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LOIS BENNETT RECALLS HER FIRST EVER MARATHON IN LONDON PLUS CRICKET NEWS AND INFO ON THE HYTHE SPORTS AND FITNESS FESTIVAL. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports very Daily, bring you the Folkstone
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  Speaker 1: and I have sports show right here on one oh
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  Speaker 1: five point nine Radio Folkstone. On today's show, we have
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  Speaker 1: local cricket scores, we have news of Hide Sports and
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  Speaker 1: Fitness Festival which is happening a south Road on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: And we welcome back Lois Bennett who will be telling
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  Speaker 1: us all about a very first marathon in London last April.
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  Speaker 1: Plus if we get the time of lots more sporty
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  Speaker 1: snippets to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I always try and start my show with an anthem
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  Speaker 1: of belter of a song, and today is kind of
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  Speaker 1: a happy sad song. News was released today of the
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  Speaker 1: passing of Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. Bonnie was seventy five
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  Speaker 1: and passed away unexpectedly after an illness. Bonnie will be
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  Speaker 1: remembered for having a distinctive, husky, gravelly voice. So let's
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  Speaker 1: start the show with one of her classic tracks. Sit
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  Speaker 1: back and enjoy holding out for a hero from Bonnie Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: So Bonnie Tyler their sad news. If you haven't heard
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  Speaker 1: that yesterday she passed away, I mean some of the
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  Speaker 1: songs that she really powerful and like I said that
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  Speaker 1: distinctive husky voice. It's a big, big loss. Okay, moving
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  Speaker 1: on now, So we are joined in the studio today
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  Speaker 1: by by Lois Lois Bennett. How are you come? Right in?
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  Speaker 1: Lowis the same?
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  Speaker 2: I'd thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Good, excellent. So now I'm glad I tracked you down
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  Speaker 1: because the idea of pre London Marathon was to find
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  Speaker 1: run of four runners. We found who'd never run a
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  Speaker 1: marathon before. We're running for charity, and the very first
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  Speaker 1: run was London and you ticked all the boxes way
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  Speaker 1: back in April. So first of all, tell us a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about the charity that you was running for
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  Speaker 1: and why he was running for it.
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  Speaker 2: So I've ran for Shine, which is a charity that
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  Speaker 2: supports people with hydro capis and spina bifida. Yep, and
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  Speaker 2: that was because my two youngest were born with hydro capalists.
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  Speaker 1: Right, okay. And so had you tried to enter the
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  Speaker 1: marathon before? Yes, you did? No luck? No, no, right?
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  Speaker 1: So did you try the charity route before or did
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  Speaker 1: you just say no, that's it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? The previous year I tried with Shine as well,
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  Speaker 2: but was unsuccessful because they only they only have a
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  Speaker 2: limited number of spaces themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so straight away he was back on the
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  Speaker 1: case this year, was you Yeah? Yeah, right, okay, so
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  Speaker 1: you get the email through the door and you think
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  Speaker 1: this is reality. Now, this is oh have I done
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  Speaker 1: the right thing? But it's so, I mean, you've you've
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  Speaker 1: completed it. I know so well, we won't go back
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  Speaker 1: too much pre London Marathon. But did you find it
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  Speaker 1: something than you expected? The training and the commitment with
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  Speaker 1: a young family.
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  Speaker 2: At the time. No, but I look back now and
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  Speaker 2: I think I don't know how I fitted it. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how I managed to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, okay, so let's let's move on.
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  Speaker 1: So it's the weekend of the marathon. Did you go
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  Speaker 1: up the night before?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Did you on your own? Or was your family?
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  Speaker 2: I went with my husband, my eldest son, and my
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  Speaker 2: mum and dad come up as well.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, And where'd you stay? Close by?
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  Speaker 2: Just in a premiere in by by Excel?
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  Speaker 1: Actually, how did you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: All right, by Excel. So that's the point. Did you
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  Speaker 1: get your number previously or the same weekend?
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  Speaker 2: I got my number before because I didn't realize how
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  Speaker 2: close the hotel was otherwise I could have saved myself
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  Speaker 2: a trip.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well these things are you Yeah, that's right. So
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  Speaker 1: you got your number and I mean did you did
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  Speaker 1: you go out for a meal the night before or
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  Speaker 1: did you just kind of tuck away and.
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  Speaker 2: Just I actually got dragged to the pub because it
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  Speaker 2: was the Arsenal Newcastle game.
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  Speaker 1: Right, you got track the Arsenal support.
