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LISTEN BACK AS PHIL AND CHANTELE RASHBROOK TELL US ALL ABOUT THE CLIFFTOP CHALLENGE RAISING MONEY FOR BREAST CANCER NOW · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: But I'm joining the studio today by Chantel and Phil Rashbrook,
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  Speaker 1: and they are the brains behind the cliff top challenge.
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  Speaker 1: What's the clifftop Challenge? I hear you ask, Well, stay
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  Speaker 1: tuned and I'll let Chantelle and Phil tell you all
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  Speaker 1: about it now. Last night I was on the mic
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  Speaker 1: at the charing ten K organized by Ashford Striders, and
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  Speaker 1: in the final few moments of the race, as the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of runners came home, they were joined by
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  Speaker 1: loads of volunteer marshals who've been out on the course
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  Speaker 1: and this particular track was playing and in the distance
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  Speaker 1: I could see them pumping and jumping and dancing. So
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  Speaker 1: this track is for the all the Ashford Striders who
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  Speaker 1: put on such a good race last night. This is
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  Speaker 1: bon Jovine living on a prayer.
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  Speaker 2: I turn it up loud.
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  Speaker 3: Oh what's about so long?
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  Speaker 2: Tell me to took on the bus.
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  Speaker 3: You'll your mettle sack.
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  Speaker 2: Us.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there we go. That's bon Jovie living on a
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  Speaker 1: prayer and that's for all the organizers of the charing
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  Speaker 1: ten K last night. It was quite funny. Actually halfway
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  Speaker 1: there they were singing, but they had actually finished. There
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  Speaker 1: you go, little play on words. Okay, Now today we
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  Speaker 1: have got two lovely guests on the show, and I
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  Speaker 1: want to say good morning to Chantelle Rashburog. Good morning, Chantelle,
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  Speaker 1: and morning to Phil Rashbrook as well. Morning care, morning great.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's been a while actually since you've been
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  Speaker 1: in In fact, it's ten years almost to the day.
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  Speaker 1: It was amazing. I was going through I was just
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  Speaker 1: trying to find some old pictures of Cliff Top Challenge
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  Speaker 1: and put search in and this picture came up and
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  Speaker 1: I could not believe the date. Today's the thirteenth of June,
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  Speaker 1: and it was eleventh of June twenty sixteen. And looking back,
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  Speaker 1: also on that day we had quite quite a studio
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  Speaker 1: for We had Dan in who'd done a cycling challenge.
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  Speaker 1: We had Clive, my friend Clive or I think the
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  Speaker 1: year before he'd done the fifty five miler. But this
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  Speaker 1: event has come on so much, so what I want
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  Speaker 1: to do really is go back right to the start.
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  Speaker 1: So we want to think that there's people out there
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  Speaker 1: that do not know anything about the Cliff Top Challenge
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  Speaker 1: and where have you been for the last ten years?
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  Speaker 1: So Chantelle, now you started running race for life many
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  Speaker 1: many years ago, and basically you've got a little story
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  Speaker 1: to tell about that and how it progressed, is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: A friend of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer. Oh
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  Speaker 4: I think in the early thirties. She was we're now
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  Speaker 4: fifty plus. But I decided to do the Race for
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  Speaker 4: Life for her and I hadn't really ran for a
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  Speaker 4: very very long time, so I did that and then
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  Speaker 4: it went on from there where I started up a
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  Speaker 4: running group for women wanting to learn to run, and
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  Speaker 4: that's how my start to run in right.
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  Speaker 1: But the sad thing was you was running for somebody else,
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  Speaker 1: weren't you? And what happened next?
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately she did pass away a few years at very
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  Speaker 4: young age.
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  Speaker 1: And then but then new contact contracted it, didn't you.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I was diagnosed in twenty twelve and went
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  Speaker 4: through all the treatments right, therapy, chemotherapy, surgery, and unfortunately
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  Speaker 4: came back again in twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So when was the first Race for Life? Not
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  Speaker 1: Race for Life, the first cliff Top Challenge fourteen?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, twenty fourteen. So that was the main reason
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  Speaker 4: why we came up with this idea, myself and my
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  Speaker 4: husband being keen runners, we thought was a great way
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  Speaker 4: to raise money for the charity.
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  Speaker 1: Right, so let's bring Phil in now. So Phiel twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: you've got this new idea of a cliff top challenge.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it didn't happen overnight. You love your ultra
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  Speaker 1: running back then? Not sure about now how did that
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  Speaker 1: all come about? I mean tell me, I mean, was
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  Speaker 1: you down the pub one day and before Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's do an event from Hastings to deal with a
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  Speaker 1: catch No.
