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JOE FROM SOUTH KENT MIND AND EXPERIENCED SEA SWIMMER KIRSTY HOGBEN TELL US ABOUT A COMMUNITY SEA DIP FUNDRAISER · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports Very Daily, bring you the folks,
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  Speaker 1: done and hive Sports show. On today's show, we have
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  Speaker 1: two guests, Joe told Hers from South Kent. Mine will
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  Speaker 1: be telling us all about a community seedp happening on
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  Speaker 1: the twenty sixth of April down at the Sunny Sands.
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  Speaker 1: And joining Joe will be c swim confidence coach Kirsty Hogbin,
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  Speaker 1: who has been helping Joe with this project.
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  Speaker 2: Also on the show.
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  Speaker 1: If we get time, because I think this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a busy one, I might try cramming some football.
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  Speaker 1: We've got some exciting under sixteen hockey news and news
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  Speaker 1: of next week my two hour marathon special. It's time
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  Speaker 1: to get on the show on the road with this
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  Speaker 1: classic karaoke trip. Join in sing along to Billy Joel
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  Speaker 1: an Uptown Girl.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, own up you were joining in?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, b Joe and Ker Stevens singing areas off in here.
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  Speaker 1: They got us Billy Joel Uptown Girl, a favorite karaoke track.
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  Speaker 1: I've never had the courage to sing that one. I've
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  Speaker 1: been up a few times and normally after a few drinks,
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  Speaker 1: but that haven't we all? Oh So anyway, let's move
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  Speaker 1: on to a bit of sport. Okay, So I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to introduce you to our two special guests on my
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  Speaker 1: show today. We have Joe Tolhurst from South Kent Mind
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  Speaker 1: and Kirsty Hogbin who as a c swim confidence coach
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  Speaker 1: and together they've been liaising for an event that's taking
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  Speaker 1: place on Sunday, the twenty sixth of April.
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  Speaker 2: So first of all, let's have a chat with Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Hello Joe, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very good?
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  Speaker 2: keV how are you yeah fine? Thanks, yeah, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: coming in. And Kirsty Hello to you. Are you okay?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Doing well?
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  Speaker 2: Been for swim today?
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  Speaker 5: Be in for a swim? Have you that's really choppy
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  Speaker 5: this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Oh was it? Yeah? Okay, brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: So Joe just briefly tell us about what's happening on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday stands on Sunday twenty sixth of April, and then
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  Speaker 1: we will go into it in more day later.
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  Speaker 3: On Lovely Yees. So on Sunday, the twenty sixth of April,
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  Speaker 3: South Kempminder hosting a community seed dip at Sunny Sands,
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  Speaker 3: sponsored by local mechanical engineering firm Amdell and supported by
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  Speaker 3: loads of members of the local community. It's a fundraising
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  Speaker 3: event for South Kent. Mind if you raise twenty five
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  Speaker 3: five pound plus you're a CVA swim caps up into
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  Speaker 3: all abilities. It's supportive, community focused and encourages people to
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  Speaker 3: try something new and step out of their comfort zone.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So, I mean this is the first I mean
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  Speaker 1: when you think of like dipping in the sea apart
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  Speaker 1: from a curse, it's just like a boxing day, isn't it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so hopefully the temperaures would be a bit warmer than
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  Speaker 1: boxing day. So Kursey, you've got a wealth of experience
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  Speaker 1: in sea swimming. So what's your bin roll your role
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  Speaker 1: being with with helping Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so Joe contacted me a couple of months ago
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  Speaker 5: and yeah, just wanted some advice for safety also marketing,
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  Speaker 5: so I do that on the side freelance. So yeah,
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  Speaker 5: we just had a coffee and went through some of
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  Speaker 5: the you know, things like risk assessments and just an
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  Speaker 5: idea of like what to do, like things like water temperature.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, So it's obviously been a team effort,
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  Speaker 1: which obviously your skills one in putting on charity efforts
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  Speaker 1: and to curse the on your sea swimming experience have
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  Speaker 1: dealed really nicely by the sound of it. Okay, So Joe,
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  Speaker 1: So whose idea was this? Did you dream this up?
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  Speaker 1: I saw that little cheeky video. But you didn't actually
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  Speaker 1: go in though, did you? You only went in up
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  Speaker 1: to your knees? Did you run out?
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  Speaker 2: It was good?
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  Speaker 3: And think Kevin, Yeah, are we going all the way
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  Speaker 3: in on the day?
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was good.
