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Speaker 1: Look, we know that cyclists are gearing up for a

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Speaker 1: major event that's happening in Darwin in just over two

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Speaker 1: weeks time, the Top End Grand Fondo, hosted by Darwin

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Speaker 1: Cycling Club. It's going to get underway at the Darwin

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Speaker 1: Waterfront on Sunday, July twenty one. It is a massive

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Speaker 1: event and for the first time, it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a closed road event. From my understanding with cyclists to

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Speaker 1: do loops through Charles Darwin National Park.

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Speaker 2: Is that correct? Let me find out a little bit

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Speaker 2: more now.

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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line to tell us more is

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Speaker 1: Darwin Cycling Club Chair Julian Barry.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you. Julian, Hi, good morning, How are

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Speaker 2: you very good? Julian? Tell us how it's all going

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Speaker 2: to be happening this year?

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well, it's the thirteenth or fourth time we've done

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Speaker 3: and so a lot of it will look the same

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Speaker 3: with a whole lot of people on micras that are

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Speaker 3: heading off on bicycle. Yeah. This time we're very excited

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Speaker 3: that we've got closed roads, which means that it'll be

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Speaker 3: safer for everybody. And there is a bit of a

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Speaker 3: trend all around Australia towards closed roads. We don't have

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Speaker 3: too many big events like this on open raids, so

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Speaker 3: it should be special.

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Speaker 2: Tell me where exactly it's going to run.

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Speaker 1: This is really exciting because I know, look, look, I'm

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Speaker 1: not the best cyclist, so I'm certainly not the one

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Speaker 1: to gauge this off.

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Speaker 2: But I get a bit scared when I'm out on

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Speaker 2: an open road. Mate.

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Speaker 1: I know that you guys are riding a lot faster

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Speaker 1: and a lot better than I am.

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Speaker 3: Though yeah, no, look I'm not sure about that. But anyway,

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Speaker 3: it'll be starting at the Darwin Waterfront. It'll be going

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Speaker 3: out on Tiger Brannon Road and I'll leap through charles

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Speaker 3: Dale National Park and back and the people who are

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Speaker 3: the strongest and the fittest and the fastest through one

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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty two kilometers do three loops, and then

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Speaker 3: there's five rides altogether, starting from five the five kilometerter

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Speaker 3: Cycle Vane Family Ride right up to the one hundred

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Speaker 3: and twenty two Some builds up end brand Sunday.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 1: I love that you make sure that there's an event

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Speaker 1: for everybody because it means that the whole community can

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Speaker 1: really get involved, can't they.

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Speaker 3: That's absolutely the case. And look, we've even got a

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Speaker 3: few politicians doing Italy.

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Speaker 2: Who which pollies are going to do it this year?

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Speaker 3: Well, Kate Warden is definitely in and she'll be doing

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Speaker 3: I think for the fifth time she's done. She and

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Speaker 3: Luke Gosling and he's doing it as well, will have

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Speaker 3: have done it for five times. Five times, and they've

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Speaker 3: done it more than anyone else. LEAs Andocchiaro has been

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Speaker 3: rallying her troops and they've been participating in it strongly

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Speaker 3: in the last couple of years. I think that'll be

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Speaker 3: her third time with some of her troops. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: there'll be a few pollies out there sweating away all

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Speaker 3: good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Now to give us the inside scoop. Are they very fast?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Look, well I reckon, Look I reckon Kate Warden

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Speaker 3: and Liam I reckon. There'd been neck and.

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Speaker 2: I reckon. It would be exciting seeing them battle it out.

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Speaker 2: They're both very competitive.

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Speaker 3: Look, they're very nice to each other. That's the good

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Speaker 3: thing that you know, the politicians are very nice to

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Speaker 3: each on the day to day of peace.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, Now tell me Julian. In terms of training

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Speaker 1: for something like the one hundred and twenty two k

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Speaker 1: sun built, top end grand fondo. What kind of kilometers

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Speaker 1: go in every week into training for something like that.

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Speaker 3: Well, well, I'm an old seller and I do it,

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Speaker 3: and I think this is about my eighth or nine

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Speaker 3: time of doing it, and I write about one hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty k's a week.

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Speaker 2: Right, so not too many more?