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  Speaker 5: We obviously with Chanteur's diagnosis, we thought we want to
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  Speaker 5: do something positive rather than towards a charity and to
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  Speaker 5: try and raise money for the charity. There's many events
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  Speaker 5: around that are single running events and you turn up,
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  Speaker 5: you do the run, you go home at the end
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  Speaker 5: of it, and we thought, how can we make it
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  Speaker 5: more of a more of a something different in terms
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  Speaker 5: of the fact that we've got more than one event
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  Speaker 5: running in this in one day and also something that
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  Speaker 5: is a has a social aspect to it to bring
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  Speaker 5: everybody together at the end of it, not only in
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  Speaker 5: support of the charity, but also from a social point
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  Speaker 5: of view within Deal and the surrounding areas. Is bringing
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  Speaker 5: the community together and that's how that came about a
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  Speaker 5: series of running events within the same day, all finishing
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  Speaker 5: within a certain period. Yeah, we're all finishing hopefully within
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  Speaker 5: a couple of hours of each other, and a big
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  Speaker 5: party afterwards in Deal, And that's that's kind of what
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  Speaker 5: we focused on. And then then it was a case
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  Speaker 5: of finding a suitable route.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we can ask you about the route. I mean
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  Speaker 1: in the early days you thought, oh, you've got this
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  Speaker 1: great idea, but how did you work it? Did you
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  Speaker 1: go from Deal? You think, oh, Deal, Yeah, we can
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  Speaker 1: run to Dover. Yeah, we can run to focus them.
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  Speaker 1: Okay you stop there, you keep going?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, Well it was it was initially looking at
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  Speaker 5: I was looking at long distance footpaths initially, so looking
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  Speaker 5: at routes based around long distance footpaths. We were looking
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  Speaker 5: at direction as well. Generally we we mostly well, historically
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  Speaker 5: we've had southwesterly winds, so it's nice to run from
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  Speaker 5: a distance back towards Deal from the west rather than
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  Speaker 5: the other way into a headwind. Yeah, which which was
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  Speaker 5: which is something there. So it was trying to look
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  Speaker 5: at a combination of of of the the dedicated long
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  Speaker 5: distance paths because generally they're better looked after as we know,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of the tracks these days and general all
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  Speaker 5: overgrown and you just can't get through them. You've got
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  Speaker 5: to got to wel come all up. So the long
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  Speaker 5: distance paths made sense. So we've got the Sacks and
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  Speaker 5: sure Way coming pretty much from Folkston. It starts only
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  Speaker 5: five miles outside of Folkstone and that pretty much comes
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  Speaker 5: all the way back to Deal and that's kind of
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  Speaker 5: what what we base the route on. There's a few
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  Speaker 5: turn offs here and there, but that that's kind of
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  Speaker 5: where it came from.
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  Speaker 1: So let's clarify the route then. So it's we're going
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  Speaker 1: to ask you to explain obviously, sel but I mean
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  Speaker 1: if people are unaware of what the cliff top challenge is,
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  Speaker 1: is a challenge for all different levels of running. So
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  Speaker 1: let's start from the furthest point away, which is how
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  Speaker 1: many miles.
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  Speaker 5: The furthest point is fifty five miles and that starts
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  Speaker 5: just the Deal side of Hastings at fair Light, and
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  Speaker 5: it's pretty much eighty percent is off road and it
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  Speaker 5: follows the Royal Military Canal from fair Light through to
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  Speaker 5: Limb Castle.
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  Speaker 1: Where's the next point the Caldo.
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  Speaker 5: So the next point the call is the thirty six
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  Speaker 5: mile start point, which is at Apple Door, which is
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  Speaker 5: still on the canal, and then we move on to
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  Speaker 5: Limb Castle, which is the marathon start point.
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  Speaker 1: So Limb Castle, so that means the runners that are
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  Speaker 1: doing the fifty five and thirty six got to come
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  Speaker 1: along the canal. But then they've got to get up
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  Speaker 1: to the up the hill.
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  Speaker 5: Through the zoo, which is quite entertaining because there's not
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  Speaker 5: many runs where you get to see a giraffe yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and gazelle's and all sorts as as you're as you're running,
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  Speaker 5: and also quite interesting at night when we're marking out
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  Speaker 5: the route for the night runners, when you've got these
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  Speaker 5: eyes staring out the bushes and some strange noises coming out.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, so they've got to come off the canal then,
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  Speaker 5: and then we start heading up towards the North Downs.
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  Speaker 1: So they head up to the Limb Limb Castle. So
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  Speaker 1: what point is that the Limb Castle in marathon start
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  Speaker 1: point twenty six points so by that.
