Latest / The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast / LOUISA EEDE, LISA SMITH AND MAX RANSLEY TALK MARATHONS AND TRIATHLONS.

Transcript

LOUISA EEDE, LISA SMITH AND MAX RANSLEY TALK MARATHONS AND TRIATHLONS. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

• 0:13
  This is Kevin supports her daily here on one of five point nine Academy FM,
• 0:19
  and very soon we can be changing our name to Radio Folcuston by the
• 0:23
  way, that will be on May the eleventh, but everything still be the
• 0:26
  same. We'll still be on one of five point nine FM. On today's
• 0:34
  show we will be joined once again by Louisa Eid who will be telling us
• 0:38
  about her experience at the London Marathon. And another special guest will be Lisa
• 0:47
  Smith who also ran her very first marathon in London. Will they do another
• 0:51
  one? We soon find out. In the second hour the show, we
• 0:59
  have an I'm a special guest that'd be Max Ramsley and he'll be telling us
• 1:03
  all about the High Base Spring Triathlon, which is a taking past taking place
• 1:08
  on Sunday, twelfth of May, starting to finishing at the Hive swimming Pool
• 1:12
  in South Road. And in the second hour we've got a bit of football,
• 1:17
  bit of cricket, a bit of rowing. I'm going to tell you
• 1:19
  about my day in London and we've got a roll of honor. Now I've
• 1:25
  tracked down I don't know, it's about fifty runners and in no particular order.
• 1:30
  I'm going to try and squeeze them in. They're all local runners that
• 1:32
  have done the London Marathon on Sunday, so don't go away. Time to
• 1:38
  get that bru going. Two sugars for me music right here in Kents by
• 1:46
  local artists on Academy, the local music there. Glymyas are beginning to end.
• 2:06
  Now were joined in the studio. Now she was in last week before
• 2:08
  the London Marathon and she was so excited to be running on the day.
• 2:14
  So welcome to Louisa. Hello, Louisa, how are you good? Thank
• 2:16
  you very much? And now there did it live up to your expectations?
• 2:21
  Absolutely? I'm still in euphoria, are you really? Yeah? Okay,
• 2:24
  so you'll be climbing on the ceiling nottspect during this interview recap in the day.
• 2:30
  So last week we discussed all the neaty gurty about your training. You
• 2:35
  was really you was kind of bring it on. So runners through your day?
• 2:39
  How did your day start? Very early? So I got up at
• 2:43
  quarter pus five. I was picked up by a friend and brought down to
• 2:46
  the coach down at three Hills, where you could tell already there was a
• 2:51
  bit of excitement in the air, a lot of nerves in the air people
• 2:53
  trying to get back to sleep. Knew there was no chance of me going
• 2:58
  back to sleep, so chatted away. I had a few laughs and arrived
• 3:04
  very quickly, very quickly. We were suddenly at Blackheath, but very early,
• 3:07
  and it was very cold, really cold. So how long did you
• 3:13
  have to wait before you actually hit the road? I think we were about
• 3:17
  half past seven ish and I didn't start till ten thirty four. Oh,
• 3:22
  really quite some time. But we managed to find a place to sit,
• 3:28
  wrapped ourselves in luckily foil blankets that Nicki Goodwin had brought. So those full
• 3:32
  blankets you normally get them at the inn, but I suppose Nicky has done
• 3:36
  enough marathons now to have like a bag full of them. I think I
• 3:38
  think she got them from. They weren't they were just playing foil blankets.
• 3:42
  I think she got them from. So they were absolutely fantastic. We sat
• 3:45
  on one We all huddled together, so you had a bit of company at
• 3:47
  the start. Then, yeah, how many of you? You know?
• 3:51
  There were three males and three and four four females there, so it was
• 3:54
  yeah, it was great. We buzzed off each other, silly little things
• 3:59
  like somebody and a banana and we were like, should I eat a banana?
• 4:01
  It started a bit of hysteria. Or somebody was like, have you
• 4:05
  got your number on? I've got my number on. I'll better get my
• 4:08
  number on? Y. Have you stripped off yet? Stripped off yet?
• 4:13
  But actually, although some of people started before each other, we sort of
• 4:16
  all put our bags in and then went near our waves. Because so Nicky
• 4:20
  and I are with even though she went off on three, I was on
• 4:24
  off for eight. It was the same pen that we were going to.
• 4:27
  So you go into you get a color zone, don't you. Yeah?
• 4:30
  So what you So? I was blue with a black heath. You were
• 4:31
  blue. So you was able to stay with your with your friends there until
• 4:35
  it was time to split up into your zone. Yeah yeah, okay,
• 4:39
  And then once we got in our zone, I kept it was so cold,
• 4:44
  I don't think. I think usually I'm a leggings and long sleeves if
• 4:47
  it's cold, but obviously it was marathon there, so short, so vest
• 4:50
  it was. But I did. I had my joggers and a top on
• 4:54
  which are given to a charity once you take them off, and I literally
• 4:58
  took them off as we walked through to go to the start line and wore
• 5:02
  some old gloves on her headband because I felt like if I was my head
• 5:05
  was warm, my hands was warm, I'd be Okay. Yeah, they
• 5:08
  say that if you put a hat on or a headband, and because all
• 5:11
  the heat goes out your head, doesn't it. But you just saying that,
• 5:14
  I was just reminded me. I did a I think it was a
• 5:16
  half marathon in Paris, and that was a staggered start. And as we
• 5:21
  went off because all these jumpers and leggings all was lying in the air,
• 5:26
  and all the down and outs of Paris were all the tramps in Paris were
• 5:30
  walking around and edded as to the tops. Okay, so you get underway,
• 5:35
  So I mean that first mile, how did tales about that? So
• 5:40
  emotional? It was because I've wanted this for so long. I ran for
• 5:43
  a mile going wow. I actually ran with a lady who'd ran Boston,
• 5:46
  and she was saying London was far better already. The first mile in she
• 5:50
  said, the streets I can tell already are lines, whereas Boston was very
• 5:55
  much hit and miss, she said, with the crowds. So that was
• 5:57
  quite good. I had a couple of chats with different people. Had my
• 6:00
  music on at this point, and then I think about Maltwo. My music
• 6:06
  stopped, told me it was shutting down, did sort of quirrics. I
• 6:11
  charged it the night before, so I thought I'll just leave it for a
• 6:14
  little bit. Got to mile four, I thought I'll try and turn it
• 6:15
  on again. Turned it on. It sang three lines of super Trooper by
• 6:20
  Abbat, and then to shutting down again. Then I sort of had a
• 6:24
  thought back to actually when i'd looked that night to see if they were charging,
• 6:28
  that red light wasn't on. I'd done nothing about it, so it
• 6:30
  served me right. So for me telling everyone I can't run without music,
• 6:34
  I just ran twenty four miles without music. Yeah, but that was the
• 6:39
  one race that you can't affords to, right. Yeah, Okay, so
• 6:44
  you first saw a rephrase that when did you first see sort of friends that
• 6:48
  you knew? So six miles? Could he suck? So that was probably
• 6:51
  by that. Until that point, I was happy as Larry anyway, muscling
• 6:56
  along, passing people, just taking it all in. It's just every little
• 7:00
  bit I just took in. I thought, you know, I may never
• 7:02
  do this again. So I'm going to enjoy every bit, and then I
• 7:05
  saw the club at Unfortunately I wasn't wearing the club colors because I was wearing
• 7:11
  my charity vest, so I had to shout and say it's me and wave
• 7:15
  to them. And then pretty much from then on, I think every few
• 7:19
  miles there was somebody. If it wasn't my family, my husband and my
• 7:23
  son, it was the club, my hairdresser on the way around, and
• 7:31
  then next so I did. I did know she was going up, but
• 7:36
  I didn't think i'd see her. But yeah, so when I just got
• 7:40
  all excited as soon as I saw somebody as well, so that kept me,
• 7:44
  really kept me going, oh great, great, And yeah, I
• 7:46
  must admit that we saw you at the cutty shop. And it's a great
• 7:49
  spot because everyone is buzzing, isn't it. It hasn't got into the toy
• 7:54
  zone at six six miles and you know, you know if you get on
• 7:59
  that right end and as you come around, you know you're going to see
• 8:01
  us. So yeah, I was there with the folks that running club,
• 8:05
  and I think we just about saw everybody. Yeah, well we're gonna do
• 8:09
  We're gonna take a little break now because I've got this one lined up for
• 8:11
  you because this might sum up your day? Is take that? Could it
• 8:16
  be magic? That would take that? Could it be magic? Probably sums
• 8:39
  up the day on Sunday and I hit the right button. There's times.
• 8:43
  Okay, Luisa, back to you just for a minute. Where did we
• 8:48
  get to We've we've done cutty Sock and so I mean you were floating around
• 8:54
  at cutty Sock. When did it really start to get tough? I don't
• 8:58
  know. I really don't know. I to tell you truth, I think
• 9:01
  I fueled really well and had mentally, I really prepared myself well. So
• 9:07
  every five miles I took a gel in between that's one of the salt tablet
• 9:13
  things, and drank and then gave myself targets. So when I hit twenty,
• 9:18
  I was like, imagine it's the end of a school day and I'd
• 9:20
  had to have gone out and run a seven miler and then and then just
• 9:24
  it ticked down. It just ticked down. I think I honestly, the
• 9:28
  whole way around, I loved every minute. If you see my photos,
• 9:31
  I'm literally in I thought you were running with your hands. I thought you
• 9:35
  were running with your hands in the air because I never saw you any other
• 9:39
  picture, but without the hands of the air, I'm smiling and every picture
• 9:43
  I think, as I say, I just took it all in. And
• 9:48
  there's sights of London and are fantastic. You know, I'm round Canary while
• 9:50
  thinking, oh, yeah, I lovely. You know it's all Tower Bridge
• 9:54
  and you know there are yeah, everything. I sort of took right in
• 9:58
  the whole way around. Yeah, no walls hit right, brilliant. Okay,
• 10:01
  now we're going to be We're joined now by another runner, Lisa Smith.
