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JODIE JACKMAN TELLS US ABOUT HER 100 MILE NORTH DOWNS WAY RUN+ LOCAL SPORTS UPDATES · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin's Sportspirit Daily here on one of five
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  Speaker 1: to and a high sports show. On today's show, we
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  Speaker 1: bring you the local cricket reports. We've got some news
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  Speaker 1: on the Mixed Friday Hockey League. We've got news of
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  Speaker 1: the first ever Radnor Park Junior Park Run and an
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  Speaker 1: update on the Senior Folkston Park Run's tenth birthday this month.
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  Speaker 1: We also have an update on another friend of mine
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  Speaker 1: who took a tumble in the harbor Wall bang.
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  Speaker 2: Of Beach Run.
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  Speaker 1: And our special guest today is Jody Jackman, who on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday is running one hundred miles. Yes you heard that right,
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  Speaker 1: one one hundred miles. She must be bonkers, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: find out later. And what else have you got? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna chuck in a bit of triathlon news local
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  Speaker 1: ones after the victor in the Olympics. So in the
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  Speaker 1: meantime let's have a bit of share all crap bord.
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  Speaker 1: A cracking way to start a show. I love starting
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  Speaker 1: the show with a really lovely and that was a
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  Speaker 1: nice kind of summary song. It's it's been a bit
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  Speaker 1: warm out there, isn't it it's been. It's not so
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  Speaker 1: sunny today, but it's still warm. And yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 1: bit humid with us. Brits are not used to it.
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  Speaker 1: We normally have to go abroad to field like this. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now I'm going to start with some devastating news about
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  Speaker 1: the closure of the Folks and Sports Center by reading
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  Speaker 1: out an official statement. Okay, this is an official statement
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  Speaker 1: from the Folks and Sports Center Trust. It's with deep
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  Speaker 1: regret that the Trustees of Folks and Sports Center Trust
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  Speaker 1: must advise the charity can no longer afford to remain operational.
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  Speaker 1: The current national, indeed worldwide situation has seen a dramatic
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  Speaker 1: increase in the Trust's costs and locally decline in income
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  Speaker 1: as many people struggle with their own finances. Therefore, the
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  Speaker 1: charity has now arrived at the point where there is
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  Speaker 1: no option but to accept defeat. The Trustees remain ever
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  Speaker 1: grateful to our management team and our amazing staff who
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  Speaker 1: have battled through the last four years and in many
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  Speaker 1: cases have made personal sacrifices to try and keep the
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  Speaker 1: sporty going. But we have now lost the battle. Many
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  Speaker 1: thanks to our customers who, for many generations of their
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  Speaker 1: families have grown up with the Sports Center, who have
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  Speaker 1: been proud to have been part of the journey, having
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  Speaker 1: seen so many changes over the years and been all
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  Speaker 1: the better for the fantastic facilities on their doorstep. Now,
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  Speaker 1: over the next few days, we will be appointing an
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  Speaker 1: independent administrator to take us through the next steps, and
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  Speaker 1: we ask you to keep a lookout on our website
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  Speaker 1: and social media platforms for any updates. Meanwhile, please be
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  Speaker 1: assured that we will not be drawing any direct debit
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  Speaker 1: membership payments on the first of August twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't with much sadness that we must say goodbye, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: and we wish everyone all the very best. Now that
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  Speaker 1: was officially launched yesterday or the day before from the
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  Speaker 1: trustees of the Folks and Sports Center Trust. Now, let
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  Speaker 1: me just clear this one up. I'm a volunteer sports presenter.
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  Speaker 1: I've had no official training. I don't do controversy, I
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  Speaker 1: don't do blame politics, strong opinions, etc. On this show.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just as shocked as you of this terrible news.
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  Speaker 1: So all I do is support local sport men and
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  Speaker 1: ladies and youth. Now for many years, on and off
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  Speaker 1: Tessa from The Tessa the Managers has come on the
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  Speaker 1: show and we have nothing but sporty admiration and progress,
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  Speaker 1: and she's just too devastated to talk about it now. Now,
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  Speaker 1: one of the biggest things that will be missing is
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  Speaker 1: the swimming pool, which affects the community schools. It's just
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  Speaker 1: so many people now. The sports center opened back in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two. That's fifty two years ago. We all
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  Speaker 1: grew up with it, taking it for granted. It's on
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  Speaker 1: our doorstep. I've got three children, they all learned to
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  Speaker 1: swim at the sports center. My eldest is now forty one.
