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Speaker 1: The Right Nest Channel Swim is on this Saturday.

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Speaker 2: It is the most popular marathon swim in the world,

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Speaker 2: I believe, and it's been held every year since nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety one. It's a nineteen point seven kilometer journey from

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Speaker 2: Conslow Beach to Rotnest Island and a veteran of the

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Speaker 2: swim and doing it again.

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Speaker 3: This week we can yeh back on again.

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Speaker 1: Is Chris Anderson joining us? Now, Good morning Chris, Chris.

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Speaker 3: Hey guys, how are you good? Mate?

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Speaker 1: Veteran of course earth to Rottenest.

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Speaker 2: Now I've sat on the beach and I've looked outst

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Speaker 2: and I thought, nope.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, some days it looks a lot closer.

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Speaker 1: Than it does. It does look closer than others.

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Speaker 3: Some days you can't even say it at all.

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Speaker 1: How I mean, how many times have you done it? Now?

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Speaker 3: This will be seventeen seventeen.

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Speaker 1: And what got you into it?

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Speaker 4: We're at an engagement party actually about fifteen years ago,

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Speaker 4: and a few mates said you want swim to Rotenest

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Speaker 4: and I thought they were mad. Yeah, as an we're

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Speaker 4: on it become a better idea as you hear a

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Speaker 4: few points of personalities, they say Dutch courage yeah.

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Speaker 3: Next week we'd signed up.

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Speaker 4: And after the first year I did it, I thought

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Speaker 4: this is something I want to do forever. So wow,

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Speaker 4: I was bitten straight away and progressed from a team

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Speaker 4: into a duo into a solo and yeah, now it's

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Speaker 4: something I can't miss it.

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Speaker 3: Sort of, it's stuck with me, Chris.

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Speaker 5: I've been down there for the start. It's such an

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Speaker 5: exciting community kind of vibe. But when you're actually swimming,

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Speaker 5: you got to take the training seriously, don't you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to get into it early.

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Speaker 4: There's no use being at the fifteen k mark and

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Speaker 4: realizing that you probably should have done a bit more

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Speaker 4: training three or four months ago, because it's too late.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, getting into the training early is important. If

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Speaker 4: you're doing a solo, you probably want to train the

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Speaker 4: best part of a year. Yeah, teams Jewe's you can

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Speaker 4: probably sort of give it six months, but there's a

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Speaker 4: fair bit of training involved. Getting some open water work,

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Speaker 4: whether that be in the races or just down the beach,

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Speaker 4: but plenty of pool work and making sure you're ready

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Speaker 4: for the race.

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Speaker 2: Have you encountered people that have on a whim thought

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Speaker 2: I might have a go at this and then you know,

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Speaker 2: haven't done the training, haven't thought I'm an okay swimmer,

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Speaker 2: and then struck them out, you know, len out.

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Speaker 3: Half way across. There's a few people.

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Speaker 4: I saw a solo about four or five years ago

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Speaker 4: doing breastroke at the ten k mark, and I thought,

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Speaker 4: if you're.

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Speaker 3: Doing breastroke now, you're in for a long afternoon. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: down for a long time.

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Speaker 5: Hey, what's it like at the start, especially solo, but

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Speaker 5: even with the teams, when you're first swimmer in, it

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Speaker 5: must be a bit like a bunfight.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a bit. The adrenaline's pumping big time.

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Speaker 4: The crowd on the beach and seeing all the waves

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Speaker 4: of people go off, and you really sort of get

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Speaker 4: the sense of the occasion. You see all the boats

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Speaker 4: out in the ocean in front of you, So yeah,

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Speaker 4: it is a bit of a bon fight. At the start,

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Speaker 4: you sort of I tend to hang back and let

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Speaker 4: everyone race because it's twenty k's like you said, Lisa,

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Speaker 4: So yeah, there's no diving at the start and being

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Speaker 4: in front of after fifty meters because you're you're probably

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Speaker 4: gonna fall in a hole a bit later on.

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Speaker 5: So many people in the water at once you get

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Speaker 5: a whack on the back of the head, or there's

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Speaker 5: elbows and knees and.

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Speaker 4: Feet and yeah, yeah, you've got to be careful. And

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Speaker 4: especially when you pick up your paddler it's at the

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Speaker 4: five on a meter mark. There's skis and swimmers going everywhere,

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Speaker 4: and then when the boats join in after a k

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Speaker 4: it adds another element to it.

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Speaker 2: So do you know what the percentage is of people

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Speaker 2: that do drop out halfway across and it's like I

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Speaker 2: can't keep going.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's all dependent on whether you know, last year

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Speaker 4: was quite quite windy.

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Speaker 3: We got to southerly quite early.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of chops choppy.

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Speaker 3: The d n F rate was quite high last year.

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Speaker 4: But if we've got a strong easterly and it's not

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Speaker 4: much swell and the wind doesn't get up from the

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Speaker 4: south like it does in Perth every day in summer,

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Speaker 4: then your DNFs are quite quite likely.

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Speaker 5: So that's the name of our duo we called did

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Speaker 5: not finish dns did not start.

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Speaker 3: It did not start.

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Speaker 2: Now I believe this year you're mentoring a group of

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Speaker 2: school dads who've never done it before.