• 10:05
  Hello, Lisa, how are you? Hey? I'm good. How
• 10:07
  are you? Yeah? Good, excellent? Right now. You were there
• 10:11
  and we're going to talk to you in depth later on. But you're a
• 10:13
  bit of a reluctant marathoner, weren't you. How did you get your place
• 10:16
  for the marathon? Oh? I was really lucky. I got the club
• 10:20
  ballot place right, and so you didn't have any pressure to get any money
• 10:24
  or anything like that. All you had really was the pressure from your colleagues
• 10:28
  was lit. Yeah, well not from them directly, but you probably thought
• 10:31
  that you don't want to let them down, do you. No, I
• 10:33
  had to. Everybody wants that place, so I had to prove that I
• 10:37
  deserve to have that place, even though I don't like running. No,
• 10:41
  because I remember, well, I didn't actually speak to you, but my
• 10:46
  partner Su said, oh, Lisa's just done twenty miles and she hated it.
• 10:52
  But I mean, it's all over now. Did you enjoy the day?
• 10:58
  I did. I expected to be tired physically. I didn't expect the
• 11:03
  emotional tiredness that came with it. So I think the whole week leading up
• 11:07
  to the marathon, I cried all the time. Nobody could look at me
• 11:11
  or talk to me, or I couldn't even look at my mamathon my shoes
• 11:15
  that was wearing for the marathon without crying. So I was just exhausted.
• 11:20
  But I've completed it. Now, I've completed running onto the next thing,
• 11:24
  hanging trainers up. Okay, coming back to you, Louisa, would you
• 11:28
  agree with that that even that the build up was emotional as well? I
• 11:31
  mean, I mean when you was at school, was you kind of teaching
• 11:35
  the kids but thinking what should I do it? Absolutely? Yeah, I
• 11:39
  think every night I went home and thought about it and had I got all
• 11:41
  the right equipment? I was doing anything right? And yeah, just things
• 11:46
  like you know, everyone's all the time saying oh, good look, good
• 11:48
  look, and you don't want to let people down. You want to complete
• 11:52
  it, you know, you want to complete it for your charity or for
• 11:54
  the club, or just for your own self. I mean for me,
• 11:56
  it was very much about me as well, doing it something I'd wanted to
• 12:01
  do. All those rejections and yeah, just remind her listeners how many rejections.
• 12:05
  Eighteen rejections. Yeah, okay, so right, so we were talking
• 12:09
  about the running through the sites of London, so you did have time to
• 12:13
  focus on having a look round. It distracted me. I suddenly would see
• 12:18
  something and then another mile had gone, or I'd see something else and I
• 12:22
  was like, oh, one of my husband. I knew he was going
• 12:24
  to be at Deptford, so I was looking for him for ages and that
• 12:26
  whole mile just disappeared because I was too busy looking for my husband. So
• 12:31
  yeah, I really took in things and tried to distract myself. I find
• 12:35
  that with any of my runs if I'm distracted. Hence I like running with
• 12:39
  people because we talk and I get very distracted. Then it passes by.
• 12:43
  Yeah, so you saw your family, did you actually start or did you
• 12:46
  keep going? Quick cuddles twice? Two quick cuddles twice. On the third
• 12:50
  I was twenty four. He was at twenty four miles with my charity.
• 12:54
  I didn't stop there because it was twenty four miles and I was, yeah,
• 12:56
  in absolute passion of I'm nearly then, so I just high five there.
• 13:01
  Yeah, but lots of high fives on the route. Yeah. This
• 13:03
  is another thing. I remember when year we managed to actually get onto the
• 13:07
  Embankment and this chep said to me, ever ago, I said, well,
• 13:11
  you've only got half a mile. He went all for a mile.
• 13:15
  Oh no, I don't know if I can do all for a mile.
• 13:18
  I thought it would be really pleased, but he did so a few choice
• 13:20
  words. But no, But the Embankment we tried to get to. Well,
• 13:24
  we got to the Embankment, but from experience, you cannot get near
• 13:28
  the front row on the Embankment. So we then went back to the Haymarket.
• 13:31
  So okay, so you've seen your family in Deptford and when was the
• 13:35
  next point at Call? So the next part us Call eleven miles was my
• 13:41
  cheer station from my charity. Right, So again I hunted them down and
• 13:45
  got to the right side where they were stood. But again looking for them
• 13:48
  distracted me because I didn't know where they were because it's all the charities,
• 13:52
  isn't it. So again found them just I just did again a hands up
• 13:58
  yeah yeah, but clearly ended up has through the air and then yeah just
• 14:03
  then again carried on. I think the next at fourteen the hairdresser appeared again.
• 14:09
  Seventeen was it was you lot this likes me chuckle that it's like you
• 14:16
  got planned all along the route, you know, nail varnish their message.
• 14:20
  That would have been nice. Yeah, okay, so we saw you we
• 14:24
  were about sixteen or seventeen, and you look really good and happy and was
• 14:30
  to be honest, was that a show? Oh you saw people? You
• 14:33
  bit down and saw people. Yeah. I just enjoyed it, enjoyed I
• 14:37
  think, as I said, it was just the thing I'd wanted for so
• 14:41
  long that I thought, you need to enjoy every minute of this because it
• 14:43
  may never may never happen again. You know, you never know, do
• 14:46
  you? But yeah, I absolutely, because I think I saw people a
• 14:52
  lot. I was lucky. I was lucky that I had so much support
• 14:54
  along route. Really right, so you saw us about sixteen seventeen. Oh,
• 15:01
  then you saw your husband again eighteen he's a canary wolf. Yeah.
• 15:05
  I actually made a friend called Tom as well. Tom was from Swindon.
• 15:07
  He was doing cancer research. He had two children. But we ranntled twenty
• 15:11
  together as well. And then he said my legs are getting heavy, and
• 15:16
  I said, I'm just going to keep blood. Yeah. So that was
• 15:18
  really nice as well because we kept quite a good pace together. Right,
• 15:22
  So you're coming up into the embankment now, I mean it was crazy at
• 15:26
  the amendment and you probably turned that right turn. It's all big bin.
• 15:30
  How does it feel? Then? Oh? Amazing? And then the countdown
• 15:33
  of six hundred, eight hundred and four hundred wow, And I feel like
• 15:35
  I can't really remember them all. I think I was in such a like,
• 15:39
  oh my god, oh my gosh. And I knew i'd come under
• 15:41
  four then, not quite as I thought I'd know nowhere near got the time
• 15:46
  i'd got, but I knew I was under four, So I my watch
• 15:50
  at that point. I decided to be silly at that point because you look
• 15:54
  at it the clock, and the clock's not really right for your time,
• 15:56
  isn't it, Because there's so many different start times. Many people have started
• 16:00
  different waves and things like that. So can you remember what the clock said?
• 16:04
  No, No, it was probably a bit for thirty or something.
• 16:07
  Yeah, and I did know I was being again distraction. Oh look at
• 16:11
  the clock. How I was at thirty four past? Has it gone past?
• 16:15
  That? Has it not? But I could see a three fifty five
• 16:18
  person with you know, in front of me, and I thought I could.
• 16:22
  I got to him at one point, but then we got funneled.
• 16:26
  They funneled you across because people crossing, and he got ahead and it all
• 16:30
  sort of very much slurred and I couldn't keep with him. So I thought,
• 16:33
  well, I'm under three I'm under four hours. So when did you
• 16:37
  find out that you were under four hours? So I stopped. I stopped
• 16:38
  my watch. But they text you the London Marathon, text you straight away
• 16:42
  as soon as you've gone over that line. And I could not It was
• 16:45
  like three p fifty one. I could not believe it because you, yeah,
• 16:49
  well the three fifty five and I had finished before, but it was
• 16:52
  in a different wave. That was why I'd got confused. Oh yeah,
• 16:57
  I sobbed literally couldn't believe it. I still I can't believe it. I
• 17:02
  can't believe it. I think a surprise for you people. I think people
• 17:04
  are quite shocked as well. So when did you first see your family after
• 17:11
  that? Oh they have to walk miles. That is a shock. Yeah,
• 17:15
  I got And the thing was sillily. Being not a regular marathon runer,
• 17:18
  I've never done one before, I'd taken so much things. So I'd
• 17:22
  taken a whole change of clothes, shorts, joggers, jumpers, you name
• 17:27
  it. I had this great, big bag full of stuff, and of
• 17:30
  course then I had to pick that up and carry it with my foil around
• 17:34
  me. Then they gave me a Lucas say Dana water, so I had.
• 17:37
  I literally was like this with my bag, like trying to get through
• 17:41
  people down to my family, like knocking into people who were getting in my
• 17:47
  way because it is so busy, and I'm like, I felt like saying
• 17:51
  people, I was just run a marathon. You get out of my way,
• 17:53
  you get out of my way. I'm just run a marathon. And
• 17:56
  eventually found my husband a mile later with the Luckily, he went to E,
• 18:02
  which is our last name, and some running club went to F.
• 18:06
  So I went across to everybody, so that was Yeah, to see them
• 18:08
  again. I cried and friends from my friends had coming to watch as well,
• 18:12
  so they were all there waiting for me. Brilliant. Okay, well,
• 18:15
  Luisa, what was the next step you had to you you went back
• 18:18
  on the train. You had to walk to charing Cross. Yeah, watch
• 18:21
  charing Cross. The only train that is canceled is the Folkston train. Every
• 18:25
  other trains there. So then my husband's like, okay, let's get to
• 18:27
  pick Adilly Underground and March is off. I've now sought myself out, so
• 18:33
  I've got so many bags now, but still I'm then like, now any
• 18:37
  step that you have to go down is like oh and then obviously down into
• 18:41
  the tube. I have to go downsteps. Luckily you've got your medlar and
• 18:44
  people are like oh so yeah yeah, and obviously free travel with my medal,
• 18:49
  which was amazing. Brilliant. Yeah. Okay, so the day is
• 18:52
  nearly over, but I don't think you switch off in it probably doesn't sink
• 18:57
  until the next day properly know what you've done. So you're a school teacher,
• 19:02
  what was the next move? You went into school? Absolutely, yeah,
• 19:06
  there's chance of getting the day off, so I didn't sleep well either
• 19:10
  because I think where you're taking all the caffeine and the glucase and all the
• 19:12
  energy drinks, I couldn't get to sleep on the night either, and obviously,
• 19:15
  oh my god, I've actually done this. I felt like it was
• 19:19
  a bit like your wedding. You plan for like months and months and it's
• 19:23
  all over with. Yeah, so it was a bit like But I was
• 19:26
  really lucky. At schooling staff briefing, everyone clapped me in and got me
• 19:30
  stand up and they all clapsed again, and then I went into assemblies and
• 19:33
  since then, lots of children I just did a year eleven this morning about
• 19:37
  their GCSS and revision, saying, you know, for a short period of
• 19:41
  time, get the revision done, it's not long, and then you get
• 19:44
  the outcome out of it. I said, similar to me, you know,
• 19:47
  the determination of wanting something. Then, Louisa, it has been brilliant
• 19:52
  having you back in the studio and it's been lovely hearing your story. And
• 19:56
  I think this year, more than ever that I've noticed that so so many
• 20:00
  people have been emotional. There were some great times, and I mean,
• 20:03
  you've told a wonderful story. And there's a big question. Your last question
• 20:08
  of the interview is would you do another one? Definitely enter the ballot straight
• 20:12
  where I think I'd really like to do abroad if I do another one,
• 20:17
  because it is really special. It's something really special and you train a lot.