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  Speaker 1: My partner, Sue's got a grandson. He's five, just learning
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  Speaker 1: to swim. He's done two lessons. You can't go anymore. So,
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  Speaker 1: as the statement says, keep an eye on the official
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  Speaker 1: media platforms for updates. There's a lot of stuff posted
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  Speaker 1: on official on certain social media platforms, some of it
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  Speaker 1: a bit volatile, but just pay attention to the official
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  Speaker 1: media platforms for updates. Please go to my page for
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  Speaker 1: a petition. You might be aware there's a petition to
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  Speaker 1: keep the sports Center open. This is kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a silent support if you like, and when I checked
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  Speaker 1: it this morning, there was over four thousand signatures. This
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  Speaker 1: is the brainshold of a lady called Image in House,
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  Speaker 1: and what a good idea it is. So let's be
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  Speaker 1: positive about it. Let's see if it will come back.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully someone will step in, and let's just hope that
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  Speaker 1: in the future things will take a turn for the better. Right, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's a little beurable sad bit about it. So what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do now is play a cracking tune
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  Speaker 1: to get you back in the mood. We've got a
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  Speaker 1: really loaded show he is today, So I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: listen to take that and relight my fire. I really
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  Speaker 1: might fire. There has a bit more idea, a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a lively old song. Let's just keep the show
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  Speaker 1: in a correct mood. This is a sports show and
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  Speaker 1: we want everyone to be in a happy mood in
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  Speaker 1: joining this sport. Okay, now, today our special guest is
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  Speaker 1: Ultra Runner, and our other special special guests who might
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  Speaker 1: remain silent, we don't know, but we might talk are
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  Speaker 1: into saying hello. It was Jody's a thirteen year old
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  Speaker 1: daughter Ruby. So Jody, how are you? I'm very well, Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: I'd lovely to see you and to see you Ruby.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Jody, on Saturday, you're taking on a massive challenge,
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  Speaker 1: so tell our listeners first of all exactly what you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: I am taking part in the North Downs Way one hundred.
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  Speaker 3: It is run by a Centurion running. I am going
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  Speaker 3: to start at Farnham Leisure Center in Surrey at seven
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  Speaker 3: am and I will follow the North Downs Way until
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  Speaker 3: I get back to Ashford at the Juli Ro Stadium
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  Speaker 3: at some point before one o'clock on Sunday lunchtime.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but did you tell their listeners how far it was?
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  Speaker 3: It's actually one hundred and three. Got to do one
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  Speaker 3: hundred miles in a park right at the end. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I'll meet you at the three mile point and do
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  Speaker 3: the last three miles. So now tell us about a
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  Speaker 3: bit about your running background and how you I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: how do you progress? If you call it that to
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  Speaker 3: being a ultra runner. I originally started running after I
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  Speaker 3: had my son to lose weight. I started actually with
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  Speaker 3: Raceful Life what would have been twenty twenty one years
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  Speaker 3: ago now. Then I signed up to London Marathon, thinking
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  Speaker 3: I'd only do one London Marathon and somehow along the way.
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  Speaker 3: I've it's got all a bit wrong than I found
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  Speaker 3: myself doing ultras. I think I got the bug for marathons,
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  Speaker 3: and then it was what can I challenge myself to next?
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, so let me explain that to the listeners
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  Speaker 1: that an ultra is anything above a marathon.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 4: That's correct?
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  Speaker 2: So what was your first ultra distance?
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  Speaker 4: Can you remember a cliff top challenge?
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  Speaker 3: I was, I've done the fifty five mile that was
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  Speaker 3: my first ultra.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that didn't seem so long ago, really, five
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  Speaker 1: or six years ago?
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  Speaker 2: Your first one? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean cast your mind back to that day,
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  Speaker 1: two o'clock in the morning. Then at Hastings hour you
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  Speaker 1: feeling then your first ultra I.