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  Speaker 2: Then it's my family. It's my family, my family or Arsenal. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So was that good that?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Did it kind of take your mind off it because
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  Speaker 1: it can be you know, the nerves might be jingling
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  Speaker 1: about now, you know the night before.
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  Speaker 2: It was good. Actually it was good. And there were
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  Speaker 2: other people in there in the same position. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 2: wanted to watch the football and they were running the
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  Speaker 2: next day.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, so that's good. So I mean did you
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  Speaker 1: sleep that night?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: You did? Yeah, Oh that's good. Yeah, because I did
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  Speaker 1: the London marathons. Stayed up over there. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: know it was a good thing to stay or not.
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  Speaker 1: It was like you're worrying so much, whereas the night
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  Speaker 1: before you sort of worry and starts if you get
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  Speaker 1: in the train at Folks in Central. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: trains on time. Okay, so right, so you say goodbye
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  Speaker 1: to your family, but when they left you you went
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  Speaker 1: and found your zone and did the stuff and did
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  Speaker 1: you how did you feel then? Did you feel a
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  Speaker 1: little bit isolated?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. Actually, I had seen a girl at the
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  Speaker 2: hotel the night before. She was sat next to us
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  Speaker 2: at dinner, and I found her on my way to
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  Speaker 2: the start, and I hadn't realized and she was running
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  Speaker 2: for the same charity. Really, yeah, we sort of made
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  Speaker 2: friends and were talking about our kids and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 2: and her waive was just after mine. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 2: had friends that were running as well, so I met
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  Speaker 2: up with them and it didn't feel it didn't feel
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  Speaker 2: too daunted.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, that's good. Yeah, not so lonely then. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can imagine, because I mean, if someone's done all
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  Speaker 1: that training and all of a suddenly they dumped one
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  Speaker 1: person amongst thousands of thousands, it's a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: around you, but you don't know anyone, whereas you had
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  Speaker 1: a little sort of cushion there. Yeah, oh great. Did
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  Speaker 1: you jump zones and run together or did you sort
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  Speaker 1: of just say goodbye? And no, no, used to nipping
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  Speaker 1: to the wrong zone.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, no, I stayed in yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right, okay, So so you set off, did you feel
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  Speaker 1: that the pace, because there's so many people, was too
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  Speaker 1: fast or too slow or did you look for one
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  Speaker 1: of those guys with the flag of the pacers.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't find a pacer, no at all, well not
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  Speaker 2: for not anyone in my zone anyway. If I did
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  Speaker 2: catch up before and I'd look and I'd be like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: they're from the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, Well we were speaking about this when
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  Speaker 1: the others came in the two course. When when the
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  Speaker 1: when the zones join, you can see a pacer, let's say,
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  Speaker 1: for four hours, and then behind him was a pacer
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  Speaker 1: for four hours thirty minutes. That you think, how can
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  Speaker 1: you lose off on air? But of course they've all
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  Speaker 1: set off for different times. Yeah right, So, so so
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  Speaker 1: starting off, was it a good slow pace? Was it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, comfortable or did you get carried away?
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  Speaker 2: No? I didn't go off too fast at all, pretty
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  Speaker 2: much exactly as I was supposed to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeaheah, okay, so now I was at a cutty sark.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately I didn't see any of you four. But what
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  Speaker 1: was that like going around at the Cutty Sark. That
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  Speaker 1: must have been because people float around there. It was
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  Speaker 1: that a good, good, uplifting feeling.
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  Speaker 2: It was, Yeah, because it's the first sort of the
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  Speaker 2: first sort of monument.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you get it.
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  Speaker 2: It's the first big thing that you see and it's
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  Speaker 2: so busy and that you just think, oh wow, like
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean, I know it was your
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  Speaker 1: first marathon and it was London, but we've been up
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  Speaker 1: on the coach with a lot of folks to running
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  Speaker 1: club and coming back on the coach. There was some
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  Speaker 1: experienced runners that said the noise was so noisy. Did
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  Speaker 1: you find that or because it was your first one,
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  Speaker 1: you just thought it was like that all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I did. I did think it was quite loud.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because a lot of experience runners were just
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  Speaker 1: kind of dying to get to a quiet part because
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  Speaker 1: it was so overpowering. Yeah. So to Cutty Sark, you
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  Speaker 1: passed that and you're into sort of ten miles still
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  Speaker 1: feeling comfortable. Yeah yeah, okay, so you hit halfway. How
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  Speaker 1: was that?