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  Speaker 3: A thing it's a bit too cold back then, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The idea sort of came about because you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: really kind of local charity that kind of focuses on
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  Speaker 3: engaging with the local community and focusing on what's popular.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously seaswimming really popular in our local community because
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  Speaker 3: of the benefits to mental health and well being, and
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  Speaker 3: we saw a great opportunity to collaborate with the local
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  Speaker 3: sea swim community and do something good for the charity.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 1: So also, I think we would sort of mention that
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  Speaker 1: a little bit later and come back to it repeat it.
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  Speaker 1: But south Kin mind a busy l team, aren't they
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  Speaker 1: always out there doing stuff and big program of events.
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  Speaker 1: So it's your chance now to market some of these
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  Speaker 1: events on radio focus and so what's coming up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got loads coming up.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin.
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  Speaker 3: It's great that you say that we're out there and
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  Speaker 3: doing lots because because that's really are our kind of
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  Speaker 3: aim as a charity to get out there in the
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  Speaker 3: local community and let people know that we are your
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  Speaker 3: local mental health charity to support anyone in the folks
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  Speaker 3: and over districts.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And so I mean you've got a program of events. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so tell us about supposing someone is tuned in for
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  Speaker 1: the first time, just move to Folkstone and what's this
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  Speaker 1: self kid Minded where you go?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, South Commander are local independent mental health charity. We're
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  Speaker 3: affiliated with National Mind, who are the larger charity that
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  Speaker 3: the advocacy charity that everyone knows, but we're actually an
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  Speaker 3: independent charity. So yeah, everything that we raise stays locally
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  Speaker 3: and supports local people. We do loads of local events
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  Speaker 3: such as sponsored dog walk, we do the Venetian Fate,
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  Speaker 3: the Sange Sea Festival, and then put on our own
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  Speaker 3: events like a firewalk and the Mental Health Fun Run.
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  Speaker 3: So we're really locally focused and really committed to supporting
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  Speaker 3: anyone in our local community with a mental health challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So in those last if you like a couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: it might be due to the fact since you've been
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  Speaker 1: on the team, I mean, have your numbers increased. People
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  Speaker 1: show more interest and you're getting the feedback is which
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  Speaker 1: is what you want.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. People are recognizing us all over the place
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  Speaker 3: and signposting to our services all the time, which is
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  Speaker 3: really important for us because we're for a range of
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  Speaker 3: services like counseling, wellbeing groups, and a range of activities
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  Speaker 3: such as walk walks, mindfulness and creative sessions. And it's
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  Speaker 3: really about letting everyone know that we are there and
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  Speaker 3: we can support you if you need us.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got a kind of a workshop up there,
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  Speaker 1: haven't you, cooking and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, some of those events. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So the road on Dover Road, on the corner of
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  Speaker 3: Tontime Street and Dover Road is our center where we
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  Speaker 3: host our cooking group, our well being activities and it's
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  Speaker 3: really our hub for the charities. So a lot of
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  Speaker 3: what we do is based.
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  Speaker 2: There, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So looking back on some of the events that you've done,
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  Speaker 1: For example, the firewalk, Hell was that was that greeted
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  Speaker 1: in the community.
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  Speaker 3: It was brilliant. We had loads of engagement from from
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  Speaker 3: the local community, local businesses, local counselors even walk the
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  Speaker 3: coals and it was that it was at three Hills,
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  Speaker 3: So we had great collaboration with the Sports Trust and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we raised some great funds for the charity and we're
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  Speaker 3: looking to repeat it this year and build on that success.
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  Speaker 1: Right and the Mental Health Rum is that going ahead again?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great event, isn't it going Thank you
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  Speaker 3: so much for your support over the years. So this
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  Speaker 3: year will be our third year running Mental Health along
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  Speaker 3: the Lees. It follows the park Rind course, so it's
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  Speaker 3: a five kilometer fun run starting at the bandstand and
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  Speaker 3: we encourage everyone to dress up as elves and that's
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  Speaker 3: going to be on Sunday, the sixth of December, So
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  Speaker 3: get it in your diary.
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  Speaker 1: I better check my diary, right, So genuinely mental health.