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  Speaker 3: Was terrified and if I'm honest, fifty miles, hundred miles.
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  Speaker 3: Even now, I know Saturday morning I will be terrified
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  Speaker 3: again to that start line. But once you start running
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  Speaker 3: it all sorts settles down and it feel fine.
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  Speaker 1: Good Now, I mean the clifftop challenge fifty five that's
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  Speaker 1: only halfway, isn't it. Of what you're doingday, Yeah, too
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  Speaker 1: much and try not to depress you too much on
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  Speaker 1: the show. It's Okay, let's go back and take our
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  Speaker 1: minds back to the clifftop challenge. I mean, how do
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  Speaker 1: you train? How far in a training run would you
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  Speaker 1: do for a fifty five mile.
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  Speaker 3: Up to about twenty to twenty five miles for a
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  Speaker 3: training mile?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 4: Key is consistent?
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  Speaker 3: See getting out at least four or five times a week.
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  Speaker 4: Generally do too long back to back run.
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  Speaker 3: So I do sort of a twenty or twenty five
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  Speaker 3: mile run one day, then maybe your ten or twelve
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  Speaker 3: mile run the second day. Try a name for sort
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  Speaker 3: of between a forty and sixty mile a week over
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  Speaker 3: a number of I.
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  Speaker 1: See, so it's kind of mileage per week that you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to log up rather than do you know, thirty
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  Speaker 1: thirty five miles all in one go?
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  Speaker 3: You don't need to go way up close to the
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  Speaker 3: training did you?
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  Speaker 1: Did you learn that from? I mean, is there such
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  Speaker 1: a thing as a training program for an ultra runner?
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  Speaker 3: Or there are training programs out there? There are a
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  Speaker 3: lot of coaches you can use for ultra programs. I've
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  Speaker 3: actually got a book that's got a training plan in
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  Speaker 3: the back. I use that for my first hundred. Pick
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  Speaker 3: that out as a guide and then I tweaked it
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  Speaker 3: according to my lifestyle, knowing what I could fit in,
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  Speaker 3: what I couldn't fit in based on my energy levels,
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  Speaker 3: family commitments, work, things like that.
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  Speaker 1: So you just said there that you for your first
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  Speaker 1: hundred So have you run one hundred miles before I've.
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  Speaker 3: Done South Down's Way one hundred three years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, i'll tell you what We're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that in the second half. But basically what I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to get to in the first half is things
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  Speaker 1: that keep you going. You know, things that we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about training. But I meant you've got a young family.
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  Speaker 1: You know you've got to what should die out you
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  Speaker 1: get tired, So tell us about you if you like
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  Speaker 1: a normal week in the life of an ultra runner.
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  Speaker 3: My children, thankfully are now at an age they're quite
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  Speaker 3: self sufficient, so Ruby is my youngest at thirteen. I've
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  Speaker 3: got a very very understanding family that when I'm up
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  Speaker 3: at six o'clock on a Saturday morning to go for
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  Speaker 3: my long run.
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  Speaker 4: They're very patient.
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  Speaker 3: When I roll back in at sort of lunch time
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  Speaker 3: and we're still waiting to go out somewhere again with
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  Speaker 3: my training plan, I know that the long runs will
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  Speaker 3: leave me tired, so I try and factor them in
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  Speaker 3: on the days that I'm not working, or I have
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  Speaker 3: been doing some training runs on a Friday, which means
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  Speaker 3: that Ruby's out at school and it doesn't affect my family's.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you said about the tiredness. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you've got a young family to keep, the house to run,
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  Speaker 1: not leading not to a race. But during your training,
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  Speaker 1: do you sleep well or is it are you still
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  Speaker 1: are you still running that race? No?
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  Speaker 3: I generally sleep quite well. It's not too bad. I
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  Speaker 3: could probably do with going to bed a little bit earlier,
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  Speaker 3: but with a teenager now doesn't want to go to bed,
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  Speaker 3: But no, miss Sleep's okay. I'm fortunate to work part time.