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  Speaker 2: I lost it a little bit? You Yeah, in what respect,
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  Speaker 2: I just got like really emotional. My big thing was
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  Speaker 2: like running over London Bridge, and basically I'd forgotten to
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  Speaker 2: eat in the morning, I'd forgot to eat before I
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  Speaker 2: had left, So I was just running on jails and
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  Speaker 2: I got to halfway, and because I'm used to running
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  Speaker 2: half marathons, I was like, oh, I've got to do
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  Speaker 2: that again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It like mentally, if you get to, say twelve miles,
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  Speaker 2: when you're doing a half marathon, you think, well, I
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  Speaker 2: can put my foot down now and just get to
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  Speaker 2: the end. You can't. You've still got another miles to go.
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  Speaker 1: You're only halfway. Yeah, I mean, what was the furthest
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  Speaker 1: You run further than that though when you was training, didn't.
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  Speaker 2: You twenty miles?
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  Speaker 1: Twenty?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And it's funny. I mean that shouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: bothered you, really, because you should have gone to twenty
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  Speaker 1: and then thought, oh my world, I got six lefts
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  Speaker 1: what you're going to do? But it's funny it hit
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  Speaker 1: your halfway.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's a focal point, you know, because halfway is psychological
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  Speaker 1: a battle, you know. I mean, I know this is different,
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  Speaker 1: and I've said this several times on air. After I
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  Speaker 1: finished running, I did a walk. I walked from London
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  Speaker 1: to Brighton. Oh yeah, six two miles yep, and I
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  Speaker 1: trained hard, really trained, and I remember I got to
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  Speaker 1: the halfway point and I went into these great big
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  Speaker 1: Marquees feed stations. I went in in the daylight and
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  Speaker 1: sort it all my feet out and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: felt okay, and I come out and it was pitch black,
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  Speaker 1: and I've thought, on my word, I've got another thirty
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  Speaker 1: miles to go. And that really shook me. It really did.
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  Speaker 1: I had to really talk myself into like turning it
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  Speaker 1: around in my head. You've done this, you can do this,
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: you know, but the halfway point can be a real
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: milestone if you like it right. So we've reached halfway.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: What we're going to do now is play a bit
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  Speaker 1: of music. So now I've been looking, well, things have
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  Speaker 1: just been popping up on social media this week and
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: I found out we've had a lot of celebrity birthdays,
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  Speaker 1: and so I'm going to play some songs of these celebrities.
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  Speaker 1: And this one I absolutely love this song. This is
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  Speaker 1: Huey Lewis and it's a song called the Power of Love. Now,
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  Speaker 1: not everybody likes this song, but I just remember watching
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  Speaker 1: the very very first Back to the Future film and
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  Speaker 1: it was totally amazed had the concept where he went
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  Speaker 1: back in time and I absolutely love this song. So
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  Speaker 1: sit back and enjoy Huey Lewis and the News and
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  Speaker 1: the Power of Love. The Power of Love There Huey
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  Speaker 1: Lewis and the News nineteen eighty five, Back to the Future.
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  Speaker 1: I just can picture Marti on his hoverboard trying to
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  Speaker 1: get away from what was his name now, h It'll
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  Speaker 1: come to me in a minute. On that film, And
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  Speaker 1: then when they did the second film, I watched it,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, oh, such a clever concept, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: I really really enjoyed it. Right, So, we're halfway from
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  Speaker 1: a marathon. I'm absolutely worn out talking about this. I've
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  Speaker 1: done thirteen miles this morning, so so low. It's we're
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  Speaker 1: at halfway point. You're going through a bad spell. Did
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  Speaker 1: you snap out of it or did it kind of
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  Speaker 1: stay with you for that the next thirteen miles?
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  Speaker 2: I did snap out of it, yeah, until about seventeen miles.
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  Speaker 1: Thirteen four miles? Yeah, yeah yeah. And was it a
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  Speaker 1: physical thing or a mental thing? I mean, because it
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  Speaker 1: affected you, you knew there was whole Did it affect
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  Speaker 1: your running as well?
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  Speaker 2: No? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's just up in your head, was it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I found it very busy. Yeah, obviously
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  Speaker 2: where I'm quite sure. I was getting sort of elbows
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  Speaker 2: in the top of my shoulders and you know, push it.
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  Speaker 2: There was a lot of pushing. I mean I felt
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  Speaker 2: like I'd been run over.
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  Speaker 1: Next day, oh dear. So you get to seventeen and
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  Speaker 1: you started to come out of it a bit. Was
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  Speaker 1: you then kind of wanting it to be over or
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  Speaker 1: just started to enjoy it again?
