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IAN VOUSDEN TELLS US ABOUT HIS JOURNEY TOWARDS THE LONDON MARATHON RAISING MONEY FOR PANCREATIC CANCER · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports Verry Daily here on one of
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  Speaker 1: five point nine Radio Folkston bringing you the Folkston and
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  Speaker 1: Hive Sports Show. On today's show, we have local football, rugby,
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  Speaker 1: hockey and running news and we've fought so fucking squeeze
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  Speaker 1: it in a bit of news about the Folkston Senior
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  Speaker 1: and the Junior Park Raum. So it's a marathon season
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  Speaker 1: and I've tracked down our first London Marathon of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five Ian Vousden from the Folks and Running and
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  Speaker 1: Athletics Club, so we'd be chatting to him a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later on in the show. So don't go away.
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  Speaker 1: It's lunchtime. Put that coffee sheet on, I have a
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  Speaker 1: little listen and we're going to start. We've got some
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  Speaker 1: running themed music today and our first one up is
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  Speaker 1: a classic track from mister Lionel Richie and Running with
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  Speaker 1: the Night. But what a great way to start a show,
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  Speaker 1: A running theme show at Lionel Richie Running with the
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  Speaker 1: Night nineteen eighty three. So let's turn our attention to
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  Speaker 1: our guests today. We're joined by Ian Vousden.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Ian, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah good, thank you thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good to see you good to come in in.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're running the London Marathon. But before we talk
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  Speaker 1: about that, let's just turn our attentions to a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about yourself. Tell us a little bit about your background,
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  Speaker 1: sporty background, you know, did you go to grammar school?
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  Speaker 3: University? And what did you do there? And right go
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  Speaker 3: and then so.
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  Speaker 4: I spent most of my life growing up in Folston.
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  Speaker 4: I went to primary school in Folkston, went to the
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  Speaker 4: Harvey Grammar School. It was fairly sporty at school, did
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  Speaker 4: a lot of football, mainly cricket.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do much running. Didn't really enjoy running at that.
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  Speaker 1: Was he one of those that had a fair ground
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  Speaker 1: the bike chefrunn How do you know? How so, so
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  Speaker 1: you brought up in Folkeston, you went to Harvey?
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  Speaker 3: What next in your life?
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  Speaker 2: So?
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  Speaker 4: After I went to the Harvey, I then went to university.
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  Speaker 4: I went to Northampton University to be honest, didn't do
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  Speaker 4: too much sport for three years that I was at university.
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  Speaker 2: Then came back to Folkston.
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  Speaker 4: Managed to get a job back in Folkston after my
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  Speaker 4: three years at university, which was with the NHS, and
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  Speaker 4: I've been with the NHS ever since.
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  Speaker 3: Oh right, so when did you first get into sport?
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  Speaker 1: Then? Was running the first sort of attempt at any
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  Speaker 1: sport to get it into it?
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  Speaker 4: By mistake, I did a bit of sport at Cool
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  Speaker 4: as I said, But after I left university came back
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  Speaker 4: to Folkston, I started to play a bit of five
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  Speaker 4: side football regularly on a once a week, played a
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  Speaker 4: bit of squash, but soon discovered the older I get
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  Speaker 4: that my back wasn't coping with that kind of sport,
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  Speaker 4: so I kind of stopped all sports, started to the gym.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't really get on with the gym for a few years,
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  Speaker 4: couldn't really get with it. So I needed to try
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  Speaker 4: and find kind of another sport to get out there
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  Speaker 4: and do some exercise.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, And so your first, your first venture into running,
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  Speaker 1: was that just thinking all right, I need to get
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  Speaker 1: I'll just go for a run around the block myself.
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  Speaker 4: And it was actually during COVID, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I discovered that I wasn't doing any sport at all.
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  Speaker 4: During COVID, my wife, funnily enough signed up to do
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  Speaker 4: couch to five K, so she did it first, then
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  Speaker 4: eventually kind of persuaded me that I should probably do it.