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  Speaker 3: I'm self employed, so during the day I will be
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  Speaker 3: found having a power app if I'm not running.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And what about things like diet. You obviously have
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  Speaker 1: to watch the energy stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I generally eat quite a balanced, healthy diner. I don't
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  Speaker 3: eat any specific food. Make sure I get all my
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  Speaker 3: fruit and vegs a day just for the nutrients. Make
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  Speaker 3: sure I've got enough protein intake to help film a
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  Speaker 3: recovery as well.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, And basically I mean the motivation, what keeps
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  Speaker 1: you going? What makes you sign up to an ultra?
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  Speaker 1: Is it just something that's inside you you've got to
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  Speaker 1: get out.
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  Speaker 3: It seems a brilliant idea. At the same the camaraderie
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  Speaker 3: out there, I think, particularly once you get to the
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  Speaker 3: longer distance and the trail stuff, it really is amazing.
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  Speaker 4: South Bounds.
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  Speaker 3: Why I actually fell over in the race cup money
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  Speaker 3: is open. Someone else's crew found me a little while later,
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  Speaker 3: took me into Evan, patched me all up.
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  Speaker 4: I was okay, and sought me.
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  Speaker 1: On the way, wound you up and yeah, but we
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  Speaker 1: were saying, you know, just not so long ago about
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  Speaker 1: you had a tumble this year at Clifftalk Challenge and
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  Speaker 1: one of your colleagues did as well. Yeah, tell us
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 3: I was running with Ron Bell at the fifty five miles,
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  Speaker 3: so it was pitch black Saturday morning, started raining. Ron
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  Speaker 3: is now known as Holy Ron because he fell down
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  Speaker 3: a bit about three holes within the first five miles.
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  Speaker 3: We hit the start of the Royal Military Canal and
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  Speaker 3: there was a wooden brig wh what rain.
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  Speaker 4: I just went down.
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  Speaker 3: I ended up landing on my thighs, had a nice
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  Speaker 3: big lump o but yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't end up in the canal.
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  Speaker 3: Then, well, Ron said, it did look like I was
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  Speaker 3: about to slide under the railings into the canow so
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  Speaker 3: we looked to other panics when I looked at him.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, thankfully there was no significant injuries. Picked myself
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  Speaker 3: up and carried on.
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  Speaker 4: We got to the end.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you got.
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  Speaker 1: I bet you've got some stories to tell from the
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  Speaker 1: cliff Top channels, but we won't repeat them on it,
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  Speaker 1: I think because I know some of the runners that
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  Speaker 1: you were running with. Right, Okay, we're going to take
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  Speaker 1: a little break now, and when we come back, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to actually talk about the race day, your kit
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  Speaker 1: and just trainers and stuff like that, getting lost or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, I got this lovely little record
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  Speaker 1: and it's a song by the Kaiser Chiefs and it
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  Speaker 1: needs no introduction. Well, what a great song.
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  Speaker 2: Ruby Ruby, Ruby Ruby.
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  Speaker 1: We were singing and dancing here in the studio because
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  Speaker 1: we are joined by a thirteen year old Jody, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: Jody's daughter, Ruby Ruby, Come right in, come right in.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: You you do a little bit of sport yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you.
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  Speaker 4: What do you do cheer?
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  Speaker 2: Cheer?
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  Speaker 1: Or are you a cheerleader, are you yeah, come right
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  Speaker 1: in that's it? Yeah? Yeah, okay? And where do you
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  Speaker 1: do that?
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  Speaker 4: I do it in Dover?
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  Speaker 2: Do you twisters what they called twisters?
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  Speaker 1: Vista Twisters?
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  Speaker 5: I know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because I know some of the Vista Twisters,
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  Speaker 1: and I know that they are a terrific group, and
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  Speaker 1: I do believe they they've even gone to America?
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: How good would that be? You saving up by you?
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to get to America one day?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: It would be good.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what do you do you one of these ones
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  Speaker 1: that clons right to the top or you were the
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  Speaker 1: ones one that right out of the bottom when they
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  Speaker 1: all jump.
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  Speaker 2: Up on one of the ones at the bottom?
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  Speaker 1: Are you actually now? You said that last last year,
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: the year before we went to watch Kent play cricket. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and the the Visa Twisters were there?
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  Speaker 2: Were you there?