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  Speaker 2: So I sort of snapped out of it quite quickly
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  Speaker 2: at halfway. Yeah, got to mile seventeen and I had
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  Speaker 2: a blister like exploded, you know, like Elish mcculgan. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was like that.
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  Speaker 2: So I wrung my husband and I was like, I
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  Speaker 2: need you to get me a plaster. But I had
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  Speaker 2: to stop and sort of strap.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In hindsight, I wish I hadn't stopped now.
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  Speaker 1: Because I hard to get it going again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. You know it's funny because Phiel that came in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he came in the day that you didn't. He lost
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  Speaker 1: a couple of toenails. Yeah, yeah, and so funny. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you you've got twenty miles and no doubt you're wearing
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  Speaker 1: you know, not brand new shoes, but you still get
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  Speaker 1: foot problems. It's just because it was a red update though,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't it. It was? Yeah? Right, So did arrive with
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  Speaker 1: the plaster or did because sorry to interrupt, where I
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  Speaker 1: was at the seventeen or actually the seventeen more mark.
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  Speaker 1: Just as you go up the hill, there was a
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  Speaker 1: train station on the left, and there were a couple
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  Speaker 1: of like roaming like St. John Samblin's cadets, just saying
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: to people, yeah, and they were had hands of vesseline,
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  Speaker 1: you know, had the hand out that the big dub
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  Speaker 1: a vesseline and so did you get it salty? You
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  Speaker 1: did it yourself for Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So he didn't get me a plaster, but he did
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  Speaker 2: find me a Saint John's samblance.
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  Speaker 1: Oh did it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? And they said do you do you just want
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  Speaker 2: a plaster? And I was like, yeah, just let me
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  Speaker 2: strap myself up and I'll be on my way. Yeah. Yeah.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: Where was it on your toe? Did you say?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? It was like in between.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah uncomfortable yeah yeah yeah yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: just think you probably did the right thing to stop,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, you might have who knows you might
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  Speaker 1: have got worse and put you out the race altogether.
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  Speaker 1: But it is a job getting going again, isn't it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so what happened then seventeen you got plaster.
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  Speaker 2: That so I've got a plaster at eighteen. Seventeen to
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: eighteen was a bit of a hobble and then yeah,
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  Speaker 2: from eighteen I sort of carried on. It was a
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  Speaker 2: bit more of a run and a walk and it
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  Speaker 2: is really loud and obviously like your supporters and stuff
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  Speaker 2: that have come to see you are.
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  Speaker 1: Calling you yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And at that point I didn't know if it was
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  Speaker 2: someone that I knew or just you know, a random
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  Speaker 2: because you got.
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  Speaker 1: Your name on the T shirt and everyonere going go yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And when your mum or your dad go go on
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Lois you know you think I missed them?
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Did you see them? I missed a few people.
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  Speaker 2: Actually I did see my mum and dad on London
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  Speaker 2: Bridge and then they were a long embankment, but I
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  Speaker 2: missed them. Well.
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  Speaker 1: The embankment is probably the worst part ever, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having run it, because you go through that tunnel before it,
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  Speaker 1: don't you, Yeah, And all of a sudden it goes
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  Speaker 1: quiet and then you come out Well, noise and people
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  Speaker 1: are fighting. From a spectator's point of view, people are
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  Speaker 1: fighting to get right up the front on the embankment,
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  Speaker 1: and as soon as the runner goes by it and
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  Speaker 1: the spectator disappears, about ten people try and get into
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  Speaker 1: one spot. Yeah. Okay, So we've got past the embankment
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  Speaker 1: and we've got up to a big Ben and you
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  Speaker 1: must be thinking it's not far to go now, So
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  Speaker 1: what was the last little bit, Like did you kind
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  Speaker 1: of put all those troubles behind you and just think,
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  Speaker 1: let's make the most of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah it. I think that was probably the
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  Speaker 2: best moment of the whole day, even though I was
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  Speaker 2: so excited to run across Tower Bridge. I got to
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Big Ben and I was stood there supporting the year
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  Speaker 2: before and I thought, oh my god, it it's me now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and yeah, I just put my foot down
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  Speaker 2: and I just went for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, brilliant. And so you crossed the line. And the
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  Speaker 1: difficult one that did you feel when you actually crossed
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  Speaker 1: the line? Put your arms up for the picture. So
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  Speaker 1: did you think, oh my word, I've done a marathon
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  Speaker 1: it was weird, or couldn't you get your address?
