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Speaker 1: Hope you're limbering up because this Sunday morning is the

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Speaker 1: Darwin Half Marathon and joining me on the line to

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit more about it. Darwin runners

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Speaker 1: and walkers in Fullerton, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: To you in.

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Speaker 3: Hikadie.

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Speaker 2: Are you ready for Sunday? Is your crew ready in.

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Speaker 3: We're getting there probably can. We're going to run tonight

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Speaker 3: to get over first and then get ready for Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, it's probably more appropriate to

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Speaker 1: ask is everybody that's running ready and limbered up?

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Speaker 2: Is probably a better question.

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Speaker 3: Exactly. I hope that everyone is fit and in the

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Speaker 3: right zone to do the distance.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, So twenty one kilometers. Tell us where it's happening.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it starts next to Lake Alexander in the East

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Speaker 3: Point Reserve, and the course will be we'll head out

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Speaker 3: to the front gate and back in on just the

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Speaker 3: first lap and then it's four laps, four or five

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Speaker 3: kilometer laps around the East Point on the footpaths. So

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Speaker 3: hence the twenty one kilometers.

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Speaker 1: How long are you expecting it to take the fastest

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Speaker 1: runners and then you know, the more average or the

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe a little bit slower like myself here.

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Speaker 3: Look, you're not that slow. Look I expect the first

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Speaker 3: ones to come in and and about I'm going to

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Speaker 3: take a stab at sixty eight minutes.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that is fast.

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Speaker 3: That is fairly quick. Look, I haven't actually looked at

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Speaker 3: the names to see if anyone jumps out. Apart from

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Speaker 3: the celebrity that signed up the other day, some of

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Speaker 3: the experience runners are really long time experience runners are

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Speaker 3: asking me questions about the cut off time because it's

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Speaker 3: lap race. What we do is we monitor the people

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Speaker 3: as they go past, and we're really looking at anyone

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Speaker 3: at the sixteen k who are behind the pack, whether

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Speaker 3: they're good to go for another five k. And look,

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Speaker 3: let's hope that everyone's in by about two hours twenty

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Speaker 3: two hours, fifteen, but we'll hold the course open a

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Speaker 3: little bit, excuse me, a little bit longer than that, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: to cover them.

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Speaker 1: And how many people are you expecting to take part?

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Speaker 2: How the numbers looking?

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Speaker 3: Well, this is darwin. So the fact that there's still

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Speaker 3: about sixty hours left to register. We're at around the

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Speaker 3: two hundred at the moment. And what's interesting is when

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Speaker 3: I look last night, there's definitely more females than males

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Speaker 3: registered this year.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, that's great. You go that.

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Speaker 3: Could be because of the clash with the Grand Fondo too,

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Speaker 3: because the boys like to ride their pushbikes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good point.

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Speaker 1: And look, I think any activity that you're getting evolved

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Speaker 1: in is a wonderful thing to do. But I'm much

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Speaker 1: better running than what I am on a bicycle, and

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Speaker 1: so I'm definitely going with you guys.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The good thing about the half marathon as well, that

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Speaker 1: the Darwin Runners and Walker's put on is that if

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Speaker 1: you're not really prepared to run a whole, you know,

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Speaker 1: half marathon, you can do it as a relay, can't you.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we have teams of two male and female, or

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Speaker 3: you can have a mixed team of two or a

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Speaker 3: team of four, and even a junior category for the

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Speaker 3: eleven to seventeen year olds, which means the oldest person

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Speaker 3: can't be older than that. But you can have a

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Speaker 3: team of four and it is a relay. I've had

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Speaker 3: a lot of people ask me, can we run together

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Speaker 3: to do twenty one k's in the first ten to

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Speaker 3: eleven case. It's a really think about an athletics track.

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Speaker 3: If you've got a four by one hundred, you have

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Speaker 3: to cover one or four people has to cover the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very good point. It seems like a no brainer

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Speaker 2: to me.

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Speaker 3: Ian.

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Speaker 2: I think that you know.

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Speaker 3: Some people have never been involved.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very true. Look, I reckon it's going to be fantastic.