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  Speaker 1: Not? No? But I mean they do get about two
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  Speaker 1: shows and demonstrations, don't they. Yeah? Well, great, Well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad you've had a little chat and good luck, and
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  Speaker 1: let's hope you get to America because then you can
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  Speaker 1: come into the radio station and tell us all about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I was switching back to you now, Jody. Jody,
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  Speaker 1: you just let it slip out that you have done
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  Speaker 1: one hundred miles before, so just briefly tell us what
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  Speaker 1: was that?
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  Speaker 3: Like, what did you do in South Down's Way one hundred?
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  Speaker 3: That was three years ago. I was originally due to
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  Speaker 3: run in twenty twenty COVID hit so I trained, it
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  Speaker 3: got canceled literally sort of eight weeks before my race.
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  Speaker 1: That must have been devastating. If you've got all that
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  Speaker 1: training here, it just tough.
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  Speaker 3: Then it got rescheduled for the November twenty twenty, so
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  Speaker 3: I trained all the way up. Then we went into
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  Speaker 3: lockdown about five days before my race, so training blok
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  Speaker 3: two gone. I finally got to run it in June
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. Made the start line. It come out
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  Speaker 3: really really hot, I think twenty seven degrees and on
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  Speaker 3: the South Downs it's very exposed chalk, so the heat
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  Speaker 3: just bounces straight back up.
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  Speaker 2: So that was a real education. Then.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So I mean, have you done a reki
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  Speaker 1: on the North Downs Way? How's this terrain compared that I've.
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  Speaker 3: Done the last half So I've got to thank christ
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  Speaker 3: Dennison for taking me on a night run first, and
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  Speaker 3: we got the train up to Oxford and done Oxford
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  Speaker 3: back to Deptlin and then my pacer, John Fitzgerald, who
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: doesn't live locally, he's coming up on the day and
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  Speaker 3: we've done a w reky from debtling back to Ashford
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  Speaker 3: and the train's actually quite nice. The hills is steeper,
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  Speaker 3: it's a bit more technical with tree routes and steps,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, there was quite a few runnable bits.
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  Speaker 4: Whether they're runnable towards the end of one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: I'll decide we have little snooze in the hedge, so
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: let's get back to the serious side of things. Things
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: like your KIT safety course directions. I don't know run
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: us through things like that.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: And the centur room maces are very well marked anyway.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: They have red and white ticker tape at all the
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: points where you might go wrong. I have got a
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: GPX file on my watch as well. We've use that
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: for the rerecords, so we sort of knew roughly where
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: the turning was to follow that. Yeah, KIT, I train
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: with as much as I can. You have quite a
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: lot of mandatory KIT. You've got to take two head
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: torches capacity to carry a liter of water, fully.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Charge mobile phone.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I will generally take a spare power bank with me
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: with cables from my watch and my phone as well,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: just in case they start losing power throughout the race,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: plus waterproofs emergency base layers, because if you do stop suddenly,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: even though it's summer, once you stop running and if
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: you're a bit sweater you can cool down really really quick,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: it can become an emergency situation.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I suppose you learn a lot about if you like
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: your body and how it reacts to stop start. And
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: you know, as you said, in the North Down so
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: no the South Downs way, you know, extreme temperatures. Yeah yeah, okay,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: So do you check the weatherful coast or you just
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: don't bother?
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: You know, is what it is? Yeah?
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And what'll we be into now Thursday? How's it
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: looking for Saturday?
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be up to about twenty
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: three degrees, but the humidity is still running higher, which
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: is a little bit of a concern. Hopefully once I'm
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: under tree cover, then take some of the heat out
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: of it.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Just take me through that last little bit. You say
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: you end up with the Julie Rose Stadium. I mean,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: do you run through places like why or do you
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: just tell me?
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Can you remember?
