1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whipper podcast. Well done 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: to sixty five fouls of people. 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 2: Well, it would be the toughest time of the week 4 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:10,879 Speaker 2: for them because you would be waking up very sore. 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 2: Congratulations if you're in the city surf yesterday, run or 6 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: walk an amazing effort. You got to you gotta think 7 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 2: of Liam Adams. That's the third time he's won the race, 8 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 2: thirty five year old electrician. The thing is, though, do 9 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 2: you know what time he did Fits? He did forty 10 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 2: one minutes. 11 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: And eight secondies missed the record. 12 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 2: And that's two weeks after he just did the Commonwealth Games. 13 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: Mara, Wow, do you know what? I didn't run it 14 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: this year, but I went to see the runners come through. 15 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: Amazing to see the pace he had at the five 16 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: and a half k mark, like they're sprinting the entire time. 17 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: One of the other great performances Fits, I'm not sure 18 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: if you caught it was Gary Sarah's Man and the 19 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: pace in the single he ran out was folding. Oh yeah, 20 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: I got to kiss halfway through what I really just 21 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: wanted to stop at that. Oh I didn't even have 22 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: drinks or lollies for the poor kid. As he ran off, 23 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: I looked at his back can realize that he was 24 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: in a jagged singlet, which is still Rebecca Judds brand. 25 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, he saves it every year for this race. He 26 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 3: just tucks it away. 27 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: He doesn't pull it out again. Wow, he's gone through 28 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: Cyah's wardrobe. 29 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 3: It was crushed because he's been kicked out of his 30 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 3: race group because he wasn't quite so fast as. 31 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 2: Hannah, our producer said. There was one man who completed 32 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 2: the race, then got a car back to the starting line, 33 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 2: and then he did it again in a superman's suit 34 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 2: with his family. 35 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: Amazing effort. So he's done it twice. 36 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 2: He's done the Heartbreak hill twice. 37 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: It is Sydney's great to stay like everybody that made 38 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: the effort. It looked so Good's amazing and I've never 39 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: done more clapping in my life. 40 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 3: Goes on behalf of the part of the city that 41 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,960 Speaker 3: didn't do it. We were on the train, Charlie and 42 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 3: I are getting a train back from Central after the 43 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 3: race sort of finished. One of the great stories they 44 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 3: don't tell is just what a train packed full of 45 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 3: people that just completed the city to say, smells like 46 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 3: between Central and Chronola. That's his own heartbreak. 47 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: It's the combination to MDG of No Doubt, sweat and 48 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: bo and then just beer on the breash. 49 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 3: More beer, more beer than sweat. 50 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 2: He's been on a train home after after a professional 51 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 2: sporting mac. We're just a train full of people who 52 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 2: were loubed up. He's horrible heartbreak. Well, the congratulations to 53 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 2: Liam Adams. He's won it for the third time. He 54 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:32,239 Speaker 2: won it in forty one minutes and eight seconds, unbelievable. 55 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 2: One man who didn't get anywhere near that time is 56 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 2: a man called Mark Ferguson from Channel seven years. 57 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 4: He's not a very friendly bloke that lead could come 58 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 4: over and say I won. No weird, is no weird. 59 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 4: He just kept running away from you. 60 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:51,399 Speaker 2: I heard fergu. 61 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,359 Speaker 4: Yeah, parts didn't really cross at any stage on the day. 62 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 1: I don't know why, fergo what I want to check 63 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: in and ask? Is I mean? I was down there 64 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: sort of on the short Rose Bay area, clapping along. 65 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,399 Speaker 1: Go on, you guys, keep going, I reckon. I saw 66 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: close to sixty five thousand people come through. I didn't 67 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: see was there any way of confirming you actually completed 68 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:12,799 Speaker 1: the city to serve. 69 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 4: There is a couple of photos out there. But were 70 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 4: you actually there? Because, as you know, I'm your number 71 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 4: one fan and I would know your voice anywhere, and 72 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 4: I was traveling pretty slowly through Rose Bay. I heard most. 73 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: Things, Oh look, I might have had a lunch break 74 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: at some stage, Furgo and gone home. 75 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 2: But where did you blow up? Give us the moment 76 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,119 Speaker 2: where the body blew up? 77 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 4: Fitzy. I took your words. They were with me on 78 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 4: my first four or five k's. I think you describe 79 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 4: you as a weapon on the road. 80 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 5: Yes, yes, today, By about Rose Bay, I was more 81 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 5: like a water pistol without the water, just a soggy 82 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 5: bit of place four or five. 83 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 4: K mark, I was thinking what the hell have I done. 84 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 4: By the time we got to Heartbreak Hill, it was 85 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 4: certainly a plot up the hill. There wasn't a lot 86 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 4: of and going on, but I sort of recovered by 87 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 4: all clothes and plotted my way down into BONDI. 88 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: So I got there, Fergo, who would you give best 89 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: dress to? What are some of the outfits you saw? 90 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 4: I saw a couple of Elvis's yep, I saw yeah, 91 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 4: I saw a couple of ballerinas. I saw a superman. 92 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 4: They're great to see at the start of the race. 93 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 4: They sort of deflate you a little bit when they 94 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 4: come flying past you at about the ten k mark 95 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 4: or in your sensible gear their dress for nine and 96 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 4: they're still going twice as far. 97 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's annoying, is it when the novelty runner is 98 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: moving faster than you. 99 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 2: You were running for a great cause, Rio's legacy. How 100 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 2: much money were you able to raise Fergo? 101 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think they're up over the sixty 102 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 4: thousand dollar MARM twenty runners, which was fantastic. The nation 103 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 4: is still open today if anyone wants to get on board. 104 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 4: But look, we raised a lot of money that we 105 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 4: also raised a lot of a wines, which is which 106 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 4: is what I was really trying to do, and hopefully 107 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 4: people are talking about looking after children when they're you know, 108 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 4: in those last stage of life and it's a difficult conversation. 109 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 4: But we raised plenty of money, plenty of awareness, and 110 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 4: we all got there in one piece. 111 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: So that was How did the family celebrate your achievement? 112 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: Was there a beautiful home cooked dinner with everybody and 113 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: the wife gave you a bit of a rubdown or 114 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: do you. 115 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 4: Know I actually got a home cooked meal last night 116 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 4: which I was very very pleased with Lamb Shops to 117 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 4: try and reinvigorate the protein levels, which was fantastic, and 118 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 4: the missus came down and even picked me up and 119 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 4: drove me back. 120 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm looking forward to tonight? Six 121 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 2: pm news? There you just going breaking news. I've got 122 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 2: cramp in my cart. 123 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, hold on, somebody stretch it out. 124 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 4: I'll definitely be taking the lift down to it. Might 125 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 4: have to lower me on the stairs and we all 126 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 4: we need to play a little bit storm. Sorry, thank 127 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 4: you very much. You're listening to the f and Whipper podcast.