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  Speaker 5: Time they'll have done just under thirty miles themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So after the castle, I've got down here. The
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  Speaker 1: next point a call that you pick up runners is
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  Speaker 1: at fifteen. Yeah, just take us briefly from them Castle too, so.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Solim Castle, we can't. We kind of come off
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  Speaker 5: the Saxon Shore away then and we go on to
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  Speaker 5: the North Downs. So again it's it's quite a climb
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  Speaker 5: up up Etching Hill for those that know that area,
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  Speaker 5: you know, that's quite a climb to get up onto
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  Speaker 5: Etching Hill. We drop down from Etching Hill and then
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  Speaker 5: back up to the North Downs and we run across
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  Speaker 5: the top of the ridge line just above the Channel
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  Speaker 5: tunnel and follow that ridge line all the way into
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  Speaker 5: the Battle of Britain Memorial, which is our fifteen mile
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  Speaker 5: start point cable.
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  Speaker 1: So fifteen so then we've got two distances left to
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  Speaker 1: ten and the five So you leave Caple. Where'd you
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  Speaker 1: go then? Because the cliff top becomes more defined then,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it It does.
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  Speaker 5: We stay slightly off the cliff top to start with,
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  Speaker 5: so yourunning along the back the back road out of
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  Speaker 5: Capol and we come down and join the join the
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  Speaker 5: join the coast again on the on the tarmac cycle track,
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  Speaker 5: so we're pretty much following the cycle track rather than
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  Speaker 5: the footpath. My challenge from a safety point of view
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  Speaker 5: with the footpath is it's quite close to the cliff edge.
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  Speaker 5: And when I've got three or four hundred runners running along,
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  Speaker 5: some of them quite tired, the chance of tripping and
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  Speaker 5: disappearing off the cliff is exactly. So we stick to
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  Speaker 5: the site not quite a scenic, but say around and.
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  Speaker 1: Then goes down.
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Down onto the over Seafront.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty much. And then dover Seafront is the ten
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  Speaker 5: miles check point. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right, so we hit the ten miler. But then there's
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  Speaker 1: another sting in the town just there, whem's there? Where
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  Speaker 1: did they go?
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  Speaker 5: Then they had a short short a couple of hundred
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  Speaker 5: meters along the prom and then it's up the steps,
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  Speaker 5: the famous steps up to the National Trust on top
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  Speaker 5: of the cliffs, which everybody loves those.
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  Speaker 1: If you're just starting, but if you've just done like
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  Speaker 1: forty five miles.
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  Speaker 5: It's a challenge. Yeah, that's what it's called. A challenge. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And then up there and across the National Trust support
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  Speaker 5: us there, they support us running across their land, so
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  Speaker 5: which is fantastic. And you follow the White Road, the
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  Speaker 5: white the White path basically right across the cliffs.
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  Speaker 1: And then the last point of cool, which I would
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  Speaker 1: think is that is this the most popular under five
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  Speaker 1: miles it is.
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  Speaker 5: Unfortunately, Yeah, I think people are pushing a bit further,
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  Speaker 5: but yeah, the five tends to be the up. We've
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  Speaker 5: got probably about three hundred registered for the five mile
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  Speaker 5: of this year and that's from the the Dover Patrol
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  Speaker 5: Memorial right put some Margaret's beautiful setting for a start point. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: a bit of a nightmare for cars coming up and
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  Speaker 5: dropping people off, but a beautiful setting for a start point.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent. So from there it's down pretty much downhill, downhill,
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  Speaker 1: and then the law long drag. You think, where is
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  Speaker 1: that finish? You know? Yeah, I remember when I used
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  Speaker 1: to run the deal races that always used to pick
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  Speaker 1: out the finish and think, oh, that's it. But it
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  Speaker 1: was like the lifeboat house, you know, and then you've
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  Speaker 1: got to go anyway, that is it. That's the finish,
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  Speaker 1: and you come into a lovely, fantastic row of sponsors,
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  Speaker 1: flags and a bit of music and the cheers and
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  Speaker 1: the end of your race of a great day. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we've done quite a lot of speaking there. So I
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  Speaker 1: think this is another track of Dgate. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: play a bit of music and this one. I love
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  Speaker 1: this one and it's so suitable. This is the who,
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  Speaker 1: and it's I can see for miles.