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah? It was so weird, Like even now I think
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know, it still doesn't really feel. Yeah, it
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: was amazing. And the man that was like handing out
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: the medals and stuff. I think I was like recording
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: myself getting my medal and I think he said something like,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: is this your first marathon? And I said no, and
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: he said, oh, well, you look very like chilled or something,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: and he was like, you'll do another one. And I
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, right.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: It was hysterical. Yeah, oh right, Okay, so the euphoria
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: kicks in at last, and you start believing in yourself
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: and what we'll just run me through web next, meeting
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: your family and that sort of thing.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Yep, I saw. I met all of my family at
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: the meeting point. We went off to find the charity
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: meet up afterwards, had a shower and a massage, and
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: then I can't remember, actually I can't remember what we
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: did after that. We made our way back to the hotel. Yeah,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: and I didn't eat. Actually, I just couldn't really find
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: anywhere to get something half decent, so we ended up
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: getting food on the way home.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: So that's a good point. Actually, so you stayed the
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: night before did the hotel allow you? Because you must
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: have been kind of past the checking out time. They
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: let you come back again, did they?
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: They let us leave the car for the day. That
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: was fine. I think they would have held our luggage
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: as well, but we just put it in the car.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I see. Yeah, so you went back to the Hill
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: hotel and that was it. Then was it on the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: way home?
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah? And then my dad drove us home.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: You awake on the way home? Would you fall asleep
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: through home?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I was awake, yeah, And to be honest, I didn't
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: really sleep very well for the next.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Two or three night really.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. My legs were aching so much that every time
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I wanted to move, I wake myself up.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: And what better stairs? You have trouble with steels?
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you have to go down backwards.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, it's all part and parcel of the marathon.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: It goes with the territory. I can remember seeing all
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the people were trying to get on the train and
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: charing Cross after the marathon. Then such a job to
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: get on the train. So generally, obviously the recovery because
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: of the you know, the effort that's gone into it.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: But did you have any issues recovering or is it
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: just a natural progression. You slowly got better and that
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: was it, you know, long term effects and your toe
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: got better, did it?
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, well I will say that I had a
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: pleasant surprise and I know you're still because I was
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: at charing after how long? How long was that after?
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: About a month after? Was it probably five or six weeks?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Maybe about six weeks?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So I was at chairing and I was
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: just going to the start and do my bit at
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the start, and I saw this lady get out of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the car and thought, hang old I know that lady. Yeah,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: it was you, wasn't it.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: It was, Yeah, a.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Lovely pleasant surprise, it was. It was a lovely Friday
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: evening with the Ashfra Striders and so you did that.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: But what we're going to do, we're going to play
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a bit of music and then we're going to just
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: have a little chat about that because it's like your
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: first run back after the marathon, so we want to
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: find out if there was any any long term effects. Right.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: So the next song is now I've got another birthday. Now,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: this is amazing. I find this absolutely amazing that Sylvester
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: still own is eighty. Last week, Rookie, it was eighty.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, those early Rockie films were amazing. Once again,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: that captured the imagination of fight fans, sports fans, the underdog.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Everybody loves the underdog, you know. And so this this
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: song was just made the film as well. This is
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Rocky's orchestra, and it's called Gonna Fly Now. So Rockies
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: theme they call it, but it's actually called Gonna Fly Now.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: So I've been looking during the week at some of
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the videos for these respective stars, and I must say
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: that this is iconic where he runs up steps at
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the end and jumps up and down and kind of
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: puts his hands up. No one around. But those steps
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: have now turned into a tour of popular tourist attraction.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: It's seventy two stone stairs and it's set at the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Museum of Art. And if you're a runner, or
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: a sportsman or bo any sport atol, if you go
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: to Philadelphia, it's on the hit list. You have got
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: to run up those steps, then jump up and down
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: with your arms up in the air, and someone's got
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: to take a picture of you. Okay, so we're aggressing
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: a bit. So we've got our last little chat with
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Lois now, so lois, where do we get to we've
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: come back, you've recovered. Oh yeah, was there any long
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: lasting effects from the marathon? No? No, no really? And
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: so you've been running since seven't year?