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  Speaker 2: I mean what sort of people come to you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't go into great detail, but what sort of
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  Speaker 1: support do they need?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so mental health challenges are really common. So one
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  Speaker 3: of five adults in the UK has experienced mental health
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  Speaker 3: challenge over the past year. So we're there to support
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  Speaker 3: anyone who needs, who suffers from loneliness, who needs a
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  Speaker 3: bit of connection as a way of supporting their mental
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  Speaker 3: health and so putting on events like this showcase how
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  Speaker 3: you community and connection is a great form of support
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  Speaker 3: how physical activity and nature proven to support well being
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  Speaker 3: and an event that brings people together as well.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So I do believe if I turn the clock
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  Speaker 1: back just a little bit, you also had a team
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  Speaker 1: that ran the half marathon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah we did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just raising awareness and funds for the charity and
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  Speaker 3: getting involved with a great local event.
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  Speaker 1: And also I do believe I went up there one
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  Speaker 1: evening and you were doing a couch to five k.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, couch to five k that was last year round
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  Speaker 3: September time. We did that in collaboration with Folks and
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  Speaker 3: Running Club, So big thank you to everyone then who
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  Speaker 3: helped us out, and it was Yeah, it was a
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  Speaker 3: great event to encourage running outside getting fits as a
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  Speaker 3: way of benefiting your mental health.
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  Speaker 1: And did you notice that the people were jelling better
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  Speaker 1: each week that they went back and sort of at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the course that they'd made new friends.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely the group really grow grew over the twelve
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  Speaker 3: week course and it was really nice to see relationships
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  Speaker 3: developed and people become more engaged with South Kent Mind
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  Speaker 3: and you know, it was great to be running along
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  Speaker 3: the lees seeing people spraining the word about the charity. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's a really nice event.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, So we're going to take a little music
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  Speaker 1: break now and I'm looking for some sort of special
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  Speaker 1: songs to play about this swimming event. And the one
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  Speaker 1: I can find most of all was a song by
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  Speaker 1: Belinda Carlisle. It's called Circle in the Sand.
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  Speaker 4: Walking through the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Circle in the sand. There and will be competitors for
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  Speaker 1: the community Seed be doing circles in the sand or
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  Speaker 1: will they go straight in?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have to wait and see him.
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  Speaker 1: I always say that a boxing day, I always tell
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  Speaker 1: the same little story if anybody goes down to the
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  Speaker 1: sea on the sea dip and they changed their mind,
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  Speaker 1: are they a chicken dipper?
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  Speaker 2: Anyway?
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  Speaker 1: This is a Tony Blackpone joke. Right, So moving on
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  Speaker 1: to Kursty now and now curse the Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 1: You've been in a couple of times, so you are
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  Speaker 1: a sea swim confidence coach. But let's take us back
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  Speaker 1: to how it all started. I remember you coming up
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  Speaker 1: on the coach with us to the London Marathon, which
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  Speaker 1: you didn't have a very good day.
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  Speaker 2: Did you tell us about that. No.
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  Speaker 5: At the halfway point, Kevin, I twisted my ankle. I
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  Speaker 5: had a weakness anyway, but I didn't realize I'd torn
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  Speaker 5: a ligament at that halfway point. But because of all
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  Speaker 5: the crowd and the adrenaline, I finished the race. But
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  Speaker 5: then I was out for quite a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if I remember rightly, you took to swimming just
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  Speaker 1: as a sort of something else to do because you
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  Speaker 1: like to keep fit.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? I was trying to figure out what star was
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  Speaker 5: feeling a bit depressed. I was. I loved running, it
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  Speaker 5: was so good for my mental health. And then I
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  Speaker 5: set myself a challenge just to do one hundred days
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  Speaker 5: in the sea until I was my fit was better.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But that hundred turned into another naught on the end,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And you did a thousand days. Do you listen to this?
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  Speaker 1: Everybody out there? Coursey did a thousand days consecutive going
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  Speaker 1: in the sea. And I will say that I do
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  Speaker 1: remember that day. Tell us what happened that day of
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  Speaker 1: the thousand days?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was wonderful. Like all the people i'd met
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  Speaker 5: swimming UK supported and we all got in the water together.
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  Speaker 5: I think there was about sixty of us and it
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  Speaker 5: fell on the coldest month of the year in the
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  Speaker 5: water as well.
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  Speaker 2: It was in March, well, I do remember. And they
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  Speaker 2: all made a lovely guard of honor and then they
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  Speaker 2: all joined you. It was really a memorial day. Memorable day.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, So have you kept you going consistently or have
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  Speaker 1: you sort of had the old day off?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? I took a day off tears ago now, I
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  Speaker 5: think so it was twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have a note from your mum? By the way,
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  Speaker 2: taking a day off in a thousand night?
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  Speaker 3: It was hard?
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  Speaker 2: So how many did you do actually consecutive? Can you remember?