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Speaker 3: No, no, look it's three mornings a week. But look,

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Speaker 3: if you're young and strong, you can just get up

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Speaker 3: and do it. But I think the beauty and the

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Speaker 3: importance of these events are that they give people a

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Speaker 3: you know, for a long period of time, and it

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Speaker 3: becomes a city of the Circle or whatever, and it

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Speaker 3: becomes part of a lifestyle. And in the Northern Territory

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Speaker 3: we've got so many people who are desperately unhealthy with

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Speaker 3: lifestyles THESS and that's getting worse. These kind of events

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Speaker 3: I think can really turn people around because it's actually

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Speaker 3: much more exciting at nine o'clock in the morning, having

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Speaker 3: a coffee with all your mates and you know, getting

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Speaker 3: out of bed with a bad hangover and a couple

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Speaker 3: of hundred bucks less in your pocket.

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Speaker 1: I one hundred percent agree with you. I'm there with you.

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Speaker 1: I feel exactly the same, and I love having something

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Speaker 1: to train for and I love seeing events like this

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Speaker 1: in the end as well, because I think that it's

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Speaker 1: not only a situation where you can get locals involved,

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Speaker 1: but I'm assuming we probably have people travel here for

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Speaker 1: the Grand Fondau as well.

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Speaker 3: We do, yeah, we had, We had quite a few

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Speaker 3: dozen last year. And look these kind of events, not

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Speaker 3: just running but soon events. I went down to the

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Speaker 3: Tour of Brisbane earlier in the year.

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Speaker 2: Y I did very badly, don't worry about that, but.

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Speaker 3: I think there was five thousand people or something in it,

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Speaker 3: and people down from New Zealand all around Australia. So

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Speaker 3: there's quite a lot of tourism potential in it because

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Speaker 3: people who might be thinking about coming to the Northern Territory,

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Speaker 3: it's just that little extra thing that pushes them to

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Speaker 3: come here. So we're working, you know, with the government

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Speaker 3: and Tourism MT and all those kind of people to

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Speaker 3: try and you tap into that market.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a really good thing to do. I

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Speaker 1: know myself. I traveled to NUSA for the marathon. I've

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Speaker 1: traveled to cans for one. People do like people are,

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Speaker 1: you know, you sort of have a holiday, and like

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Speaker 1: you said, then you can. You can take part in

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Speaker 1: the event either at the start of your holiday or

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Speaker 1: at the end of the holiday, depending on how sow

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Speaker 1: you'd like your legs to be.

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Speaker 3: Now it sounds to me like you're a potential cyclist,

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Speaker 3: so we're going to have to chat again.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a good cyclist, Julien, I'll tell you right now,

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Speaker 2: not very good at riding a bike.

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Speaker 1: But hey, tell me how many people of your head

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Speaker 1: registered or how many are you expecting to take part

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Speaker 3: Look, we're hoping to have somewhere We're up to a

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Speaker 3: couple of hundred. People always sign up at the last minute,

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Speaker 3: but we're hoping to have somewhere around five hundred.

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Speaker 2: That'd be awesome.

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Speaker 1: That would be absolutely fantastic to see. In terms of

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Speaker 1: viewing the race, you know, is there a certain spot

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Speaker 1: that's a good place to go and cheer on your

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Speaker 1: mates if they're taking part.

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Speaker 3: Well, we're still thinking about it. I mean down at

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Speaker 3: the waterfront people are going to be doing the loop there,

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Speaker 3: so down there probably a good spot. And then you know,

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Speaker 3: just along the way along the road to Tiger Brennon.

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Speaker 3: If you find a good spot, well tell me.

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Speaker 1: If people are listening this morning and they're thinking, do

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Speaker 1: you know what? I ride my bike regularly, I'm pretty fit.

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Speaker 1: I'm keen to take part. Where can they go to register?

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Speaker 3: Just google top end Grand Sunday, remembering that Grand Funda

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Speaker 3: has an end, but you you'll find it anyway. Some

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Speaker 3: build top end Grand Sunday. It's been responsoredble the last

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Speaker 3: ten years or so, so google that or just google

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Speaker 3: doh and Typling Club.

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Speaker 2: Well, Julian, lovely to speak with you this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for coming on having a chat to

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Speaker 1: us about the Grand Fondo. It sounds like it's going

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Speaker 1: to be amazing and let's hope for some record numbers.

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Speaker 3: I reckon fantastic. Thanks Katie, really appreciate it and we'll

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Speaker 3: see you on the road.

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Speaker 1: Sounds good anytime. Good on you, Julian, Thank you, see

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Speaker 1: you