 3: Every year I say it and it's quite but and
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  Speaker 3: this year I'm saying going to say again this is
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  Speaker 3: gonna be my last marathon. Whether that's true or not,
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  Speaker 3: who knows. But go back to Mike grass and quickly,
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  Speaker 3: and I've got a quite funny story of him. So
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  Speaker 3: there was a time Pier where Folcusing Running Club would
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  Speaker 3: invite people down to do their talk to the club,
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  Speaker 3: to motivational speeches. So I've rocked on up the club
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  Speaker 3: one evening and I've seen this gentlemen. They've never seen
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  Speaker 3: him before, and I thought, oh, we've got a new person.
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  Speaker 3: I know. I introduced myself and I have a chat
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  Speaker 3: to him. So we're running around the old cricket field.
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  Speaker 3: So I was chasing away to him.
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  Speaker 2: Are you new?
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  Speaker 3: Are you new to the club?
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  Speaker 4: Not?
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  Speaker 3: Not really, he said, I saw you before. He said, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: many years ago. I used to remember. Oh okay, I said,
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  Speaker 3: come back to join and he said no, I'm here's
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  Speaker 3: to a speech. And I went oh I know who
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  Speaker 3: you are.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, but only disappeared into the distance.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I almost insulted Mike Gratton legend, you know.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, So my husband Gary's come up to watch
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  Speaker 3: my own and he's fortunate enough through my work to
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  Speaker 3: have got a special ticket, so he'd be at the
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  Speaker 3: stand at the end there. So anyone who's running to
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  Speaker 3: my way, if you've run on the left hand side
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  Speaker 3: down to the finish, Gary will be there to take
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  Speaker 3: photographs of you.
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  Speaker 1: And what a great finale that. Okay, time for another
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  Speaker 1: song now. This is I've been trawling the playlist for
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of songs about London and running and last
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  Speaker 1: trains to London, so this is a classic. Ever listened
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  Speaker 1: to this? This is the clash Darling through the Barrowne.
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  Speaker 1: What a great track that is for tomorrow London Calling
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  Speaker 1: And we have got two people here. London will be
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  Speaker 1: calling tomorrow. Clive will be going up on the coach
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  Speaker 1: you talk a bit about that a little bit later,
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  Speaker 1: and Marie will be going up to the start line.
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  Speaker 1: So in the meantime it's been a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: task to get interviews this year, as all my runners
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  Speaker 1: have gone up to London for the weekend, and last
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  Speaker 1: weekend was Easter, so it wasn't fair to tie people down.
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  Speaker 1: So what I've managed to do was to record the
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  Speaker 1: interviews away from the studios at the Three Hills. So
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  Speaker 1: you've got to please excuse the quality. It's a bit echoey.
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  Speaker 1: And I was out on the balcony at the Three
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  Speaker 1: Hills trying to keep quiet, but there was people next
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  Speaker 1: door drinking cups of tea. There was a pool game
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  Speaker 1: going on, and every now and then you might hear
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  Speaker 1: a tractor in the background where he was cutting the grass.
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  Speaker 1: But the end product is really important. Now, my first
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  Speaker 1: chat was with a very busy lady called Carly Morgan.
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  Speaker 1: So let's sit back and have a listen. In the
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  Speaker 1: first of my London Marathon Special interviews. I'm joined now
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  Speaker 1: by Carly Morgan. Hello, Carly, how are you? I'm very well,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you excellent, Thanks for coming along today. Now, Carl,
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  Speaker 1: you've ticked all the boxes. You're a local runner, you're
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  Speaker 1: running your first marathon in London, and you're running for
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  Speaker 1: a charity. Is that right?
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  Speaker 5: That's correct?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So I don't know where to start. Really, let's
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  Speaker 1: go back to tell us a bit about yourself. Did
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  Speaker 1: you joy sport as a youngster? You know how long
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  Speaker 1: you've been running? Little bit better your background?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, cool? So did I enjoy sport as a youngster?
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  Speaker 4: Probably up until twelve, and then I got a little
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  Speaker 4: bit overly competitive and couldn't handle losing, so I.
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  Speaker 5: So I jacked it in.
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  Speaker 4: I used to play netball a little bit of school
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  Speaker 4: and really enjoyed that. I certainly was not a runner.
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  Speaker 4: I would have panic attacks at the thought of cross
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  Speaker 4: country runs. I would dodge it, I'd be sick that
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  Speaker 4: day from school. So yeah, I wouldn't class myself as
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  Speaker 4: a sporty kid as such. Right, Yeah, perhaps a bit
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  Speaker 4: more sporty.
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  Speaker 1: Adult, right, Okay, So what was it about cross country
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  Speaker 1: running that you didn't like? Was it just not in you?
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  Speaker 1: Or was there any other reasons I struggled.
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  Speaker 4: I really struggled with the with running. I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: go faster and then I'd totally.
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  Speaker 5: Lose, lose the ability to go far. And I struggle
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  Speaker 5: with asthma.
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  Speaker 1: I'll do you.
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  Speaker 5: So I was diagnosed with asthma at about seven years old.
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  Speaker 4: Not serious asthma, but it would certainly kick in when
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  Speaker 4: I was trying to do any kind of running or
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  Speaker 4: sports and stuff, and so it's just too overwhelming to
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  Speaker 4: consider a cross country.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean when you was younger, did you kind
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  Speaker 1: of use it as a little lever?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 6: Not.
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  Speaker 1: Another note from your mum and.
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  Speaker 5: You can't cross country.
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  Speaker 6: She's had a bit of a flare up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well we're joking about it. But as a child asthma,
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  Speaker 1: normal day events must have been a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a struggle growing.
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  Speaker 5: Up with Yeah, very much so.
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  Speaker 4: The thing with asthma that I find is you don't
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  Speaker 4: really notice it until you think about it, and the
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  Speaker 4: moment you start thinking about it, especially if you're trying
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  Speaker 4: to do anything sporting it, it just kicks into your
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  Speaker 4: mindset and it can really limit you.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, So so how did you get back into running?
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  Speaker 1: What sort of spurred you on to come this far
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  Speaker 1: to do the challenge the London Marathon.
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  Speaker 4: So about three years ago, I was on holiday with
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  Speaker 4: the family. So I've got a husband and two kids.
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  Speaker 4: We were over in Cyprus, which is one of our
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  Speaker 4: favorite places to go. And mums will know this. You're
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  Speaker 4: always the one that get ups early. You know, you're
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  Speaker 4: getting everyone ready for breakfast and stuff. So I was
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  Speaker 4: up early, everyone else was still snoozing and I looked
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  Speaker 4: out the window and there's this beautiful view of the
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  Speaker 4: sea and loads.
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  Speaker 5: Of people out walking and running.
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  Speaker 4: So I thought, right, I'll go for a walk. Went
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  Speaker 4: for a little walk. People are running past me. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: quite fancy, little trop So I just started and that.
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  Speaker 5: Was about one point eight k r. The rest is history.
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  Speaker 5: It grew from there.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the turning point, was very much. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you came from a nun runner to a runner. What
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  Speaker 1: a lovely venue to restart your running career.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, hot but lovely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, straight back in the pool before breakfast. Right okay,
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  Speaker 1: So again on a serious note, let's let's go back.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the turning point. So how did you decide?
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  Speaker 1: How did you end up running the London Marathon?
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  Speaker 5: What a question?
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  Speaker 4: So I started obviously after this holiday, doing the.
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  Speaker 5: Odd five k here and there. I built up to
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  Speaker 5: that first off.
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  Speaker 4: Then one of my very very bestest friends, Debbie Daus,
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  Speaker 4: she just invited me for a run one day. Now, Debbie,
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  Speaker 4: I had watched from the sideline. She lives in our village.
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  Speaker 4: Debbie's done a marathon. She was training through COVID and
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  Speaker 4: Debbie is like missus fit.
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  Speaker 5: She could run, she run.
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  Speaker 4: It always looked like she had a big backpack on
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  Speaker 4: and she was just like super super amazing run er.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah no, I love her and so and she said
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  Speaker 4: to me, our sons play cricket together. And she said
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  Speaker 4: to me one day when we were watching the boys,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if you have a fancy going.
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  Speaker 6: For a run.
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  Speaker 4: And I thought, oh no, there's no way I could
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  Speaker 4: ever run with Debbie. Anyway, I plucked up the courage
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  Speaker 4: and I said, yes, let's do it. And we went
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  Speaker 4: for I think it must have been about a six
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  Speaker 4: k run something like that around our village. We're chatting
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  Speaker 4: all the way, and I realized, oh, I can do this,
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  Speaker 4: and I've got a bit of courage. And not only did.
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  Speaker 5: I have the courage, but I really loved it. And
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  Speaker 5: so we just started.
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  Speaker 4: Running, and for a good couple of years we've been
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  Speaker 4: running every other day.
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  Speaker 5: We started doing ten k's every other day.
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  Speaker 4: Chat chat chatting start of the working day totally helps
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  Speaker 4: your mental health.
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  Speaker 5: And then one day I saw a post about the
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  Speaker 5: London Marathon.
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  Speaker 4: I thought, oh, I might fancy that.
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  Speaker 5: I might see if I can push myself to prove
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  Speaker 5: I can do hard things.
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  Speaker 1: So did you go down the ballot route or did
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  Speaker 1: you have to get.
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  Speaker 5: A charity charity place? Yeah, so I went for a
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  Speaker 5: charity place.
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  Speaker 4: I'm running for asthma and lung UK obviously that's really
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  Speaker 4: close to my heart.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I've been fundraising for them ever since.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I mean, I'm thinking about the asthma, and the
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  Speaker 1: first thing is these people out of breath. So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's great that you're running for this charity, but i mean,
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  Speaker 1: how is in later life? How's the asthma affected you're running?
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  Speaker 1: Does it not slow you down?
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  Speaker 5: Not at all? If anything, it's got better. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 4: I would always get seasonal asthma, so when the hay
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  Speaker 4: fever kicked in or in the cold weather, that's when
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  Speaker 4: your asthma would get worse. But when I go running,
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  Speaker 4: it's almost like it clears clears my airways, it opens
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  Speaker 4: up the lungs. I've not had touchwood, I've not had
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  Speaker 4: a flare up since I've been doing the more longer runs.