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  Speaker 2: I know you've deceived years. I know that you have
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  Speaker 2: because there's magic I can see.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's the who there and that's what the ultras
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  Speaker 1: will be singing at two o'clock in the morning when
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  Speaker 1: they set off. I can see for miles and miles
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  Speaker 1: and miles. Right, So Chantell will come back to you.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean that first year you're getting it off
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  Speaker 1: the ground. We've heard all the sort of trials and
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  Speaker 1: tribulations that feel had to go through and to work
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  Speaker 1: out a course and the rest of it. So what
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  Speaker 1: was it like for you to kind of generating interest
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  Speaker 1: and the support for the for the race.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it was surprisingly how easy it was and
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  Speaker 4: how people got involved, obviously because of my situation at
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  Speaker 4: the time as well. People really want to take part
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  Speaker 4: even if they never ran for and local businesses want
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  Speaker 4: to be part of it as well. And as you remember,
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  Speaker 4: it was quite small where we had it along the seafront,
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  Speaker 4: and then it got busy and busier, so we knew
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  Speaker 4: we had to move it because it was just too
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  Speaker 4: small and dangerous with the road so close. But so no,
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  Speaker 4: really it was pretty easy to put together and gain
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  Speaker 4: was it interested?
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  Speaker 1: I must admit the town of Deal just absolutely come
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  Speaker 1: behind you, didn't they You You are the local heroine.
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  Speaker 1: I must have that. Yeah. But since that time, you've
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  Speaker 1: also sort of over that ten or twelve years, you've
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  Speaker 1: also perceived a lot of accolades, a lot of presentations
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  Speaker 1: have been made. So tell us a bit about that
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  Speaker 1: kind of things that people might not know you've you know,
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  Speaker 1: you've been entered in for awards and tell us about
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  Speaker 1: them all that sort of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, I had no idea that I was entering for
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: prior to Britain Awards for local fundraiser, which was amazing
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  Speaker 4: and I got through to the finals. They come and
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  Speaker 4: surprised me. We went for a family meal at the
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  Speaker 4: Royal Hotel and Deal and the percent of ITV news
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  Speaker 4: turned up really well in local news and yeah, totally
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  Speaker 4: totally out of the blue.
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  Speaker 1: So was that an evening in London then?
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  Speaker 4: Yes it was. It was amazing. Yeah, myself and Lily,
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  Speaker 4: my daughter, we went up and it was just fabulous.
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  Speaker 4: Met all the other people that are nominated as well,
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  Speaker 4: and went for an amazing dinner and what you see
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  Speaker 4: on the telly with all the celebs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it was something very special. Yeah, very proud
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  Speaker 4: of that and to be nominated as well, Yeah, something
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  Speaker 4: I expect.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever find who put your name for?
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  Speaker 4: Had some ideas, but no one's ever limited.
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  Speaker 1: If you do want it, they would have come forward
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  Speaker 1: to exactly. Okay, So anything else happened that aside from
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  Speaker 1: the race, that's happened to you in the last ten years.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: I mean you've you've had to go back in for
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: more treatment, haven't you. And you've got this wonder drug
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  Speaker 1: we saved your life, isn't it tell us about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's called kad Zeila and it is for a secondary
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: of breast cancer and my type of breast cancer which
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: is her too positive. And when I was diagnosed with
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: secondary is it it was a drug that wasn't freely
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: given to women because of its being so expensive for
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  Speaker 4: the NHS. So with breast cancer now, I joined the
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: campaign with them to go out to Parliament and speak
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: out for women that we need it. I was actually
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: on it at that point, so I was very lucky
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  Speaker 4: and I explained how amazing it makes me feel, and
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  Speaker 4: I ran the London Marathon on it. While I was
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: taking on that particular chemotherapy, and we pushed with the
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: charity support and we got it for women the same
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: position as me to be able to have the drug.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's brilliant.
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  Speaker 4: So I have it every three weeks still and I
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: will do forever with regular scans, etc.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of a lot of ladies out
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  Speaker 1: that have got a lot to thank for you actually
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: pushing that forward.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, primarily. Yeah, I remember I was actually having chemo
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  Speaker 4: that day when I got the phone call to say
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  Speaker 4: gone through, So that that was else.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic. So getting back to those early days, You're right,
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  Speaker 1: the first the first one started and I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be on a Sunday, I do believe, right,
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  Speaker 1: and it always clashed with a Race for life, which
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  Speaker 1: was I could never make it as I was kind
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  Speaker 1: of committed to Race for life. And then I do remember,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I know it might have been two or three years,
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  Speaker 1: my friend Clive decided to run the Ultra and then
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: the band stopped playing and I said, I know this
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: guy coming in. Can I have the microphone? And so
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I got older the microphone and I saw Clive afterwards
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: and he said, as soon as I heard your voice,
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  Speaker 1: I knew he was at the finish. A lot of
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: unners say that and slog you know, lid twenty. They
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: hear my voice and they think I'm nearly there. And
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: it was so funny because we were just sitting there.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Clive was in the zone and he kind of just
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: like staring into space, you know, he's just relaxing. And
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: his wife said to him, Pam, she said, Clive, she said,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: since I haven't seen you, you've grown a beard. You've
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: been out that long on the road.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean he always talks about that, and we
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: both we both remember that day. And I think the
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: year after you moved it onto the bandstand, onto Saturday
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and then I was able to come along, which I
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: have done ever since. And I really please it. You
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: keep asking me back. I think in one year they're
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: going to say, no, thanks, Ken, we don't want you welcome.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: But yeah, So so going back to those early days,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: so you got the race off the ground, and then
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: then it grew and grew. I mean, can you remember
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: how much you made the first year. I know it's
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: a tough one, but we're going to go onto the money.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Probably, I would think probably sort of three or four
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: three or four thousand through primarily three sponsors. Yeah yeah, sponsors, yeah, yeah,
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: all about to because the expenses weren't so much because
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: it wasn't so b yes, but we still had a
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: good group of sponsors that came in, so the app
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: goes won't as.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Much, right, But now it's moved on and twelve years
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: down the road, what's the target? How much have you
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: raised now?
