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Speaker 1: To Sam Ruth, who, as you would have seen over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, broke to John Walker's nineteen eighty two New

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Speaker 1: Zealand mile workord by a couple of tenths. He clocked

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Speaker 1: in at three forty eight, a eight which was an

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Speaker 1: indoor meet in Boston, fastest said at indoor mile by

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Speaker 1: the way by a high school student as well. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: Sam's with a Sam morning. Well, Mike, how you are good.

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Speaker 1: How's the recovery going?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean I've done everythink I can.

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Speaker 2: I didn't really have a great sleep last night, but

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Speaker 2: you know that's expected after after getting so stimulated after

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Speaker 2: a good race.

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Speaker 1: I guess did it feel like a good race as

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Speaker 1: it was unfolding?

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Speaker 2: M Yeah, I guess so. I mean I wasn't really

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Speaker 2: paying attention to the clock, but I guess when I

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Speaker 2: was like, wow, I'm seeking like, I was like, there's

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Speaker 2: no way the race is going bad. So yeah, as

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Speaker 2: a race went on, I definitely felt like I was

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Speaker 2: getting bitter and bitter. So yeah, it's good.

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Speaker 1: How do you having watched the race? But you you

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Speaker 1: seem to have a style that seems effortless. You were

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Speaker 1: straining at the end in your face, but did you

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Speaker 1: have more? Is there a structure to the race that

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Speaker 1: you set out to achieve when you chase a record

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Speaker 1: like this or not? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean, well, just trying to look ifortless in your stride,

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Speaker 2: I guess is the most efficient way to run. You know,

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Speaker 2: you don't want to be wasting any energy, you know,

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Speaker 2: playing like tensing up in your arms or anything. So

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Speaker 2: I guess looking iforless is a good sign of having

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Speaker 2: a good race, I guess. But you know that would

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Speaker 2: be pretty hard to replicate that race just because it

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Speaker 2: was split pretty perfectly in terms of each time of

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Speaker 2: me to split was nearly identical. But in terms of travel,

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Speaker 2: I mean I was, I only stayed three nights here

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Speaker 2: So in terms of that, I might get a bit

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Speaker 2: of a performance game for my next race.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Interesting, I was going to ask about that. How

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Speaker 1: variable on any given day? And we've all gone through this,

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Speaker 1: and even when we're not elite athletes, you know, some

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Speaker 1: days you just feel ready for it, other days you don't.

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Speaker 1: How variable is that for you? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean it totally just depends really on who's in

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Speaker 2: my race, and I try and always feel feel the

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Speaker 2: same going into a race, Like going into each race,

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Speaker 2: I reckon if it was set out perfectly and it

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Speaker 2: was the exact same race each time, I'd probably get

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Speaker 2: within Like you know, like that race is set out again,

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Speaker 2: like in a week's time, I'd think I'd get in

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Speaker 2: within a second of that time. Again, Like I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: pretty consistent when it comes to running, but it's just

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Speaker 2: all the variables around you that can change that exactly.

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Speaker 1: How where do the games come from? Here? How do

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Speaker 1: you get faster? Is it technique? Is it strength? Is

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Speaker 1: it age? What is it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean my coach has left me a lot

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Speaker 2: of volume to get better from. So I'm only doing

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Speaker 2: like seventy k's a week right now, right now, which

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Speaker 2: might sound like quite a bit, But all the top

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Speaker 2: guys doing like one thirty one forty. So yeah, I've

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Speaker 2: got fifty sixty more k's left in the bank, just

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Speaker 2: to gain some more strength and some more endurance, just

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Speaker 2: so I can feel a bit more comfortable with that

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Speaker 2: pace and get a bit fitter.

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Speaker 1: I guess, brilliant. I was reading about you on CNN

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Speaker 1: this morning, so you're literally making global headlines. Hope you're

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Speaker 1: enjoying it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm definitely enjoying it.

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Speaker 1: Good on you mate, nice to catch up. Appreciate it

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Speaker 1: very much. Sam Ruth, who's with us out of Boston

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Speaker 1: this morning, when he says seventy k's a week, I

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Speaker 1: of course do seventy k's a week, except I'm on

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Speaker 1: the bike, so there's a bit of a difference. There's

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