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  Speaker 4: And also I'm managing my medication better i used to be.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you can talk to my husband he'd.
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  Speaker 4: Tell you I would use my Inhaler when a flare
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  Speaker 4: up happened or if I was worried about an attack.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't preventing the asthma in any way. And now
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  Speaker 4: because I'm running, I take my asthma and Halo every
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  Speaker 4: single day and I take it with me on runs
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  Speaker 4: and it's it's definitely made a mass of time.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, do you need you need to take
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  Speaker 1: it on a run? So on a run like twenty
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  Speaker 1: six point two miles, I don't know anything about it Inhaler's.
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  Speaker 1: Is it just one in Halo or do you need
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  Speaker 1: to take a couple?
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  Speaker 4: I have like a combination in Halo that has a
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  Speaker 4: preventative and a sort of like a reactive one in
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  Speaker 4: there together. I take mine Halo on my long runs
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  Speaker 4: when I've been training. So far, I've not had to
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  Speaker 4: use it once, but it's yeah, definitely, But for an
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  Speaker 4: asthmatic it's a nice safety blanket. It's almost good for
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  Speaker 4: the mind to know that you've got it in case
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  Speaker 4: you need it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And the charity Asthma in Long UK, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: have they have they been helpful supporting you? Have they
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  Speaker 1: got a cheer station?
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  Speaker 6: Yes? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's cheer stations.
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  Speaker 4: They've been putting on webinars and stuff to help and
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  Speaker 4: give advice, both for how to raise funds obviously, but
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  Speaker 4: also how to how to run if you are an asthmatic.
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  Speaker 7: There's lots of advice.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's that's good, isn't it. Okay, So let's
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  Speaker 1: get back to your training. So, how's training been going?
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  Speaker 1: And we understand we've got a common common friend that does.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, coach Quinny and Quinn.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, So where I mean, where does she come in?
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  Speaker 1: What's she been doing to help you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: So I engaged with Karen in September last year. She's
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  Speaker 4: been she's a family friend. She's known my husband for many,
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  Speaker 4: many years. They grew up together and we bumped into
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  Speaker 4: each other a year or so ago, and she'd seen
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  Speaker 4: my running on Strava, good old Strava, And as soon
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  Speaker 4: as I had signed up for the marathon and got
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  Speaker 4: a place, I got in contact with her to say
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  Speaker 4: help because I had absolutely no idea, no, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: very I'm the sort of work I do.
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  Speaker 6: I like to.
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  Speaker 4: I like to get expertise when you don't have it,
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  Speaker 4: it helps you.
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  Speaker 5: You need the right methods in order to get the
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  Speaker 5: results you want.
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  Speaker 4: And so Karen has been able to give me all
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  Speaker 4: the advice and and a full training plan every single month,
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  Speaker 4: and so far it's.
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  Speaker 5: Been going really well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh brilliant.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, you're a working mum, which is always busy
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: to find the time to fit in the runs because
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: it's just like twenty minutes round the lock. So what
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: do you do exactly?
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: So I work for a company that does leadership development,
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: so which actually I'm very lucky.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: I have a good balance. I get to work from
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: home a lot of the time. But the flip side
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: of that is I do have a lot of international travel.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: I'll do you.
• 16:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: So I'm an executive.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Coach and I facilitate leadership programs and conferences, and yeah,
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: it's been a bit.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: Of a challenge to fit the training in.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: There's been many times when I've been in another country
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: in a hotel having to do my runs on a treadmill. Really,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: seven miles on a treadmill is not fun unless you've
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: got coach Quinny giving you a proper challenging one that
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: gets you right. Yeah.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean that balance as it works out
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: for you have you made it work. So I mean,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: what's the longest run you've done?
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it has worked for me. It's taken a lot
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: of planning and a lot of commitment. Obviously for anyone
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: who's doing the marathon, they know it takes commitment. But
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: the longest run I've done so far is twenty one
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: miles twenty one.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: Twenty one at the end.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: So that is that. Well, you're tapering down now, it's
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: not long to go now.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: And injuries so far touch with nothing.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Excellent, that's very good. So this running, have you been
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: doing it on your own or have you got a
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: running buddy? Have you been running with the debbies?
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: Debbie and I we started running at at the start
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: of my training and.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Then, as you know, like with your plan and stuff,
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: sometimes you have to go out on your own to
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: get your right pace in and that sort of thing.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: So I'd say predominantly it's been on my own, but I.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Know I've got a massive support crowd there when I
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: need a yeah, somebody to come with me.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, So what's happening on the marathon weekend? Are you?
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Are you going up there on the day or you
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: making a weekend?
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: So I so for work.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: I have to fly out this weekend. I'm flying to
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Singapore for a.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Few days and then I arrive back in the UK
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: on Thursday. Then I'm going to sleep Friday under strict
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: orders from me. And then Saturday, yeah, we're going to
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: go up to London to the expo, collect the BIB,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: eat a load of carbs.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Apparently that's what I'm told.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I'm having to have a lot of pasta and then
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: stay overnight and then ready for the big.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Day, right, okay, and I take it on the Sunday.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: You've got lots of family coming up.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so my husband's coming up with me on
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: the day before and then the kids are coming up
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: with their grandparents.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Lots of friends coming up and family to cheer us
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: all on.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Right, and have you worked out a little procedure, little
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: playing where they're going to be so they don't miss you.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: We've got a few ideas, so we've been told tower
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Bridge is quite a good area, cutty sark. I think
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: they'll try and catch me on the embankment if they
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: can get through the crowds. But yeah, I'm going to
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: leave that to daddy. Can ye make sure that happens.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you something that that there is nothing lights
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: in a member of the family. When you're running a marathon.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: It is so uplifting when you're really even a family friend,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: when you're so toy it just does something to you.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: A few words of encouragement. Just make sure you've got
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: your name on your T shirt.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: You can do that.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: I am.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been told nickname apparently, yeah.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Does work, wonders. I tell you, what's your My ny
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: name is corles Burg Carls work. Probably the best runner in.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Girlfriend many times?
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Are you going to hear that? America? There she goes,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Probably the best runner.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: That's my strap line on that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Love it, I love it excellent, Okay, So I mean
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: along the way, it's a long journey you getting to
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: the marathon, lots of dedication that you've made, and if
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: sometimes to the detrimental family, they don't see you. So
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: just just tell us about how it's been, and you know,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: tell us about the support that you've got from the family,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: and just name drop family friends. You know, it's really
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: important that these people should be mentioned. They're so important.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Thank you. Yeah, So, Leo, my husband has just been incredible.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: The days when.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: I've had to leave the house at six am to
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: get down to Saint Mary's Bay and run along the
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: coast for three hours.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: He's held the thought the kids, Bow and Sully. They
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: are They're my reason for doing it.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: I want to prove to them as a mum that
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: if you've set your heart on something, you can do
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: anything you want to.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: So they deserve a shout out. My mother and Laura Lennie.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: She's been massive in terms of helping with looking after
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: the kids if I've had to go out for a run.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: And as I say, lots of my friends like.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Debbie and Karen have been cheering me on the sidelines
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: right brilliant.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: So just just as we're beginning to close now, just
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: tell us a little bit what you know about the charity.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: It's self explanatory. Asthma Along UK we did we did
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: say earlier on they've been a great help. But of
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: their their support has that been important to years as
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: an asthma sufferer? Is it something that you want to
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: get the message over to other asthma sufferers?
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it does feel like I mean with all of
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: these sort of charity groups, you get into a community,
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: you know, and it definitely feels from this particular charity.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: People have chosen it because they're asthma sufferers, or they
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: might have lost people because of sadly because of asthma.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: I have a friend who lost her boyfriend really earlier,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: when they were younger, because he had an asthma attack,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: and it's just devastating. I think lots of people think
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: that asthma is not a massive deal, but it can
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: be such a huge deal. And so for me, it's
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: kind of raising awareness to say, even if you have
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: got asthma.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: You can still do it. You can still do it.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: You can train your body to think differently.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, now, so you're raising money for the charity. You
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: set yourself a target. What was your target?
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: I think the target was two grand?
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: And what is it at now?
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: One hundred and five?
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Well, with a bit of gift date, with a bit
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of gift, I've got it. It's just over twoy and
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: four hundred. So that is fantastic. Okay, Well, Carl, it's
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: been absolutely wonderful speaking to you. I've learned a lot
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: more about asthma than i'd like you say. You just
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I always thought people a couple of pumps and it
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: had gone but there's more to it than that, and
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: you're you're proving that and you're proving it to other
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: asthma sufferers. So a big, big thank you. Is anything
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: else you want to want to say before you go?
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: You know, any other any other points we've missed?
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: You think?
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: No, I think that captures most of it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Just the best of luck to anyone doing anything like this,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: any other marathon runners out there. I've got a few
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: family members that are doing it, a couple of cousins. Yeah,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: so Jess Been and Jess Hawkins, I should say it's
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: a married name. She's running for an SPCC and another person,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Amy Hudson, she's running for Alzheimer's.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: And good luck to everyone doing it. It's going to
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: be an epic event.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. You know, you set yourself a target and
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: you just focused on it, and it's what you're doing
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: is just raising awareness for other people to so that
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: they just know that they can do it as well. Honestly,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Carl has been really as tords you and what can
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I say? Just have a great day, make sure you
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: get probably the best runner in the marathon, and I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: love that you need a big T shirt to put
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: all that on though, so thanks and this will be
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: going out on the Saturday. So basically when this is
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: being played, you will be running tomorrow, so we'll be
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: looking at for her. We'll get that number and start
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: tracking you brilliant, so much.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: So that was Kylie running for asthma and lung UK
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: And when asked for a song, she told me this
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: particular song was dedicated to her mum, who were and
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: who was her friend and inspiration but sadly passed away
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: from breast cancer nine years ago and she's found it
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: hard dealing with the grief. Actually over the nine years,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Carlie said, when she's finding the running tough, she thinks
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: of her mum as she's going to be her wings
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: on the day. So Carlie, this is for you and
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: your mum. This is Rachel Platten and a song called
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: stand by You, h.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: Hands, put your empty hands in.