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  Speaker 5: There's about one thousand and five hundred and fifty or
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  Speaker 5: something was that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Right, that's brilliant. It's amazing. There must be a Guiness
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  Speaker 1: Book of records.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whether if there's a category for going
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  Speaker 1: into to have a sea swim every day. Yeah, we'd
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  Speaker 1: have to look into that one, right. So from there
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  Speaker 1: you decided to part your knowledge onto other people and
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  Speaker 1: you started up this sea swimming confidence coaching. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how did that start off? Initially? Tell us about that,
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  Speaker 1: and I know it's grown, So tell us the story
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  Speaker 1: of that well.
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  Speaker 5: I was working in marketing at the time, and then
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  Speaker 5: I got I got let go from a job, and
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  Speaker 5: then I was like, I'm just going to try and
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  Speaker 5: do something I'm passionate about. Put up a website and
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  Speaker 5: put some ads out, offered confidence lessons, and I didn't
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  Speaker 5: realize just how many people were afraid of the sea.
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  Speaker 2: Only just remind me, was this after COVID or pre COVID.
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  Speaker 5: This was during COVID, So this was twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, yeah, because a lot of people just
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  Speaker 1: took to swimming in the sea.
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  Speaker 2: They during COVID.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway, Yeah, so many.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So okay, So I'm I can swim. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a new to folks and I want to swim in
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  Speaker 1: the sea. I come down and meet you. What sort
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  Speaker 1: of things would you ask me about swimming and whether
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  Speaker 1: I should go ahead?
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  Speaker 5: So I'd check beforehand if you have any health conditions
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  Speaker 5: and if there are any to check with your doctor
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  Speaker 5: before before you go in, because it is it is
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  Speaker 5: an extreme sport. Obviously the water never really gets warm
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  Speaker 5: here in the in the UK. And then I would
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  Speaker 5: make sure you had all the correct gear. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you only really need a swimming costume in the summer,
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  Speaker 5: but I would just make sure you had warm enough
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  Speaker 5: gear because we'd be sitting for a little while chatting
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  Speaker 5: and talking about a lot of sea theory as well
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  Speaker 5: in the lesson. So just yeah, just checking that you
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  Speaker 5: had all of the right gear, the right prep and
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  Speaker 5: most of all, like before we go in the water
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  Speaker 5: to calm that nervous system down de some deep breathing,
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  Speaker 5: because a lot of it is about how your mindset
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  Speaker 5: really before you go in the water.
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  Speaker 2: And the temperature itself.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for like the first time, as if you like,
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  Speaker 1: would you do they go in in a wet suit
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  Speaker 1: or the idea is to just like go in in
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  Speaker 1: the coursetume somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: Wet suit depends on the time of year. Obviously, like
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  Speaker 5: my business is seasonal, but some people booking in like
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  Speaker 5: April and May, so we do tend to use wet
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  Speaker 5: seats around that time of year, but some people wear
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  Speaker 5: one all throughout the year. There's no judgment. It depends
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  Speaker 5: on what you what you need, what you.
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  Speaker 1: Want, and I mean extremities like toes and fingers and that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is there special gloves that people can wear.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you've got near pre and material gloves and beats.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter what brand you get, cheap or expensive,
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  Speaker 5: they all work. It's really good to protect your extremities
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  Speaker 5: in the winter swimming because you've got like your peripheral
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  Speaker 5: nerves on the end of your fingers and toes and
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  Speaker 5: you want to you want to protect them. So definitely
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  Speaker 5: recommend getting a pair of those.
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  Speaker 2: So okay, So how long we've been doing it now?
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  Speaker 5: Since twenty nineteen, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and you've seen it grow in the interest.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, massively as it Yeah, And like you say, it
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  Speaker 5: was the pandemic that really created that. There was like
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  Speaker 5: I think two hundred swimmers in the Folks and Swimming
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  Speaker 5: Facebook group and now there are I think three thousand,
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  Speaker 5: not all of yeah, not all of them swim.
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  Speaker 1: But no, yeah, right, that's brilliant and mean do you
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  Speaker 1: get people from me? They're not all Folkstonians, I should
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  Speaker 1: imagine you get people from other parts of London or
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  Speaker 1: people on holiday.
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  Speaker 2: They just approach you and so can we come along idea.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I get a lot of Londoners come down in
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  Speaker 5: the summer. I even had a relay team from California
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  Speaker 5: which was awesome and did a guided swim with them
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  Speaker 5: because they didn't know the currents and the tides.