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Just trying to think where we turn off. We don't.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: We don't go through why we turn off before that
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: there's a private estate we come through. I think it's
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: east well, yeah, around the yeah, the down past the
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Kennington Carvery and out past Conning Brook round that way.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a bit all I know. So yeah, I
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: mean emergencies. If there's an emergency, you just got to
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: get on the phone and there's marshals at certain points.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Trackers on got a live tracking link, so if I
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: do wander off course because I've missed a turning, people
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: can actually find me and say you need to go course.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: That's good giance.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: It's mandatory that you have the right h Q and
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: the medics phone understored in your phone as well, just
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: in case. And it's not just about you, it's also
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: about if you come across a medical incident, you.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Might have come across another runner. That's yeah, and it.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Has happened, not to me personally, but there has been
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: cases where people have administered CPR.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Out all right.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the run starts at seven o'clock in the morning.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: You've got one hundred miles to do obviously, no hotels
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: or campsites, just going yea, and how far apart are
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: like feed stations.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Some of them are about seven to nine miles apart.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: There's a few through sort of just after the midway point.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: I think we've got one that's eleven miles from one
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: point to the other, right, So that's going to be
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: quite a long old slob in the middle of the night.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: You're tired, Yeah right, yeah, yeah, but it's just mine,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Dave Matter, Yeah, yeah.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Well that is exactly what it is, isn't it. It's
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: it's and how do you how do you do it?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: In your head?
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Do you think, Okay, I've got eleven miles to the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: next fee station. You don't think about the Juli Rose state.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: You just think about the next check.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Points checkpoint, because if you think about the whole distance,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: it's terrifying. So you know you can cover eleven miles
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I'll be right, I'm going to run up to
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: that tree on the left one for a bit and
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: then walk for a bit and give yourself a little breather, yeah,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: and then just keep.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Moving forward because I don't know, I can't expect anybody
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: to actually run for one hundred miles.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Perhaps they do, do they?
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know the speak of some of them at
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: the front of the race. I've not actually seen their ability,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: but there are times indicate that they may well run
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: far more than they walk.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Just we haven't discussed this, but just off the top
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: of your head, if you get this done, which you
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: will do successfully, is there any other sort of ultra
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: challenges you would like to take on?
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Let's forget about England any anywhere in the world.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I mean there are some scary places, aren't there.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: I haven't Oh no, this run Junes, and I think
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: cost of that as well.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: You're probably talking about twelve thousand.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Pounds Oh my word.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Really yeah, yeah, there's one in the UK, Lakeland fifty.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: They've just won it last weekend. That looks good.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: It's an unmarked course.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: So I've got work on navigation before I feel I
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: can go and do that one.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Well, it's so good of you to come in, Jody.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I was looking back through the archives and it seems
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: that once a year you come in always ahead of
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: a big race, isn't it.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: And I think it's time to just say a few
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: thank you. There must be loads of people out there
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: that have been behind you and got you. I mean
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: you're doing it for them as well, and so gone
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: then far away.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Thank you to my husband Alex for picking up all
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: the flag at home when I'm not there, for the
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: dog walking when I've disappeared out for hours. For Ruby
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: for being understanding, my mum for helping out with the
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: kids and looking after the dog while I'm out. My
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: friend Chris Dennison who supported me on some of my
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: longer and nighttime running, and also my pacer John Fitzgerald,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: although he's not local so you probably won't hear that.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to get this, hopefully get this out
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: on a podcast, so at some point, probably after the race,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: it will be up and everyone yew, we can share
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: this and even Ruby will be famous. I think, yeah,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: because I'm hopeous you come in in a few years
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: time and tell us about her trip to America with
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: a bit of luck. Right, I think I've got all
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: my notes here and I just can't think of anything else.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: But you just got to. I mean, I did a
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: lot of running in my lifetime. To run a marathon
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: was like absolutely horrendous, but to think that someone's going
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: to run one hundred miles four marathons back to back almost.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I just admire you, Jodie, and we've seen across the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: line at the Cliff Top Challenge and you always come