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  Speaker 4: Got through couch five k, didn't really enjoy the whole
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  Speaker 4: process until I was able to run five k, at
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  Speaker 4: which point I discovered, actually I quite like I enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: Did you do couch the five k with your own
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  Speaker 1: little program or did you go to a club and.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's just just with the app, Yeah, my
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  Speaker 4: own getting out and about during COVID.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And then eventually after I did that, I started to
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  Speaker 4: do part run on a Saturday morning, and then eventually
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  Speaker 4: got persuaded that going to Folkston Running Club would be
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  Speaker 4: a good idea. So I went along to the running club,
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  Speaker 4: did a few sessions, loved it, and I've been there
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  Speaker 4: ever since.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, ah, that's good. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great little story actually, because you've gone from
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  Speaker 1: if you're like, not really enjoying sport, and even when
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  Speaker 1: you did couch five k you didn't particularly enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: But once you got once you got passed, so you
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  Speaker 1: could run without I suppose without stopping, and that makes
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  Speaker 1: it more worthwhile, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Once I could get to the point where I could
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  Speaker 4: actually run without worry about running, then I started to
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  Speaker 4: enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Ah right, okay, so what are you doing in the
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  Speaker 1: NHS for a line of employees.
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  Speaker 4: My job is I'm a Cancer Alliance director for the
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  Speaker 4: whole of Kenton Medway.
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  Speaker 2: Oh right, so it's quite an important job.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so a cancer Alliance story director.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah all right.
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  Speaker 3: So what is your job description as such where you do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So there are twenty cancer alliances nationally, the one
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  Speaker 4: locally is for Kenton Medway, and my role is to
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  Speaker 4: basically work with all of the experts, all of the
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  Speaker 4: clinicians to try and improve all the cancer pathways and
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  Speaker 4: journey for patients across Kenton Medway, whether that be trying
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  Speaker 4: new innovations or whether that's just about getting a load
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  Speaker 4: of clinicians in the room to agree what the best
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  Speaker 4: thing is for their patients.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you're working with budgets and that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and.
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  Speaker 3: They're asking you for more money all the time, are they.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well NHS yeah, as with everything financially constrained at
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  Speaker 4: the moment, so we have to work within the envelope
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  Speaker 4: that we've got. But I really really love my job.
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  Speaker 4: I'm really lucky. I'm one of those people that really
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  Speaker 4: enjoys I do.
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  Speaker 1: Oh excellent, right, so I did pick up that you're
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  Speaker 1: actually running for a cancer charity, aren't you.
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  Speaker 3: Has that got something to do with it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: So, I mean at the point at which I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to run the marathon, I looked at the options the ballot.
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  Speaker 4: It's just, you know, no chance of getting in on
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  Speaker 4: the ballot. I think you've only got a three percent
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  Speaker 4: chance to get in on the free ballot. So I
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  Speaker 4: looked around to see whether I could get one of
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  Speaker 4: the charities on board. Pancreatic cancer is one of those
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  Speaker 4: cancers that from my work life I know is a
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  Speaker 4: particularly horrible cancer. Survival rates aren't great, it's really hard
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  Speaker 4: to diagnose. So anything we can do to support that
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  Speaker 4: cancer all the better. And Pancreatic Cancer UK are the
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  Speaker 4: official charity for this year's London Marathon, so it seemed
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  Speaker 4: an obvious choice.
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  Speaker 2: For us try and get on board with them.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So in your line of work, you're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: these clinicushions usations. Yeah, it's easy for you say, but
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  Speaker 1: I mean does your work does it spin over into
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  Speaker 1: the into the wards that you know the people?
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  Speaker 3: Might you know that your clinic cutius to say coming Look.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'm because I kind of have a
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  Speaker 4: strategic role across the whole of Kenton, Medway. I don't
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  Speaker 4: interact necessarily with patients on a day to day basis,
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  Speaker 4: but obviously given the course of the work I do,
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  Speaker 4: I go out and do a lot of presentations. I
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  Speaker 4: do link in and interact with patients periodically. And what's
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  Speaker 4: been lovely as a result of signing up for Pancreatic
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  Speaker 4: Country UK is some of the donations that I've had
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  Speaker 4: and some of the messages that I've had from people
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  Speaker 4: have been have been lovely in terms of how that
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  Speaker 4: counc has affected them and their journey and their and
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  Speaker 4: their and their family.