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  Speaker 3: It was great.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right, we've got loads of talk about but we're going
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  Speaker 1: to play another song and then we're gonna go back
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  Speaker 1: to Joe. But there's a few more things I want
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  Speaker 1: to ask.
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  Speaker 2: You, Kirsty.
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  Speaker 1: So we got to this song from two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 1: They said, I listened to Scouting for Girls and she's
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: so lovely scouting the girls there. She's a lovely two.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Thousand and seven.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: And it always reminds me of the Race for Life
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: when we used to do it, when there was just
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: like ladies only. Now it's it's families only. At least
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: everybody can join in. But when it was ladies down,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: this used to go down a real storm. It really
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: need Okay, So we're back in the studio with Joe
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: and Kirsty. So we're going to talk about how we
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: think the event might go on the day. So so Joe,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: let's start with you just recap how you think it's
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: going to go.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So, so to start off, sign ups are hosted
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: through our website, the South Kentmind website at south Kentmind
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: dot talg dot uk. So if you'd like to join
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: the DIP, as I said, open to all abilities, open
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: to everyone, whether you're an experienced ce swimmer or looking
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: to get into it or just want to support south
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Kent Mind. You can sign up on our website south
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Kentmind talk dot uk and then on the day we'll
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: dip itself. Will actually kick off from about eleven am,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: but we'll be meeting down there from ten thirty. Sort
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: of sign in, give a brief, thank you, a bit
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: of briefing and Kirsty will be there to chat to people,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: you know about bit of confidence getting into the water,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: because it is a kind of bit of a nervy
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: thing to some people getting in the water. But Kursey's
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: been such a great support and it is so knowledgeable
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: of sea swimming and you know the benefits of it,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: so I'm sure it'll chat with her, we'll put you
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: at rest. And we've also got folks and rescue there,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: our local lifeguards to support, so big shout out to
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: them for supporting us on the day. Will provide yeah,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: lifeguard support on the day.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Right, So you've had to choose this day and the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: time with a bit of accuracy. Even you make sure
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: that the tide is sort of just turning around.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Is it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just turn around. So we've done all the tie
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: checks with the guys at the Coast Watch that they
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: helped us out with their sort of long range tide tracking,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: so we know the tit will be good around eleven
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: am and yeah, fair weather conditions.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do remember I compared a race at Broadstairs
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: on the beach there and the race went from Broadstairs
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to Ramsgate actually on the actually through the sand, and
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I got there a bit early and the race director
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: was there and he was looking at his watch, was
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the tide was still up, and he's going, oh my word,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: hope I've got this right, running through the waterlot chairts
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: of fire. But just as he said it, you know,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: we're in about twenty minutes, you could see it was
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: it was pulling back. But yeah, it's a bit, you know,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: a bit nerve wracking. So Kirsty on the day, what
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: have you been roped into doing?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: So I'll just be speaking to individuals just sort of
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: as Jay were saying, kind of like, give give me
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: some confidence, answering any questions, just making sure people kind
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: of know what they're doing really and.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: The main thing is that they we got to give
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: them confidence apart from your advice.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Is they got the sea rescue what they.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Called jo Yeah, folks and rescue.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Folks and rescue would be out there. So what they
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: have a little boat or something zipping about.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: They'll be there on the beach and there in their
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: yellow tops. Yeah, lifeguard support.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, what what are you I mean, there's obviously
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: no sort of set routine, but what are you expecting
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: of these dippers? Are you expecting to swim the channel
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and just have a little patal or come back?
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Definitely not swim the channel. Said, it's up to It's
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: up to everyone really kind of we're not setting any
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: targets for how long you have to be in the water.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: It's a really relaxed kind of seed dip because saying
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: for as long as you like, or importantly as long
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: as you feel comfortable with because as I said, open
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: to everyone. If you've never done it before, you might
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: just want to dip your toes. But if you're staying
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: for a little wile, that's take it up to you.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: We have a safe okay, So ghostly just turning back
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to you and your your team of sea swimmers.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: And now I've got a little bullet point here.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the right word to use,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: but moon dips what is that all about?
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Soon you're when you all gathered down there, probably in
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: a full moon, and would you have a fole going?