• 20:21
  I'm not going to be a willy nilly marathon run. I like some
• 20:23
  people love to run one every other weekend or you know, three a year
• 20:26
  or whatever. For me, it's something really special and I definitely will do
• 20:30
  another one. Maybe Paris will be the next, Luisa. Thank you so
• 20:34
  much. Once again, Please keep us informed and we'll tell us when your
• 20:40
  next one will be. Thank you so much. Okay, we've got another
• 20:42
  song now, and I think these are two guests are going to like this
• 20:45
  one. There you go. There's a Bruce Springsteen and and a little song
• 21:11
  for our two guests today, Born to Run, which is what they were.
• 21:15
  Okay, now we're We spoke briefly just now to a Lisa, but
• 21:19
  she ran the marathon on Sunday and she's so good she's coming to join us
• 21:25
  today and so welcome to the show. Lisa. How are you then?
• 21:27
  You're all right? Yeah, I'm not too bad I feel today, so
• 21:30
  I'm okay. Yeah, So you told us, you've got a ballot place.
• 21:37
  But I'll tell you what. We turned the clock back a little bit.
• 21:40
  I think we go back to if you like your early days, how
• 21:42
  did you you know your sporty background? How did you get into running?
• 21:47
  On so growing up? I was all sporty, anything to do with sport.
• 21:52
  I was in it, every school team going. I played netball for
• 21:56
  Carlisle. I loved athletics, not so much the run in. I loved
• 22:00
  cross country because you could smoke in the bushes when the teachers weren't there.
• 22:07
  I loved the relay. I was excellent on the second leg of the relay,
• 22:11
  absolutely rubbish at one hundred meters though, which was really weird. And
• 22:15
  then I went to UNI and my sport kind of fell by the wayside,
• 22:21
  didn't really do very much. We used to live in Sangay and my husband
• 22:27
  used to run along Sangay and I'd be like, God, if I ever
• 22:30
  do that, shoot me, that is so boring, so dull. But
• 22:33
  I used to do the Raceful Life every year and I would usually walk it.
• 22:37
  And then one year my friend unfortunately passed away, she had cancer,
• 22:44
  and another friend of mine said, if you run it Lisa, I will
• 22:48
  give you a lot more sponsorship money, so I couldn't say no. At
• 22:53
  the time where I worked Kevin Newman, so he used to be a member
• 22:57
  of folks In Running Club. I used to work with him for a very
• 23:00
  short period of time and he said, oh, I think the running club
• 23:04
  do a free race for life training up at the LEAs. Let me find
• 23:08
  out and I'll let you know. And he came in the following week gave
• 23:11
  me this leaflet. I'm like, I really don't want to do that.
• 23:15
  Kevin. I hate running. And by this point I'd got into the couch
• 23:21
  to five k. So a friend of mine Gary, he had done couch
• 23:23
  to five k and it worked. He managed to do Folks in half.
• 23:26
  And it's like, oh, maybe it's a real person doing it, so
• 23:30
  it does work. It's not just a runner saying oh yeah, it does
• 23:33
  work if you build it up. So I turned up on this Sunday morning.
• 23:37
  My husband had driven me. Both my daughters are in the car and
• 23:41
  everybody is really sporty and I'm not getting out of the car. It's really
• 23:45
  daunting. I can't do it for the training. This is the free training
• 23:51
  the running club provided, but everybody there was just they were all runners and
• 23:56
  it was quite daunting, so I refused to get out of the car.
• 24:00
  And then all of a sudden, at the side, I saw somebody who
• 24:03
  was familiar and she was a mum at the nursery. She looks like me,
• 24:07
  So we don't look like runners. We're not six foot tall, dead,
• 24:11
  skinny and everything. We're both or I'm relatively short. She's taller than
• 24:15
  me. And it was my now best friend Kate, so I recognized her
• 24:18
  and it just gave me the boost to get out the car. And yeah,
• 24:23
  from there, I did the training. I ran the Race for Life
• 24:26
  that year, I carried on and managed to complete the couch to five k
• 24:30
  training. Kate at the time almost bullied me into doing park Run. I
• 24:38
  did Park Run, couldn't walk the next day, couldn't sit on the toilet.
• 24:41
  And then at the time, Folks and Running Club used to do a
• 24:45
  circuit training, so I joined Folks and Running Club just for the circuit training,
• 24:51
  and then it just eked out. I turned up to a couple of
• 24:55
  sessions and then yeah, so when she got over that barrier of being a
• 24:59
  big confident and if you like knowing that you could run five k I suppose
• 25:03
  you could almost class yourself as a runner. And then you went on to
• 25:07
  other things. Yeah, okay, yeah, and right, so I was
• 25:12
  going to say, what's the furthest you've run? But it's obviously a marathon.
• 25:15
  So you did you do a lot of local races in between, you
• 25:18
  know, before before the marathon? I used to do the odd race,
• 25:23
  so Ashford ten's the Folkston ten. I don't tend to race now only because
• 25:30
  I don't have the time, and usually most of the races happen over this
• 25:34
  spring and summer months and I'm usually at a competition with my kids, so
• 25:38
  they both do athletics, right, So that's another little thing I want to
• 25:41
  talk about. So you know, you've got a sporty family and so you've
• 25:45
  kind of turned it around a little bit. You've gone from a runner to
• 25:48
  coach, is that right? Yeah? So I coached the Folkston Athletics juniors.
• 25:52
  Oh okay, in I mean juniors do some I'm not straight sports,
• 26:00
  but they're not quite conventional sports. Sports that when I was growing up as
• 26:03
  a kid never heard of. So tell her what do you coach then?
• 26:06
  Yeah, so we coach anything athletics, so all of the run in from
• 26:11
  the short sprints to usually about fifteen hundred meters with our juniors, long high
• 26:17
  jump, triple jump we've just started with a few of our juniors, and
• 26:23
  then all of the throws. So my daughters actually prefer the throw in so
• 26:27
  javelin, shot, discus, hammer, and yeah, we coach everything.
• 26:33
  Okay, and can you see that with the advent of the running track,
• 26:37
  now that you're going to get have you had more interest for youngsters? We've
• 26:41
  had a lot more juniors signing up or unfortunately having to go on the waiting
• 26:45
  list because we can only accept so many juniors. One for a safeguard in
• 26:49
  we need so many coaches per per groups, but also just having that many
• 26:56
  kids on the track at one time. Yeah, there are waiting lists now,
• 27:00
  okay, well you wouldn't have thought that. Really, it's amazing that
• 27:06
  you've got the track and now you've got a waiting list. But you I
• 27:08
  recently saw a little picture of you with a coaching badge, is that right?
• 27:12
  Yeah, so I'm now a fully fledged coach and a coach athletics coach
• 27:17
  well with adults as well. Yeah, I can coach adults so I have
• 27:21
  had a couple of adults approach me and say, oh, I'm quite fancy
• 27:25
  having a go at the javelin, for example, would you be able to
• 27:27
  coach? And yeah, we can. It's juniors and adults alike. Okay,
• 27:33
  so there you go. You've gone from shying away from running to being
• 27:36
  a coach what they call it poacher turned gamekeeper. Okay, well we're going
• 27:41
  to play a bit more music now, a bit more running music, and
• 27:45
  this is absolutely spot on for you. This is level forty two and it's
• 27:48
  called running in the Family. So there's a special song for Lisa there,
• 28:11
  running in the Family, which just susid down to the ground. Now,
• 28:15
  Lisa, you told us that you've got this a marathon place from the club
• 28:21
  when you went away, you know, you didn't really expect to do a
• 28:25
  marathon. What was your first feelings for the first week or so. So
• 28:29
  I've actually applied to the London ballot seven years on the trot and always had
• 28:34
  that sigh of relief when you get the rejection email. And then towards the
• 28:38
  end of last year my name was picked out the ballot and I was actually
• 28:42
  ill at the time, so it was the last thing that I could have
• 28:45
  needed that week, and I had a look, it's like, right,
• 28:49
  sixteen week training plan. That's fine, I can have a good Christmas.
• 28:53
  January first it or start, and I just kept putting it out of my
• 28:57
  mind. It didn't really happen. It wasn't exist. January first came round
• 29:02
  and Kate and I went to Park Run with my new trainers on that I
• 29:06
  was going to start training with the marathon, and it is it does dawn
• 29:08
  on you. It's oh, this is it. But it's only five k
• 29:11
  that first run, so it's fine and anyone can do a five k,
• 29:15
  but yeah, it does dawn on you that this is the start of a
• 29:18
  long sixty. Say, okay, so let's jump now to the day itself.
• 29:22
  You've done the training. I mean I saw you at the leads Lid
• 29:25
  twenty you did twenty, so I mean that's excellent. You need a twenty
• 29:30
  in your legs if you're going to do twenty six. So how did you
• 29:33
  tell us about your day? How did you get up there? And things
• 29:36
  like that? So I went to London on the train. The coach was
• 29:41
  too early and I didn't think i'd be finished in time to get the running
• 29:44
  coach back. So Kate, I'm really fortunate. Kate planned all the travel
• 29:49
  for me, so we bought the tickets the day before. She said,
• 29:53
  don't worry, I know what train we're getting, I know how we're getting
• 29:56
  to black Keith. Kate picked me up about twenty to seven. We picked
• 30:02
  up our other friend Hazel, and then got to Folkston West. It was
• 30:06
  really empty, so we were a bit worried because last year Kate turned up
• 30:10
  to do her marathon and the train had been canceled and she had to quickly
• 30:14
  drive to Ashford. But it's nice. You turn up to the train station,
• 30:18
  there's a big sign from Southeastern saying welcome to London marathoners. We got
• 30:22
  on the train, the slow train all the way up to London Bridge.
