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Speaker 1: A big weekend of running this weekend with the Darwen

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Speaker 1: Runners and Walkers Half Marathon taking place. It is a

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Speaker 1: fantastic event which happens every year at East Point. And

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Speaker 1: joining me on the show is Ian Fullerton from the

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Speaker 1: Darwen Runners and Walkers Morning.

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Speaker 2: Ian, Okay, here are you? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Really good, Good to have you on the show. How

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming is a very organized for the weekend. How

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Speaker 1: the numbers looking.

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Speaker 2: We're probably going to hit the two fifty come Sunday

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Speaker 2: now the Darwin Night syndrome where the last thirty seconds

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Speaker 2: they all.

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Speaker 1: Register myself included.

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Speaker 2: It's been Yes, I did see a name on the

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Speaker 2: on the teams list last night which is related.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well well, well well we've registered Bronte. But I

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Speaker 1: was thinking, oh, hang on, how far am I going

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Speaker 1: to run after? So I'll bite the bullet, I reckon,

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Speaker 1: I'll go the proper half marathon in so I'd make

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Speaker 1: sure I register myself this Savo. But two hundred and fifty,

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Speaker 1: how does that compare two other years?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's what we had last year as well, and

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Speaker 2: probably this time last year it was one hundred lesson.

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Speaker 2: They just smashed us in the last couple of days

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Speaker 2: but it is what it is. I mean, I've been

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Speaker 2: doing it that long now that there's the expectations. I've

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Speaker 2: done all the bibs up ready, so we'll see how

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Speaker 2: it panned out for me exactly.

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Speaker 1: No matter what, you're always ready for it. I how

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Speaker 1: many years has the half marathon been taking place?

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Speaker 2: I was just thinking that before because I don't have

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Speaker 2: the data in front of me. But it's been going

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Speaker 2: probably thirty or more years. Wow, I've been involved in

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Speaker 2: it for god, I'll hang on. I've been here twenty

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Speaker 2: seven years, so much longer than that. Yeah, I've been

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Speaker 2: involved for probably twenty six years. So yeah, it's one

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Speaker 2: of the iconic events from up here in Darwin. The

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Speaker 2: club goes back to sixty five, so probably in the

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Speaker 2: seventies they started.

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Speaker 1: How awesome. I mean, it's wonderful to see people out

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Speaker 1: running and it is so wonderful to see the event

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Speaker 1: happen every year. For those who've never taken part, where

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Speaker 1: does it start and how does it all work?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So what we've done is we've picked East Point,

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Speaker 2: so we start and finish at Lake Alexander at the

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Speaker 2: car park. There. We have an initial kilometer where we

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Speaker 2: go out and then we do four laps of East

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Speaker 2: Point itself, which is spot on five k's per lapse,

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Speaker 2: so works out just nicely for the twenty one k's.

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Speaker 2: It means that we can have a couple of water stops.

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Speaker 2: That means the runners get a drink station. Ear with

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Speaker 2: two and a half kves, we're not having to fight

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Speaker 2: traffic yep, and we can get people out there monitoring

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Speaker 2: the course and have eyes on them.

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Speaker 1: And the other wonderful thing about it being the four

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Speaker 1: lapse is that then if you don't want to run

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Speaker 1: the full half marathon, you can actually do it as

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Speaker 1: part of a team.

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Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah, So what we do is we have the

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Speaker 2: realay teams change over near the start finish, so both

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Speaker 2: the teams are two and teams of four. We have

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Speaker 2: a change box that they do it from. And it

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Speaker 2: also means that some of the not quite fit people

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Speaker 2: at the sixteen k we can be looking at them

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Speaker 2: along with our Saint John's volunteers to make sure that

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Speaker 2: they're good to go for that last five case.

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Speaker 1: Keeps everybody really nice and safe. Ian How long have

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Speaker 1: people got until they can register? When does registration close off?

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Speaker 2: It closes off? It says it currently closes off at

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Speaker 2: eight o'clock Friday night. I will correct that because in

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Speaker 2: the brief it actually says nine. I'll go in and

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Speaker 2: change that. It will be nine o'clock local time. It

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Speaker 2: will close off tomorrow night.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, So they've got a bit of time to still

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Speaker 1: register nine o'clock tomorrow night. Now, in terms of people

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Speaker 1: that are registering, if they you know, if they've decided

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Speaker 1: that they've already you know that they're going to take

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Speaker 1: part and they've signed up, where do they collect their

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Speaker 1: bibs from their running numbers and that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the bib issue is between four and five Saturday

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Speaker 2: afternoon down at Lake Alexander. So you get to see

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Speaker 2: the area where you'll be setting up and running, and

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Speaker 2: I'll do a progressive sort of race races slash safety

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Speaker 2: brief as people come in. So you know, you get

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Speaker 2: fifty or so people, you give them the brief, you

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Speaker 2: get the next fifty boo, you give them the brief,

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Speaker 2: and then we go out and mark the course and

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Speaker 2: all the admin things that go behind something like this.

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Speaker 1: Now, if you've got plenty of volunteers and everything, because

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Speaker 1: I know that there's plenty of avid runners that listen

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Speaker 1: to the show. If there's is there any any volunteer

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Speaker 1: jobs that you're still trying to film.

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Speaker 2: Having enough eyes out on the course is the crucial bit.

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Speaker 2: So we're down a few of the what we call

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Speaker 2: marshals who we put key points to say, they just

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Speaker 2: monitor the runners and if they see something wrong they

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Speaker 2: can talk to them, give us a ring and we

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Speaker 2: can get assistance out to them. So I've got a

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Speaker 2: few people out there, but it's never never enough.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, if anybody is keen to help out, they

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Speaker 1: can jump on to the Darwin Runners and Walkers Facebook

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Speaker 1: page and you'll be able to find you guys on

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Speaker 1: there and send a message in where's the best spot

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Speaker 1: for them to jump online to register?

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Speaker 2: It's called the Timing Wizards. If you go to the

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Speaker 2: Facebook page, yep, I've just updated the post on it

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Speaker 2: so you'll see Darwin Runners and Walkers half Marathon and

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Speaker 2: on that advert is the.

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Speaker 1: The links on there. Well, I I will, I'll get

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Speaker 1: online and register to this and I will see you

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Speaker 1: on the weekend.

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Speaker 2: So you reckon the legs are good to go again.

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Speaker 1: We'll see mate, We'll see I might be walking but

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Speaker 1: you know, I'll give it a red hot guy and

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Speaker 1: i'll see what happens. Thank you as always for your time,

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Speaker 1: See you on the weekend. All right, no, thank you,