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Yeap?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: So we saw you at Charring, didn't we? And so
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: your first run back and Charring is a bit of
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: well it's they say these courses like undulating. Yeah, but
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: you know they're lying, don't yet. Yeah, undulating means really hilly.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: So tell us about chairing and how your legs felt
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: on that first What was it? It was a ten k,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: wasn't it? How your legs felt once you know you
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: got going in a race situation. You might have had
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: a few jokes since the marathon, but but when you
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: were in a kind of on the start line at
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: a race, it's a little bit different. So just tell
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: us how that was.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I went in completely different this time. Normally when I
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: enter a race, I want to get a PB or something.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: But I think every race I've done there's been like
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: a pressure and I didn't didn't want that really, so
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: I was like, well, I'm just going to go for
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: a child run. I don't care what time it is.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: We did get a little bit carried away at the
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: start and then I got cramp. That wasn't you know?
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Was it on the agenda?
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: But I finished, So I did it in an hour
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: and two minutes, I think. Yeah, So I was pleased
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: with that. Yeah, going out for a jolly.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: So did your legs feel heavy? Did you still have
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: like the marathon? And it's quite a few weeks later,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: but so no, it was yeah, yeah, yeah, great. And
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: it was nice to see that one of your your
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: boys was running what was his name?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Teddy?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Teddy, that's right, And because it was at the charing
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: ten k Ash for Strider's Lovely Evening. Lovely Evening, and
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: there's two children's races, and I see you see you
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: sort of running alongside Teddy and cheering him on. He
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: did it, though, didn't he?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: He did it?
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was each I've got a medal, each, first
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: medal yeah yeah yeah.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: And he wore it for about three days yeah yeah.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of times. Yeah. I remember running over
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: to you say, what's his name? What's his name? Again?
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he did he he did? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: yeah great. So the future running wise, big question. There's
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: a ballot coming up this weekend. Have you put in
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: for London again?
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not allowed.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: No last time one run and that's it.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it definitely won't be one. But I'm just
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: not allowed to do London next.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Year, right, I mean the time is right. You've still
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: got youth on your side and so you've got plenty
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: of time. But I mean behind behind the scenes, you've
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: done the marathon, you've done all the training and the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: rest of it. But there's a team behind you, isn't there? Family?
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: And were they were they great? Or do? Were they
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: just that whle mummies off running again.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I think my oldest understands it, and he's like quite proud.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: He come up on the day as well, and I
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: think I'm pretty sure he went to school the next
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: day and said to everybody, I went to London yesterday
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: and my mom ran the marathon.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Great.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: The younger two not really phased. Usually, if my middle
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: one doesn't want me to put him to bed and
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: he wants daddy and says he tells he tells me
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: to go for a run. They'll say, Mummy, go for
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: a run, and I'll say I've already been for one
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: today and he's like, go for another. One that I
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: don't want you.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: So it's starting to affect the whole family, was it. Yeah?
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: And your husband he must be a star, very patient man.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah he is, he is. He has reminded me that
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: he has missed out and planning a lot of golf.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Oh right, yeah, always paid back time. Is it okay?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: But I mean you telling me your fear actually that
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: you're a member of ash Ford and you've been doing
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the relays. He's they called coastal coastal relays? Is it
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: coastal relays? Well, Coastal relays have been going many many
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: years and I remember doing the rounds and the relays
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: always make you run faster, don't they? And how did
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: you find them?
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: It's the first time I've ever done them. And the
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: first one that I did was at Minis Bay and
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I went, how I went out way too fast? Yeah,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: and the race the relays before we're out folksing and
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: my coach said, no, it's too close to the marathon.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: You can't you can't do it, but come down and watch,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: come down and see what it's about. And one of
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: the boys on our team was being sick and I
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: was like, how could you get it? So wrong, it's
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: only two miles. Well, when I finished Minis Bay, I
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: was bent over and I was like, I think I'm
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: going to be sick. Yeah yeah yeah, And I was
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: like completely take that back now now I've experienced it,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: because you just you go out too hard.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you do, you get caught up. Yeah. Every runner
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I know it's gone to their first relay. They think,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: oh it's only two miles, but it's the hardest two miles.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: It's like a two mile sprint.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, oh great. At least you've got
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: you got round them anyway, that's great. So I started
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: thinking it's time for any time to go. But is
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: there any other anybody else? You want to thank any
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: hellos as anybody might be listening or going to listen