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  Speaker 3: And have you had much contact with the charity itself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been really good actually all the way along.
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  Speaker 4: Once I got signed up to run for them, you
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  Speaker 4: get sent a really detail pack all the stuff that
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  Speaker 4: you need to be aware of in terms of the
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  Speaker 4: marathon itself. They text me every month or team at
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  Speaker 4: the charity to see how I'm getting on, and obviously
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  Speaker 4: they keep an eye on how much money that I've raised.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm in raising it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh great, Okay, so we're going to take a little
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  Speaker 1: break now, but we've got a special song, and you've
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  Speaker 1: requested this one, Ian, because I understand on your long
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  Speaker 1: runs you do sometimes take your headphones with you, So
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  Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about this song.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm a massive rocky fan and actually to try
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  Speaker 4: and get you motivated to go out on a cold, windy,
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  Speaker 4: horrible rainy day, you need some sort of motivation. I
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  Speaker 4: do listen to music and this is one of the
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  Speaker 4: songs that gets me. It gets me out of bed.
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  Speaker 3: Is it great? Okay, So it's over to you. Introduce
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  Speaker 3: it and I'll hit the button lovely.
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  Speaker 2: This is I A the Tiger.
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  Speaker 1: Hi the Tiger there from nineteen eighty two, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you what Ian's been running around the studio. This
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  Speaker 1: is another a little warm up before he runs home
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  Speaker 1: and doesn't other twenty miles but which is all good training.
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  Speaker 1: So Ian, back to you now. So now London Marathon
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  Speaker 1: coming up. Have you done a marathon before?
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  Speaker 2: I have? Yeah? I was.
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  Speaker 4: I signed up and did and got around Manchester Marathon
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  Speaker 4: last year.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so you've some idea of what you're letting yourself
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  Speaker 3: in for.
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  Speaker 4: I have got a bit of an idea and I've
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  Speaker 4: learned a lot of lessons from last year. In terms
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  Speaker 4: of what I did or what I didn't do. So
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  Speaker 4: fingers crossed. Going into this year, I'm in a much
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  Speaker 4: better physical shape and I'll know what I need to
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  Speaker 4: do on the day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So what was the difference between preparing for Manchester
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  Speaker 1: and preparing for London? Did you think actually that the
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  Speaker 1: club helped? Yeah, massively?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I think so the things that I didn't
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  Speaker 4: do particularly well last year was all I was actually
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  Speaker 4: ill for about three weeks during my marathon plan really poorly,
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  Speaker 4: so I couldn't ge out and run for three weeks,
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  Speaker 4: which I think had a big impact.
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  Speaker 2: But I think the main thing I hit the wall.
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  Speaker 4: As all runners know about the War, I hit the
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  Speaker 4: wall at about mile eighteen a mile nineteen and I
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  Speaker 4: just had no energy and nothing left in my legs.
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  Speaker 4: So going into this year, I think a lot of
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  Speaker 4: that was around fueling, understanding what I needed to do,
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  Speaker 4: how often I needed to fuel, et cetera, et cetera predominantly,
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  Speaker 4: and how fitness fit I was at the time. So
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  Speaker 4: being at the Running Folks and Running Club, you get
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  Speaker 4: to hear and learn from all of your colleagues that
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  Speaker 4: have done multiple marathons about what's the right thing to do,
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  Speaker 4: what the right training plan needs to be, what your
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  Speaker 4: fueling needs to look like. So yeah, I've learned the load.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, months or so.
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  Speaker 1: And excuse me, how far are you into your running?
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's a big race coming up at the
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  Speaker 1: weekend down at Lead which is very popular for people
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  Speaker 1: running Spring marathon.
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  Speaker 3: Are you doing that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm doing the twenty miler. Oh yes, it's on
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  Speaker 4: my marathon plan. I did it last year ahead of
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  Speaker 4: Manchester and got round and the weather was atrocious. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm just hoping this Sunday the weather's a bit better.