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Speaker 1: So you've already got more than two hundred registered those numbers,

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Speaker 1: you could end up with a massive number when if

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Speaker 1: people got to register until it.

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Speaker 3: Closes it around nine o'clock Friday night. Registrations is through

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Speaker 3: the timing Wizards. So if you go to our web

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Speaker 3: page on the front page, there's a link to it,

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Speaker 3: or go to our Facebook page and there's a link

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Speaker 3: on there that you can just go to the online registrations.

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Speaker 1: Now, are you still looking for some volunteers to help

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Speaker 1: out with water or anything like that.

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Speaker 3: I it looks like I've got the water covered, but

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Speaker 3: it's always good to have a few more sets of

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 3: We like to have if possible, at least a person ever,

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Speaker 3: say one to two k's. That way, if people do

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Speaker 3: start the struggle, we can get someone out there to

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Speaker 3: help them out. Yeah. Our water points are down at

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Speaker 3: And there's people there that will be watching and letting

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Speaker 3: us know. We'll have first aid available to react if

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Speaker 3: So if someone in the community is a will to

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Speaker 3: see someone in trouble, because then we'll get the next

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Speaker 3: water point people, or the first aid is to have

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Speaker 3: a look at them as they come through.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, look, I know we've got plenty of active

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Speaker 1: people that listen to the show, so they can always

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Speaker 1: jump on the on the on Facebook and contact you

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Speaker 1: guys through the Darwin Runners and Walkers Club on there especially.

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Speaker 1: You know, like sometimes fine people will come along to

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Speaker 1: you know, to watch their significant other or a family

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Speaker 1: know what, I'd be more than.

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Speaker 2: Happy to help while I watch everybody else run.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've had people offer to do the finished water

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Speaker 3: point because that's right next to the relay. Yeah, so

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Speaker 3: there's a few groups that have said, oh, we when

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Speaker 3: we're not running, we'll come over and hand it cups

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Speaker 3: of water up the top of the course. We need

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Speaker 3: those people dedicated to it. We'll also have a couple

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Speaker 3: of cyclists in front of the first male and female,

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Speaker 3: so you know when if you're not at the front,

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Speaker 3: when the fast ones are coming through. So do you reckon,

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Speaker 3: You'll have a bike in front of you. Can I

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Speaker 3: doubt it?

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Speaker 2: I very much doubted the end. I reckon.

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Speaker 1: I'll be right back in the pack most definitely right back.

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Speaker 1: I've had a saw quad and i haven't really trained

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Speaker 1: since the marathon, but I'm hoping my fitness will carry

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Speaker 3: Oh, you need to do some stretching between now and then,

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Speaker 3: just make sure everything's supple.

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Speaker 2: Definitely.

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Speaker 1: I've got to stretch just to wake up in the morning,

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Speaker 1: and so I will definitely be stretching before the half marathon.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having a chat with us.

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Speaker 3: Now I don't have a sprinter's body anymore.

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Speaker 1: That is okay because you're organizing the events for us,

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Speaker 1: which is wonderful. We need that to happen.

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Speaker 3: For those that are going to compete. There's a briefing

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Speaker 3: and bib hand out down at Lake Alex on Saturday

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Speaker 3: from four to five. So that'll give you an idea

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Speaker 3: of the court, but more importantly get your timing bib

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Speaker 3: and then the race it starts itself, starts at seven

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Speaker 3: a m. Sunday morning, yep, and we will have the

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Speaker 3: gate open so you can park up nice and close.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful, wonderful stuff well, Ian Fullerton, It's going to be

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Speaker 1: an awesome event, the Darwin Half Marathon. If anybody's listening

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Speaker 1: and they want to jump online find out a little

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Speaker 1: bit more about it, you can either head to the

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Speaker 1: Darwin Runners and Walker's website just do a Google search

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Speaker 1: for it, or jump on Facebook and you'll be able

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Speaker 1: to search on there. Ian, thank you for having a

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Speaker 1: chat with me this morning.

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Speaker 2: All good, Thank you on sounds like a plan. Thanks

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Speaker 2: so much.

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Speaker 3: See you then,