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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting in with Kate Richie podcast cross

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Speaker 1: Country yesterday for the Grade twos and the Grade threes.

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Speaker 1: I was just a casual dad on the sidelines. Oh Jack,

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Speaker 1: find a pace, Oh find a pace. This is flat

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Speaker 1: out Jack. Can I take you back in the swimming

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Speaker 1: carnival about a month ago? Ted was nervous about it. It

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Speaker 1: was only for Ted's swimming, so grade three swimming. And

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Speaker 1: I said to Ted, because I've just trying to light

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Speaker 1: a bit of a fire under him, because he's got

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Speaker 1: the skills, he just needs the burn. And I said,

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Speaker 1: all right, this was the night before. We're lying in bed.

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Speaker 1: I said, mate, when you get up there tomorrow, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to be there. I'm going to make a hand

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Speaker 1: signal to you, which is like a fin of a shark.

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Speaker 1: So I've got my hands struck. Yes, it's the Queen wave.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to wave to your dresses the Queen tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I said, when you see that, that's the fin of

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Speaker 1: the shark, you need to swim like there's a shark chasing.

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Speaker 2: How How is a kid going to see your hand

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Speaker 2: signals while they're in the water.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, this is before he dives into the.

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Speaker 3: Pool, so support when you're on the blow.

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Speaker 1: We've got our own special connection. You know what it means.

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Speaker 1: We've spoken about it. And that shark signal the fin

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Speaker 1: of my hand means it's go time now, great advice.

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Speaker 2: How did you go?

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Speaker 1: Well, the thing was it was a fifty pall by

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Speaker 1: the twenty five market gas himself, so he went out

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Speaker 1: to ye. He sort of hit. He sort of hit

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Speaker 1: around thirty meters and stood up in the pool and said, Dad,

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Speaker 1: I can't breathe, I can't.

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Speaker 2: The greatest The greatest thing about the cross country event

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Speaker 2: is getting there and watching a kid absolutely fly in

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Speaker 2: the first two hundred meters and then seeing them melt

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Speaker 2: down after four hundred meters. So it is one of

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Speaker 2: the greatest things to watch it.

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Speaker 1: They all do it. They all do it. So then

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Speaker 1: swimming was a disaster, and he felt quite responsible for that.

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Speaker 3: You looked down on yourself.

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Speaker 1: A couple of days to actually say sorry to Ted

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Speaker 1: because I had to process it and work because you

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Speaker 1: were a great I was a good swimmer, were very

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Speaker 1: good swimmer. Still. I am a good switch stroke anything

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Speaker 1: freestyle mainly like long distance. What were you competing? I've

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Speaker 1: done a lot of open water swims.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean like a BONDI yesterday, just.

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Speaker 1: Not diving into the waves. I'm talking about longer swims.

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Speaker 1: One point five's wow, swim that far good made of mine?

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Speaker 1: Not to mention any names. Has just started having swimming lessons.

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Speaker 1: He's forty one.

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Speaker 3: That's crazy to learn a proper stroke.

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Speaker 1: He just can't swim fifty meters. He can't swow. When

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Speaker 1: he gets in, he thinks panic, yeah, drowned. So by

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Speaker 1: the end of the fifty meters he's cassed himself.

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Speaker 3: If you think you're going to pat, don't you talk

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Speaker 3: yourself into it anyway.

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Speaker 1: So I said to Ted, I'm so sorry that was

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Speaker 1: bad advice. If it was a twenty five minute of

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Speaker 1: poor great news, you would have won. It wasn't, so

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that. So it comes to cross country.

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Speaker 1: So I put on my captain's hat again and said,

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Speaker 1: I need to find some sort of wisdom here for

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Speaker 1: the young lad. I knew Jack would be okay because

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Speaker 1: he's got a pretty big engine on him. Jack, so

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Speaker 1: in his race he was probably top ten. Jack. He

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Speaker 1: kind of started fast and he kept going and it

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Speaker 1: was only one kilometer. But for the Grade three kids.

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Speaker 1: It was two ks. I said to ten, the key

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Speaker 1: to this is find a good rhythm, find a pace,

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Speaker 1: and be consistent with your pace. Right, So you don't

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Speaker 1: need to go out hard at the start because those

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Speaker 1: kids will and like you said, fits they gas themselves.

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Speaker 1: So you find a good pace and stick with that,

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Speaker 1: get to the last hundred, drain the tank, sprint for

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Speaker 1: the last hundred.

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Speaker 3: Do you know what he's thinking the whole time you're

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Speaker 3: saying that to him? What he's just thinking of the

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Speaker 3: conversation he had with Ted the night before, and did

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Speaker 3: sat him down and said, whatever you do, don't listen

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Speaker 3: to do I don't mind.

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Speaker 1: So I said, mate, you've got to find your pace

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Speaker 1: and just stick with that. So bang the gun goes.

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Speaker 1: He's finding his pace sort of at the back of

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Speaker 1: the pack.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. They find their pace and go Dad,

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Speaker 2: I'm feeling good, But mate, your third to last.

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Speaker 1: That's what happened. So I went over thinking has he

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Speaker 1: pulled out of the race because he had a bad

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Speaker 1: ankle as well. So we strapped that up and I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking they're about to start packing this thing up. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's like in the city to serve where you see

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Speaker 1: one guy going as they're pulling the cones off the road.

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Speaker 1: We're going, where's Tad? Has he stopped it with the

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Speaker 1: mister whippie van or something? So finally I walk over, Well,

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Speaker 1: he's still got about four hundred meters to go.

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Speaker 3: What's he doing? Where is he moving?

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Speaker 1: He's moving, He's jogging almost on the spot. And I said,

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Speaker 1: hey you going, mate, as if to say with the

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Speaker 1: sarcastic tone, you're walking next to my mate?

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Speaker 2: Are you all right?

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Speaker 1: I was, hey, how are you going? Mate? He goes, good, Dad,

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Speaker 1: I found my rhythm and I'm not even huffed. I go,

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Speaker 1: but you've got to keep moving. So now I'm the

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Speaker 1: parent running alongside him, and I said, ted, if you

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Speaker 1: got all if you was sad, if you've got all

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Speaker 1: that energy, pick up the pace. I'm trying to remain

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Speaker 1: card because he'd stuck by the advice I gave him.

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Speaker 3: He's doing exactly what you told him.

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Speaker 1: I know. And then the last hundred meters came and

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Speaker 1: he sprinted, and then he overtook a couple of kids

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Speaker 1: coming into the line, and then I went over, you

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Speaker 1: instruct great work, buddy, and he went that was It's

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Speaker 1: just it's easy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not the two. It's not the top two

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Speaker 2: two hundred and thirty kids that go through his owns.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it the top teen or something?

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Speaker 1: I think it's the top ten. But you know, besides

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Speaker 1: some other guy that did have a broken leg, I

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Speaker 1: suppose you came in before him. I'm sorry for the

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Speaker 1: lack of coaching. Again, Ted, I've holo job.

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Speaker 3: I think it's wonderful.

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