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  Speaker 1: It looks guy and I as actually when it's been
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  Speaker 1: frosty in the morning, so it's quite an early start,
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  Speaker 1: I think nine o'clock. But once you get going, I
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  Speaker 1: mean the weather down there. I've been going down there
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  Speaker 1: for a number of years and there was one year
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  Speaker 1: where we nearly had to stop the race because of
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  Speaker 1: the wind. The wind, the wind blew a tree down
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  Speaker 1: right across the runners, and there was nobody injured, but
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  Speaker 1: the runners had to either scramble over this tree. It
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  Speaker 1: was at a bit of an angle and I was
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  Speaker 1: looking at some pictures earlier on today of runners going
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  Speaker 1: underneath the tree. But the point was the locals came
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  Speaker 1: out and all got the chainsaws, dropped the things to bits,
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  Speaker 1: and when the runners came back they couldn't believe that
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  Speaker 1: the tree wasn't there. Okay, so you got a twenty
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  Speaker 1: miler to do? Is that tapering down now?
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  Speaker 3: After that?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 4: Then I've got I think, the longest run on my plan.
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  Speaker 4: I've still got seven eight weeks left of my plan.
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  Speaker 4: So I go up to twenty two miles, I think
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  Speaker 4: is the longest run that I do, and then I
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  Speaker 4: start tapering after that.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So you've got your charity entry for London. How
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  Speaker 1: are you what's the logistics of it? Are you going
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  Speaker 1: off the weekend?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 4: So the running club put on a bus on the
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  Speaker 4: day of the marathon, so it's an early start. I
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  Speaker 4: think we'll leave about half six, but there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people running from the running club and some of
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  Speaker 4: the family and friends are going up. So I go
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  Speaker 4: up on the day and come back on the day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Are you for any family going up?
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  Speaker 2: I haven't got. No, I haven't got.
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  Speaker 4: My wife's not coming up with me on the bus
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  Speaker 4: because you will probably or other family members will come
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  Speaker 4: up during the day itself to see me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, well it's a great experience. Ian and
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  Speaker 1: I always say to people, if you're going to run
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  Speaker 1: a marathon, run to London, because after that some of
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  Speaker 1: them seem so like boring if you like, I did
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  Speaker 1: the London and I loved every single minute of it.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't unfortunately my training was down because I'd broken
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  Speaker 1: my leg and I was just really doing a walk
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  Speaker 1: run and so it was great.
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  Speaker 3: It helped me.
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  Speaker 1: It gave me time to look around London and shored
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  Speaker 1: just stop and listen to the music. But you won't
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  Speaker 1: have to do that, there'll be no stopping. So how's
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  Speaker 1: your training going. How's it been going this year?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, training's going well. Actually, I feel fairly strong. I've
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  Speaker 4: been following so Catherine from Folks and Running Club did
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  Speaker 4: my sixteen week plan. I've been following that fairly rigidly,
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  Speaker 4: week on week, sticking with all the runs. I haven't
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  Speaker 4: missed any runs yet. Catherine will be pleased to know,
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, I definitely feel stronger in comparison to where
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  Speaker 4: I was this time last year.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, you're also undertaking a little project to promote
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  Speaker 1: this your charity and get the word out there.
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  Speaker 3: So tell us a little bit about that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So, because of the work that I want to do
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  Speaker 4: and raise as much money as I can for the charity,
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  Speaker 4: I thought it would be quite helpful to try and
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  Speaker 4: do a short video that I could put out on
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  Speaker 4: social media various channels to try and raise awareness of
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  Speaker 4: both the charity, the marathon, and then what I'm aiming
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  Speaker 4: to do. So I've done a video locally with Cassie,
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  Speaker 4: who I know is on the radio last week and
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  Speaker 4: we're just getting to the end of finalizing what the
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  Speaker 4: video looks like. But she's done a really really good
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  Speaker 4: job in Pullanic's again.
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  Speaker 3: Oh great.