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been it's been lovely. Like we've we started,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: i'd know, about four years ago, I think, and there
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: was just like three or four of us that were
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: crazy enough to swim and do a night swim. But
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: like it's become a gathering. Really not everybody swims. A
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: lot of people come and come to the fire and
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: it's great because there's some people that come like alone
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: and they're a bit nervous, but then they come down
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: and then they meet people. And we had we had
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: two people that met and now they're a couple.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Which was also swimming together.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah they do.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Actually, Oh great, so are.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: You I'm not say you'll be scouting for talent, but
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: would you be hoping that to preps someone that put
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: their toes in the water might come and see you
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and want to, you know, just take it a bit further.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. I think to get the most out of
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: sea swimming, I think especially with technique building. I think
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: that's like most of the students I get now, people
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: that want to perhaps they're breaststrokers or they just dippers
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: and they want to, you know, do some proper front
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: crawling in the water, make the most of it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and from your experience, then if someone is a confident,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you know, swimmer in the pool and starts with you
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: health check's okay. How long is it before you can
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: sort of walk away from them and say, right, I'm
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: quite happy that they've they've learned the lessons about the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: tides and that is it a long transformation?
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: Not at all. I mean, it depends on the individual.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: But like sometimes we just have one session. If they
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: just want to know see theory, that's just one session.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: But if they want to learn front crawl and open
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: water skills, it's normally about three or four on average.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and we won't go just yet. But while
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: we're on a subject, how can people get in touch
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: with you? Just give your social media a bit of
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: a promotion now.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so on Instagram, so it's Kirsty c Swimcach, kirstyhogbend
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: dot com and yeah, Kirsty s swim coach on Facebook
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: as well.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to play a little song now, and
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: this one I did promise somebody that I would play
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: this one. I didn't have time to play it when
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I was on air last time.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I went to a school reunion the other day and
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: it's not the first one, and I saw people there
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: that I started school with. And bearing in mind I'm
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: in my mid seventies now, so you're going back sixty
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: odd years. And there was one chap that has moved
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to Spain and his wife tracked me down and and
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: then the phone went and I thought, oh, that's a
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: funny ring tone, Well is that And it was my
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: friend who I hadn't spoken to for thirty years or no.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Well we left school with sixty seven and so in
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: all that time, and I was speaking to his wife
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: as well, and I said, oh, is there a special
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: song that you've got for the two of you? And
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: she said, oh, yes, she said them because I used
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: to go to school in North London and it was
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: in the era of the sixties and we had the
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Dave Clark five were famous at the time, and they're
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: playing at the Tottenham Royal But she said This is
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: one of her songs, kind of the Baryon Lynn met
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty seven at the Tottenham Royal and it
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: sounds from this song that they had a few problems,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: because if you listen to the words of this song
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: you'll see what I mean. But like all of us do,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: they're still together. And this is for you, Barryon Lynn,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: after nearly sixty years together. This is Lorraine Ellison and
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: stay with me?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Well did you go Telly?
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Things roll?
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: As Loraine Ellison there, stay with me baby, and as
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Lynn said that she's still hanging on to him after
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: sixty years. So it's so lovely to speak to you
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: both this morning out in Spain. Okay, so we've got
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to a little bit of time. So what we're going
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to do now we're going to speak to Kirsty now
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: because off air we were talking about something very interesting
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: about the temperature of the water. So Kirsty, what's the
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: temperature of the water around about these days in Folston.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's about ten degrees Karen.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: And degrees and the outside temperature at that was just
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: creeping up now, isn't it's sort fourteen fifteen, so it's
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: it's warmer when you get out right, so when you
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: go on holiday, we ever go to warm countries and
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: ever swim in warm.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: Water idea and I find it too warm? Yeah, miss
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: I missed the cold water.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Here really Yeah that's interesting.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, right Joe, We're going to come back to
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Kirsty just a sec. But this is your last little
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: chance to promote anything you want to do, so just
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: go ahead.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, last chance. So firstly I'm here on behalf South Kent. Mind,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: your local independent mental health charity. So if you are,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: if you anyone you know struggling with their mental health
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: experiencing challenges, do please get in touch with us to
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: look at how we might help you. Give us a
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: ring on one three or three two five hundred nine zero.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: But yeah, obviously here as well to promote Dip for Mind,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: which is our community c swim which on Sunday, the
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: twenty sixth of April on Sunny Sounds in Folkston. It's
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: all about bringing people together in a really positive, visible
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: way to support mental health. It's open to everyone, whether
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: you dip every day or this is a first time
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: dip for you. Most importantly it helps raise vital funds,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: so no one in south Kent has to face mental
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: health problems alone, So find out more and sign up
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: at south kepmind dot org dot uk and yeah, sign
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: up today.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Well done, okay, Joe.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: So even if you not don't want to dip, and
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: perhaps you want to support someone, go down there. I'm
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: sure that there'll be lethallystance advice and people down there
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: to tell you about south Kent mine and just go
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: along and find out all about it, Is that, right, Joe?