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: It's about two hundred and sixty thousand.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Two hundred and sixty thousand.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Just unbelievable, it's amazing. Yeah, and we appreciated that from
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: all our sponsors and our runners now who really really
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: now they started, they're just giving pages, they raise money,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: you know, where before people who always just will just
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: enter and run it for the right reason, yes, but
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: they now all want to raise money even if they've
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: not been affected by yeah yeah, breast cancer and they
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: know it's for the research.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: But there's one particular family that to get out a massive,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: massive entourage of runners young and old. They've got story
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to tell. Again, it's a happy, sad story, So tell
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: us about them.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: As Lee Rainbridge. I used to go to school with
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Lee and his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer of
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: course a few years ago, now nine years ago something
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: like that, and he got in touch with me touch base,
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: would you come around and have a chat with her?
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: So I did. Unfortunately she did pass away shortly after that,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: and then he got involved running with the Clifftop with
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Cliff Top and some of his friends, and then it's
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: just gone from strength.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Absolutely ballistic, isn't it. I mean, how many runners? Because
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: they normally all started the five and they tried to
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: gather in, so there's a big crowd of them coming
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: in at the same time, So how many of them
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: do you reckon of it? This year?
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: It's more this year I've got in total, he's got
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: about ninety people that are running that he knows of
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: as such. In terms of from the five mile start point,
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: I think there's about forty forty to fifty of them,
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: and they're having a slightly later start because they've got
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: a school sports.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Take the time.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Sports, and then they're all coming a bit later to
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: start the It's a nice thing we can do as
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: well with this event. We can chop and change. So
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: they're going to start at two o'clock. So there's about
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: fifty of them, I think there, and then he's got
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: another forty doing it involved with the event as well,
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: so it's amazing.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: So he's count every year he just gets more and
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: more amazing.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: It's brilliant than Yeah. But they all come in and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: they look so happy and they I mean they punching
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and jump in and smiling and tears as well across
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the line. It is an emotional day as well, isn't it.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Because some people might be doing it. It's very similar
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: to the Race for Life. They might have lost their
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: mum to breast cancer weeks ago, months ago, but kind
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: of brings it all back, doesn't it. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: we're going to play another little song now, so we've
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: got this time. Oh yeah, this is We're going to
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: keep you slow it down a little bit, but you're
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: all going to love this one. This is George Michael
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and Elton John and this is what we want on
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the next sun the next Saturday. A bit of sunshine.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Don't let the Sun Go down on Me.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I care no more.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: What a classic track there, Don't let the Sun Go
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Down on Me George Michael featuring Elton John and I
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: love the bit in the middle where he goes ladies
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, Elton John and their crowd go mad. That
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: was a live recording. Brilliant. Okay, so we're joined our
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and this is you just tuned in. This is Kevin
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Daley on Radio Folkstone and are joined by Phil and
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Chantelle Rashbrook, who are the brain child behind the behind
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the cliff Top Challenge. So Phil, right, let's let's people
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: that are running the Clifftop Challenge. It is great. I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: mean they get out there to do the stuff, they
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: turn up do they run, make some money for the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: for the charity. But there's so much goes on behind
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the scenes. So apart from the route, are you do
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: you have to answer the emails, sort of the questions
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: and do all the entries. Is that your job?
