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Speaker 1: Hey, friends, thanks for joining us on healthy issue your

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Speaker 1: daily podcasts from Body and Soul. I am Felicity Harley.

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Speaker 1: Hey have you heard of high Rocks? Well, neither did

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Speaker 1: I until recently. And if you're a regular gym goer,

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Speaker 1: or a budding athlete or a CrossFit lover, then this

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Speaker 1: fitness race might just be for you. Joining us from

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Speaker 1: Byron Bay to tell us more is the delightful trainer

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Speaker 1: and long time mate of Chris Hemsworth, who also features

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Speaker 1: heavily on his Center Wrap. It is Luke Zoki. He's

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Speaker 1: going to fill us in on this thing called High Rocks.

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Speaker 1: If you do want to know more about the event,

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Speaker 1: if you want to know the best training plans, what

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Speaker 1: to eat, how to prepare? Listening to Extra Healthy is

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Speaker 1: where Luke gives us the lowdown on all that you

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Speaker 1: can catch that wherever we get your podcasts. Luke, nice

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Speaker 1: to have you back on the pod.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 3: It's good to be here.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Good?

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Speaker 1: Actually it's been six months since you were here. How's

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Speaker 1: your past six months been?

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Speaker 3: Has it been six?

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Speaker 1: It has?

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Speaker 2: That is crazy how fast time goes? Yeah, I've been

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Speaker 2: really good. What's happened in six months. We had Christmas.

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Speaker 3: That was good.

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Speaker 1: That was a long time ago.

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Speaker 2: That had a long time ago. Actually, I was just overseas.

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Speaker 2: I was in Monaco, nice the Grand Prix. That was

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Speaker 2: pretty cool. And now I'm back home. I'm settling an environ.

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Speaker 1: Ready for this thing called high Rocks. So what is it?

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's buzzing. There's a buzz around about

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Speaker 1: this event.

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Speaker 2: It's a fitness race. What was really interesting. I did

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Speaker 2: my first high Rocks last year. I actually met the

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Speaker 2: founder of high Rocks, a German guy, and he explained

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Speaker 2: it all to me, which is really interesting.

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Speaker 3: Cut a long story short.

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Speaker 2: It's a race where you do eight functional stations with

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Speaker 2: eight runs, so a kilometer run into a functional station.

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Speaker 2: And how he come about this race. He come from

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Speaker 2: a marathon background. He always loved running marathons, but it

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Speaker 2: was just so time consuming for him. Then he got

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Speaker 2: into triathlons and same thing. It was like so time

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Speaker 2: and tuning in training for triathlons. And then him and

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Speaker 2: his friend's got to go together in Germany and created

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Speaker 2: this race because he's like he's over I think the

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Speaker 2: statistic was there's like three hundred million people subscribe to

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Speaker 2: gym memberships around the world, and we don't have any

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Speaker 2: way of testing our fitness and these all movements that

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Speaker 2: we do in the gym, and he kind of integrated

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Speaker 2: this race that what's really cool about it. It's not

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Speaker 2: as like CrossFit where you need to you know, be

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Speaker 2: into Olympic lifting or very like technical movements. It's all

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Speaker 2: stuff that everyday jim goers do that we can now

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Speaker 2: challenge ourselves and kind of compete against each other. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So when I was chatting to the founder and he

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Speaker 2: had like inspiration to create this race, what he really

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Speaker 2: loved about the marathon was if you run, you can

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Speaker 2: run a marathon almost every weekend and you know what

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Speaker 2: you're up find. Sure there's harder marathons than others, and

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Speaker 2: like the incline and stuff, but he said, if you're

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Speaker 2: into running, you can almost run a marathon if you're

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Speaker 2: willing to travel. So that's what he brought to the

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Speaker 2: High Roxs race. The High Rocks Race is always going

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Speaker 2: to stay the same aim and it.

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Speaker 3: Just travels the world.

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Speaker 2: So you could be, you know, in Tokyo, or you

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Speaker 2: could be in New York, but oh, Higher Oxers on

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Speaker 2: this weekend, I'm going to I'm going to sign up

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Speaker 2: and do the race.

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Speaker 3: That's what I really loved about I thought was really cool.

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Speaker 1: So is it the eight functional stations so to speak,

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Speaker 1: and then at one k run in between each station.

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Speaker 1: So what are we doing when we're at the station.

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Speaker 3: You start off with the run first, so you a kilometer.

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Speaker 2: First station is one thousand meters skiog we're using the skiog.

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Speaker 2: Second station is a fifty meter sled push. Depending on

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Speaker 2: if you're a male or female, or if you're pro

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Speaker 2: or open, the weights change sled push for fifty meters.

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Speaker 3: Then it's a sled pull for fifty meters.

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Speaker 2: Then you go on to Burie Burbie broad jumps for

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 2: When you've got a thousand meter a row do farmers

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Speaker 2: carry with two like two kettlebells? Depending on what I

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Speaker 3: Then you have a walking lunge.

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Speaker 2: I think it's other fifty or eighty menus for the

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Speaker 2: same bag on your back, and the one that's really

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Speaker 2: testing you finish it with one hundred wall walls.

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Speaker 1: That sounds hard. I'm sorry that sounds really tough.