• 30:26
  That was fine, and then you get to London Bridge and there are so
• 30:30
  many people, but there are also marshals directing you. So if you're going
• 30:34
  to black Heath you go this way. If you go into Greenwich it's this
• 30:38
  way. We got up onto the platform, missed the first train only because
• 30:44
  of the sheer volume of people. We physically couldn't get on the train.
• 30:48
  There are so many people. We got on the next train. We thought
• 30:53
  to Greenwich and the train stopped at is it may Hill? I think it
• 31:00
  was May's Hill, and we just all looked at each other and thinking,
• 31:03
  well, it was meant to be Greenwich, Why is it May's Hill.
• 31:04
  Luckily there was a man there and said, we drove through Greenwich. This
• 31:08
  train doesn't stop, but don't panic. You're actually closer to where you need
• 31:14
  to be. This way, you just have to go up a massive hill.
• 31:17
  And this hill we hawked up this hill and I was out of breath
• 31:19
  by the time I got the it's just to the side. I got to
• 31:25
  the top of the hill, out of breath and thought, oh my god,
• 31:26
  how am I going to run a marath out of breath? Walking up
• 31:29
  a hill? And then I had to leave. I had to leave Kate
• 31:33
  and Hazl there and I cried. I mean I'd cried all week. I
• 31:37
  wasn't prepared for the emotional side of the marathon, so yeah, they left
• 31:42
  me, and I was a bit I don't want to do bit panic.
• 31:48
  And then Harry Styles as it was played on the massive speakers. My daughter
• 31:53
  is a massive Harry Styles fan, so it almost felt like I was having
• 31:56
  a cuddle off her. It was lovely. And then, as you will
• 32:00
  always do when you go to a race, go and join the toilet king.
• 32:04
  It's the first thing you do, right, So you finally get to
• 32:07
  the line and where you go. So tell us about this first couple of
• 32:12
  miles. It was weird. You walk right up until the very start line,
• 32:17
  and then everyone starts running and there's a lot of police around, obviously
• 32:22
  making sure everyone's okay. There's a few spectators. I think they are the
• 32:29
  people who drop off their runners and just hang around and you're running. It's
• 32:36
  downhill at that point. The first three three four k feels like it's downhill,
• 32:40
  so it's quite nice. You settle into your running. When you get
• 32:44
  to about mile three, that's when the waves joined together. So I was
• 32:50
  in the red wave. You get to mile three and all of a sudden,
• 32:53
  from your right, all of these runners just appear from nowhere. That
• 32:58
  was a bit weird. And then loads of people just stood in the middle
• 33:01
  of the road. And luckily I was on a Facebook fum beforehand, so
• 33:07
  I knew what they were doing. They were people who were waiting for friends,
• 33:10
  for different friends, yeah, yeah, who might have started in at
• 33:15
  the same or similar time, but just in different areas of the park.
• 33:19
  So yeah, they agreed to wait and then run together. So where was
• 33:23
  the first time you saw somebody? Lisa York had already told me she was
• 33:29
  at the first water station a few weeks ago. Yeah, so she did
• 33:31
  the first water station at about mile three. She told me she was on
• 33:38
  the right, so I stayed on the right and had a big cuddle off
• 33:42
  her, and then off I went. And then there was the next one
• 33:45
  there Cutty Sark, or just before Cutty Sark. I saw my husband and
• 33:49
  my youngest daughter. We were lucky. They were just crossing the road,
• 33:53
  so they were in one of those pens that they have to wait to get
• 33:57
  from one side to the other. So I was really lucky I saw them.
• 34:00
  And then just around the corner Kate Hazel and then yourself. Yes,
• 34:06
  yes, yeah, it's funny. I saw Kate and Hazel and they were
• 34:08
  about ten yards away from me, and I couldn't get to them. I
• 34:12
  thought, I'm not leaving this spot, and I never actually spoke to them,
• 34:15
  but I did see them there. Yeah, So we went underneath it
• 34:19
  and popped up at seventeen. Did we see you at seventeen, I think,
• 34:22
  yes, did just a bel you're on the other side of the road.
• 34:24
  Yeah, yeah, I mean, how does it feel when you see
• 34:27
  people? Did it really lift you? It does lift you. I mean
• 34:30
  I was lucky. I saw my husband and daughter three or four times.
• 34:35
  I saw Kate and Hazel three times, my sisters. I didn't realize she
• 34:38
  was coming up until two days before the marathon. I saw her a couple
• 34:43
  of times. Did you ever hairdresser up there? I didn't have a hairdresser.
• 34:46
  Somebody I work with in our London office. I saw him at Canary
• 34:51
  Wharf and I don't know how he spotted me, but he really shouted.
• 34:55
  You couldn't miss him. It was really loud. And then I I saw
• 35:00
  the club support three times, so it does give you a lift. And
• 35:06
  then on the course, an Ashford and District runner ran past me. Because
• 35:09
  I had my folks and top on, I got a pat on the back
• 35:13
  from him as he ran past, and I hadn't realized that Chris Hogwood,
• 35:17
  who is a Tunbridge coach for athletics. I didn't realize he was running until
• 35:22
  he ran past me. And then we ran for a couple of minutes.
• 35:25
  Together and then oh he was way faster than me, so he took off
• 35:30
  her. Okay, so right, so you you're running up the embankment.
• 35:32
  Now you turn right and you see big pin. So how did you feel
• 35:37
  then? Well, my main thing was I wanted my watch to say five
• 35:40
  something when I finished. Even if it was five point fifty nine, I
• 35:45
  didn't mind. I had a couple of injuries going into the day, so
• 35:49
  just finishing in five something hours was going to be amazing. And then I
• 35:54
  got to just before Westminster, looked at my and I had the pacer wristband
• 36:01
  on my wrist, and for the last few miles i'd had a stitch.
• 36:05
  Couldn't get rid of that. But I was underneath five hours on my pacer
• 36:08
  wristband, but every mile, for about the last four miles, I was
• 36:13
  losing about two and a half minutes. So I got to Westminster, looked
• 36:19
  at my watch and just thought, oh my god, I might actually do
• 36:22
  this in under five hours. And I got to the eight hundred meters to
• 36:28
  go, and obviously, being a track athlete or track coach, that's only
• 36:32
  two times around the track, and I ran and then it's six hundred meters
• 36:37
  and then it's four hundred meters and then I got to the Mau and bucking
• 36:42
  In Palace a lot on my left. It's like, Lisa, you've just
• 36:45
  got to go. And I literally, well, in my head, I
• 36:47
  was using bolt sprinting down the mouth. My dad has showed me my finishing
• 36:52
  video from the Telly. I'm not using bowling, but in my head I
• 36:57
  was. And then I finished. I was fifty nine and thirty four seconds.
• 37:01
  It's absolutely fantastic from being a reluctant runner to a sub five marathona.
• 37:07
  Yeah, and so the next you know, you saw your family afterwards.
• 37:10
  That must have been magical? Was it? It was? But like Louisa
• 37:14
  says, I don't understand why they make you walk so fear. I picked
• 37:17
  my bag up, and like Louisa, I'd packed everything. I'd packed a
• 37:22
  whole change of clothes, trainers, snacks, a drink and then trying to
• 37:28
  with the foil bank on carry that with a bottle of lucas they'd given you
• 37:30
  with your medal, a bottle of water. I couldn't open any of the
• 37:35
  drinks. I was shaking, So every time I walked past an official,
• 37:38
  they had to open my drinks for me. Luckily, my husband and daughter
• 37:44
  were waiting just at the end of the lorries, so before horse guards parade,
• 37:50
  and so I met them and then he took everything off me and carried
• 37:52
  everything, which okay, so the euphoria of the day, I mean,
• 37:58
  when did it kind of really hit you that you'd actually was it like a
• 38:02
  couple of days afterwards when you really really sunk in with all your emotion.
• 38:06
  You know, when did that kind of hit you? I think probably Tuesday,
• 38:10
  Wednesday, or probably yeah, yesterday Wednesday. I think Monday I was
• 38:15
  tired and hungry. I hadn't eaten after the marathon. I felt so sick
• 38:19
  after all of the sugar that you take on So Monday I was just tired.
• 38:23
  Tuesday I was tired and still a bit sore. So I think yesterday
• 38:28
  it's like I actually am a marathon and and you actually came down the stairs
• 38:31
  just now, do you use I did? It's good? Yeah, okay,
• 38:35
  before we go now and we are running out of time, and it's
• 38:38
  been so good of you. Been trying to track you down a week,
• 38:40
  so good of you to take the time to come in. Lisa, just
• 38:45
  got any thank you to say before you go obviously, my husband, children
• 38:50
  to Kate, I couldn't have done it without her and Hazel, the whole
• 38:52
  folks and running club for obviously believing him and giving me the ballot place and
• 38:58
  then come in and supporting me on the day. Caroline Curtis for massaging me
• 39:01
  throughout the whole of my training to make sure I got there with my legs,
• 39:06
  my sister for coming in surprising me, so everybody it was. It's
• 39:10
  done. Now the big question, would you do another one? Never again?
• 39:15
  Never again? You know you say that, but I think in your
• 39:21
  case, I think you're probably right. Yeah, Lisa, it's been brilliant
• 39:25
  talking to you, and it's nice to get inside people's head and find out
• 39:29
  what the day was really like, you know, And you and Louisa have
• 39:35
  just really explained what it's like and the emotion and the adrenaline and the passion
• 39:38
  that goes in the day. Even as a spectator, it does rub off,
• 39:43
  you know, And so I just want to say thanks so much,
• 39:45
  thank you. Kevin. This is Kevin Daily back in the studio. Busy
• 40:05
  day to day, I tell you, Okay, we're on one of five
• 40:07
  point nine Academy of M and coming up. In this hour, I'll be
• 40:10
  joined by Max Ramsley who'll be telling us all about the Hyde Bay Triathlon.