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  Speaker 1: You know Cassie was in last week and we're having
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  Speaker 1: such a laugh because I just imagined her like you're
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  Speaker 1: running up and down the lees and she's going, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's rubbish, and you're absolutely on your knees because your
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  Speaker 1: neck go back and do it again. No no, So is
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  Speaker 1: this distracting you at all? Or is it just a
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  Speaker 1: bit of fun? Really we have a serious.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 4: No. So when I first approached Cassie, I didn't really
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  Speaker 4: know what I wanted, albeit I wanted something. So she's
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  Speaker 4: been really, really helpful in kind of structuring what we
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  Speaker 4: need to do and how we need to do it.
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  Speaker 4: And it has been a bit of fun. We've had
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  Speaker 4: a really good laugh doing it, bringing it together. I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure there's lots of outtakes that Cassie will have outside
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  Speaker 4: of the final video. No, but it hasn't It hasn't
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  Speaker 4: been arduous. It's it's been good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 1: She must be a very fit lady carrying that camera
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  Speaker 1: and chasing you around around the clicks the streets folks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so you're training. I mean it's only in recent years
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  Speaker 1: that folks have got a track and I've noticed the
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  Speaker 1: PB times of folks and running club runners have just
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  Speaker 1: shot through the roof in recent last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think the track helps? I know you're doing endurance,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean you've got to do a bit of
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  Speaker 1: speedwork as well, haven't you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think the track has made a massive, massive difference
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  Speaker 4: just in terms of been able to go regularly on
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  Speaker 4: a Tuesday and a Thursday and have structure sessions, particularly
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  Speaker 4: during the winter months when it's dark, dingy and horrible.
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  Speaker 4: Having the track and the ability to work and run
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  Speaker 4: across sort of run across the safe lit environment to
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  Speaker 4: get the get the get the runs in, get the
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  Speaker 4: miles in has made has made a massive difference, and
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  Speaker 4: I think the membership of the club has kind of grown.
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  Speaker 4: I joined with three or four guys that I call
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  Speaker 4: my running crew and we all egg each other on
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  Speaker 4: support each.
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  Speaker 1: Still they're still there, so that's they.
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  Speaker 4: Won't mind the shout out. That's Tom, Tom aspinall, Phil
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: Haynes and Jason King.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Oh right, good lads. Yeah, no, I know.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: I've been with the running Club, connected with the running
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: club since the early eighties and I've seen some new
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: faces down there, and those three are new, relatively new,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: and I've seen them all having great times and great
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: run you know, run and really enjoyed it as well.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: That's great for the club, being great for the sport
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: of course.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, So anything else you want to say before we
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: pack up, because we are getting near the end now.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: I guess I should probably I couldn't go this whole
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: interview without thanking my family. Doing math and training takes
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: a lot out time wise, and their patience and tolerance
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: with me being out most of the weekend running around
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: the streets folks and saying gate hithe so massive. Shout
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: out to my wife Rachel, my son Oliver, who's given
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: me good support, my two dogs and my three cats.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Are they in the film as well? My dog actually
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: is a film.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Although you may get kept cut from the final way.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's another outtake. Yeah on the cutting room floor. Yeah,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: and I mean the charity. So you've got this great connection.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Tell us about how people can connect with you and
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the charity.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, so I have the charity sets up a
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: running page, which is basically like a go fungie page.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: I've got a website link that we can get out
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: to to people. So if they are interested in want
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: to support and help what is a really horrible, horrible
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: cancer through a fantastic charity, then we'll put that link
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: out there.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Brilliant, Okay.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: And it's been great avenue in and getting insight into
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the running club, into what it's like to run a
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: second marathon, and the motivation that you've got in your
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: job that's giving you the drive to connect with pancreatic cancer, which,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: as we know, and we've known from the past from
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: former guests that have been in here that have run
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: for the same.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Cause that you're doing.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: A great job and I just want to issh you
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: all the best and thank you for coming in and
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: just enjoyed a day.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Make the most of it.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Thanks Kevin, I really appreciate it.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, right, jeez, Okay, So we're going to got another