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: The scars from me, all the scars you had, and.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Hey, if your wings are broken, pleas take mad So
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: you asking nothing so because I'm gonna.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Stand by you, my God. That's Rachel Platten there, stand
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: by you. And that's that was Carly's song which is
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: dedicated to her mum. Let's hope when she's out there
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: that he does manage to see the family on the
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: way round, because it can be so disheartening if if
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: you don't see anybody that you know when you're running
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: twenty six point two miles. Now, my second interview is
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: with a gentleman called the Den Kelly. Now, Den has
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: had to fight off an injury and plan his runs around.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: His shift work.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: So put the kettlebacker on, sit back and listen to
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Den Kelly's story. Now, in the second of my London
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Marathon special interviews, I'm joined today by Den Kelly. Hello, Dan,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: how are you?
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: Good morning? I very well, thank you, good well.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Thanks for taking the time to have a little chat.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Then and now, then let me explain to our listeners
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: that you've ticked all the boxes I was looking for.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: You're a local runner, it's your very first marathon, which
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: is London, and you're raising money for charity. So tell
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: us a bit about yourself. For example, I mean, did
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: you like sport at school? Did you bunk off school
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: because they're sport? And how long have you run? In
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: just a little bit about yourself.
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: So I think probably the biggest part of my life
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: was twenty one years in the Armed Forces, so that
• 25:58
  Speaker 10: was the ref So part of that is obviously there
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: was an element or staying physically fit, and during that
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: time I played quite a lot of hockey. So my
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: coaches always used to tell me off for playing sport
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: to keep fit and not keeping fit to play sport.
• 26:12
  Speaker 10: So I was never the greatest runner, I think it
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: would be fair to say, but I've always had that
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: kind of base level there.
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: So for really.
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: Coming out of that, coming out or leaving the military.
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: So just over thirteen years ago now, the kind of
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: like the gym stuff, really kind of stopped to play
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: a little bit of golf, didn't play stop playing hockey.
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: So really it was something I've come to a time
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: in my life really that with it was something I
• 26:39
  Speaker 10: wanted to achieve, and with the charity aspect of it
• 26:42
  Speaker 10: as well, it kind of felt like the right time.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: The right time.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so how long you been running in So.
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: I've been training for sixteen weeks with stops and starts,
• 26:52
  Speaker 10: with the training setbacks.
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: That I think everybody will go through.
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: But I said, there's always been kind of like that
• 26:59
  Speaker 10: base that I go to the gym occasionally and a
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: couple of years ago, I spent some time away overseas
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: and during that time when I was away from my family,
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: joined COVID spent quite a lot of time in the
• 27:10
  Speaker 10: gym there, so fortunately that fitness was there.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: It was just time on the road.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: So you had a basis of fitness, which you've obviously
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: done most of your life. But so what decided running
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: and London Marathon.
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: Well, there's a couple of things really. I mean, I've
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: always been a fan of the London Marathon.
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: I remember way back when I was a boy watching
• 27:29
  Speaker 10: Charlie Spedding back in the early eighties, I think, doing
• 27:32
  Speaker 10: the London Marathon. So it would always be the you know,
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: watching the marathon on a Sunday morning, so there was
• 27:37
  Speaker 10: always that interest. I've had family members that have done
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: lots and lots of marathons, so for me that was
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: always kind of sitting in the background as a bucket list.
• 27:46
  Speaker 10: But I've never been a long distance runner, so to
• 27:49
  Speaker 10: be honest, I didn't think it was achievable. But then
• 27:53
  Speaker 10: when I turned fifty a couple of years ago, it
• 27:55
  Speaker 10: kind of got more of a goal that I wanted
• 27:57
  Speaker 10: to do. And then of things that have happened sort
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: of to me personally and when I got married last year.
• 28:05
  Speaker 10: Penny's mum and stepdad have done so much for the RBL,
• 28:10
  Speaker 10: and I'm now taking a bit of a back seat,
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: or they'll say they're taking a bit of a back seat,
• 28:14
  Speaker 10: but they're still very, very busy.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So the rbl'll explain to our listeners what the RBL is.
• 28:18
  Speaker 10: So that's a Rayal British Legion, so obviously very well
• 28:22
  Speaker 10: known for the Poppy appeal and do so much work
• 28:24
  Speaker 10: for servicemen both current and former serving lots and lots
• 28:31
  Speaker 10: of awareness that have been around this particular charity. But
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: what I wanted to do was really kind of focus
• 28:36
  Speaker 10: on a local level. So we have the Choton and
• 28:40
  Speaker 10: Rayal British Legion branch, which again does so much work
• 28:43
  Speaker 10: in the local area, and really it was kind of
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: raised a little bit awareness about that really trying to
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: generate some new members, trying to generate again if people
• 28:51
  Speaker 10: have got time on their hand to because they need
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: officers as well as you know, people just to become members.
• 28:58
  Speaker 10: So really it was twofold really, So the Raw British
• 29:01
  Speaker 10: Legion also helped me as well. A couple of years
• 29:03
  Speaker 10: ago when you know you're kind of having tough at times,
• 29:06
  Speaker 10: especially when you're transitioning from from the military into civilian street.
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: So they've always been super supportive for me. They've been
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: super support some some very close friends on fortune. One
• 29:16
  Speaker 10: lost his life last year to cancer and the support
• 29:18
  Speaker 10: that they gave their family was was really just tremendous
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: and that really was the springboarding to go right, this
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: is the right time, right.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: So did you was it that with your connections with
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the rb L. Was it quite easy to get a
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: charity place?
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: Absolutely?
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: So.
• 29:35
  Speaker 10: It was way back in May last year I volunteered
• 29:41
  Speaker 10: for the to run for the Raw britsh Legion. So
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: I put forward obviously my kind of like little CV,
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: and they were very interested. They got back to me
• 29:51
  Speaker 10: very quickly and said, you know, we would we would
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: love you to run.
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: And the rest, as I say, is history, or will
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: be history hopefully come next.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: It it was a bit of a shock to the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: system when when you know, you thought, oh my word,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I've really got to train for this, and did you
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: ever did you have a training plan or did you
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: just go out and do a bit running yourself.
• 30:09
  Speaker 10: So initially it was I was quite conscious about getting
• 30:12
  Speaker 10: miles into my legs really, so I didn't follow a
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: set training plan. Initially, it would just get out of
• 30:19
  Speaker 10: the road doing some park runs, just doing a bit
• 30:22
  Speaker 10: bit of running, and then as we turned into the
• 30:25
  Speaker 10: new year, I then started to follow the sixteen week
• 30:28
  Speaker 10: training plan, of which I kind of some moments I
• 30:32
  Speaker 10: found easier, some elements I found harder.
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: And then the I picked up.
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: A hamstring injury after about week six when I started
• 30:40
  Speaker 10: doing some minterival training and so that that obviously set
• 30:44
  Speaker 10: me back sort of five six weeks really, So since
• 30:48
  Speaker 10: then I've been quite wary about being doing too much
• 30:50
  Speaker 10: strength work and just concentrated on getting miles into my
• 30:53
  Speaker 10: legs really.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Right and Army the LBL on the side of your running,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: have they been a good support.
• 31:03
  Speaker 10: Yeah, tremendously supportive, so especially we're all part of groups
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: on Facebook and the organizers of Victoria at the RBO
• 31:11
  Speaker 10: has been immensely supportive. There's been zoom calls and there's
• 31:14
  Speaker 10: been regular newsletters with information and hints and.
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: Tips about what to do and what to expect obviously
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: for the weekend coming. So yeah, super supportive really.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: So as as your mileage built up, I mean, what
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: was your longest runner you did?
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: So I did the lid half Marathon.
• 31:31
  Speaker 10: That's probably what six weeks ago now, so that was
• 31:35
  Speaker 10: that was a real step into the unknown. That was
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: the furthest I'd previously done was ten miles and that
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: was a very long time ago. So that for me
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: was an important gate post in my training really in
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: how I am, in how and really the lessons that
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: I learned from that day, especially with fueling and pace,
• 31:54
  Speaker 10: et cetera. And one of the things that I've really
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: taken on board over the last couple of weeks is
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: my unning posture to run better rather than so things
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: like keeping your chin up, keeping your diaphragm expanded, and you.
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: Know, just trying to have a better form.
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: And these are all lessons that I've learned since liter
• 32:12
  Speaker 10: really like the longest run so and I found since then,
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: although I haven't really increased the distance because again the
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: kind of life's got in the way and confused sniffles
• 32:22
  Speaker 10: and stuff like that, I felt that I've run much
• 32:24
  Speaker 10: better through those lessons.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, And what about your lifestyle in as much a
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: lot your job, what do you do for a living?
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: So I'm a train conductor with Southeastern. So I work shift,
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: so one week it's early, so next week it's late.
• 32:37
  Speaker 10: So that's quite disruptive, especially with rest days as well.
• 32:41
  Speaker 10: So trying to find a regular schedule to go out
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: and run it can be quite difficult. So I generally
• 32:48
  Speaker 10: find that I'll try and run towards like the late morning.
• 32:52
  Speaker 10: I did try running in the early afternoon, but that
• 32:55
  Speaker 10: was so stop start with all the traffic for people
• 32:57
  Speaker 10: doing the school runs, et cetera.
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: That was actually quite they were all bad runs.
• 33:02
  Speaker 10: So I found that the best time for me to
• 33:05
  Speaker 10: kind of run around my work pattern was around about
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: sort of eleven mid eleven o'clock mid day.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Right, okay, And so getting onto you've got a bit
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: dis ballot place, and the next thing is you've got
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: to pay for it. But it's normally finding a couple
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: of thousand pound So tell us about how's that gone.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Have you done any fundraising events or you know, you
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: just relying on as generous too of family and friends.
• 33:30
  Speaker 10: Well, firstly, family and friends had been exceptionally generous. I'm
• 33:34
  Speaker 10: not quite at my fundraising target yet, we getting pretty close,
• 33:37
  Speaker 10: but we have had a couple of events in the
• 33:40
  Speaker 10: over the last few weeks, we had a quiz night
• 33:43
  Speaker 10: at the baron Brunch, which is our effectively our next
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: door neighbor, so Mark was put on a really really
• 33:49
  Speaker 10: good evening. It was a lot of fun and we
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: raised a little bit of money with the charity and
• 33:53
  Speaker 10: you put a good proportion of the of the profits
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: of that evening towards us. So that was a that
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: was a brilliant night and really kind of gave me
• 34:02
  Speaker 10: some motivation as well. Through three extra bits and pieces
• 34:06
  Speaker 10: my wife Penny has she's done cake bakes and raffles
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: and etc. So we've done really well on those. We've
• 34:12
  Speaker 10: raised I think just over three hundred pounds just on
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: the cake base itself, So that's been a brilliant you know,
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: really really really supportive.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Are you very far short of your total.
