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Speaker 1: The recall. Well, I think it was about a week

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Speaker 1: three and a half marathons, walking them for brain cancer research.

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Speaker 2: This morning, Jamie, how are the legs?

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Speaker 3: Oh, good morning, Katie. Today is the first day they're

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Speaker 3: starting to feel human swellings going down. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 3: definitely a big challenge, but have survived it and happy

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Speaker 1: Oh so it's a physic like obviously it's very physically challenging.

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Speaker 1: I would suspect and knees hurting and sore feet and that.

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Speaker 2: Kind of thing. Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I thought the biggest thing physically would be blisters. Miraculously

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Speaker 3: I didn't get any blisters of hot spots. For me personally,

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Speaker 3: it was I don't even know my knee. Things just

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Speaker 3: some of their fellow trekkers were kind enough to lean

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Speaker 3: me some trekking polls, so I probably looked like I

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it's quite hilly, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: It is, and definitely I couldn't have probably prepared for that,

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Speaker 3: A few of the trekkers gave the suggestion to actually

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Speaker 1: And you're like a fit young woman as well, so

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Speaker 1: it would have been hard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, personally it was definitely difficult, but fantastic to get through.

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Speaker 3: One of my roommates, Sally, said she did Kokoda twelve

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really was quite challenging.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, but all for an incredible cause, and that is

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Speaker 1: of course Brian Cancer Research. Now I was watching quite

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right down at Pines Stadium. It was Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the atmosphere was really great. We sort of finished the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, some people's situations, that's just amazing that they're even there,

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Speaker 2: It would have amazing.

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Speaker 1: It would have been quite an emotional journey as well.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine, you know, you'd spoke to us last

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Speaker 3: I think they were anticipating forty participants in this track.

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Speaker 2: That's heartbreaking for everyone and every.

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Speaker 1: And you told me about a visit, a little visitor

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Speaker 2: Such such such a hard such a chance.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but again yeah, very heartfelt, but amazing sort of yeah, introduction,

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Speaker 1: And shows you, you know, the beast in humanity as well,

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Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, Yeah, how hat goes off toe goes off

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I've set a target.

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Speaker 3: I think I was at five thousand just before heading

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Let us know we'll be more than happy to try

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Speaker 3: I know they were really good, actually supportive talking to

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Speaker 2: Know, it does matter?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, participating in something on a yeah, definitely public platform

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a wonderful thing. I think what

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Speaker 1: like you said, it doesn't discriminate. You know, you've got

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I think it's just timely to acknowledge that

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Speaker 3: the track that we did over the three days cumulatively

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Speaker 3: it's raised two hundred and sixty.

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Speaker 2: Thousand dollars in counting.

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Speaker 3: Our fundraising portals are still open, if it's okay, I

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Speaker 2: With YEP with the station. Yeah, yeah, definitely tastic.

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Speaker 3: So we've got our fundraising portals open still for another month.

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Speaker 3: So but I mean the amount we've got to so

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Speaker 3: far is amazing and yeah, wonderful, Bigger and better next

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Speaker 3: year hopefully, So where can people find it, Jamie, I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and maybe I'll just direct to the mix.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Perfect, No, we can definitely do that from there. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming in and good on you.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on completing it. I think it's really wonderful and

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Speaker 1: you know, a wonderful thing that the Northern territory was represented.

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Speaker 1: So thank you so much for having a chat with

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Speaker 3: Thanks, Thanks Kams, give you a beanie, thank you and wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Jamie, thank you to see you again.

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Speaker 1: The hot slegs recover fully and that you're back fighting

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Speaker 1: bit nice and soon.

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Speaker 2: They'll be ready for roun with done. Good stuff, Thank you,