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Speaker 2: It does, but it's still Yeah, I did it. And

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Speaker 2: what's really what I like about it as well? So

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Speaker 2: you can do that all by yourself. You can do

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Speaker 3: Kind of split it between.

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Speaker 2: I might go on the functional station for half of

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Speaker 2: it and you jump in, or you can break it

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Speaker 2: into quarters whatever you want to do, or you can

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Speaker 2: I did this as well. You can do a real

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Speaker 2: a team so there's four people and you have to

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Speaker 1: I mean that sounds fun. I mean, so you can

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Speaker 1: do the let me say, hard ass, you know, elite

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Speaker 2: But in saying that too, like I did the open

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Speaker 2: and there's people there I would say, I wouldn't even say.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to lead athlete and people there.

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Speaker 2: There was people there who were like, yeah, like we're everyday.

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Speaker 2: Jim goal is doing it as well, Like you just

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Speaker 2: do a longer time, that's all. You just got to

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Speaker 2: grind it out a bit longer.

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Speaker 1: What are the I suppose benefits of it like, what

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Speaker 1: are some things that will help you both physically and mentally.

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Speaker 2: Physically you I think it's learning how to be really efficient,

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Speaker 2: so you're doing it's almost like you're doing strength exercises,

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Speaker 2: but you're building.

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Speaker 3: On muscle endurance. It's more of a muscle endurance race, but.

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Speaker 2: You definitely need strength as well, so you kind of

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Speaker 2: got to build your strength up, but then you're building

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Speaker 2: It's also I think the health benefits are you're going

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Speaker 2: to be you learn how to be more efficient as well,

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Speaker 2: so you learn to be more efficient and convert energy

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Speaker 2: and do things more efficiently. So you're building non endurance

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Speaker 2: I don't know what if there's a cutoff time, but

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Speaker 2: probably be around the hour, one hour and thirty minutes. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: if that's like the cutoff or.

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Speaker 3: They do cut people if.

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Speaker 2: I actually don't know the answer to that, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: obviously you know the fidio are the quicker you can

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Speaker 2: learning how to pace yourself as well, so you work

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Speaker 3: Like that's the one thing I noticed with the pros.

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Speaker 2: They had taken little breaks in between some of the

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Speaker 3: Sleds because they're really heavy.

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Speaker 2: So it's learning how to be efficient and really pacing

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Speaker 1: I think that description description that you send in the beginning,

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Speaker 1: it's basically everything you do at the gym, and you're

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Speaker 1: just doing it in a race format or on a stage,

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Speaker 1: so to speak. What did you laugh about it?

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Speaker 2: To me?

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Speaker 3: It makes me feel like I was back at a

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Speaker 3: music festival.

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Speaker 2: Like when I walked in, they had like really good

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Speaker 2: music playing.

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Speaker 3: I had a real vibe about I.

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Speaker 2: Was like, this is cool, Like I knew nothing about

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Speaker 2: it because when I went and did the races, when Sena,

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Speaker 2: we're in talks of partnering with them to build all

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Speaker 2: their equipment, which was cool and that's what's actually happened now,

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Speaker 3: So I got thrown into the races a bit of

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Speaker 3: a dpend. I do a lot of this kind of training.

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Speaker 2: But then Cena and talks with High Rocks to be

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Speaker 2: their official partner to make all the physical equipment for

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Speaker 2: the race, besides the roller and the skio. So I

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Speaker 3: I was just in the thrown into it and I

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Speaker 3: really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 2: I had a great day, and then I did the

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Speaker 2: I end up doing more races when I was out,

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Speaker 2: like I did. I signed up for the relay team

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Speaker 2: and did that with a bunch of the Center people,

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Speaker 2: which is really yeah fun.

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Speaker 1: Actually I did read that there's so there's forty plus

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Speaker 1: global races in twenty twenty three, ninety thousand athletes, fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand spectators. I mean it's blowing up. So we're having

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Speaker 1: races in Australia. What can we expect? What's happening down here?

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: So we've got Melbourne is this Saturday. I am going

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Speaker 2: down to compete. I know, I know there's a Sydney race.

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Speaker 1: I don't know the dates and the acally a link

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Speaker 1: to those in the show notes.

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Speaker 2: And then they go to Brisbane as well. I think

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Speaker 2: I'm going to do Brisbane as well in August. August seventeenth.

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Speaker 2: I think Brisbane is. But what I found surprising about

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Speaker 3: There was like families there watching mom and dad race.

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Speaker 2: There was a whole spectator side to it, like everyone

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Speaker 3: Like it was a proper bus. I really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 2: Like everyone's like on this level and everyone's having a

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Speaker 2: great time. Everyone's cheering everyone too. Like everyone's like it's

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Speaker 2: like people are competing, but it's a real like community,

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Speaker 2: like everyone's together and they're like doing this race.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it. Well, stay tuned. I think it's

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Speaker 1: going to be massive. Well, it already is even bigger. Luke,

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Speaker 1: thank you for coming Unhealthy.

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Speaker 3: Ish, no worries, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Well I help this cleared up some questions you may

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Speaker 1: have had after spotting high rocks across socials or in

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Speaker 1: the media. It's great to have look back on will

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Speaker 1: get him on again. If you do want to well

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Speaker 1: take part in any of the events, go and watch them.

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Speaker 1: I will leave links to them in the show notes.

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Speaker 1: in your local Sunday paper, and until tomorrow, stay healthy

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