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: So at the moment, we'd just say just over seventeen
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: hundred pounds ago, so three hundred So hopefully anybody out
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: there they're still looking to donate, so you can find
• 34:33
  Speaker 10: my age.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the donations go up after you've done it, you know,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: they think I'll keep me money. Yeah, But when you've
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: done it and people realize that you've just run twenty
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: six point two miles. They think, oh wow, that deserves
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: a ten. You know, that deserves twenty quid and so
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're going to hit your target.
• 34:54
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: So do you find because your shift work then that
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: you're you're not a member of a club board? Do
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: you you run everything? Been on your own?
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Is it?
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: So I've had a couple of i would say training partners,
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: but a few people.
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: So Hillary Collins, who is part of the Vocal Running Club,
• 35:09
  Speaker 10: She's done a couple of runs with me, and she's
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: been really supportive a fartist because she's done.
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: The marathons before. I think she's doing the reverse marathon
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: this year yea. So she's full of all.
• 35:21
  Speaker 10: The ideas and tips about things what to do. And
• 35:24
  Speaker 10: every time I have that little emotional crisis and Hillary
• 35:28
  Speaker 10: tonails falling off, she's coming out with, you know, some
• 35:31
  Speaker 10: really good advice. So I've been plenty of people of
• 35:34
  Speaker 10: My best friend Woody, he was there for the first
• 35:37
  Speaker 10: park run. He lives up in the Cotswolds, so he
• 35:40
  Speaker 10: was there and we did that first run together to
• 35:44
  Speaker 10: start on the sixteen week training plan. So yeah, it's
• 35:48
  Speaker 10: I'm a bit of a kind of a loaner when
• 35:50
  Speaker 10: it comes to running.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Because some people are absolutely don't they you know it
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: suits them. Yeah, I used to find him i was training.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: If somebody was like half a yard quicker in the
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: net trull pace, it meant that you were running out
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: of your comfort zone.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: So sometimes it's nice to have that company, but it's
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: also nice to run on your own as well.
• 36:10
  Speaker 10: Find it quite difficult to talk when I'm running, so
• 36:14
  Speaker 10: to keep them by my breathing, especially on the early
• 36:17
  Speaker 10: days when, as I say, when you're trying to get
• 36:20
  Speaker 10: those miles in your legs. But hopefully now with the
• 36:23
  Speaker 10: pace that I'm running at, hopefully there'll be a few
• 36:27
  Speaker 10: conversations on Sunday.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Right, So let's move on to the logistics of the weekend.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: How are you going to handle that? Are you going
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: up there on the day, going up to the train
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: and coming back or weekend?
• 36:39
  Speaker 10: Definitely the train. So we're going to I'm going up
• 36:41
  Speaker 10: tomorrow to register. So I'm going up with Autumn, who
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: was a guest last Oh yeah, lovely. Yeah, So we're
• 36:47
  Speaker 10: going to go up tomorrow and kind of take away
• 36:50
  Speaker 10: the pressure of Saturday, have a little wander around the
• 36:54
  Speaker 10: running show. And then I'm going up with my wife,
• 36:57
  Speaker 10: my best friend and his wife were all meeting up
• 37:00
  Speaker 10: in London on Saturday morning, staying overnight in Canning Town,
• 37:03
  Speaker 10: so nice and close to the Excel. And then we're
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: also going to stay on Sunday night.
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: To see what kind of state.
• 37:12
  Speaker 10: I mean really and then probably sit down and Ali
• 37:16
  Speaker 10: probably sit down, won't again.
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: So I think the DLR and step free access is
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: going to be my friend.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: So what about if you worked out a plan with
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: family and friends where where they're going to be.
• 37:30
  Speaker 10: So the Royer British Legion, I've got a couple of
• 37:31
  Speaker 10: chaerstations along the way, so I think we're going to
• 37:34
  Speaker 10: We're going to hit those up. Certainly Cutty Sup and
• 37:37
  Speaker 10: again kind of going back to the history of watching
• 37:40
  Speaker 10: the marathon, that was always the iconic spot along that
• 37:43
  Speaker 10: with Tower Bridge, watching people run around Cutty Suck. So
• 37:46
  Speaker 10: I would love if I could get my friends and
• 37:49
  Speaker 10: family close to the Cutty Sarp. That would be a
• 37:52
  Speaker 10: real And then the other thing that I've suggested is
• 37:56
  Speaker 10: is kind of when it gets difficult is obviously rounter
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: of Canary Wharf.
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: So it'd be brilliant if we can get them there.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: It does lift you out. If you just see a
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: family or a loved one, little hug and then off
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, it's well worth it.
• 38:09
  Speaker 10: So I think they're there the two and then after that,
• 38:11
  Speaker 10: really it's kind of wherever they can get closed and
• 38:15
  Speaker 10: then dropping a message so I can pick it up
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: as we'll go around.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: It's really frustrating because if you're one side and your
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: loved one is the other side and they're running, you
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: shat in your head off and they just see you
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: at the last minute. Oh, it's so good luck on
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: that one. But from the pictures I've seen, you've got
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: an awesome T shirt to run in. It's going to
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: stand out of mile, isn't it. Yeah, and you get well,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: get your name on it. I'll tell you what, get
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: your name on it. That's even when you're a bit
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: down in the dumps, the strangers are going God, dann God.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Then it does lift your Okay, So before we close,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: then then I mean, is there anything else you want
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: to say? I mean, I think we've covered most of it,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: but if there's any any thank you or anything like.
• 38:53
  Speaker 10: That, well, I think obviously, first and foremost, all the
• 38:56
  Speaker 10: people that have supported me, especially that are in the
• 38:59
  Speaker 10: Folkston area.
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: Thank you so much. You've all been very very generous.
• 39:02
  Speaker 10: And you know it's when you see those those donations
• 39:07
  Speaker 10: going into your fundraising page, it's so motivational. It helps
• 39:10
  Speaker 10: you get out and go and do those runs. So
• 39:13
  Speaker 10: just thank you ever so much for everybody that's done it.
• 39:15
  Speaker 10: So Mark down at the baron Brunch are putting on
• 39:17
  Speaker 10: that the quiz night again, you know it was that
• 39:21
  Speaker 10: was a real springboard in my fundraising efforts. And then
• 39:25
  Speaker 10: obviously my close friends and family, So my best friend
• 39:28
  Speaker 10: up in the up in the Cotswolds, who will probably
• 39:31
  Speaker 10: listening to a recording of this on Saturday when we
• 39:34
  Speaker 10: get there. So again they've been every every couple of days.
• 39:37
  Speaker 10: It's how's it going, how's the running going. And then
• 39:40
  Speaker 10: finally obviously my wife Penny, who's had to put up
• 39:43
  Speaker 10: with all the leg rubs.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Then the grass needs going, oh yeah, yeah yeah, And
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: that is the thing it is. You know, you're doing
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: it on your own, but you've got this team behind
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: you and you do need their support in their back
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: in otherwise it makes the job even harder, doesn't it. Yeah,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: right then, so the last little thing what I'm going
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: to do on the day is you'll be putting your
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: you're just giving page up so people can donate, but
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: just remind us what information you've got about if people
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: want to donate.
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: So so obviously my name is Dennis Kelly. You'll find her.
• 40:21
  Speaker 10: I'll be on Facebook. Also my wife Penny Aspin or Kelly,
• 40:24
  Speaker 10: you'll find her. So she's got obviously a lot of
• 40:26
  Speaker 10: friends and family around here. So just click on any
• 40:29
  Speaker 10: one of those Facebook you'll find the link to the
• 40:32
  Speaker 10: fundraising site and there we QR coage loitering around. So
• 40:37
  Speaker 10: please again for those last minute donations, will be so
• 40:40
  Speaker 10: grateful and really motivational for Sunday.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: When it comes to the actual run itself, Well then
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: what else can I say except have a fantastic day.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Is I'll say this every interview when I talk about marathons.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: If you're going to run a marathon, run London, if
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: you never do another marathon in your life, you know
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: the fact that you're running around around in London is
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: just a wonderful thing that will live with you forever.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: So I just want to say the best of luck,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: and they said you have a good one.
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: Thank you so much. Cheers.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: So a charity close to Dan's heart is the Royal
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: British Legion. And when I asked that Dan about a song,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: he told me he wanted to dedicate this particular track
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: to his wife, Penny. He wants to thank her for
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: the support she's shown him, especially when she had to
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: keep rubbing his legs after those long runs. She spent
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: hours and hours baking cakes to sell to raise funds
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: for the charity. So, Penny, this is for you from Den.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: It's your wedding song. It's called Bonfire Heart by James Blunt.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Your mouth is a revolve fun bullets in the sky.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Your love is like a soldier, lyle till you do.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Next hour you're coming up is the second hour of
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: the London Marathon. Special. Well in the studio, I've got
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Clive Alan, Marie Brazier and shortly we hope to have
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Pam Allen and we've got a little special guest sitting
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: in the background. Doesn't want to say anything, Sue. So
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: we've got this hour dedicated to the London Marathon. Local
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: runners know what better song to kick this second hour
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: off with? Running in the Family the Family, They go
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: another running track there from nineteen eighty six Level forty two,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: and you're joining me for the second hour of the
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: London Marathon Special one. Back in the studio, we've got
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Marie Brazier and Clive Allen. Now let's turn to you. Marie.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: First of all, you've got this marathon tomorrow. You did
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: one two weeks ago, so haw's your legs or don't
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: you know? Until tomorrow.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: I did have a sports massage after the first one,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: just to flush out with the talks, so I'm hoping
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: that has helped me. I haven't gone mad this week,
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: just ticked over nicely, so yes, I'm hoping that tomorrow
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: they're going to get me round again.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent, right neck. Clive's a big day for you
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: tomorrow because apart from going up to Wimbley this afternoon
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: to we watch the Crystal Palace and Aston Villa, is
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: it palace? You've got a day in London tomorrow. But
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: you've been organizing a coach. Tell us about that. How
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: many of you on the coach going up? How many
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: runners and how many spectators?