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: in smiling. I just hope you're smiling on Sunday, the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: day I stopped smiling.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: So good luck to you. And once again, Ruby, thank
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: you for coming in and telling us about the Visita Twisters.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: And so it just leaves me to say good luck
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: to you.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Kevin.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, thanks right, Okay, Now I'm going to dive in
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: here and say there's a little song I'm going to
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: play now, and it's for a lady that took a
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: bit of a tumble at the at the Harbor Wall
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Banger Race. And I just found this and I just
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: had to play it because this title is called this
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: is what I think she was doing.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: She was counting stars.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Harby hab Los and see dreaming about the things a
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: week the baby Harby ha'ben playing hard and no more
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: counting dolls will be accounting stars.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Well that was one Republic and a song called counting Stars,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and that was especially for a lady who we're going
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: to tell you about her story now. If you remember
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, I told you about Liz
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Lawrence at the Harbor Wallbanger beach run, who I caught
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: on camera falling over just yards from the finish line,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: where it was all very humorous and we played a
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: couple of songs for her.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Excuse me.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Well, in the same race, one of Lizzi's friends, who
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I briefly met, also had a fall, but at the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: time it was a bit more serious and I didn't
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: want to mention it. However, I'm pleased to say that
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Janice Wand is fully recovered. So after chatting with Janis
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: during the week, let me tell you her story. Janis
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: was into the last mile but her left foot was hurting, so,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: being a beach run on sands, she decided to remove
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: her trainers, but she then somehow managed to trip over
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and take a fall. She hit her head on a
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: rock and found out later she'd sprained her wrist and
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: her ankle, but she got up to finish the race.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: She felt fine. After five minutes or so of crossing
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the line, she started to feel dizzy and her friends
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: took her to the first eight tent. It seemed that
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the shock of the fall caused her blood pressure to
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: drop and it wouldn't come back up again. It took
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: a couple of hours for Janie to recover, but thanks
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to the first aiders in the tent, whom Janie couldn't
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: thank enough for looking after her, She's Nail's right as rain.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Janice would also like to thank her son Travis and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: her niece Hannah, a friend Helen, who bought Janie's three
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: legged spaniel. I had to chuckle this, sorry, Janis. She
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: bought Janis's three legged spaniel to see her, her sister Susan,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and of course her running buddies Liz, Sharon, Dawn and
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Chris who helped us to the first eight tent in
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the first place. So Janie, thanks for sharing your story
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and it's good to hear your recovery went well. And
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: now this story comes one very important fact. When running
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: offend organizers put on a race, medical care has to
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: be provided and it all adds to the cost. But
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: on that odd occasion, Now I always say, if I'm
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: at a race and thanking everybody, I normally have a
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: chat with the first eight people.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Have you been busy.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: No, not today, and they say, and I'm grateful, but
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: you know, on the occasion that they are called upon,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: their training and skills are invaluable when it comes to
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: helping out people like Janis And the question I asked
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: myself who has fallen over the most, Janie or a
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: three legged spaniel. Now, now, Janee, we did ask you
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: if you wanted to play a record, a record played,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: and you come up with this one. So Janie, this
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: is for you. Blondie there and Sunday girl and ask
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: for it Janie one. Okay, Now, I've got loads to
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: get through. To be honest, I don't think I'm going
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to get for it all. So let's crack on. We've
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: got some cricket news, folks. In first eleven traveled to Sidcup,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: who won the toss and decided to bat, making two
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty for seven in their fifty overs. Folkston
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: then took to the crease but were bowled all out
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: for one hundred and ninety one and thirty five overs.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: So sidcuple were victorious by forty nine runs. Now this
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: just shows just how competitive this league is because Sidcup
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: were eighth out of ten teams. And this Saturday could
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: be another banana skin as they faced bottom club Old
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Wilsonians at the Three Hills. Game starts at twelve o'clock.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: And by the way that this defeat keeps Folkstone in
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: second place, we have a game in hand over leaders
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Bromley Common, but breathing down their necks in third place
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: are Kingshill who have played two games less than Folkston,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: so this is going to be a really exciting running
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: to the end of the season. In a close game
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: of why Hawkins batted first and made two hundred and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: two for eight in their forty overs, why have were
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: closing in fast top scorer Dan Noden in good four
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: making seventy one not out but they couldn't quite get there,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: making one hundred and ninety one for six in their
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: forty eight overs. So Hawkings won the game by just