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Speaker 1: How did that? Did that also involve a pub.

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Speaker 4: Or it was our boys footy wind up. Of course

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Speaker 4: you have a grade three footy wind up at a pub.

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Speaker 3: Yes, And we.

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Speaker 4: Started chatting and a couple of days later I text

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Speaker 4: one of the boys and said, remember that chat we

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Speaker 4: had and it was a bit of a pregnant pause

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Speaker 4: before he got back to me and yeah, we got

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Speaker 4: together and said, yeah, we're going to do this.

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Speaker 3: And now the boy's been great.

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Speaker 4: They're pretty fit athletes themselves but hadn't done the swim,

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Speaker 4: so just sort of getting them into the training and

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Speaker 4: getting the head around what's involved and what race day

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Speaker 4: involves has.

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Speaker 3: Been good fun. So we're looking forward. We've all got

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Speaker 3: accommodation for the weekend.

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Speaker 2: So I'm guessing it's a very good night on Saturday

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Speaker 2: night and that you wouldn't get any accommodation for level money.

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Speaker 3: Is going off.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know you need to train hard for the race,

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Speaker 4: but I've also made it clear to the boys training

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Speaker 4: hard for the post race.

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Speaker 3: Is very valable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, balance life, balance.

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Speaker 3: I don't want even better day to clock.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to do you know.

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Speaker 5: What about simple things? May what do you eat the

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Speaker 5: night before and that kind of stuff. We talked to

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Speaker 5: footballers about what they do. You load up on pasta

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Speaker 5: or is it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, probably stay away from the massive steak.

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Speaker 4: Maybe have that sort of Wednesday Thursday night, but yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: a bit of pasta and seal and that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 3: Try and get some sleep.

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Speaker 4: That's the hardest thing really, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Race eve

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Speaker 4: is you know, you know you've got to get to sleep.

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Speaker 4: You go to bed early and then you lay there

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Speaker 4: for hours and then you wake up early. So you

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Speaker 4: know you need to be on the beach an hour

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Speaker 4: before you wave start pretty much. So I'll be on

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Speaker 4: the beach by about six, seen some friends off tenn

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Speaker 4: and we hit the water.

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Speaker 5: So you don't want to swim at four times in overnight.

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Speaker 3: You tend to do that a lot.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, after a while you said, relax a bit more,

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Speaker 4: and with that experience it makes a lot.

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Speaker 3: Easier, of course.

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Speaker 1: So what advice would you have for any first time

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Speaker 1: when I was doing it this weekend?

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Speaker 4: Don't over race is probably the key thing they don't

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Speaker 4: hand out. You know, finishes medals at the ten k mark,

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Speaker 4: so pace yourself. Be aware that the swell and the

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Speaker 4: wind will get up in the back half of the race.

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Speaker 4: When that for our doctor comes in. So your hardest

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Speaker 4: stretch of the race is really probably from about twelve

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Speaker 4: to thirteen k's through to Agent Righteah, because you don't

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Speaker 4: you don't get the protection of the islands, Garden Island

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Speaker 4: and Rottenest, So that's probably the hardest you've been in

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Speaker 4: the water. Maybe five hours you're starting to physically mentally

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Speaker 4: break down. But that little stretch there for that to

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Speaker 4: our passages is probably the hardest. Once you hit the

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Speaker 4: by Thompson Bay and Philip Rock and you start to

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Speaker 4: see all the boats and smell the barbecues and I.

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Speaker 2: Don't think there's anything like the color of that turquoise

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Speaker 2: water just around Rottnest. When you hit that, it must

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Speaker 2: be the best feeling.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, probably about two and a half k's out you

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Speaker 4: start to see the ocean and floor rise up. There's

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Speaker 4: a lot more marine life, good marine life, I might add,

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Speaker 4: good marine life, yes, the ones you want to see. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: of course, when you see the reef and the weeds

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Speaker 4: and you start to see all the spectator boat's and

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Speaker 4: everyone funnels in, so it's a lot busier with give.

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Speaker 3: Me that boost to get that last ye he does.

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Speaker 5: Chris, you mentioned that there's no medals for the ten

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Speaker 5: k mark, but have you seen inexperienced wimens go out

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Speaker 5: and try and be like a Campbell sister in the

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Speaker 5: first two let me cooked.

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Speaker 4: You see some people take off the beach and look

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Speaker 4: if you can sustain it. Yeah, it's not going to happen.

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Speaker 4: I just tend to hang back and let them go

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Speaker 4: nuts and yeah, and sort of do my own pace

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Speaker 4: at the start because it's a long day and if

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Speaker 4: you don't then you're you know, you're going to.

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Speaker 3: Be in a world hurt.

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Speaker 2: Well, like I said, nineteen point seven k's it's in

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Speaker 2: the water with the chop.

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Speaker 1: It's very impressive. Chris. Good luck this weekend.

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Speaker 4: Good luck to all the swimmers, paddlers, support staff. It's

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Speaker 4: an amazing event. To the Channel Swim Association South thirty

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Speaker 4: two the naming got sponsor. They're fantastic, So good luck

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Speaker 4: to everyone. I'll see you at the pub and.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, boy me the big that's one there buys the drinks,

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Speaker 5: ignores haded I not.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't see if I know the best Next

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Speaker 3: us Jez