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got a full coach. Actually we do this
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: every year folks and Running Club basically organize a coach
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: for every year. And yeah, got full coach going leaving
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: ridiculously early tomorrow morning, at about six o'clock and we'll
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: go out towards thirteen point five and twenty one point
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: five miles and spectate from there.
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: Okay them all on.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, brilliant. So do the runners. It's waves, isn't it.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Some of the runners are left to be hanging about
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: a bit possibly, But it's easier for coming home, isn't
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: it when you know you don't want a hussle of
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: getting on a trainer exactly?
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's much easier as well. It's peace of
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: mind for the runners as well. They know although they
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: get there quite early, half seven, they get there quite early.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: They are at least they've got the peace of mind.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: They don't got to worry about any train strikes or
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: anything like that, so they can just get there in
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: comfort and also have a drink on the way back.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, then the Marie you're pulling faces over there? How
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: are you getting there tomorrow?
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go by train care.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and what do you do for a living?
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: I'm a train driver.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Oh well, then, well at least you're not a coach
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: drive otherwise you've be going up on the coach, so
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: that's quite handy. You've done this before, so you've used
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: the train before. How does it feel getting on the
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: train or you stay?
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: Well, actually it's my first time going on the train
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: because when we drive up a me park just down
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: the road from black Heath with about twenty minute walks
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: to start. But this time we decided to get the train.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: So I should be getting the train up to London
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Bridge and then London Bridge back out to black Heath,
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: so I should be rid on the Green about quarter
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: past nine and my start time is nine minutes past ten.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Nine minutes past ten right now, going back to the training,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, how do you train for two marathons?
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: That?
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Did you just particularly just focus on training for one
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: and then see what happens after that.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's exactly why I did. I'd got my training
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: plan out and I trained for the first one and
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: hoping that the second one would just be sponging off
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: the first one. Really, so yeah, I've I've just done
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: a normal sixteen week training plan for the first one.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Right now, Clive, you haven't done any long long runs
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: for a while. Are you on the road back to
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: fitness now after your operations and all sorts of things.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: They called me the bionic man for the running club. Yeah,
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: it's heart operation twenty twenty two, open art surgery. Then
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: it was the hip replacement in hip replacement in May
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: last year. So it's yeah, it's coming back. Actually, I'm
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: really starting to come back and I've done all the
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: exercises the consultants have told me to do. So yeah,
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: I should be back and I'm looking forward to doing America.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Have you got another marathon in you?
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Do you think? I think so? Yeah, I think there's
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: there's another London there, definitely, you know London.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: So all the ballots have been there asking for entries,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: aren't they now?
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so looking forward to that.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Oh well, we see how it goes. I consents a
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: few quiz nights coming up here. Book that now, right,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: So we're going to have our third interview now, and
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: let me just turn the page there. Our third and
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: final interview was with Ellie Current. Now this was an
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: emotional one really, as Ellie admitted she was a bit
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: nervous and it must have been hard to open up
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: and tell me her story close. So please sit back
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: and never listen I'm the third of my London Marathon
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: special interviews. I'm joined by Ellie curR and Hello, Ellie,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: how are you?
• 46:46
  Speaker 8: Hello?
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: Good?
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks for coming along and giving up your
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: time today. So Ellie, let me just remind our listeners
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: that you've ticked all the boxes I was looking for.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: You're a local runner, it's your very first marathon in
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: London and you're raising money for a charity. So tell
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: us a bit about yourself. How long you've been running?
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: You know what made you decide to run London?
• 47:06
  Speaker 7: So where you go?
• 47:07
  Speaker 12: I'm a mom of three. I've only been running for
• 47:10
  Speaker 12: about six months. I was absolutely hopeless to start with.
• 47:15
  Speaker 12: I actually looked back at my straa the other day
• 47:16
  Speaker 12: and my first ever run I logged was less than
• 47:19
  Speaker 12: a mile and it took me about twenty minutes. I
• 47:22
  Speaker 12: think fortunately got yeah, yeah, yeah, come on a bit
• 47:29
  Speaker 12: from then, I hope.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Well you must have done a few yeah attempting. Well,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: I've seen you at various races around the county. You
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: did the Canterbury ten, you did the Deal half, you
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: did the LID twenty, which we won't go into words.
• 47:46
  Speaker 12: About that twenty. You never want to go to lead again.
• 47:49
  Speaker 12: I did the Focus on ten on the weekend as well.
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: Actually that was good.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't see you down there down there, Yeah,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: it was nice.
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: I enjoyed that one.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: So okay.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: So, so what made you decide to run London. When
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: you started running, did you run with the intention of
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: running a marathon or just because you wanted to keep fit?
• 48:09
  Speaker 12: No, I had no intention ever in my life to
• 48:12
  Speaker 12: run a marathon. I've always said that I hate running
• 48:14
  Speaker 12: and I'm not very good at it. But last year
• 48:18
  Speaker 12: my daughter became quite unwell and I decided I wanted
• 48:22
  Speaker 12: to run for a charity that had supported her. And
• 48:25
  Speaker 12: everybody wants to do London because it's iconic and it's
• 48:29
  Speaker 12: the marathon, isn't it London Marathon?
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: So I definitely seemed like the best one to do, right.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: And what's the charity you've chosen.
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: It's Young Lives Versus Cancer, right.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: And that's because your daughter wasn't well.
• 48:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 48:43
  Speaker 12: So in January last year, she's always really the healthiest
• 48:48
  Speaker 12: out of my three children. I think she'd only ever
• 48:50
  Speaker 12: been to the doctors about once.
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: In her whole life.
• 48:53
  Speaker 12: She got up in the morning and actually got a
• 48:56
  Speaker 12: phone call from her from my bedroom, which isn't unusual
• 48:59
  Speaker 12: because she's lazy.
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: Mum, can you come to my room? I mean so
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: much pain?
• 49:03
  Speaker 12: And I went in her bedroom and she was sort
• 49:05
  Speaker 12: of rolling around on the floor, and I thought, he's Sunday.
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: She's got school tomorrow.
• 49:09
  Speaker 12: Could this be some sort of ploy to try and
• 49:11
  Speaker 12: get out of school? But as the day went on,
• 49:13
  Speaker 12: I sort of realized she really was unwoll and I
• 49:17
  Speaker 12: took her to A and E and they kept us
• 49:20
  Speaker 12: in and sort of all felt like a bit of
• 49:22
  Speaker 12: a waste of time. And I was thinking, oh, you
• 49:24
  Speaker 12: know what's going on. They're going to let us home
• 49:26
  Speaker 12: many time soon. And by the time, yeah, I think
• 49:31
  Speaker 12: they they'd done a few treatments which sort of helped her,
• 49:38
  Speaker 12: and yeah, she seemed better, and she was she'd been
• 49:41
  Speaker 12: sent for an ultrasound. I remember in the ultrasound they
• 49:45
  Speaker 12: called some other people in and they were all sort
• 49:47
  Speaker 12: of talking in riddles and it didn't really make any
• 49:49
  Speaker 12: sense to me. Then we went back up to the
• 49:51
  Speaker 12: ward and I was thinking, oh, they mustn't let us
• 49:53
  Speaker 12: home soon. And I haven't had any clean clothes yet,
• 49:55
  Speaker 12: and tired of being here since yesterday. And she was
• 50:00
  Speaker 12: asleep on the bed and the consultant came around and said, all, mum,
• 50:04
  Speaker 12: can we have a quick chat bring your phone with you,
• 50:07
  Speaker 12: and I thought maybe they're going to tell us we
• 50:09
  Speaker 12: can go home. And when I got to the room,
• 50:11
  Speaker 12: there was another nurse there waiting, and she said, we
• 50:15
  Speaker 12: found a mass and it's about the size of a
• 50:17
  Speaker 12: house brick. And she was tiny, so I don't quite
• 50:20
  Speaker 12: know how she had hidden that away for so long.
• 50:23
  Speaker 12: And she said, we have to tell you. We think
• 50:27
  Speaker 12: it could be cancer. Worst cases, it's advanced and it's spread,
• 50:33
  Speaker 12: and best cases it's benign.
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: And I just, honestly I could not believe it.
• 50:37
  Speaker 12: I thought, how could somebody that was so healthy yesterday
• 50:41
  Speaker 12: and so well yesterday have a tune with the size
• 50:43
  Speaker 12: of a house brick. It was just unreal, really, and
• 50:47
  Speaker 12: it was the most surreal thing.
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: And then you're being.
• 50:49
  Speaker 12: Told all we're going to refer you to the Royal
• 50:51
  Speaker 12: Marsden and you need to go down to X ray
• 50:54
  Speaker 12: now because we want to check there's nothing nasty on
• 50:56
  Speaker 12: her lungs. And all I could think the whole time
• 50:59
  Speaker 12: was she was laying there asleep, and you know, innocent
• 51:03
  Speaker 12: and young and twelve years old, how could they possibly
• 51:08
  Speaker 12: be saying that she's got cancer. I just it was just, honestly,
• 51:12
  Speaker 12: such a shock. I've never experienced shock like it.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: It's just a terrible blow. I mean, it's the worst
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: night there isn't it.
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 51:20
  Speaker 12: You just don't ever think things like that are going
• 51:22
  Speaker 12: to happen to you. Hear about it happening to other people,
• 51:25
  Speaker 12: but you never think, you know, that would happen to
• 51:27
  Speaker 12: your child.
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: It was just awful.
• 51:30
  Speaker 12: And the other thing was is they said, oh, don't
• 51:33
  Speaker 12: tell her anything, will you. So I had to finish
• 51:36
  Speaker 12: at that appointment and go back to the ward where
• 51:39
  Speaker 12: she was in completing utter shock and just act like
• 51:43
  Speaker 12: nothing had happened.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: And it was just it was awful, all right. So
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: moving on from there, what was the next move with
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: your daughter? Series of treatments?
• 51:51
  Speaker 12: Obviously, Yeah, so we were referred to the Marsden and
• 51:55
  Speaker 12: we had we were given a really terrible preliminary diagnosis
• 52:00
  Speaker 12: which I briefly googled it, which was regrettable, but it
• 52:03
  Speaker 12: was it had a really poor survival rate. I think
• 52:06
  Speaker 12: the survival rate when I looked it said poor prognosis.