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: little sneaky song in here, which I'm sure he will enjoy.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: It's another Rockie song and if there was any steps
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: around here, I think he'd be running up them because
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: this is the Rockie theme. Going to fly now, where
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: there you go? That's the Rocky theme from nineteen nineteen.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: And that was one form to wish him all the
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: best of what great interview that was and the motivation
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: he's got with his job and everything. I'm sure he's
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: going to do it, and we will find out after
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the marathon. Okay, So let's crack on with some sport.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Now we've got some football news. We'll start with folks
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: and in Victor could only manage a one all drawer
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: at home to Potters Bar last Saturday. This kept them
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: in twelfth place and this week they make ging away
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: trip to Bogna Regis, who are currently second from bottom.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Hi say On gained three valuable points last week with
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: a two to one away win at Lancing. This lifted
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: them into fourth from bottom spot, but there still was
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: six point gap between Hive and Littlehampton who are fifth
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: from bottom. Remembering that the four clubs the four bottom
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: clubs are in that dreaded relegation zone Tuesday evenings or
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: a trip to East Grinstead with two other clubs in
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: relegation positions in action as things are really closing in
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: at the bottom four. I've unfortunately lost tow to one
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: which pushed them back down to third from bottom as
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Phoenix Sports bet eer Oftown two to one and jump
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: one place above them. This Saturday is a good old
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: fashioned Kent League derby. I remember these days when High
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Town entertained deal Town, so we're good luck to Hive
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: a dealer. I've had a good season, to be fair.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: They're round about tenth I think, but they've only come
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: up last year, so we're doune to deal now. In
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the Energy Kent County Premier League, top of the table,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: New Romney could only draw three all with thirteenth place
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to Guru and anact from Gravesend.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: This week they are home to Bexley.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Whilst Hawkinstown, who didn't have a game travel away to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: thirteenth place tentered in Town and on Sunday, folcusing Victor
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: women's team make the short journey up the A two
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: sixty hill to play Hawkins Town, who would be full
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: of confidence after their four NIEL win in a friendly
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: game last week against lid Okay. Time for a scouting
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: for girls now and this one it just said once again.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: It's one of those songs. This was a warm up
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: song at Race for Life when I remember thousands of
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: ladies dancing away to this one. And this is called
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: She's So Lovely, closed scouting for girls, casual little song,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: She's so Lovely. Okay, Now, I know we've just done
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: a running interview, but I've got a lot of running.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: It's the running season, so I've got a few name
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: drops here to shout out.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Then four folks and running and athletic club runners made
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the trip to take part in the Dartford Half Marathon
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: on Sunday. Catherine O'Connor had a great run with a
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: PB time of one hour thirty four fifty two and
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: came first in a Vett fifty five category, whilst her
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: partner Paul Bartlett also had a PB time of one
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: hour twenty three twenty two and he finished fourth in
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: his Vet fifty age category. There was also a PB
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: for Luke Hicks in a time of one hour forty
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: six thirty three and well done to go to Leila
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Dumont who finished in one hour fifty three thirty and
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a special mention must go to Margaret Connley from the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: South Kent Harriers, who in the same race was crowned
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: a Vets sixty five champion in a time of one
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: hour fifty six oh one. Now this is catching on
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: this you know, we've got some canny cross news. Canny
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Cross the dogs Marley and Banjo with folks and running
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: club owners Phil and Jenny Hield were in action once again,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: this time at a hilly Vegbury Park in a five
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: k race. Phil and Marley clocked twenty three minutes thirty
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: four seconds whilst Jenny and Banjo run thirty one forty eight.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Good boys, good boys said, get down, get down. Note no,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: there's no walkers today.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Now for those of you who are not sure what
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: canny cross is, basically, if you imagine a trail race
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: with the dog and the owner, and the dog and
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the owner are joined together. The owner has a lead
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: around his waist or a waist and it's like a
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: sort of a bungee bungee lead sort of thing and
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: that is joined to the dog's.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Collar and so they run together.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: So if you've got a pretty nifty dog then you
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: want to hang on. But yeah, canny cross is becoming
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: really really popular now, so well done to Marley and