• 40:21
  I've got some reports on local football, got some cricket news, Yes,
• 40:30
  cricket pouring the rain outside, but the cricket season has to start sometime.
• 40:42
  We got some news from the Folks and Rowing Club, and we got some
• 40:45
  news on some football Cup finals to be played at Sherton Road at the weekend.
• 40:55
  I've got a report on my day at the London Marathon, and I've
• 41:04
  got a roll of honor of many many local runners who took part on Sunday.
• 41:08
  I'll bound to have forgotten somebody, but I'll do my best, okay.
• 41:14
  In the meantime, we're going to get this second hour of the show
• 41:15
  on the road with a bit of local music right here in Kids by local
• 41:22
  artists on Academy your favorite Folkston on twelfth and A is the Hive Bay Triathlon,
• 41:37
  organized by the Ashford tri Club, and today we're joined by one of
• 41:39
  the organizers, Max Ramsley. Hello, Max, how are you n Welcome
• 41:43
  to the show. Welcome to the show. Now, before we turn our
• 41:45
  attentions to triathlon, tell us a bit about your sporty background and how you
• 41:50
  got into triflons. How did I get into triathlon. I'm going to go
• 41:54
  back probably about ten fifteen years so in my early thirties, and had only
• 42:05
  done sports as a child. I swam for swam for the county, and
• 42:08
  then played American football and basketball at school, but only really played at it.
• 42:15
  Went to university and didn't do any sport at all, got a job,
• 42:17
  came home, got married, had kids, put a bit of weight
• 42:21
  on, and got to that point in life was a bit like, oh,
• 42:23
  I need to do something about this. So I started running just on
• 42:29
  my own, and then I entered a five k and that led to ten
• 42:32
  k and then next thing you know, I've entered a half marathon on a
• 42:37
  whim, which I did and I completed and found quite enjoyed myself running.
• 42:39
  Is that around this part of the world? Yeah, well it was getting
• 42:44
  in. It was in Hastings. I had no idea about all the events
• 42:47
  that were around at the time, and I literally just plunked in a map
• 42:52
  Hastings It's got a half marathon and yeah, and when I entered it,
• 42:54
  everyone said, well I should do that. It's really hilly, but hey,
• 42:59
  ho, that's that's where we were. Once you come off the sea
• 43:00
  front of Hastings. Man, it's hilly hill than fos and I think,
• 43:04
  yeah, so what was next after that? So after that, basically I
• 43:09
  went into a trainer shop to buy a pair of trainers Pod plus in Ashford
• 43:14
  at the Junior Row Stadium and went in with the sole intention of buying a
• 43:17
  pair of trainers. Came out with a membership to Ashford Club and the entry
• 43:22
  into a sprint trathlon. I didn't even have a bike, but it was
• 43:27
  one of those things. They sold it to me and I joined the club
• 43:30
  completely as a novice and I had three months to train for my first ever
• 43:36
  trifle. Okay, so where was that then? That was at East Grinstead.
• 43:39
  Yes, that was a pool swim and a bike and a run.
• 43:44
  So I did a bit of training with the club put it all together and
• 43:46
  I wasn't sure whether it was for me or not. And I didn't have
• 43:50
  a flash bike or anything like that. Had an old steel mountain bike and
• 43:53
  yeah, I turned up on the day and did the event and instantly fell
• 43:59
  in love with trathlon. Yeah, and they could have gone one way or
• 44:02
  the other absolutely, Yeah, Yeah, that's why I didn't commit to buying
• 44:06
  a new bike. Yeah, you didn't have to take your trainers back either,
• 44:10
  No, exactly. Okay, so tell me a little bit. We've
• 44:15
  had triathletes in here before, but it always amazes me that there are different
• 44:20
  distances, different styles of triathlon, right up to the iron Man. So
• 44:27
  what sort of triathlon did you do at East Grinstead? So? East Grinstead
• 44:30
  was a sprint triathlon, which was a five at a time, a five
• 44:35
  hundred meter swim, a twenty one k bike ride and then a five k
• 44:38
  run. There are other distances and you progress from there. High Bay,
• 44:45
  which we talk about later, is a super sprint, so slightly shorter,
• 44:49
  but your sprint is your entry level triathlon. From there you can go to
• 44:52
  what's called a standard, which is a twelve hundred meters swim, forty k
• 44:58
  bike and a ten run, and then you go to half distance. I
• 45:04
  found out that's seventy point three, isn't it? Is it? The half
• 45:06
  distance sometimes half fire Man, that's right. Yeah, obviously iron Man is
• 45:12
  a branded name, but there are other events. So that's where the seventy
• 45:15
  thirty came from of a half distance, so yeah, and then there's the
• 45:20
  full distance or the iron distance, which is, yeah, a two point
• 45:23
  four mile swim followed by And do you find that members of your club really
• 45:29
  go that they're all doing triathlons, they all go for different different distances.
• 45:32
  Absolutely. Yeah, I mean over the years when the club you members join
• 45:37
  and they probably focus on the shorter distances and then a couple of years later
• 45:42
  they progress to the next one or go to full distance. Some don't.
• 45:47
  Some just pick a distance and stay at that distance and go from there.
• 45:52
  So yeah, yeah, it's a bit like running actually. I mean I
• 45:57
  did three marathons in my time, but I'm not a marathon runner and at
• 46:01
  the end of the day, I just used to like doing the ten ks.
• 46:06
  If ever I went from a ten k to a ten mile, it
• 46:08
  was like a huge, huge jump, so I was quite happy doing ten
• 46:13
  k. So we're going to have a little chat shortly about the Hyde Bay
• 46:20
  Triathlon. But your club is it? Is he grown in the recent years?
• 46:23
  Is the time you've been there? Yes, So let's just clarify its
• 46:27
  the Ashrad Tri Club AZRA Tri Club. Yeah. So yeah, based obviously
• 46:31
  in Ashford, but we have a lot of members in Shepwey in Dover,
• 46:36
  as well and from the surrounding towns and villages. We have a very friendly
• 46:38
  rivalry with Deal tri Club you're probably fully aware of. And yeah, so
• 46:45
  it started. It was fifteen years ago and I joined the club when it
• 46:51
  was about four or five years old. And at that time, Traathilon was
• 46:54
  very fashionable. I think, yeah, if we want of a better words,
• 47:00
  a lot of people in the club, lots of people. I mean
• 47:01
  over time, you know, people go separate ways come back, and we've
• 47:06
  had a resurgence in the last three or four years. And yeah, we've
• 47:10
  got we've got currently about one hundred members within the club. And I mean
• 47:17
  if you want to train for a triathlon, I mean the Hide Bay is
• 47:23
  in a swimming pool. Some of the bigger distances are like open water where
• 47:28
  would you go to train and open water swim, So open water training.
• 47:30
  We sometimes train down at hythe in the sea itself, but that's more for
• 47:37
  the experienced swimmers. What we find is we offer pool based swim training every
• 47:43
  week and as the tri season starts, which is about now, we then
• 47:49
  go open water. So we go down to lid water sports, at water
• 47:52
  sports. Yeah, you've seen them down there and I've heard. I've heard
• 47:58
  stories actually of the water and the quality of the water in some of the
• 48:04
  races can be a little bit if you can't I remember somebody telling me that
• 48:08
  they did. I think it was up at Leed's Castle and it was very
• 48:12
  It was a moat and it was very shallow and they couldn't really get swim
• 48:15
  in and the quality was like a seaweed or weeding it. And so that's
• 48:22
  a little hazard. I suppose if you go abroad, I've got a bit
• 48:24
  more space and a bit yeah, yeah, yeah, it's fun to always
• 48:29
  watch out for and obviously members of the club you go to various different venues
• 48:34
  and bits and police pieces and there's quite a famous half distance event called Outlaw
• 48:39
  Hulmbe which is in Hulcombe up in Norfolk. I've done it once and after
• 48:45
  a swim swore I would never ever swim in that lake again. Lots of
• 48:49
  ducks and you know what ducks making. So yeah, the only race where
• 48:54
  I've got out of the water and they've actually said you have to drink water,
• 49:00
  just wash them out that after you've come out of the water. Yeah,
• 49:02
  well, we won't go any further than no, no, no,
• 49:05
  Okay, we're going to take a little break now and then we're going to
• 49:07
  come back and talk about the Hive bea Triflon, So let's have a little
• 49:10
  listen to ten CEC Life is a ministronie from nineteen seventy five. There tenn
• 49:39
  CEC Life is a ministrone Okay, we're back in the studio now with Max
• 49:45
  and we're going to chat about this Hive Bay Triathlon. So I don't know
• 49:50
  where to start, Max, So we know there's a triflon, tell us
• 49:54
  the headquarters if you like, where is it going to be based from?
• 49:57
  Okay, yeah, so it's based Hide Swimming Pool, so that's where you
• 50:01
  start. And if you know, Hide Swimming Pool is an area out the
• 50:06
  back which will become what we call Transition. That's where all the entrants will
• 50:10
  start and register. On the morning of the event. They will then be
• 50:16
  allowed into Transition, which is a secure area where they rack their bike and
• 50:21
  get themselves ready for the swim and set their running kit up and everything like
• 50:23
  that. Then we will set them off in order, so is the fastest
• 50:32
  and it's all timed so we'll have everyone going in every thirty seconds. So
• 50:36
  do they stand by the pool. Do they start in the pool? Do
• 50:37
  they start in a transition? And the enough to get into the pool from
• 50:40
  the transition, they will be ushered to the pool side. They will be
• 50:44
  given a final race brief and a safety briefing because we've all done properly with
• 50:49
  adjudications and marshals, and then the first swimmer will be asked to get into
• 50:54
  the water and the countdown will start when push off off you go. I
• 50:59
  see in the water already before they Yeah, thirty seconds later, the next
• 51:02
  person gets in, and the next person gets in and it all goes from
• 51:07
  there. Now I picked up I've been looking studying this website and things.