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: to the podcast.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Thank you to my husband for referee and the kids
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: while I'm out. Also massive thank you to my coach.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Karen Quinn okay and Quinneah.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was amazing, she still is. Yeah. Yeah, And
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: just thank you to all of my friends and family,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: mum and dad, everyone else who came up and sort
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: of supported everybody that donated.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that's good. Yeah, because you're just going to
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: touch on this now, you had a just giving page.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Just tell us about that. What was the target.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that the target was two two hundred
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: or two thousand, three hundred.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you managed.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: We managed to do just over two thousand, six hundred.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Oh that's great. Yeah.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: And that's the other thing. If you do decide to
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: do another charity one, there's the pressure on it to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: get to find the money. It'll probably go up even
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: more next year.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm so pleased I've got you back. I wanted
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to hear the story because if we did the other three.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I know you're very busy lady with three children and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: working and the rest of it. But I'm so glad.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: It's taken a few weeks to get you here. But
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I'm really really pleased that we caught up, and I
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: just wanted to hear your story. And it's been a
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: great one, great journey. You've done a fantastic thing for yourself.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: You've done your first marathon. I'm sure you've got another
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: marathon in You might be older, when the children are
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: a bit older and could look after themselves a bit,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and your husband's out playing golf every night. But thanks
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: for coming in It's been a great journey. Thank you,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: thank you. Right there we go. That was lowis there
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: telling us our story about the London Marathon. What a
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: great story it was so celebrity birthdays. Moving on, we've
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: got Debbie Harry. Now Debbie Harry, remember what group she
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: was with? Cool? She do well? She was eighty one
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: during the week and she's still hanging on the telephone.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I'm in the bumble that.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: The water bottle hall.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: If you don't have to rob this, bring it on
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: the wall.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I know he's there, but I decided to go to other.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I mother not going out the door.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Did you go to work and go to the store?
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: All these things? She said? I told her to ignore.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Oh lucky, we talk again. Oh look it we talk again.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Oh I can't we talk again?
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Do you you much know it's done over? If I
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: don't get your coup supper?
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I'm to tell you.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Stuck, you know on all.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I had to read her up the Scott Stop a section.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to cross them like a story section.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I'd like to stuck when I.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Can show you my faction.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Oh I can't control myself. Oh I can't control myself.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I can control myself.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Oh sorry about that. There was a little little gap
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: there would just saying goodbye to Lois there and I
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: don't know how long it's been quiet. We were chatting
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: about running all right, so let's move on. What time
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: we got left and not a lot of time. So
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: what I'm going to do is I'm going to get
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: straight onto the cricket so turn our attention to local
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: cricket scene. And most clubs are halfway through this season,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: so let's have a half time roundup, starting with Folks,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: the first eleven who play in the Championship of the
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Kent Cricket League Cricket League, that's the second tier. Last Saturday,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: they traveled away to Dartford. Dafford won the toss chose
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to bats, scoring two hundred and eleven for nine in
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: their fifty overs. Folkston then saw a captain Routa Danda
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: hit ninety four not out as they made two hundred
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: and fourteen for two in thirty two overs, winning the
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: game by eight wickets. Now, despite this a successful victory,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Folkston haven't had a good season so far. They're rooted
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: at the bottom of the table out of ten teams.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Saturday's game is a real tough one as they welcomed
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: top of the league at Graves End to the Three Heels,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: knowing that they have half a season together to get
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: themselves out of trouble. In Division seven Hurrycan Section, Hawkins
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: traveled away to Broadstairs in a high scoring game. Broadstairs
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: batted first, making a massive three hundred and twenty eight
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: for four in a forty five overgame. Hawkins did well,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: making two hundred and sixty for six, a score that
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: would most most Saturday would have problem. He won a
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: lot of games, but it wasn't enough and they lost
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the game by sixty eight runs. Saturday, They're away to
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Saint Margaret's Cosmopolitan, who are bottom of the table. Meanwhile,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Hawkins are a respectable fifth with nine games to go.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Also in Division seven Hurricane Section, I've welcomed Sandwich thirt
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: eleven to the Grove. I've matted first, making two hundred
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: and seventy seven for seven open a Tim Pachowski made
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: a magnificent one hundred and seventeen before he was caught
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: in bold Samwich runded well, making two hundred and forty
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: one for nine, but it wasn't enough. I've winning by
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: thirty six runs. Now this result leaves hive in third
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: place after nine games. Saturday's fixture is a way to
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: second place Raynham, who have played one game more. Iive
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Green played their cricket in Division nine Shepherd Section, as
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: do Saltwood, and last Saturday they met in a Saltwood