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Banjo and well down to you Phil Jenny and a Rundown.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Now of the venues where local athletes ran in park
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: run low athletes last week were out obviously in Folkeston, Ashford,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Canterbury Dealer Walmer the Lees Park Run which is in
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Minster on the Isle of Sheppe Now the Folkston Park Run,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: which is run on the Lees is called the Folkston
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Park Run, but the one of the Isl of Sheppey
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: is called the Lees Park Run, so don't get muddled
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: up and end up in the wrong venue. There was
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: also runners at Dover Waterfront, Quakers Walking Devises in Wiltshire
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and two runners listen to this, Andy Noble and Leslie
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Clancy running the Park Run in a place called heirek
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: g O Kka Cohen which is in Tokyo in Japan
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: now Apparently there's twenty nine park runs in Japan. The
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: first one was in twenty nineteen and I think Andy
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: and Leslie were over in Tokyo taking part. I think
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: it was in the Tokyo Marathon. So we're done to
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: them now. Staying with the park run theme, Radnor Park
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: have now completed the junior section. Have now completed twenty
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: nine events this week, thirty this week, and so I
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: wondered how other junior park runs, how the numbers were
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: going at other local runs. Well, Ashford last week seemed
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: to be the biggest with one hundred juniors, followed by folks.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Then they had eighty five. Then juniors at Betsanger, Margy,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Herne Bay and Faversham range between twenty eight and forty
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: two runners. Now as Bushy Park in London is one
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: of the biggest, if not the biggest senior part runs,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I checked out there juniors and last week they had
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty seven. Now, if you have a
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: child with loads of energy, then Junior Park Run at
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Radna Park is just the job. It's nine o'clock every
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Sunday and it's free. All you have to do is
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: download a free barcode, so your time or your child's
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: time can be recorded, but please remember it's a run
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: and not a race. Parents can run with their children
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: and if you likes to volunteer, that's even better. It's
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: marshaled around the park perimeter path the runners through two
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: laps is two k course So if you just want
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: to find out anything, it's that easy. Just track down
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: at Radna Park Junior Park Run and find the Facebook,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the website and there's loads of info so doing a
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: little bit further investigation. The biggest UK junior attendance ever
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: was at the Bushy Park Run in twenty thirteen when
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: they had four hundred and thirty two. Although Bushy actually
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: is a bit of a weird one. It only happens
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: once a month rather than the usual every Sunday like
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: everywhere else. But i's be getting volunteers for a massive,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: massive park run that they have on a Saturday is
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: a bit of a tough call, so it's just once
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: a month. The highest junior attendance worldwide is in Australia,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: actually is in the Runner where des Connor Juniors in
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Brisbane they had four hundred and thirty eight. Runners are
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the UK big ones usually regularly over one hundred, Lloyd
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Juniors in Croydon, Newark Juniors in Nottinghamshire, Hillsborough Juniors in Sheffield,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: the Mystery Juniors in Liverpool.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Mistress sounds a bit mysterius, doesn't it.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: That what a great name, and the Woke In juniors
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: they all get clocking up for one hundred runners.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: So I want to.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Say a big thank you to Junior Park Run Ambassador
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Hannah Perrin for providing me with those stats. And good
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: luck to you, Hannah in the lid half on Sunday
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: in your build up to the London Marathon. I'll be
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: down there and looking out for you. Okay, So time
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: for some of you more music now, and this one
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: is from ninety three. I love this one and People,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: One Night in Heaven.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: In Heaven, One Night in Heaven.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: The Lovely Voice. I've had a small night and People
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: and one Night in Heaven. Okay, moving on rather swiftly.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: It's time for some hockey news, and there's always loads
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: of hockey news, So a quick rundown of the results
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: from last week. The men's first team, well they had
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: a great win. They beat Canterbury nine to one. The
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: goals from will Mead he got three, Tom Bean got
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: a hat trick, Josh Clifford got two and Harvey list
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Or got one. The men's second team well they lost
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: four to two Blackheath. The third team they won three
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: two against Tunbridge Wells goals from Alex Wissard he got
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: two and Jack timm He's got one. The men's fourth
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: team they beat Newingdon and Nomads by five games, five
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: goals to three. The men's fiftheam they lost four to
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: three to the Old Willies that's the Old Williamsonians. The
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: men's sixth team and they had a good win as well.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: They beat Gilliam, Gillingham and Courion's five nil goals two