• 51:14
  A zigzag swim. Yes, explain what that is? Okay, So it's
• 51:19
  really simple. You have a rectangular pool which is split into five lanes as
• 51:23
  you would see in a normal swimming pool. But you would start in the
• 51:28
  bottom corner and that's where the first swimmer goes. And in the first lane,
• 51:30
  they swim up and then they swim back down, and then they go
• 51:35
  under the lane rope and swim up again and back down, and they do
• 51:39
  that across the five lanes, and that when they get to the corner at
• 51:45
  the other end, they will have done their two hundred and fifty meters and
• 51:47
  they exit out of the pool. At that point they are officially in what
• 51:52
  we call T one and so they've exited the pool and they will make their
• 51:58
  way out of the pool venue into the transition area in the swimming costume,
• 52:05
  and then they will prepare themselves to get onto the bike. They obviously have
• 52:09
  to not necessarily drive themselves. Some do some down some because it's all timed,
• 52:15
  even the transition piece. So get their bicycle kit on, helmet,
• 52:21
  safety gear off, they go out of transition and then that's when the timer
• 52:25
  starts for the bike. Right, So the bike now the bike ride.
• 52:31
  Just tell me a little bit about the bike ride where they go. Okay,
• 52:35
  so it's fifteen k which starts at hythe and you come out and go
• 52:43
  along the seafront on the main road up into Sandgate. You go almost into
• 52:49
  Folkeston and you turn around at the roundabout which is not too far from where
• 52:53
  Folkston Park run is. So I can't remember naming the road or somewhere,
• 53:00
  turn around and then you come back down a long sandgate. But then you
• 53:06
  cut off the garage onto the promenade and come all the way down back to
• 53:12
  the swimming pool, and then you enter transition from the other side and dismount
• 53:17
  your bike at the correct point. Then walk your bike back into transition,
• 53:22
  take your helmet off, take a cycling kit off, put your running kit
• 53:24
  on. That's when the timer starts for because you're in T two at that
• 53:29
  point, and then your run starts and you go from there. So okay,
• 53:32
  so the next step is the run. So how long and where'd you
• 53:35
  go? So the run is an out and back. It's five k it's
• 53:38
  from the steps by the Cafe of Cafe on the Beach which is behind there,
• 53:44
  and you run almost back towards d C Brook petrol station. Yes,
• 53:49
  it's just past there. There's a turnaround point and then you run all the
• 53:52
  way back, just past the Imperial Hotel to the promenade and we have a
• 53:57
  finish area there as you go through. Right. So that's that's the course
• 54:01
  for every single runner, every single triathlete. But you're going to get a
• 54:07
  point. I don't know if it happens in a swimming pool. Could you
• 54:08
  make up thirty seconds when you're sort of zigzagging the fast ones? You can
• 54:15
  because get two fast ones. Yeah. Yeah, because of the way we
• 54:21
  start all the swimmers. If the swimmer has been truthful with their predicted time,
• 54:24
  then it means that everyone should write. There's less chance to make up
• 54:30
  time in the pool because it is a shorter event, there's more chance to
• 54:35
  make up time on the run or on the bike. So obviously some tri
• 54:39
  athletes they got stronger discipline than others they. I mean, we've had tom
• 54:49
  Bean in here. Tom Bean is a gb triathlete and he did the London
• 54:54
  Sunday I don't know two thirty six. I think it did, but sorry
• 55:00
  digressing there. If you're training for a sprint tri e flon, is this
• 55:07
  the ideal one to get into, Yeah, I start with to start with,
• 55:13
  I would say so Highe Bay Try itself. This is the fifth event
• 55:19
  over eight years that we've hosted and done and obviously had to stop for covid
• 55:22
  etctera. The whole point of the High Bay Try was an inclusive, friendly
• 55:29
  beginner's event. So it's a super sprint distance, so a little bit shorter
• 55:32
  than what I was talking about earlier in terms of a sprint distance. It's
• 55:36
  solely aimed at those people who want to try or try have a go.
• 55:39
  You know, it's it's the safety of the pool, it's a very short
• 55:44
  bike, it's a very short run, and it's it's open for everyone.
• 55:46
  So because it's quite doable really, isn't it. You you adapt yourself creptly
• 55:52
  and yeah yeah yeah. And then the other good thing about this event as
• 55:54
  well, whilst it's it's it's all beginners, we get seasons seasoned triathletes who
• 56:00
  will come along and enter as a little test before the season, so just
• 56:06
  to make sure that their their training is on track. So yeah, and
• 56:10
  do you get a split of male and female? Is it a mixture?
• 56:15
  Yes, I would say it's predominantly female. That was that was one of
• 56:22
  the goals that we wanted to achieve when we originally set it up, and
• 56:25
  it was the chairperson at the time, Julie Abbott. It was her I
• 56:31
  think she came on the show. Yes, yes, yeah, that and
• 56:37
  it has has grown from there, so right, so going beyond scenes now,
• 56:43
  is there an association that you know that is a governing body it looks
• 56:47
  after this race BT which is a British Triathlon foundation. So yeah, they
• 56:52
  adjudicate and keep your eye on every event. So we have official umpires come
• 56:58
  and we have to follow all the rules and procedures and everything like that.
• 57:01
  So I'll give you an example which for new people, they're always a bit
• 57:07
  like really why you know. They'll turn up with a bike in any any
• 57:10
  condition and the first thing want of the masters is to make sure that the
• 57:14
  handlebars are covered on the no holes and everyone says, well why do any
• 57:20
  thing is to be covered? And it's for safety because if there's an accident
• 57:22
  it could cut them and bits and pieces like that. They must have a
• 57:25
  helmet, you must have the correct stuff, everything like that, and and
• 57:30
  if the adjudicator says you haven't got that stuff, yeah, yeah, well
• 57:34
  they should know that the time they get their suppose if the thing is on
• 57:37
  the day, you get a lot of nerves and bits and pieces like that.
• 57:40
  So whilst well we're there, we're there to help you as well.
• 57:43
  So if you haven't got your bits wandering, we can make it work.
• 57:45
  We can help them and cover the Okay, so we've we've covered the official
• 57:51
  side of things, but obviously you've got people marshallying now on the course.
• 57:57
  Where do they come from? So they are all members of the tri club,
• 58:00
  So it's our event. We put it on, We we do the
• 58:05
  whole shebang. That makes sense. So yeah, so we're always got all
• 58:12
  our volunteers, we're super friendly, you know the first I think every year
• 58:16
  we've done that, the feedback has been that you've got great marshals, great
• 58:21
  support it. It's a bit of a party for us. Yeah. So
• 58:24
  really, I mean, I'm sure they understand, but no ash for try
• 58:28
  people take place, do they? No? So we it's it's our event
• 58:34
  to put on. It's our event, not our event to participate in.
• 58:37
  Every now and again we do. You know, we might raffle off a
• 58:40
  spot to one member World card t Yeah, exactly so, but no majority
• 58:50
  of well all of the club members, of the volunteers. Yeah, so
• 58:52
  what time does the first person? They normally quite earlier, and they was
• 58:55
  really early. I believe it's a seven o'clock starts. Yeah, which means
• 59:01
  it's a it's an early start because that's when at seven o'clock you've got to
• 59:06
  be in the pool ready to go. And where'd you find Do you get
• 59:09
  people from outside the county come around? Yes, I mean it's it's grown
• 59:15
  and grown. So we've had TRY clubs from other counties, Essex, Surrey,
• 59:22
  they've come down. You know, it is mainly a local event and
• 59:28
  I mentioned deal Try already. They use it as one of their little championship
• 59:30
  events, so you know, because for them, they they put on lots
• 59:35
  of events, but they don't get an event where they get to yes,
• 59:39
  okay, so so yeah that's the other thing. What's your role on the
• 59:45
  day. So on the day I've mentioned transition and I will be the transition
• 59:51
  captain, So I will be in the transition making sure that everyone's in the
• 59:55
  right place, racking their bike, making sure that the adjudicate is happy,
• 1:00:00
  because each area has to be controlled. So we have a transition captain,
• 1:00:05
  we have a swim captain, we'll have a bike captain, a one a
• 1:00:08
  judy cator. For the size of our event, yes, just one.
• 1:00:13
  So the bigger the event, more duty, yes, yeah, yeah,
• 1:00:16
  so we are a smallish event. From that point of view, you get
• 1:00:20
  to the really big events where you're in the hundreds or of thousands a lot
• 1:00:24
  because I mean there with the experience of the club and that it must be
• 1:00:28
  I mean there's always something goes wrong, but you must know exactly what to
• 1:00:30
  do, you know, a meeting the week before, but there's always something
• 1:00:34
  goes wrong on the day and that's it. And I think, you know,
• 1:00:37
  five events in we're relatively well experienced that in dealing with whatever happens,
• 1:00:44
  you know. I give you an example last year, I suppose the biggest
• 1:00:46
  wild card was we'd check the route the night before, everything was fine,
• 1:00:52
  and on the morning we've got a phone call to say, actually part of
• 1:00:55
  the route is unavailable and okay, so we had to quickly go and do
• 1:01:01
  a risk assessment and we still managed to put the event on. So yeah,
• 1:01:06
  you just can't tell, can you. I mean, for example,
• 1:01:08
  with the folks in ten ten mile race, there was a high tide and
• 1:01:13
  an alder shingle got thrown over along the path on the promenade there, so
• 1:01:16
  there was a message put out, turn up with your broom and it worked,
• 1:01:21
  you know. They they swept it all the way and the race went
• 1:01:22
  ahead. LYDD did a run down there the runnersel off really windy day,
• 1:01:29
  a tree come down right across the court, honestly, and the people was
• 1:01:32
  clambering over. Nearly nearly canceled the race, so off they went. Luckily
• 1:01:37
  it was twenty miler and where the tree fell down. The guy in the
• 1:01:40
  house he had a chainsaw and he got rid of it. It just they
• 1:01:44
  all mucked in and got rid of it, and the runners were coming back.