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, pretty much so, so I'll probably start well,
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: we start well over a year in advance to be honest,
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: because we have to book permissions for certain bits of ground,
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: so things like the Finnish area and the Warmer green
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: In deal we have to book that. In fact, we've
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: probably got it booked for the next two or three
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: years the date they want because it's such a popular venue.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: We then have to put in obviously paperwork with the
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: council for an event management plan, so that's quite an
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: extensive plan which then goes in front of people like
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: the police in the FAS Service just to make sure
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: you've got everything in place for they point of view.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: So we do get well supported by Dover District Council,
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: which is great. We then have to look at the
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: medical side of stuff, so we need obviously you've got
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: runners spread across fifty five miles of the coast and
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: some of them starting at two o'clock in the morning
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: when it's pitch black, so we're running in sort of
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: terrain that's quite awkward to get to and quite eity
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: to trip and have accidents on, so we need to
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: ensure we've got the right medical support in place. Again,
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: we have Saint John who have been supporting us now
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: for I think probably for the last ten years. They've
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: been involved with the cliff Top and they love the
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: event because it's something different for them. It's not turning
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: up to a fate and standing there all day. They've
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: actually got to move about and so they're well versed
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: and they love doing that. So so we have them
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: on call. We also need to work with the National
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Trust up on the cliffs, so again they support us
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: very well. You know, we've got a lot of support
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: from the National Trust at Langdon's.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Good jobs because if they say no, then you've got
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: to find one of those rules.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean this is something I'm not sure because
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: it's a public footpath, but it is over land that
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: they own as such. So we do have a very
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: good working relationship with them, with the manager up there
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: who's very supportive with his team and actually during any
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: of it, which I don't get to see although I'm
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: out supporting the longer distance runners, I don't get to
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: see some of the support the runners get a long
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: route and apparently a lot of the National Trust the
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: staff are actually out on the route and crapping. They
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: open the gates for everybody and they're all up supporting
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: the runners as they come through. But I have to
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: work with them. And then there's another level now of
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: paperwork that's involved with Natural England because Natural England have
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: taken over foot paths and areas, so you've got to
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: apply to them for permissions so that it does build up.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: So you need to start well in advance.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: To say, you know, in recent years. It sounds like,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: to be honest, you've done it for so long now
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: it should be like second nature. But is there always
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: something that pops up and think, Oh, no, you know,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: we've got to go through that jump.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: More hoops I had when I've been outmarking the route.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: You don't have to.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Well, I could say that there's some areas where maybe
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: I'll be marking routes and you get to a point
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: and then it says footpath close between now and such
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: and so, and I'm like, well, that's our route, But
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: there's no the footpath is open. There's just a sign
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: that says it could be shut any time between now
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: and the next two months. And then you ring up
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: to find out and they can't tell you when it's
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: going to be shut. So that's not we've had road.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: We've had the first the first year we actually ran
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: it and I was running the fifty five. I was
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: coming just up to is it one of the creek
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: roads that actually they were retarmacing it, which we didn't know.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: So I turned up at the bottom of the hill.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: Cars couldn't go up, but they let us go up running.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: But because they're really tarmacing it all the gravel. We're
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: sticking to the bottom of your trainers, so you're running
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: on like almost like platform shoes.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: By the time we got to the top of the hill,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: you come out, you come back six seasons.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, So you have things like that that you
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: have to react to. There's a lot of work going
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: on down in the Rye area with the Environment Agency
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: and flood defenses. So the old route that we took
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: for the first six or seven years, we haven't been
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: able to go on for the last three or four
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: years because the route's closed, so we've had to redirect
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: around that. So you do have to bet and sometimes
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: even on the days until said we've had it on
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: the day where you turn up and a road shut
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: and what are we going to do here? So you
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: do have to be quite reactive, and that's why we've
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: got such a good team as well of marshals and
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: helpers that.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: You've obviously built up a good rapport with people like
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the Council and National Trust. Yeah, and Butler Britain as well.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: I should mention them as well. They're Buttle of Britain
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: have been very supportive since day one in terms of
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: allowing us to use their location for the fifteen mile
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: start point and Jules that are managers, been brilliant, excellent.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Well, we are running out of time. I can't believe
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: we've been on air for three quarters of an hour now,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: so I'm going to play another song, but we will
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: be coming back to talk to Few and Chantelle, so
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: let's try this one. This is what we want for
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the next next Saturday, walking on sunshine. So that's what
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: we're hoping for a next Saturday at the cliff Top Challenge.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: We want to be walking on sunshine while runners are
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: running on sunshine. Not too hot though, we hope. So Chantel,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: it's time to kind of wind things up a little bit.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: It's difficult to know. We could do a to hour
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: show on this one, definitely, but your family has been
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: involved as well, and looking back at the pictures from
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: ten years ago, you had your two children, Lily and
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Charlie here and they couldn't make it today. But certainly
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Lily has been very active recently since she's come back
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: from her travel, has been running around, doesn't she. And
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: you tell me she's running on Saturday.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Yes she is. We've never allowed it before because we
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: need her on the finish line.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: To help you.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but she's got into her running since she did
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: the Brighter Marathon, so she's kept up, which we're really
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: chuffed with. Right, So yes, it's going to run the
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: fifteen or being well, oh great, and then she'll continue
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: on the finish line when she gets back.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: And Charlie has always been a helper. He's been dishing
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: out the medals and stuff like that. And then will
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: he be around Yes.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: He's around him and doing the medals again this year,
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: which they really enjoy and the bottles of water for
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: everyone coming in before they collect their finishing tops. Well great, yeah,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: he'll be there.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: And your mum and dad they've been I don't know,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: behind you all the way and they have been great support.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: So how are they and what are they up to
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: on the day?