• 52:10
  Speaker 12: About twenty percent of people live five years I think
• 52:13
  Speaker 12: it said, and I was just completely devastated. So I
• 52:19
  Speaker 12: think the Marsden then referred us to London for a biopsy,
• 52:23
  Speaker 12: which fortunately.
• 52:24
  Speaker 6: Was quite quick.
• 52:25
  Speaker 12: I remember the time when we were waiting for the biopsy,
• 52:29
  Speaker 12: feeling devastated, like nothing in the world would have made
• 52:34
  Speaker 12: me feel better. If I'd won a hundred million pounds,
• 52:37
  Speaker 12: I wouldn't have felt better, nothing mattered anymore. I felt
• 52:41
  Speaker 12: annoyed at how ungrateful I'd been throughout my life and
• 52:44
  Speaker 12: how I hadn't you know, I'd taken it all for
• 52:47
  Speaker 12: granted that my life was good and happy, and I
• 52:50
  Speaker 12: could potentially lose my child and.
• 52:52
  Speaker 9: It would have just been well, you can't describe it,
• 52:56
  Speaker 9: can they. Yeah, i'd say the parent's worst night. Yeah,
• 53:01
  Speaker 9: and you know you feel so helpless and so.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Moving on.
• 53:07
  Speaker 12: Obviously it looks like, yeah, it was fantastic. We've got
• 53:12
  Speaker 12: a really good outcome.
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: In the end.
• 53:14
  Speaker 12: It was a type of cancer that was very chemo sensitive.
• 53:19
  Speaker 12: She had four rounds of chemo, and yeah, she's doing
• 53:24
  Speaker 12: so so well and we are so lucky and we
• 53:26
  Speaker 12: feel so grateful with everything that's happened, that she's so well,
• 53:31
  Speaker 12: that she's okay, and I'm forever thinking about those children
• 53:36
  Speaker 12: still there at that hospital that aren't as lucky as we.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Are, and she coping in herself? Was she during that period?
• 53:45
  Speaker 12: I mean, it was awful. She had to take a
• 53:47
  Speaker 12: lot of time off school. Initially, you know, friends were
• 53:50
  Speaker 12: very attentive, but as time went on, you know, kids,
• 53:54
  Speaker 12: they're busy with their own lives, and I think she
• 53:56
  Speaker 12: sort of felt like she was being left behind.
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: And there was other things. That she lost her hair,
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: which was awful for her. She had lovely long hair.
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: She was she got quite sick. She was sick a
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: lot with the chemo.
• 54:10
  Speaker 12: Her friends would be on things like school trips, or
• 54:12
  Speaker 12: she'd see the things that they were doing on social media.
• 54:15
  Speaker 12: And she had really poor immunity from the chemo, so
• 54:18
  Speaker 12: she wasn't able to socialize with people as much as
• 54:20
  Speaker 12: she would have liked. And it was really difficult for
• 54:23
  Speaker 12: her and it was heartbreaking to see her going through that.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: But she's had the clear.
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: Now she's had the all clear, she's doing really well.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: What did you feel? Completely flips, isn't it?
• 54:35
  Speaker 12: It was amazing? And that is what has led me
• 54:38
  Speaker 12: on to doing this marathon. I wanted to do something
• 54:41
  Speaker 12: I wanted to give something back. I wanted to focus
• 54:43
  Speaker 12: that wasn't cancer and worrying about relapses because of course
• 54:47
  Speaker 12: that will always be a worry for us now.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: But okay, so listen. I mean that's it's like a
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: happy sad story for any parent that's out there listening.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't want to spot places with you, would that, But
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: but you turned it around to try and do something positive.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: So you've been training for this thing called the London Marathon.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: So I as a training going.
• 55:09
  Speaker 12: It was really difficult to start with. I got an
• 55:12
  Speaker 12: over use injury. I was so keen I was going out.
• 55:15
  Speaker 12: I said, oh, I can run five k or I
• 55:17
  Speaker 12: can run ten k. And then it ignored everybody's warnings
• 55:21
  Speaker 12: about not increasing more than ten percent a week, and
• 55:24
  Speaker 12: was getting out as much as I possibly could until
• 55:27
  Speaker 12: I couldn't even walk at one point, and I went
• 55:30
  Speaker 12: to see a physio and he said to me, this
• 55:32
  Speaker 12: is ridiculous.
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: You can't walk.
• 55:33
  Speaker 12: You need to stop and you need to rest. And
• 55:35
  Speaker 12: I remember feeling absolutely devastated because I felt like I
• 55:40
  Speaker 12: was going to lose the fitness that I'd built up.
• 55:43
  Speaker 12: How were I think I probably had to take about.
• 55:48
  Speaker 6: A month of.
• 55:50
  Speaker 12: And go back sort of really gradually to run in.
• 55:54
  Speaker 12: I think, you know, a mile and then two miles.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Would you run into a plane or just going out.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to build it up.
• 56:01
  Speaker 12: I was just trying to get some miles on my
• 56:03
  Speaker 12: legs really, because most of the plans I was looking
• 56:05
  Speaker 12: at didn't start until January. But I knew as a
• 56:07
  Speaker 12: complete novice starting in January was really risky. And had
• 56:12
  Speaker 12: I got that injury in January instead of September October,
• 56:16
  Speaker 12: whenever I got it, I would have been in real
• 56:17
  Speaker 12: trouble because it would have really knocked out a lot
• 56:19
  Speaker 12: of the training.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you've turned it around, haven't you excuse me?
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean the Canterbury ten. It's like January time.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: I've run that one. I know what it's like. It's
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: too whopping, great heels. I mean you did that.
• 56:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that was good. I was quite pleased with
• 56:35
  Speaker 6: that one.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: The deal half same once again. Yeah, yeah, it takes
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: no prisoners that one. And there was a few choices
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: that swears when you cross the lake with the lid
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: we've spoken about and you've just done the flakes in tents.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're all good miles in your legs. So yeah,
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: it sounds like you're certainly on course. Now, what was
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: work to do? I mean, I know you're a busy housewife,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: but I mean sometimes work interfears with training. Was that
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: a problem fitting the training runs in?
• 57:09
  Speaker 12: Not really, I'm quite fortunate. I do work pretty much
• 57:11
  Speaker 12: full time, to be honest, but I am able to.
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: Run around the work.
• 57:18
  Speaker 12: I only do an office job, so it's never an
• 57:20
  Speaker 12: issue for me getting out to do running. In fact,
• 57:22
  Speaker 12: it really helps me quite often when I get him
• 57:24
  Speaker 12: from work, I'm quite restless from where I've been sat
• 57:27
  Speaker 12: all day eating chocolate and on my computer, So it
• 57:31
  Speaker 12: feels good to get out and do a run and
• 57:33
  Speaker 12: sort of burn off some of that energy.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: That as is it? I mean, have you found that
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: since Rihanna has been giving the all clear and that
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: you've got this determination that you get twitter and you
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: want to get out and again.
• 57:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I want to do things.
• 57:45
  Speaker 12: I want to appreciate life, I want to make the
• 57:47
  Speaker 12: best of it and just yeah, be active and be healthy.
• 57:51
  Speaker 12: It's made me realize how important your health is. And
• 57:54
  Speaker 12: if you know, the running really has benefited me physically
• 57:57
  Speaker 12: and mentally.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Oh that's great. So the charity itself Young Lige Versus Cancer.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: So when you go up on the day, I mean.
• 58:05
  Speaker 7: Have they been supportive for you?
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Is there cheerstations?
• 58:09
  Speaker 12: Yeah, there's quite a few young large cheer stations. I
• 58:11
  Speaker 12: think there's one at mile seventeen, mile thirteen miles, I
• 58:16
  Speaker 12: think twenty two.
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: I think we just were looking at I think.
• 58:22
  Speaker 12: And I'm in a Facebook group with other people, and
• 58:25
  Speaker 12: most of the other people that are running have similar stories.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: To me, So I imagine you're not alone be quite
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: emotional aspect, I can imagine. Yeah, And what's the what's
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: the planing for the weekend? You're going up for the
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: day or going to make a weekend of it?
• 58:40
  Speaker 6: I think we're going to make a weekend of it.
• 58:41
  Speaker 6: I think head up on the Saturday morning.
• 58:44
  Speaker 12: I've got a hotel booked, and then lots of carbs
• 58:47
  Speaker 12: hopefully on Saturday, lots of glass of that's really good
• 58:54
  Speaker 12: for you, risking the lots of electrolytese water.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: I bet the carbs and electrolytes was you've never heard
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: or before he started running as fueling and jails. Yeah,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: it's a different language. Yeah, Okay, so you're going up,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: I mean other family coming up for the day.
• 59:12
  Speaker 12: Yeah, my partner, Richard's coming up, my daughter, my younger
• 59:17
  Speaker 12: daughter's coming up, and my two older children. I won't
• 59:20
  Speaker 12: be coming up until the following day. My step son's
• 59:23
  Speaker 12: also coming up with us on the Saturday.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: So all right, that's a good good support. I'll tell you,
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: there's nothing like seeing your family when you're running and
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: you're tired, and you just be a little welcome hug
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: or something, yeah, just to get your going. It's better
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: than any gal or any electrolyte or carb I tell you. Okay,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: so the charity, you've set yourself a target of two
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: thousand pounds, But I mean, what have you had to
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: do to get that? If you had to do any
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: fundraising events or is it just family and friends that
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: have helped you out.
• 59:57
  Speaker 6: It's a bit of everything.
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: Really.