• 1:01:45
  Where's the tree gone? Just so you just do not know what happens
• 1:01:49
  on the day, right, Okay, well we're going to wrap it up
• 1:01:52
  very shortly. But now I had a little little look and a little birdie
• 1:01:59
  told me that you've got a very sporty cousin. Is that right? I
• 1:02:02
  do, indeed, yes, And I did a little bit of Wikipedia and
• 1:02:06
  tell us a little bit about is it Tom, isn't it? Yes,
• 1:02:08
  my cousin Tom. He's nine years my junior, And yeah, he is
• 1:02:15
  or was a professional sportsman. He was a rower for Team GB and he
• 1:02:22
  got bronze in twenty twelve and he was a gold medalist for the men's eight
• 1:02:27
  in twenty sixteen. Right, So it's a bit of inspiration in the family
• 1:02:30
  there, it was. Yeah, yeah, But ultimately he's still my little
• 1:02:36
  cousin. Remember you tell him what to do? Yeah, and then his
• 1:02:39
  place. Yeah, absolutely good. It's nice. I were running a sporty
• 1:02:44
  contact that's really gone to the top, had been professional fantastic. Okay,
• 1:02:47
  now before we go, is there anything else you want to add? Max,
• 1:02:52
  We've I think we've covered most things about the day, so it just
• 1:02:57
  really leaves us to let everybody, you know, how they can get Okay.
• 1:03:01
  So yeah, we've still got entries available, We've still got spaces available,
• 1:03:05
  and we'd love for you to come along. You can enter via our
• 1:03:08
  website ww dot Ashford try club dot com or for our Facebook page. We've
• 1:03:15
  got a public Facebook page which is ash for tri Club and you can enter
• 1:03:19
  from there. So tell us when when is it again? It's Sunday for
• 1:03:22
  twelfth of May, so just under three weeks time, right, so not
• 1:03:27
  long, not long? Yeah, exactly the last thing then, Max,
• 1:03:31
  I know it's a big one, but I always ask people this, is
• 1:03:35
  there any any thank yous you want to say? Yeah, I have got
• 1:03:37
  a few. Thank you just I suppose first and foremost to Shaper Council and
• 1:03:44
  Hive Swimming Pool. You know, without the pool we can't, but also
• 1:03:51
  Shapwick Council in terms of allowing us to do it, in terms of the
• 1:03:53
  permits, bits and pieces like that. So so that's good. I've got
• 1:03:58
  to thank the all organizers in the club. So that's Claire Brooker, Jim
• 1:04:01
  Hawkins who are respectfully of a chair lady and the events director, our club
• 1:04:09
  sponsor Podplus and Jenna Construction who they always feel they help us out in terms
• 1:04:15
  of a sponsorship, but they also field their own team normally of about fifty
• 1:04:19
  people. Yeah, so that's great. Yeah yeah, So whilst it's all
• 1:04:24
  beginners as well, you get a contingent fantastic yeah yeah. So and finally,
• 1:04:30
  basically I've got to thank all the club members themselves because that's part and
• 1:04:33
  past love it is volunteer. So thank you Max. It's been absolutely really
• 1:04:39
  interesting talks you and finding out that there is a triathlon on our doorstep.
• 1:04:44
  That's the main thing is in the Folkstone and High region and you do get
• 1:04:46
  people coming in and they might make a weekend of it, and they might
• 1:04:49
  have some of them that come in for a long way obviously stay the night
• 1:04:54
  and can have a look around the harbor arm and places like that. So
• 1:04:58
  I just want to say good luck for the day on the twelfth May.
• 1:05:00
  Thank you very much, Kevin. Thank you. Some people call me the
• 1:05:04
  space Cover, some call me the Gangster Love. You're the curds thing.
• 1:05:17
  I have a dzy as the joker there, Steve miller band Okay, now,
• 1:05:25
  so I know we've done a little bit of overload with the running.
• 1:05:29
  That was nice to hear Max talking about the hive Be Triathlon. But the
• 1:05:34
  last week's guest that was Autumn Richardson and she couldn't make it today. So
• 1:05:39
  she sent me in this little report and it's going to read it out because
• 1:05:42
  it's in her own words. Now she said, this is what she said.
• 1:05:45
  She had the most incredible day Sunday running the London Marathon raising money for
• 1:05:50
  the MS Society. So far she's raised one seven hundred and thirty pounds,
• 1:05:57
  which you really can't believe that she did it, and she's so grateful for
• 1:06:00
  everyone's donations because what she did. You see, she only set herself a
• 1:06:03
  target of a thousand, so that's ah, that's amazing. It was a
• 1:06:06
  very tough day both mentally and physically, especially miles sixteen to nineteen. The
• 1:06:13
  last two miles I found I was needing to get my head into it and
• 1:06:15
  tell myself I can really finish. Post race day, I was quite achy,
• 1:06:21
  but stupidly I would definitely do London Marathon all over again next year if
• 1:06:26
  I had the chance. It was such an amazing, unforgettable experience, and
• 1:06:30
  the atmosphere was something else. Autumn finished the run in five hours, forty
• 1:06:34
  seven minutes forty five seconds. She had a wonderful day, raised oney seven
• 1:06:39
  hundred and thirty pounds. Now that's an incredible time for a runner who owns
• 1:06:43
  up to not being very fast. But what she did, she put all
• 1:06:45
  the effort in and all the training and it paid off. Now my London
• 1:06:50
  Marathon day, well, the day had finally arrived for London Marathon. I
• 1:06:55
  joined the folks and running an athletics club coach for a six am departure.
• 1:06:59
  It was a good drive up to Blackheath as the runners and spectators said their
• 1:07:01
  farewells and headed off to their various locations. Now you may have trained all
• 1:07:06
  winter with a colleague, but you may not be in the same zone as
• 1:07:11
  the Star. As we said earlier, there's a green, red, yellow,
• 1:07:14
  and blue zone, and there's every chance that you might be in two
• 1:07:17
  different zones and you won't see Hm until he finished. Anyway, our gang
• 1:07:21
  of spectators headed through Greenwich Park down to a grab front row at the railings
• 1:07:27
  opposite the Cutty Sark. Otherwise, well, we've had worse. But it
• 1:07:30
  was a chilly, bright and sunny with the fresh breeze, perfect for runners
• 1:07:34
  after training in all winter in cold, wet and windy days. And don't
• 1:07:40
  forget they used to have the dark evenings as well. That didn't help.
• 1:07:43
  Now. The ladies that were with they took it in turns to pop around
• 1:07:45
  the corner for a breakfast takeaway and a cuppa, not wanting to leave the
• 1:07:48
  railings for too long. As the place filled up and if people saw a
• 1:07:53
  gap, they were in there. The telltale sign of activity was when the
• 1:07:57
  noise level went up from the other side of the Cutty Sark. You knew
• 1:08:00
  someone was on the way. The wheelchairs came by, the elite, well
• 1:08:03
  they seem to float by, they do. The ladies came by, and
• 1:08:06
  then the masses. The Cutty Sark is around six miles ten k from the
• 1:08:11
  start, so the runners are fresh and buzzing. Now, spotting runners can
• 1:08:15
  be an art. You can blink and you can miss them. Now,
• 1:08:17
  I decided not to take photos of the runners for this very reason, and
• 1:08:21
  I'm pleased to say I spotted with the help of others. Of course,
• 1:08:25
  nearly every runner that was on our coach. I was specially pleased to have
• 1:08:29
  seen and high five all my guests from last week's show. Louisa Reid came
• 1:08:33
  round first, and then I think Henry Cornbill and Elie Stewart saw me before
• 1:08:38
  I saw them, and I grabbed a hug with Ellis. Then Autumn Richardson
• 1:08:42
  came round and actually came back to give me a hug. It was that
• 1:08:45
  kind of a day. Next step was to go under the Thames via the
• 1:08:48
  Greenwich Tunnel to pop up at the seventeen mile point. This is where the
• 1:08:53
  runners really needed a cheer as the tiredness to started to creep in. We
• 1:08:57
  were lucky we saw many of our colleagues, but the quicker ones by this
• 1:09:00
  time had passed through. We then took the Dockman's Light railway and the underground
• 1:09:03
  to a light at the embankment. After watching the snake light shape of athletes
• 1:09:08
  making their way through a bright and sunny Canary Wolf the embankment was jam pack
• 1:09:13
  solid and unless you're on the front row of the crowd, it was nearly
• 1:09:15
  possible to see your friends, and there is no way you can get to
• 1:09:18
  the finish line as this is by invitation only. As the runners limped and
• 1:09:24
  hobbled back to the pub in by the Haymarket, from where the coach departed,
• 1:09:28
  it was then time to hug, congratulate and swap stories of the day.
• 1:09:31
  I managed to log all of the times of the runners on our coach
• 1:09:34
  and congratulate them all as we headed home. The biggest share of the day
• 1:09:39
  on the way home went to Clive Allen and his wife Pam, who between
• 1:09:43
  them organized the coach, the itinery and of course a couple of celebratory drinks
• 1:09:47
  to toast the day. Now it's all I special day for season and first
• 1:09:51
  time runners, and the fast times reflected this. I'm sure there were some
• 1:09:56
  were saying that's it, never again, But by the time muddy around they
• 1:10:00
  were entering the ballot. Now I've made I've got to do this before we
• 1:10:04
  run out of time. A roll of honor and this is in no particular
• 1:10:09
  order of local runners from the folks in the Hive region that competed the London
• 1:10:14
  Marathon. So without further ado, we go straight into it. So big,
• 1:10:17
  well done. So now the first few I've just it really was a
• 1:10:19
  coincidence. They've a lot of them have got pbs, so well done to
• 1:10:24
  Jody Stokes PB three hours fifty twenty six, Darren Crue three hours, two
• 1:10:30
  minutes fifteen PB, Nikky Goodwin three hours twenty seven fourteen PB, Torbyn Jesson
• 1:10:36
  two hours fifty nine twenty nine PB, Kirsty Wilson three forty three oh nine
• 1:10:43
  PB, Catharine O'Connor three thirty three twenty five PB, Paul Bartlett three twenty
• 1:10:49
  twelve, Carla Lander three forty nine thirty, Louisa Eid three fifty one twenty
• 1:10:56
  nine, Christophe Plitzier two fifty nine twenty nine. Ivannah Collier four twenty four
• 1:11:01
  fifty nine, Rob Collier three hours, two minutes and twenty seconds, Jason
• 1:11:08
  Herridge four twenty four forty two, Marie Watson four hours and twenty six seconds,
• 1:11:15
  Sarah Arana Morton three hours fifty oh one, Carl Gloucester two hours forty
• 1:11:19
  two fifty six, Dan Radcliffe two hours thirty two forty five, Paul Constable
• 1:11:27
  three twenty six oh seven, Camille Lewington four forty exactly, Alan woody Wood
• 1:11:33
  two thirty five fifty three, Faith Thornton four twenty one, exactly, Becka
• 1:11:40
  Edwards seven twenty six, Illy Antitel five hours twenty Karen Quinn six fifty nine
• 1:11:46
  thirty three, Rob Pickford three oh one oh four, Roona Fry four oh
• 1:11:53
  one fifty four, Matt Appleby three hours fifty one seconds, Tom Bean two
• 1:12:00
  thirty six fifty one. Jarrett Dobson three hours, twelve minutes twenty six seconds,
• 1:12:05
  Ray Johnson four hours thirty four twenty three, Lisa Smith four hours fifty
• 1:12:11
  nine thirty four, Autumn Richardson five hours forty seven forty five, Collette Windsor
• 1:12:18
  four hours thirty six eleven, Diane Parsons four hours eleven forty three, Jane
• 1:12:25
  Wren four hours sixteen thirty two, Elis Chuir and Henry Cornbill five hours thirty
• 1:12:30
  four fifty, Royd Powell four hours fifty sixteen, Mel Powell five hours eleven
• 1:12:36
  forty nine, Chloe Thrail and Neelie Satchwell six hours thirty seven thirty nine,
• 1:12:43
  Lisa Kelly seven hours thirteen oh four. Now, I'm sure there's many more
• 1:12:47
  to add to that list, and I apologize if I left you out,
• 1:12:50
  but it's time for a little I'm gonna put my feet up and play a
• 1:12:53
  bit of music so many times to again again that was the police there.