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, yeah, we couldn't do it without them, Mum and
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Dad being brilliant. Dad, you know, Dad being Dad, the
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: man in pink who gets all the sponsorship together, works
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: and tirelessly all year round. He just lives in Breeze
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: Cliff Top. They're doing well, they're doing very well and
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: they'll be there in full force on Saturday as guys.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent, right now, you got. Oh, yeah, the entertainment
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: tell us about that and that's very important.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, We've we've got we're just having one band again
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: this year because we feel sometimes we've had some amazing
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: bands doing it for the charity and no charge, but
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: you sometimes tend to forget about the bands because everyone's
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: concentrating on the runners. So we've got a saxophonist who's
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: going to walk around part of the afternoon with the saxophone.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: We've also got the soul choir that will be singing
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: for about half an hour about twelve twelve thirty, which
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: is quite a new choir locally. And then we've got
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: late to the function, which is my friend's daughter's band,
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: and they're just they're just getting better and better, so
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: we gave them a chance to play, Yeah at cliff Top.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: They can't wait, right, Yeah, And I do believe you
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: might a bet to answer this one, Phil. Was it
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: last year we actually went onto the bandstand because the
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: year before, yeah, yeah, because the weather was so bad.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Will you be trying to do it outside again?
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Ideally we use the bandstand as a backdrop rather than
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: actually put the bands on there because this is a
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: bit restricted seeing what's going on. But again we have
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: support from the Bandstand, So the deal Memorial Bandstand will
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: allow us to use the bandstand should the weather be
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: in clement and we need to get them under shelter,
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: but that's not going to happen this year, so right.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: You're right, And what about electricity and electricity problems.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: Plug and yeah, that's a couple of years on the
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: trot and mom, yeah it hasn't since we've we've now
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: got around, Jenny, and that's what you plug into. You
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: don't touch anything to do with the bandstand because.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: That's there's a power cut and deal that day.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: It's a bit hard for me because I'm on the
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: committee of the Bandstand as well, so I have to
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: sit in the meetings and take the grief. So yeah,
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: we're we've got to We've that's sorted. It's only taken
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: ten years to sort that out, but we've done it.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: They're very supportive and the RM as well.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Explain what to people.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: A man association.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: They got a little bar across the road and they.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Open up for us on the day and they take
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: a bit of money on the door, so not just
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: you can go in, Yeah, use their facilities obviously, buy
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: beer if you want to. Yeah, yeah, but we will
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: have drinks and food on the green, but also bring
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: a picnic, you know.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one thing it's worth talking about. Although you
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: have told me that it's full up. Is the table
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: area and the picnic type of thing. Tell us briefly
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: a little bit of that, because that's a say, relatively
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: new idea. I mean it might be six or seven
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: years old now, but got a great idea.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Dad came up with it. We basically get these
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: tables in from a company and we sell a table,
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: so ten pounds a seat, and you can have that
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: table for the day. Then it's yours. People come and
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: join you maybe or not. Yes, and we've I think
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: we're pretty much sold. We're done, tables are all sold,
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: and then other people bring their picnics.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so peel the entries on their closed. Is that correct?