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Definitely. And if you want to support through donating, we've
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: got just giving page made which on our website as well.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: And if you want to if you're unable to make
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: it on the day we want to support you, welcome
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: to as well. And obviously you've got a fundraising target
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: in place for anyone who does sign up, raise twenty
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: five pounds or more and you receive a special South
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Kent Mind swim cap for the Dame.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Right okay, So don't get your hearwits right, okay, So
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: curse that you. Now you've been doing this c swimming
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: look for quite a while now and you've built up
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: a good clear intel, but I'm sure there's room for more,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: so just tell us briefly, how people can get in
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: touch with you.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm on Instagram Kirsty cswim coach, or my website
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: Cairstihogbend dot com. Yeah.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And what final advice would you give to someone that's
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: perhaps listening to this and thinking, well, I've ave seen them.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I mean when I go to the park run on
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: a Saturday, I always go to the top of the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: loop before I just have a little look over there,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and you think, just count the amount of nutters that
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: are in the pool today, one, two, three, four, and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: then it goes five to six, seven, I would eight, nine, ten.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: So Saturday morning does seem quite a popular time. And
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: so what advice would you give to somebody? I mean,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: perhaps just come down and talk to you one time.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, come and have a chat or you know,
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: give me a call lot from my website. Yeah. It's
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: great because there's so many people that are so supportive
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: on the beach down there, and you're fine people that
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: are very friendly and open, especially open water swimmers.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, you've built up a great community, Kirsty, so of
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: real real big congratulations to you. Not I only have
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: you improved people's mental health, you know, their physical health
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: as well. And it's kind of a bit it's a
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: bit like the South Kept Mine. You know, they're not lonely.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: People come along, perhaps they don't fancy going in for
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: a swim, but they know that people will.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Have a chat.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, Kirsty, thanks for taking the time to come in,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and Joe, thank you as well. I'm sorry i won't
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: be able to join you in the dip. I'll be
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: on the coach heading towards London to watch, not to
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: run it, but to watch the London Marathon. So big
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: thanks to you and good luck, and I'm sure i'll
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: see you at another event shortly shortly on.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot. Okay.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: This song is from nineteen ninety six Savage Garden to
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the Moon and Back. Just take it, nineteen ninety six
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Savage Garden to the Moon and Back.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: So that was a brilliant interview which has lasted nearly
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: fifty minutes of the show. And so I'm gonna is
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do is just chuck in a few
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: little snippets of sport here, excuse me. So I'm gonna
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: stay carry on with rugby now. The Folkston first fifteen
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: were back in action last Saturday, but sadly they lost
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: forty eight thirty eight away to the Old Alanians. Their
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: last game is this Saturday when they welcome old rivals
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Alsford to the Burlington Fields. The Seconds had a home
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: walk over a home walkover win as it's technically known
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: as opponents Lee must have had a bit of a
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: struggle to put a side out which goes down on
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: paper as a forty anneal win to Folkston. Saturday sees
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the Seconds travel away to play Canterbury Deacons. Then their
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: last game is on the twenty fifth at home to sit.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: The Ladies have to wait until their last game on
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the Sunday twenty sixth, when they welcome Beckenham Ladies to
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the Burlington Fields. Now, Hockey News congratulations to the Folks
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: and Optimist under sixteen girls team who beat the under
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: sixteen girls of Norwidge Hockey Club two to one in
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the National Plate Final which is held at the Center
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: of Hockey Excellence in Nottingham. So yet once again a
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: team of juniors has reached a national final, and I
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: think that must be for about third year running. Now
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: they do churn out these youngsters and it's all down
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: to the whole infrastructure down at the three Hills. There
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: they got great teams, great coaches, great support and obviously
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: great facilities. So we're down to you under sixteens and
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I just want to say a big well done to
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Aila Gallaher she scored both of the goals.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Now quick shout out to.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: A running friends of mine who completed the Brighton Marathon
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: on Sunday. Now, this is in no particular order. Henry
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Axson two fifty five eight, Amy Axson four twenty two
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: thirty five, JS O'Callahan three fifty seven fifty eight, Lily
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Rashbrook five O two nineteen, Bryan Veenie five O seven
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: fifty eight, Lucy may Helliwell five twenty five ten. And
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: this is a little bit different Keith Lyon five fifty
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: six eighteen.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: But this was a trial.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Marathon which joined the main marathon course about five miles
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: from home, so the runners were experiencing the full on
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: finish after running many miles across the Sussex Downs and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the section of the Ditchland Beacon. Now, if you run
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: a trail marathon where you can picture it, it's out
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: in the middle of nowhere on the through fields. And
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: paths and things. It's not like you're getting the buzz
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: of a full marathon. But it was a great idea
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: to bring that marathon into the finish of the major marathon.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: So it was a really good after being perhaps a
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: bit lonely out in the downs, you know, back to
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the razmataz of the Brighton finish.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: And so there you go, so well down to everybody.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I'm sure I've missed out a few, but they are
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the ones that came quickly to mind, and I tracked
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: them down. So we got time for one little song. Now,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I think we might just squeeze this one in. We've
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: got about ten minutes to go, but I might just
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I might just mention a bit of football anyway. My uh,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: we've got the painters in that they're doing the outside
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: of the house and they've got these sort of railings
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: and needed to be painted, and so we haven't a
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: chat about colors. And the chap said to me, Okay,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I'm going to paint it black.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: So what more? What could you do? Is that cue
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: for a song or not red? So I paid it black.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: That one's for the painters outside my building painting the railings.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: What color do you want kere u s paint it black?