• 59:58
  Speaker 12: I did a fundraiser and to local charities were really
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 12: generous and really grateful for that. They sort of donated
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 12: raffle prizes. I did a quiz night at the dugout
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 12: and that was a really good turnout and that raised
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 12: I think about I think it was just over two
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 12: thousand pounds.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Oh well, that is a lot of money.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I've had a few customers at work that have
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 12: done quite nice donations, and then friends and family as well.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 6: So I've been really lucky.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: With the you hit your target? Yeah, what's the targets
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: sitting now?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: I think it's three thousand and six hundred and something.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: Right, Oh wow? So yeah, that must make you feel
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah. People are responsive to you. They're probably
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: envious of you. You know that you can run a marathon.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 6: I don't know if I can.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, you will go, You're going to
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: do it. I'll just determined and drive you.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 12: Knowing a bit brighter next year, Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 6: We'll see how we get.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Be doing a marathon every year. Okay, So so the
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: whole family coming up? Are you going to you're coming
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: home the same day or are.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 12: You going to come home the same day? I've looked
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 12: one day off work. I hope that will be enough.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Right? And what else is there to say? I mean,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: you've got to see your family. I will say this,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: you're doing something really positive that you know, when you
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: had those tough times and you've turned it around, thankfully,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Rihanna's on the mend. But you probably felt helpless when
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: Rihanna was not very well. But now you're doing something
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: to help, not just Rihanna but other people as well.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 6: So you've you've got to.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: Admire yourself, you know, don't put yourself down. You're going
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: to have a great day. And we've both said this.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: If you're going to do a marathon, do London. Don't
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: worry about looking at the watch about time mile marles,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: have a look around, have a little listen to the music,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: enjoy it. Yeah, it's going to be stuck in your
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: mind for the rest of your life. Now before we go,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: is there any hellos and thank you? And I mean
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: people must have helped you behind the scenes, family and
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: let so let's do some name dropping.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 6: Oh so obviously there's Rihanna. I'm so proud of her.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 6: She's such a star.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 12: She's such a good kid, doesn't ever complain about anything
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 12: she's been through, still MUCKs in at home.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 6: She's kind and funny, a bit lazy.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 12: But they were going she's a teenage My son Fin
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 12: he was actually going for doing his GCSEs when she
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 12: was going through all of that trouble last year, so
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 12: I felt that that was really stressful for him and
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 12: he coaked really well and stepped up and helped out
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 12: whenever he could, and again didn't complain about anything that
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 12: was going on. And then we've got the baby, Remy,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 12: who did complain a lot and said why does.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 6: Rihanna get loads of presents and get anything? So she
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 6: felt a bit put out. And she's really really.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 12: Close with her baby, with her big sister, so I
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 12: think she found it difficult. I remember when she lost
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 12: her hair. Actually she really cried and said, I don't
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 12: like it. I don't like it, and that was quite tough. Yeah,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 12: she's done really well. And then my partner, Richard, he's
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 12: been a great support and was coming up to appointments
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 12: with me and driving us up there and holding the
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 12: foot at home. I don't think I touched the washing
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 12: machine for about two months, so.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 6: That was handy.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 12: Kept on top of everything. And my parents were absolutely brilliant.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 12: My mum, Susie and my stepped up ul. I couldn't
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 12: have coped without them and all of our friends and family, everybody.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 12: We were just so lucky with the support we had
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 12: some I'm really grateful to.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Everyone that's brilliant. I mean, looking by the size of
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: the amount you've accumulated. You know, obviously a lot of
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: family and friends have been listening to your story and
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: generous and put their airs in the pocket. Okay, so Ellie,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: you know we're going to close this interview now, but
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: it's been an eye opener for me and I think
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: people that are going to listen to this will realize
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: that you're such an inspiring mum and you're showing other
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: people that you know, you can get out and do something,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: you know, out sort of out of the box. And
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: so I've just got nothing but admiration for you. In
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: any final words, just have you checked the weather.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 12: I've checked the weather of twenty one degrees it's sand,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 12: which I'm a bit nervous about because that really does
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 12: exactly when you're running in the sun.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 6: But I just have to take on more fluids and
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 6: go a bit slower.
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  Speaker 1: You've been the same for the other thirty thousand people.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, stuff in giant costumes and stuff and pregnant women.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 6: I've seen loads of pregnant women really yeah. Yeah.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: When I run the London Marathon, I got stopped by
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: the BBC at Tower Bridge and I don't name I
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: can't remember her name, but she interviewed me for the Telly,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: but it never made. It never made the Telly in
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: the Evening only because I wasn't dressed up as a
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: crocodile or a rhino. So yeah, yeah, Ellie, thank you
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: so much for change listen, selling us the story. What
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: can I say? Just have a fantastic day, don't worry
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: about the watch, have a look around, take it in
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: because it's the day you'll never forget. Thank you, thank you. Well,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: that was the longest interview because I didn't like to
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: interrupt Ellie as she focused on telling her story about Rihanna.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: But did have a happy ending. And Rihanna is fine now.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: She just has the normal check ups and the charity.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Well the title says it all young lies versus cancer.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: When I asked Eli for a song, she chose the
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: Beatles Here Comes the Sun. When I said to her,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: why why is that one? She said, well, it's just
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: just likes She likes the song and it makes us
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: think of hope and new beginnings. So there he goes.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: This is for you, Ellie and for Rihanna. Here's the
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: Beatles and here comes the Sun.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: He comes us, he comes us, un.
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  Speaker 1: What a lovely track. I haven't heard that for a while.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: That's the Beatles and Here Comes the Sun and that
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: was for Ellie and Rihanna. I think on Sundays you
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: won't want the sun out, I tells you want here
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: comes to the clouds. All right, So we're back in
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: the studio with Marie and Clive. Marie, you can never
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: take a marathon in its stride. It's always got to
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: be treated with respect. I think, So, what's the toughest
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: marathon you've ever run?
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 3: I think it was twenty nineteen London Marathon. You you
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: think the crowds are going to take you through to it,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: and they do to a massive extent, they really do.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: But I just remember sort of from my eighty numbards
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: struggling like a lot of runners do it, my eighteen numbers.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: And then I was running up twenty three and I
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: had the hump. I had the ump because it was hard,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: I was tired, it was hot. All the excuses come
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: out if it hurts, you know. And I remember as
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: a group of people in my own side they said,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: who wants a beer? And well I do I want
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: a beer? So I zigz out across the crowd and
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: I kind of chugged this man's pint of beer that
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: he gave me. They thought it was hilario. He's like, yeah,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: we got one or something, and I mean, I don't
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: the last few miles fain. I felt a lot better
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: after that, but I mean, I wouldn't advise anyone don't
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: do that in a marathon, obviously, because that's not really
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: the proper nutritional way to get around. But it made
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: my last three miles of a whole man can you remember?
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: I can't remember, so dehydrated and Clive, what's what's the
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: toughest run you've ever done? Well?
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: Panic manas and probably I think he's nineteen eighty four.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: I just got overflew and being really stupid, I decided
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: to do it and ignore the fact that I hadn't
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: totally recovered. And I got to about twenty miles and
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: I was going up the hill I think it used
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: to Neroes. I think they used to call it as
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: the disco on Mistic go up there, and I was
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: one wandering from one side of the road to the other.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: And in the end the club just pulled me out
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: and said, no, that's enough, you're not doing this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean on reflection on that one. Was it
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: down to lack of hydration like a training or just
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: perhaps you know, working too hard for the marathon.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: Now, the training went really well, and that's you know,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: and I can empathize with people who actually train really
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: hard and then they land up actually getting ill just
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: before the race itself. And it's just it, it just
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: everything was right. I structured it really well with the training,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: and then it just got to the say, just got
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: to the day, thought it was okay, it wasn't one
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: hundred percent, And of course it's unforgiving the marathon. If
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: you're one hundred percent, it will get you, and especially
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: at the wall stage twenty miles, it will get you back.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: I did a marathon about that era. I've only ever
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: done three marathons. The first one was in Yorkshire because
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: we had some family up that way, and I did
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: four hours and eight minutes and I thought, you know
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: what I can get subbed for, so I'm not going
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: all the way to Yorkshire. And the Thanet marathon was
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: just around the corner and I did that and I
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: remember starting off it was really hot and sunny, and
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: I run in a bit of a sleeveless t shirt,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: but than it where the wind change the temperature dropped,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: my arms were frozen in my arms. I've always loved
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: long sleeves on my arms ever since that day. Of course,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: what happens at four hours thirteen. So I thought, oh,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: that's enough of that. I'll stick to ten k's.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: Marie.
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  Speaker 1: Any other sort of outstanding moments that you can think
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: of in any of your marathons, you know, or anything
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: that's happened up in London, anything spring to mind.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: So yeah, so I ran around you and my husband.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: We were running for Chill with Cancer, and he started
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: off before me because I was in the massive massive
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: So I managed to catch him up about males seventeen
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: and we ran together for two miles before he Vay
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: politely told me to go on my merry way because
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: I was more spiteful to him and he wasn't. And
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: we've done a bit of warp running. But because I'd
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: had that little break with him, the last six miles,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: I felt amazing and I just it was my fastest
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: ten k in the hold of the race, and going
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: past people at that stage of marathon when everybody else
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: is not doing great, and it just it just felt amazing.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: I felt like I was like I was a superwoman,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: well able to do that.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: That's because you didn't stop off an never beer. That's
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: why most likely all about Clive any highlights of marathons.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: That, yeah, you know you know the highlight, Well, there's
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: two thousand and eight. And of course then I dressed
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: up in top hat and tails and then actually decided
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: to propose to my wife. Did she say yes before
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: she said yes? Yeah, because all the cameras were on
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: me at the time.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, I do remember that. In fact, my partner
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: Sue is sitting in the background, she was in on that,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: and I do remember actually what was his name? He
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: was supposed to take the suit off? You wasn't he?
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think so. Yeah at the end yeah,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: Ay called Bully, Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah, And I
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: think I was supposed to take the suit off, and
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: because I had the running kit underneath and I had
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: this top hand tails on, but I was causing a
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: bottleneck at the cutty suck, so in the end of
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: security basically said no, you got to keep running. So
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: I ended up doing the whole thing at the top hand.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: But it did go global though didn't it clove to
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: be fair in the cameras or Australia and all sorts
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: of from everywhere.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was getting messages from all around the world
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: there because I'd hit the TV. Yes, it was. It
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: was a great deal all around.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, okay, we're going to play this one. We
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: tried to play at the end of the news and
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: I just got my time is a bit wrong. But
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: we've got a little quiet guest in the background there.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: And you know, she's been supporting me at my runs
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: over the years and I'm very grateful to her. And
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: she's also been giving me the run around for a
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: number of years. So this song is for you, Sue,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: Run around, Sue.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 8: Here's my story. It's sad truth. It's about him.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 6: Girl wants.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 8: She took mallow and run around with every single guns.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 8: What people away up on the run around to stay
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 8: al from.
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  Speaker 11: Do not?