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we we And that's that's something we basically close
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: about three three weeks before the event because we have
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: to pre order things like medals and the running tops,
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: so we can't take entries on the day. We can't
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: because it's too spread out and you're not going to
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: get a top at the end. You're not going to
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: get a medal because every extra top and every medal
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: we end up with is money that could have gone
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: to the charity. So we're very careful that we try
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: not to overorder. So generally it's about three weeks, but
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: entries have been open since October last year, so they've
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: been plenty of time. And then that three weeks gives
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: us time to get everything finalized, get our orders into
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: the running tops and the medals, generate all the lists
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: we need to generate for all the checkpoints because again,
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: having runners spread fifty five miles across the coast, we've
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: got to make sure we keep an eye where everyone is.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: So what I'd like to say is anyone that's listening
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: to this and is actually running, then I hope you've
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: kind of opened your eyes as to what goes on
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: behind the scenes. As Phil said, they've got a book,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: The Green Up, two or three years ahead, and I'm
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: sure that as soon as this one is over, if
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: they haven't already, they've started to plan for twenty twenty seven.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: So run as when you're when you're crossing that line
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: and you're moaning about the time or whatever, order, distance
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: or something, just forget it. We're raising money for charity.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: So much work gone into it, so much behind the scenes,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: and let's just focus on having a great day and
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: helping out the charity. You've seen that over the last
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: twelve years or so, they've raised two hundred and sixty
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: thousand pounds and thanks to people like Chantel who's been
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: back in this drug at Cadzilah, so many more women
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: have given have been given much more time to be
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: with us thanks to the And it's all down to
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: really this cliff Top challenge. So I'm in a little
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: role here, but I just can't. Yeah, there's such a
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  Speaker 1: good team and they've got such a good team behind them.
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  Speaker 1: I just want people to appreciate it, which I know
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  Speaker 1: you do, but you think that when you've been doing
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: it all these years that is oh, it's nothing. They've
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: been doing it years now. You know it's easy, but
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: it's not. There's always something that crops up. So now, Chantell,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: this is a real tough one. But there's so many
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: people out there. But I think at least you should
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  Speaker 1: mention a few of your real helpers over the years.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: There's a few, Thank you. There's a tough one for
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: you to answer.
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  Speaker 4: But because there's so many our marshals and that are amazing,
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  Speaker 4: and there's too many to mention. Of course, they know
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: who they are and we are now in a fabulous
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  Speaker 4: position where we can just let them rock up at
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  Speaker 4: their start point and they put it all together. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we don't have to have.
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  Speaker 1: To worry about them.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they just know what they're.
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  Speaker 4: Doing, not at all, and and that's a great thing
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  Speaker 4: for us. We just leave them to it because there's
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: not enough of us to keep going around. It's a
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: small family event organized organizers, so we just drop ourket
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  Speaker 4: off to them, their bananas, the water, their checklists, and
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  Speaker 4: they just do it.
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  Speaker 1: They know what to do.
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  Speaker 4: I even get the message of me going right, we're
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  Speaker 4: doing this and doing this. I went, that's great. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you just get on with it because I know we
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: can trust it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel a last a couple of words from you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you've had the job behind the scenes
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: doing the route. Especially runners, you must appreciate what goes
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: into the route and it doesn't end there, what happens
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: after the after it's happened. Tell all the runners out
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  Speaker 1: there and everybody on radio, folks, and when the day
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: is over, what have you got to do?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, when the day's over and you've all finished year
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: five ten, fifty five mile or whatever, and you have
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: a few days off and a few days rests. Sunday morning,
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: I go out and start taking all the signs back signs.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: So I've got fifty five miles well for signs to
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: bring back in. So yeah, that takes me another few
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: days to be fair out my wife and then yeah,
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: get ready for the following year. But yeah it does.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't stop for us after after that, unfortunately, but
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  Speaker 5: we love it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, great, Okay, Well we've got to get all
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  Speaker 1: this song in. I don't think, but we're going to
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: put it in. This is the last song of the day.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Then we would just come back and say a few goodbyes.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: So this is what we want next Saturday at the
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Cliff Top Challenge. Here comes the Sun, the Beatles, he.
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  Speaker 5: Comes us, Here comes us.
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  Speaker 2: It's all right.
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  Speaker 1: Here, okay, So we're going to fade the Beatles out
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  Speaker 1: here comes the Sun because that is what we are
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  Speaker 1: hoping for next Saturday. So as we've only got about
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: forty odd seconds left, I just want to say a
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  Speaker 1: big thank you to you Chantelle, thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for coming in. You've been a great inspiration to this
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: race and the people of Deal and all ladies out
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  Speaker 1: there that have looked up to you with all the
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: trials and tribulations you've you've had to put up with.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: And Phil, big thanks to you, the man behind the scenes.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: You're doing a brilliant job and I do sympathize with
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: you going back and taking those signs. Do you know what,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I'm going to mention that again on Saturday when I
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: turn up. So so I just want to say thanks
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  Speaker 1: to you, Phil, thanks for coming in.
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  Speaker 5: No thanks Kevin, thanks for all your support for.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: You, Thanks you Grace. So there you go. That's it
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  Speaker 1: and we'll be back next Saturday. Actually, I've got some
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: London Marathon guests that are coming in. We're run it
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  Speaker 1: out of time now, so I will see you next
• 38:53
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