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, rolling stones there from nineteen sixty six. Okay, do
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm going to squeeze this football in
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and what have a little bit of time up sleeve.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: So we're going to football folks in the Victor a
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: little bit more in depth on Saturday. But last Saturday
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: they traveled away to a Whitehawk near Brighton and came
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  Speaker 1: away with a tool draw. Now apparently it was a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a scrappy old game. I was listening to
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  Speaker 1: Seasider's radio in Victor. Went one nil up, then they
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  Speaker 1: went two one down. Then sub Adi Yusuf came on
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  Speaker 1: and only after five minutes on the pitch he made
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  Speaker 1: it two. So we'll have a chat with Ady Dowks,
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  Speaker 1: a man on the spot, when he returns for the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Saturday Sports show. Between ten and eleven, Higtown lost four
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  Speaker 1: nil at home to Sutton Athletic on Saturday and this
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  Speaker 1: week they are at home to Fabush some strikeforce on
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  Speaker 1: the Saturday, with their final game away to Punjab United
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday to twenty third. Well, quite frankly, I expect
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  Speaker 1: they'd be glad to see the back of this season
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  Speaker 1: and focus on bouncing back at the first attempt next season.
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  Speaker 1: In the NLG Kent County League, New Romney and Hawkins
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  Speaker 1: both had two nil away wins. New Romney beat Fleet
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  Speaker 1: Down and Hawkins beat King's Hill, and the bonus news
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  Speaker 1: for Hawkins was that Minster's lack of form continued as
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  Speaker 1: they lost four to at home to Metro Gas, meaning
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday evening the Hawks were top of the table. However,
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  Speaker 1: that changed on Tuesday when Minster beat New Romney two
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  Speaker 1: to one to jump back into first place, and it
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  Speaker 1: changed yet again on Wednesday evening when Hawkins beat Snodland
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  Speaker 1: Town five to one, pushing them back into the top spot.
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  Speaker 2: So that is a real league. I'm definitely going to
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  Speaker 2: follow right to the end. It is so close.
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  Speaker 1: Hawkins have got an advantage of a game in hand,
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  Speaker 1: but you've still got to win that game in hand,
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  Speaker 1: haven't you? Sad He sees Hawkins at home to Kent
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  Speaker 1: United and New Romney at home to Aylesford. Garret Wilson's
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  Speaker 1: focused inn in Victor Disability team picked up some.
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  Speaker 2: Silverware on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: That was at a Favershion where they ever been running
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  Speaker 1: this tournament for the most of the season. They finished
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  Speaker 1: top of the championship Division one, so world un to
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  Speaker 1: everybody there. But unfortunately the Division two championship team finished
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  Speaker 1: bottom of their league, so you know they have a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a mixed emotions. Really, wasn't it Okay? So
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  Speaker 1: we're just going to play a few second of this
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  Speaker 1: one electric light orchestra. I was hoping to play it all,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought I'd do the football instead, So sit tight,
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  Speaker 1: don't bring me down.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's it for me.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back on Saturday with Ad. But listen out
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  Speaker 1: for the next Thursday show. I've got doing a two
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  Speaker 1: hour London Marathon special when I should be speaking to
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  Speaker 1: four runners who have never run a marathon before. They're
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: running the London and they're raising money for charity.
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  Speaker 2: So don't miss it by
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  Speaker 1: For now online at Radio Folkston dot com and on
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