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: But they go. That was for Sue, been giving me
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: the run around for a number of years. So I
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: was joining the studio now welcome.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 13: Pare How are you morning?
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  Speaker 4: Are you?
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Where you been trying in?
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: Have you No?
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  Speaker 11: I've been up at my school. It's this the North
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 11: School Spring Fair in Ashford. So if anyone's at a
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 11: list end this afternoon, take your little children up to the.
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  Speaker 13: Farm and see their animals so lovely.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we've been chatting about marathons for an hour
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: and a half or so, but so we get straight
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: to the point. You have not long done a marathon
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: in a foreign country and tell us about where it
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: was and how did you go.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, so just come back from Milan. We did the
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 11: Milan marathon. It was a beautiful day for it. We
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 11: started off at the cathedral, the do Amore, beautiful Waite
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 11: marble cathedral in the middle of Milan, and yeah, did
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 11: the twenty six point mails?
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: Got rained?
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: Right? Did you have time to sort of have a
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: look around at the city which has a tourist as well?
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, was the run actually right in the city?
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 13: It was in the city.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 11: There was one lap in the city, then it went
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 11: out into the suburbs, and then it came back and
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 11: finished in the city. But there wasn't much time prospective.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: The only thing you expectator was watching the clock. I
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: expect absolutely just talking about watches. I remember running a race,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: it was only a ten k. We'd done about a
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: mile or two and this lady was running next to me.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: She put her watch underneath me and she said, can
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: you tell me what my watch says? I haven't got
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: my glasses on. I said, yeah, it says no, no,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: no no. She said, oh no, I forgot to switch
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: it on again. Okay, so your your marathon career if
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: you like. How many marathons have you done? He that
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: was number eleven eleven?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: Is there any one particular one that sticks out in
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: your mind?
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 13: I think the best one was the Berlin Marathon.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I was it. Yeah, Okay, we've recently come
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: back from Berlin and me and Sue and we went
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: up to the Brandon burg gate and Sue had a
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: little little Dejah who have been there before. You know,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: it was it was quite interesting. But I think they
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: have the race since you've done it. I think they've
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: changed it a little bit because there's so many messes
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: that do it. And but yeah, I mean big city
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: marathons they're great. Have you done any other big city marathons?
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 13: I've done the London Marathon about eight times.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, yeah, all right, and you've got anything
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: else planned.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 13: And not at the more then, but you never never
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 13: seen ever.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, right, well we'll give you a little bit of
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: a chance to settle in and get your wits about you.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: But so I just want to switch my attentions to Marie.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, Marie, how are you getting up to London tomorrow?
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: Did you say yeah?
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm going to get the train up to London,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: up to London Bridge, then back down to black Black Heath.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: From there the trained home afterwards.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, well this song is for you, Marie. This is
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: I don't miss it. It's the last train to London. Okay,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: we haven't finished yet. That is the last train to London,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: so don't miss that. Otherwise you'd be sleeping on the
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: platform after that marathon. So what I'm going to do
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: now is I'm just going to quickly run. I've got
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: a roll of honor. I'm going to whip for all
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: the names that I've got the people are actually running
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: the London Marathon. We've got Dan Radcliffe, Christophe Plitzier, Andy Hadlow,
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: Jamie Fox, Simon Burville, Andy Norbin Noble, Auton Richardson, former
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: guest of the show, Ian vousden Is running for pancreatic cancer.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: Raised over three thousand, six hundred pound. We've got Leslie
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: Taylor Marie Brezia are sitting on my left. Katherine O'Connor,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: Darren Crue, Rob Collier, Tubn Jesson, Caroline Curtis, Helen Webb,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: Jenny Heathfield, Karla Lander, Paul Hannay, Ray Johnson are raising
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: money for Kent Association for the Blind. Seven thousand pound
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: this year. James Johnson, Nicky Goodwin, Jason King is running
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: for Alzheimer's Society. Raised over five hundred and eighty pound.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: Debbie Palmerter, Jane Wren, Nick Steele, We've got Kevin Gregory.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: Some of those are running Manchester by the way. Got
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: Manda Gurum running for the Folks in the Nepalese community,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: raised thirteen hundred pound. Hazel Groves, she is a visually
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: impaired runner, doing the London for the second time, raising
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: money for the Kent Association for the Blind. We've got
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: Beth Wood who's raised twenty four hundred for cystic fibrosis.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: We've got Bradley Kilgareff going to Manchester. He raised two
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: and thirty three pounds for Cancer Research UK. And we've
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: got singer local singer Donna Wilson doing her very very
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: first London. She was a bit scared to come in
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: that she didn't want to, but we've been following her anyway.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: She's raised fourteen hundred pounds for various charities. So there
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: you go. People are folks that are running tomorrow, going
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: up on the coach, going up on the train, going
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: up on the car up there for the weekend. Just
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: have a great day and make the most of it.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: Last train to London that from seven otherwise and stuff
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: it all night in the waiting room. Okay, staying with
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: the London Marathon theme. It's all been in London music
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: today has been brilliant. Okay, Clive coming into you now,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: you're going to have a really busy day tomorrow. What
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: time do you say your your coach is leaving.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, coaches leaving six six o'clock for six fifteen, so yeah,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: hopefully everybody be there on time, otherwise will be getting attention, so.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: They'll be sleeping in the coach going up and then
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: certainly he's leaving in the coach coming back. But I've
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: been on the coach before and it's a great atmosphere,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: isn't It's great fun? Yeah?
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we have we turned it into a right
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: party bus on the way back. So yeah, play of beverages.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: And the runners, I mean the runners, Pam, you you've
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: run the London before, I mean you have a drink
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: of I mean we were talking earlier. Marie was drinking
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: on the on the way round and the London Marathon
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: at twenty three she did the best last ten coach
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: he's ever done before. Have you had a drink after?
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: Which is staying from drinking before the marathon then get
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: slaughtered afterwards.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 11: I've tried different strategies on different marathons, but sometimes try
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 11: to go teetotal, sometimes just normal and this time I
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 11: would really cut down a lot. But yeah, after it,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 11: definitely you have to have.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: A sel celebration. Yeah. Yeah. And Marie, the night before
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: a marathon, I mean, if you're up in London, you're
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: going up on a day, but I mean it still applies.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: Do you have a restless night? You can't you know
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: you need to rest, but you can't sleep.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, it's the most important. Sleep is actually the
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: day before the day before London, because the night before
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: London you come up with it just called malnoia. Suddenly
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: you get all these things that you think are wrong
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 3: with you, which are not actually wrong with you, and
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: then you overthink things in your bed and you're trusting
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: turn you're trying to get to sleep. So it's I
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 3: think everyone just turns up on London math and day
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 3: and runs tired. Yeah, I think that's just what everyone does,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 3: because yeahs but especially if you're staying in the hotel,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: you're sleeping in a different bed from what you used
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: to never sleep well there. And even in my homebed tonight,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be clock watching, don't miss the alarm,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 3: get in the morning. So it's just that whole preparation
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 3: before you know, you get out the night before mast
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 3: I think it's ready. So when you do go to bed,
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready. I'm done.
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  Speaker 6: It's all good.
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  Speaker 3: Go mornings. Give myself up and eat and get ready
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  Speaker 3: and go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I mean, have you got a couple of
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: days off after the marathon?
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  Speaker 3: Well I thought I had Monday off, but my boss
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  Speaker 3: tell me I want to be I've gotta be in
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  Speaker 3: Orpington at eight thirty on Monday morning, so I'll be
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  Speaker 3: getting the six forty four train back up London on
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  Speaker 3: Monday morning. And I don't think i'll be going very
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  Speaker 3: fast to honest.
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  Speaker 1: The Clive, What would you do on the night before
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  Speaker 1: a marathon? Do you do you go out and have
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: a pasta and a bottle of red wine? Or did
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  Speaker 1: you just have early night?
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  Speaker 2: What I used to do in the in the eighties
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  Speaker 2: is have a really good night. I have a few
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  Speaker 2: beers and because that would help me sleep a bit better.
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  Speaker 2: But I agree with me, I'm basically the best I've
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: had probably about three to four hours of sleep the
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  Speaker 2: night before. If you don't get to sleep on the
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  Speaker 2: night before that, then that's yeah, you're just going to
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  Speaker 2: struggle really right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, But music, now, I don't know how many songs
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  Speaker 1: we are going to squeeze in, but we've got to
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  Speaker 1: get this one and again, this one is for missus
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: Ferrett sitting in the background there because it's a running
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  Speaker 1: song and as a coincidence, tonight she's going to see
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  Speaker 1: a Whitney Houston tribute song artist.
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  Speaker 2: So this is for you, Sue.
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  Speaker 1: It's called run to You. Will there we go a
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  Speaker 1: nice gentle song still about running. Those called run to
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  Speaker 1: You Whitney Houston, so they are So that's for you.
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  Speaker 1: Have a nice evening this evening, right, so we're running
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  Speaker 1: out of time, and so I just want to get
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: a last word from three guests today. Marie, any advice
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  Speaker 1: that you might give someone that's running in the London
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  Speaker 1: or is it too late?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, anything you've done now you can't anymore. Best of
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 3: all you've done. The hardest part is getting to the
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: start line, to be fair, because that is the hardest
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: part of any marathon. Enjoy it as best you can,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: don't overthink it, just run.
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  Speaker 1: Clive, what do you think?
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  Speaker 2: I think completely it did so. And also hydration, particularly tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: and make sure make sure you get enough drinking and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and just enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Pam, what do you say? Probably the same, I
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: spect Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 13: Think they've said all already.
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  Speaker 11: But I think just really get round, enjoy all the
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 11: support and just celebrate your success.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you what. It's been a fantastic morning.
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  Speaker 1: A big thanks to Clive and Pam and Marie for
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: coming in. And it's just cheering your stories is just amazing.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I could do a five hour show. Okay, So well
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  Speaker 1: that's it for me and a big thank you to
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: all my guests. As we said, now, the questions being
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: asked by marathoners in London are have I done enough training?
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: Have I got the right shoes on? Have I had
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: enough carbs? Will it be too hot? Have I drunk enough?
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: Have I drunk too much? And the most asked question
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: is do I want to go to the toilet again?
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  Speaker 1: So okay, we're going to play out now with this
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: iconic London marathon thing. Thanks for listening everybody, and if
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: you're going up to London tomorrow, I have a great day.