• 1:13:21
  I can't stand losing you. Now. I'm going to whip through the next
• 1:13:25
  the little session because as usual we've overrund that our guests are so interesting.
• 1:13:30
  So I'm going to crack on now with some football news folks and in Victor
• 1:13:32
  welcome Dullage Hamletsshire and Road on Saturday for their last home game of the season.
• 1:13:38
  It was a fresh Sunday afternoon and a good crowd of eight hundred and
• 1:13:41
  twenty seven turned up. I was on PA duty with Sam and I watched
• 1:13:45
  Dullage tearing Victor apart with their slick passing moves, keeping the ball on the
• 1:13:48
  ground, and before half an hour was gone in Victor with three kneel down
• 1:13:53
  being Victor pauled won back eight minutes before halftime thanks to Sado so Nogo.
• 1:13:58
  I thought the writing was on the wall for a six one pastin, but
• 1:14:00
  manager Andy Drury must have given them a right roasting in his team talk because
• 1:14:04
  in the second half they didn't let Dullis use the ball like they had didn't
• 1:14:08
  like they had done in the first half, and they pushed on to get
• 1:14:11
  two more goals, one from Eddie Also and the equalizer in the eighty fourth
• 1:14:15
  minute from Dave Smith and the game ended three all. So the last game
• 1:14:20
  of the season is on Saturday away to Bogner who are thirteenth in Victor on
• 1:14:25
  our sixteenth. So it was nothing to play for really, but as I
• 1:14:28
  said last week, it's a good chance to blood some youngsters. Turning our
• 1:14:31
  attentions to hive Town now. They had a super long season and have one
• 1:14:35
  game left. On Saturday, they lost two nil away conceding two late goals
• 1:14:41
  against Broadbridge Heath, score ending too nil. They're on Tuesday they welcomed Crave
• 1:14:45
  Valley to reach Fields and so let's hear from this report from their man at
• 1:14:50
  pitchside, Tom Ellerby High toal beat comfortably but gave a good showing against new
• 1:14:56
  league leaders Crave Valley PM, losing four nil at reach Fields. And Tuesday
• 1:15:00
  evening, on his home debut, manager Sammy Moore made four enforced changes from
• 1:15:03
  the two nil defeet to Broadbridge Heath as Kean Garlice, Aaron Barnes, Brad
• 1:15:09
  Schaefer and Liam Smith were replaced by the returning Lex Allen alongside young debutants Harry
• 1:15:14
  Lapage, Vinnie Perry and Oliver Bussy. The match started very evenly in the
• 1:15:17
  first ten minutes, with the two sides having an even share of the possession,
• 1:15:21
  but on fourteen minutes the inevitable became reality as High lost the ball in
• 1:15:26
  the cray hearth, allowing Adam Coombs to charge forward on the counter attack,
• 1:15:30
  eventually making his way into the box and stotting home for a tight angle past
• 1:15:33
  Lewis Briggs. They made it two Nils six minutes before halftime as Clement assier
• 1:15:39
  Do sent a looping cross from inside the box onto the head of Adam Coombs,
• 1:15:43
  who sent it in for his second before the break. The second half
• 1:15:45
  started rather unfortunately as a flurry of shots in the fourty eighth minute than the
• 1:15:49
  visitors were saved by Lewis Briggs before Adam Coombs eventually put the ball into the
• 1:15:55
  net despite it taking the flection off Briggs to secure his hat trick and make
• 1:15:58
  it three Nils to cray Valley Hyde managed to hold out for a while,
• 1:16:01
  but Craye made at four nil on seventy four minutes as Sunny Black won the
• 1:16:04
  ball on the edge of the box and gave it to Julian Alner who put
• 1:16:09
  the ball into the back of the net. On eighty one minutes hythe had
• 1:16:12
  their best and only big chance of the game as Oscar Ware played a long
• 1:16:15
  ball to Josh Whisson who headed the ball down into the hands as the goalkeeper
• 1:16:19
  Max Ovenden. The full time whistle blue to mark Hyde's eleventh straight defeat.
• 1:16:25
  Despite the score line, Hyde showed good spirit in the match, especially the
• 1:16:29
  four young debutants. The final match of the season will take place on Saturday
• 1:16:32
  as Hyde host Lancing at three pm at Reach Fields. So it's been a
• 1:16:36
  season of two halves for Hive. The first half winning games in the league,
• 1:16:41
  in the cups and a great run in the FA Trophy, but the
• 1:16:44
  second half they struggled and mustsettle for a mid table place. However, with
• 1:16:47
  a new manager in Sammy Moore and several promising youngsters in the squad, it
• 1:16:51
  looks quite optimistic for next season. And just to recap, Hawkins Town finished
• 1:16:57
  runners up in the Premier Division of the Kent County Football League behind champions Halls
• 1:17:00
  AFC. Hawkins have one game left which is scheduled for May the fourth,
• 1:17:04
  which is a way at tenterd in Town. But even if they win this
• 1:17:08
  game, they would be just one point behind Halls. So all in all,
• 1:17:12
  you know, good end of the season, finishing runners up second in
• 1:17:15
  the league. Okay, we're going to switch our attention now to a rowing
• 1:17:17
  I've got some rowing news now. Last weekend was an open weekend at the
• 1:17:23
  Folks and Rowing Club, and I've been chatting with Sally Watkins from the club
• 1:17:26
  and she sent me in this report. The weekend was very successful. We
• 1:17:30
  had eleven people try rowing for the first time on Saturday and ten on Sunday,
• 1:17:34
  and with people on a list for the next open day, I showed
• 1:17:39
  them how to row on an ergo. Now an ergo if you wonder what
• 1:17:42
  EOF's an ergo. It's like an indoor rowing machine. So they tried the
• 1:17:45
  ergo first and then they went out in a double skull. Most of them
• 1:17:49
  seemed very keen and we hope to see them training or on Sunday. We
• 1:17:54
  were very lucky to have a flat sea, although the northerly wind made it
• 1:17:58
  feel very cold. After a long few months with not being able to get
• 1:18:01
  a float, we've been fortunate in the last ten days. We have rowers
• 1:18:05
  traveling to Swanage this weekend to complete in a quad skull and a one skull
• 1:18:11
  in the offshore racing either four K or ten K. It will be the
• 1:18:15
  first time our row is competing in larger offshore boats. This type of rowan
• 1:18:19
  is expected to feature in the Olympics in four years time. The annual friendly
• 1:18:24
  regatta, the Viking Shield, due to be held at Herne Bay this Saturday,
• 1:18:28
  was unfortunately canceled due to several clubs traveling to Swanage. Our first regatta
• 1:18:32
  of the season is on eleventh and May at Shoreham and the Folks And Regatta
• 1:18:36
  date for your diary everybody is the Sunday, the thirtieth of June. So
• 1:18:41
  a big thank you to Sally Watkins there from the Folks And Rowing Club for
• 1:18:44
  that report. Now there's one other little report I've got here somewhere that I'm
• 1:18:48
  just going to read out quickly if I can find it, and it's about
• 1:18:53
  some local cup finals. Well they're not actually local, but they come from
• 1:18:57
  Dover, but they're all playing the cup finals at the Folks in New Victor
• 1:19:00
  Round And the one that caught my eye was the park In. It's the
• 1:19:03
  pub on the roundabout by Central Station. And though they've got a final against
• 1:19:08
  Samphire Cargo FC, park In comfortably won their league by thirteen points and Samfire
• 1:19:14
  Cargo came third, so it should be a really good game. Now these
• 1:19:17
  are all Dover Sunday League Football teams. Unfortunately there's no football on Sunday morning
• 1:19:23
  in Folkston, so if you want to go along and the game is on
• 1:19:26
  the third third Sorry, that game was the third game of the day and
• 1:19:32
  that one kicks off at seven forty five. The other games are Crown Stove
• 1:19:35
  versus boars Head that's a kickoff at two o'clock, Ball of Duty versus v
• 1:19:41
  as Well kickoff at five pm, and as we said, Sam Fire Cargo
• 1:19:45
  versus Parkin at seven forty five. Well that's it for me for a few
• 1:19:50
  weeks now. I'm going to be in sunny Cyprus for the next three weeks.
• 1:19:55
  But I've already some guests lined up for next week show Sunday Made.
• 1:19:58
  The twenty six sees the return of the Folks in Coastal ten K and I
• 1:20:00
  hope to be joined by two of the Nice Work event team Race organizers Rachel
• 1:20:05
  Wood and chief chip timer Kevan James, and they will be telling us what
• 1:20:10
  goes on behind the scenes at a road race, So get out there,
• 1:20:14
  watch your partake in a bit of sports somewhere. And finally, good luck
• 1:20:17
  to Adrian Rose Under fourteen boys in their National Cup final on Sunday. So
• 1:20:23
  I'm gonna have a great holiday and I'll catch up with you and next time,
• 1:20:26
  stay safe. Sh shoe