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Speaker 1: This Gentleman Being podcast brought to you by HelloFresh, the

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Speaker 1: Experts and Tastes that kiwis love you your your mad

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Speaker 1: monkey you Beck.

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Speaker 2: Jeez, well I see that you guys do lots of

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Speaker 2: crazy things as well.

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Speaker 1: Wow, twenty four hours of handbill, I mean, yes it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a little while, but you know, for a

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Speaker 1: good cause, which is exactly what you're doing for a

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Speaker 1: great cause as well. But something trying to break a

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Speaker 1: world record? Talk us through it.

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to be attempting to set a new

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Speaker 2: female world record for the greatest distance on a treadmill

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Speaker 2: in one week.

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Speaker 1: Wow, So what is that? How long is someone in

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Speaker 1: the past run on a treadmill over a week?

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Speaker 2: Females? Eight hundred and thirty three kilometers?

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Speaker 1: Jeez?

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Speaker 3: Now, Megan, you did two hours on the treadmill last week.

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Speaker 3: You see that felt like that was good? I wanted

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Speaker 3: to die afterwards. Are you going to be on a

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Speaker 3: treadmill non stop?

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Speaker 2: I will be getting off to eat and sleep good.

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Speaker 1: So what is it ever? Over one hundred over one

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Speaker 1: hundred k's a day something like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you average out the current world record,

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Speaker 2: it's one hundred and nineteen one nine, so obviously I

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Speaker 2: need to do about one twenty or more per day.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel like, because you know we've working

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Speaker 1: you in the past, I mean, you ran across Africa,

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Speaker 1: which was well the equivalent of like ninety marathons or

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Speaker 1: something over eighty nine days. So how are you feeling

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Speaker 1: about this? Is this a realistic thing that you could

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Speaker 1: potentially do?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm pretty confident in my abilities. Yeah, physically, I

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Speaker 2: don't think there's a problem. It's just it's going to

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Speaker 2: be such a mental challenge.

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Speaker 3: Mates, you ran across the continent of Africa.

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Speaker 1: I think I think I know if you can go

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Speaker 1: on to are you listening to podcasts? You're watching like series?

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Speaker 1: Do you do anything like that? Because I find you, know,

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Speaker 1: you go to the gym, you're on the elliptical or whatever.

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Speaker 1: It isn't after like ten minutes you're like, oh, right,

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Speaker 1: I've come on. I feel like I need to do

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Speaker 1: something else. But you're going to be there all day,

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Speaker 1: every day for a week. What are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So I will be listening to some podcasts. Although

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Speaker 2: when I did the forty eight hour record on the treadmill,

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Speaker 2: I actually found after a few hours my brain couldn't

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Speaker 2: even focus on the words they were saying in the podcast.

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Speaker 2: So I'll have some kind of repetitive, non wordy dance

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Speaker 2: music that I'll listen to. And then also there's just

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Speaker 2: going to be loads of people around me, So I

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Speaker 2: think the energy from other people will keep me going

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Speaker 2: and I'll be able to chat to people when I've

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Speaker 2: got the energy to do that.

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Speaker 3: Because you do hit a wall when you're running. What

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Speaker 3: the runners like yourself? Ultra marathon runners are ultra long

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Speaker 3: distance runners. What do you think about it? Like?

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Speaker 1: How do you keep yourself going?

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Speaker 3: Mentally?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Well, in terms of the question what do I

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Speaker 2: think about? There's a lot inside this brain of mine,

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Speaker 2: So there's never like any limit to what I'm thinking about.

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Speaker 2: I think of all kind of weird and wonderful things.

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Speaker 1: I suppose yourself a lot of the world's problems.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, I'm in control of everything in my own

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Speaker 2: little space in my head.

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Speaker 1: That's incredible what you're doing. So you're raising money for

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Speaker 1: the speed Freaks Trusts. Is it right with us for that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So the speed Freaks is an amazing charity. It's

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Speaker 2: a very young charity. They'll be celebrating their third birthday

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Speaker 2: while I'm on the treadmill. And they use running and

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Speaker 2: walking alongside connection and community to aid recovery from addiction

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Speaker 2: and it's just so successful. So they started in christ Church,

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Speaker 2: but now they are set up in Auckland and in

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Speaker 2: Fengray and they's demand all over the country. But unfortunately

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Speaker 2: they're at their limit financially, so they really need help

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Speaker 2: and support. So that's what this is all about, raising

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Speaker 2: money for them.