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: goals from Finn Lettley, two goals from Norville Scott and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Josh Britton got the fifth and the men's team the
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: men's seventh they beat Maidstone a free one world on
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to them. Unfortunately, the men's eight team got a bit
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: of a tonkin there. They lost six to one to
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: gore Call. Now the ladies team, the ladies first team,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: they had a busy weekend. They're catching up with fixtures.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: On the Saturday they lost three to one to Blackheath
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and they played again on the Sunday and sadly they
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: lost the one nil to Oxted. The Men's seconds sorry,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the Ladies Seconds they lost eight two to Canterbury. The
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Ladies Thirds they lost four one to Herne Bay, the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Ladies fourth they beat Canterbury five nil, and the Ladies
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: fifteen drew one all. Well, there's a full set of
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: games going on down to Three Hills this weekend. We've
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: got six home games, so if you like your hockey fix,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: then get down there and you can watch them either
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: through the window or on the big screen. Now, the
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: big game on Sunday is the Ladies over thirty five side.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: They travel away to play a team called Surbiton Sloths
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: in Surrey. Now Surbiton are a very big club. Now
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: they field fourteen women's and girls teams and twelve men's
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: and boys teams, so they're a bit bitigger than Folkston,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: but they've got a bigger catchment area.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: They're also one of the oldest clubs in the world,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: as being established in eighteen seventy four. Now this important
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: game is actually a quarter final of a National Cup,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: so good luck to the Ladies. I think it could
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: have been worse. They could have been drawn away to teams.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: There's still teams in there in Manchester and Exeter, so
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: a little trip to Surbiton and good luck to the
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: ladies on Sunday. Will be looking out for that result.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: From nineteen ninety two, let's not hang up out. We've
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: got Jimmy Nle. Ain't no doubt Jimmy nl There ain't
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: no day out in nineteen ninety two. Do you remember
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I'm in I'll do the same pet I remember Bomber saying,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: how could someone so ugly things?
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: So?
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a compliment, isn't it right? Okay, you're going
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: to go. It's a bit of rugby newes in there.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Last Saturday the folks from first fifteen traveled to Matstone
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and came home with an excellent thirty two points to
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: twenty five victory. This week it's even tougher game as
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: they welcome third placed Planet Wanderers to the Burlington Fields.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: There were just three games left, so let's have a
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: quick look as to how they're doing well. As we said,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: it's Thant Wanderers this week on the twenty second of
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: March is a way to bottom club Dartford Valley and
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the other final game is at home to ninth place
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: and Medway on April. The fifth folks that are currently
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: fifth in the table, and I think they'd be quite
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: happy with the top third result really to be honest,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: because they did go through a spell where they were
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: getting beaten nearly every week, but they turned it round
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: and I think they'll be happy with the season now.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: The Seconds didn't have a great game last week, didn't
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: have a game last week.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: They also have three games left.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: On Saturday they make the reverse trip to thant Wanderers,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: who are also third in their division. On the twenty second,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: it's home to sixth place a Weavering Warriors, and their
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: final game is a way to meet Way, who are ninth. Unfortunately,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the Seconds have a A've had a poor season and
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: are bottom of the table with two points gap between
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: them and Cranbrook, the team above them, who also have
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: two games in hand. But the good news is the
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: women team. Although they are in a small league with
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: just six teams, that means they only play ten games.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: The first of their three final games is on Sunday
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: at home to Tunbridge Wells Ladies. On Sunday the sixteenth,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: they're a way to third place Cranbrook and on the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: sixth of April, a second place Folks then travel away
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: in their last game to play the top club Seven Oaks,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: who may have won the league by then because they
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: are currently sixteen points clear and they haven't been beaten
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: all season, so you never know.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: We'll see what goes on that last one. There's a
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: few weeks for a.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Few games, Okay, So anyway, that's a bout enough for me.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I will be back on Saturday, but I'll be on
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: the mic on Sunday down at LID if the places
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: are moving fast, get in touch with a nice work
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: dot or to see if there's any spaces left.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: I'll be back with Ady.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: And so we're going to leave you with a bit
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of Elton John and I'll see you soon.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: M