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: eleven runs. Despite the win, they slipped down to fifth place.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: This week is a tough one away to Sheppey who
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: are top high cricket club. Batted first at home against Edgerton,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: captain Matt Ford once again leading away scoring one hundred
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: and eleven. Their total was two hundred and one for seven,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: but a steady all round batting performance by Edgerton and
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: twenty eight extras from high the bowlers aided Edgerton to
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: make two hundred and two for five, winning the game
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: by five wickets. Canterbury, who are still second this week
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Sorry Hive are still second this week, are away to
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Kennington Hive Green We're at home in a local derby
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: against Saltwood, who won the toss and elected to bat,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: making two hundred and eight for nine in their forty overs.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: High scorer was Arthur Lever who made seventy seven. The
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Green managed one hundred and sixty five for nine in
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: their forty overs but lost the game by forty three runs.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: This Saturday, the Green are at home to top club
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Willsboro and Saltwood are away to second from bottom Tenadon.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Sipton Park traveled to Rochester to play Borstal Cricket Club,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: who batted first, making two hundred and sixteen all out.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Siptm Park then replied with two hundred and twenty for eight,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: winning the game by two wickets. This week, the Sibs
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: are at home to fourth place up Church, whilst the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Sibs are just one place behind in fifth, so another
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: juicy game in prospect there Now, the weather forecast looks
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: were a little bit drizzly for Saturday, so we could
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: have some stoppages or reduced overs, but less hope not. Okay,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: back to a bit of music. We've got Westlife and
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: fool Again. There was a Westlife there and fool again. Okay,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: we are really running out of time now, so I
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: must just do this last little article now. Last Sunday,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I was driving by Radna Park and saw somebody putting
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: out a start finish sign, very similar to the ones
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: you see at a road race. So with my sports
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: ferit head on, I thought it's going to have a look.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I introduced myself to a gentleman who was just putting
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: on his blue high of his vest, and immediately things
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: fell into place. It was the very first Radna Park
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Junior Park run, and the gentleman in question was mister
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Roy Atkins, the run director. I admitted to know him
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: there was a Folkston Junior Park run in the making,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: but didn't know it was.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Last Sunday. Roy told me it was what they call
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: a soft launch.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Two weeks ago they held a practice run so they
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: could see if there was any potential problems.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: And just by word of mouth, around thirty children turned up.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Now on Sunday.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: It was a glorious morning and things seemed to go
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: without a hitch. The course was checked, the marshals briefed,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the finish funnel set up. There was a quick warm up,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: then forty three youngsters headed off for two laps as
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: two kilometers of the park and as this was the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: first official meeting, all the runners got their times and
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: guess what.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: They all got peebs.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Now it's run exactly as the Senior Park Run for example,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: you need a bar code is free, you get a
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: time which is posted on the website and it's nine am,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: but every Sunday, not Saturday. Parents and grandparents thoroughly enjoyed
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the occasion watching the children run or walk around the park,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: and numbers are expected to grow as his currently school
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: holiday time and many families are away. It was nice
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: to see many familiar faces volunteering. Chris Walgar, James Springett,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Kirsty Gardner, Jason Crockford and Park Run Ambassador Hannah Perrin
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: to name but a few. As if we all know
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: by now, park Run is a great concept to get
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: people out of the house staying fit and healthy and
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: meeting new friends, and Junior Park Run is just the same.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: It gives the youngsters a chance to burn off some
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: energy on a Sunday morning. Volunteers will always be needed,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: so if you want to volunteer or find out anything else,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: please visit the Radnor Park Junior Park Run Facebook page
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: where there is a link to take you to a
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: very formative website. And by the way, it's open to
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: children from four to fourteen years old. Right now, I'd
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: just like to say that I have missed a few
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: things out but hopefully I'll be back on Saturday with Adrian.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Adrian Dawks is doing a special Saturday Sports roundup show
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: now and he's getting really good at it. And that's
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: on between ten and eleven am. And do you know what,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: it's a chance for me to help Adrian out, And
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: certainly this week is I've got some hockey news, I've
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: got some triathlon news, but I'll be telling you about
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: that on Saturday. In the meantime, we got a classic
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: track and I do love this one of my favorite
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: all time songs. And I just want to say goodbye
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: to you this show. We'll be back in two weeks
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: time and you never know. We might have a special
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: guest if I can find one, and so just stay sporty, everybody,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: whatever happens out there, just stay sporty.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Six six