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: home fixture at their Tanner's Hill ground. Saltwood won the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: toss and put the Green into bat who made one
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty six for eight. Siltwood then scored one
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty for three and won the match by
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: seven wickets. Currently, Siltwood are third and hive Green r
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: sixth out of nine teams. This week's fixture sees Hive
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Green at home to Merseam Sports and Saltwood are at
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: home against Ashford Town Cricket Club eleven. They've got a friendly.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: It's a friendly match. Ashford actually have got a proper
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Saturday side, but they also run a league side who
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: just play friendly matches.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: In Division five Harrycan Section, Sipton Park were at home
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: to Addington Village Cricket Club. The Sibs won the toss
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Batti first making a two hundred and forty four for
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: four highest scorer was Arthur Lever with ninety eight not out.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Three Sibs bowlers then demolished Addington. Jack Woodward took five
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: wickets for just eighteen runs, Dan Mason took four for
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: forty two and Harry Road took one for seventeen. So
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the Sibs won the game by one hundred and fifty
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: four runs, leaving them in third place. This week it's
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: a way to fifth place. As for Town first eleven,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: So quick summing up of our local Saturday first team
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: sees Folks then struggling in the championship bottom of the table.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Out of ten teams in Division five Hurrycan Section, Sipton
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Park a third. We have two teams in Division seven
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Hurry con Section IID and Hawkins of fifth, and then
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: in Division nine Shepherd Section we also have two teams
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Salt with a third and Hive Green are sixth. So
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: that's a half season gone already and most of our
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: time most of our teams doing well. The only bother
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: is Folkston really who have to try and pull themselves
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: out of the bottom position. Now Saturday, the weather looks good,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: so it's yeah, it's started to be a nice, really
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: nice summer isn't it. Well, I'm going to do this
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: other little bit now. Now I want to tell you about.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I want to bring your attention to an event that
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: is happening on Saturday, the eleventh July at the South
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Road Sports Field and Pervila. It's the Hive Sports and
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Fitness Festival, which starts at ten o'clock and goes un
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: till five o'clock.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I was chatting to Peter Carroll during the week. He
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: is the chair of the event, and he told me
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: the idea is to showcase the local sports and clubs
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: in the area and bring them all together in one
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: day so people can go along, chat to the organizers
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: in a friendly environment and perhaps sign up. I mean
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: sometimes when you're keen to try a new sport, you know,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: they say, oh, come along on a Tuesday night or something,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: and it might be a little bit intimidating. If you
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: go along, they're all into the training, they all know
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: each other. Whereas this is a bit different. It's a
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: great idea. It's much more relaxing. You can go along
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and have a chat and you know, just sort of
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: without the sort of worry of shall I join shall
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I not? You know, you can just see if it's
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: There will be representatives of the following sports tennis, swimming, sailing, cricket, running, walking, football,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: bow rowing, squash, plus demonstrations of dance, judo. We've got
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: fitness with alistair, tai chi, amateur boxing, pilates and even
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: a ukulele group. So please excuse me, there's so many there.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry if I've left anybody out. Now there's parking
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: directly opposite the highest swimming pool in South Road. It's
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: on a first come, first serve basis. This room for
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty cars, so if you look in
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: to take up a sport, this will save you going
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: around to all the sites. You know, all that traveling
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: when so many sports will gather together at one venue.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: So get yourself down to South Road between ten and
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: five o'clock see what's an offer. Big thanks go to
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Hive Town Council for coming up with this brilliant idea
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: and please visit the Hive Town Council website. And I
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: think as I was, was pleasantly surprised to see just
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: how much is going on. You know, there's walks and
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: all sorts of things. So I have town Council website.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Check it out, all right. So I'm running out of
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: time now. So what i want to do now is
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I want to get this one in. It's floor Feller.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm looking for. Floor Feller now. YMCA frontman
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: and co founder of the Village People, Victor Willis sadly
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: passed away during the week at the age of seventy six.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: He was the frontman, the great singer that was always
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: done up in an American Air Force an American policeman's uniform.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: And I mean, if ever I do an event and
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I put this on, then I start looking around and
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I'd say to myself, all right, who's going to be
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: the first one? Who's going to be the first one
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: to do the dance? And inevitably somebody does. So make
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: yourself a bit of space in the kitchen, in the office,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and just give yourself a bit of room and join
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: in with the Village People and YMCA. There's no need
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: to feel down. But that's it from me, big thanks
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: to the lowest. I'm sure he was all out there
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: doing the YMC Hate Dance. I'll be back on Saturday
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: between ten and eleven, where I'm joined by Aby Dawks
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: back after his holiday in Cape Verde, and I'm sure
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: he's got lots of Cape Verdy football stories to tell us.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I've got a quiet weekend this weekend, so whatever you're doing,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: you have a great weekend and make most of the
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: sunshine