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Speaker 1: Speedfrea.

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Speaker 3: It's a great name for the organization too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the participants chose that name.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's brilliant.

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Speaker 3: I mean they'd probably go a lot, a lot quicker

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Speaker 3: and a lot longer too if they were. Let's see

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Speaker 3: a fantastic cause. And can we just go into your

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Speaker 3: African journey when you ran across Africa and I was

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Speaker 3: spoken to you about it before. Are you running into

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Speaker 2: And oh we saw lots of drafts or lots of elephants,

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Speaker 2: lots of warthogs, but no lions thankfully.

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Speaker 3: Any animals come, you know, trying to teck you or

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Speaker 2: Ah, there was a rhino pushing the vehicle in the

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Speaker 2: middle of the night. So we slept in a rooftop.

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Speaker 2: Ten we were on the top of the vehicle and

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Speaker 2: a rhino came up and was pushing it becausebably quite

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Speaker 2: intimidated by it. You could hear elephants, so the male,

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Speaker 2: the young male elephants in the middle of the night,

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Speaker 2: they walk around snapping branches and making noises because they're

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Speaker 2: trying to attract females. And you could hear them snapping branches,

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Speaker 2: getting closer and closer and closer to the vehicle, and

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Speaker 2: that was quite scary, but thankfully nothing happened with them.

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Speaker 3: Last you don't want to encounterbody.

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Speaker 1: What about like eighty nine days I think across Africa

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Speaker 1: was incredible? Like what about safety for you? Because I imagined

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Speaker 1: some places were out there on your are not just

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Speaker 1: wild animals, but you know, did you encounter anything like that?

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Speaker 2: We would generally say so, I had a support crew.

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Speaker 2: There was four other people, one on a bike and

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Speaker 2: three in a vehicle, so the vehicle was always relatively

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Speaker 2: close and the bike was next to me all the time.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, generally the people in Africa just wanted to

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Speaker 2: help us as much as they could.

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Speaker 3: Awesome, did you find out the rein down in Africa.

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Speaker 2: There was a lot of rain at the end. It

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Speaker 2: ran into a rainy season.

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Speaker 1: Your feet, it's a fun of your feet on your

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Speaker 1: website from you Was this your only fans? I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure what I'm looking at right now, but but it's

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Speaker 1: is running across every very swollen. I imagine eighty nine days,

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Speaker 1: very blistery as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well they've been a lot worse than things

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Speaker 2: I've done since. I probably thought it was bad at

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Speaker 2: the time, but now I know what it's like, really

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Speaker 2: really bad feet.

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Speaker 1: How do you run through a blister?

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Speaker 2: Like, once I've got one, I'm like, okay, well I'm

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Speaker 2: out there. Yeah. A lot of pain management and mental control.

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Speaker 1: What about the stats? You're worried about the stitch and

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Speaker 1: getting through that to run my kids, I go around

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Speaker 1: by kids and I've got the stitches and you're like

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Speaker 1: through kids. Yeah, what do you do? What do you

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Speaker 1: if you get the stitch? What's your advice?

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Speaker 2: Oh? My advice from when I've had it, when I

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Speaker 2: was younger, would be to push your fingers onto it

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Speaker 2: like a younger person.

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Speaker 1: You got the stick when you were younger, you always

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Speaker 1: felt that you got the stitch to.

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Speaker 2: Really get to do with age. Maybe as you get older.

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Speaker 1: You good luck. If you do get the stairs, push

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Speaker 1: through up, say grunting.

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Speaker 2: Don't you like when you get the stets You're like,

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Speaker 2: whatever works for you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want to be doing that in the

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Speaker 1: middle of snip. We'll go and we'd love to talk

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Speaker 1: to you again. I don't know if you're taking phone

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Speaker 1: calls through your thing, you're probably managing that, but we'd

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Speaker 1: love to talk to you, even throughout or at the

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Speaker 1: end of it. It would be great.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, my crew have got a phone and they

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Speaker 2: can point it towards my mouth and I'll grunt to you.

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Speaker 1: Oh great, Have you got the

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Speaker 2: Amazing Thank you God, thanks