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  <&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One</&>
  <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies</&>
  <&>Victoria University of Wellington</&>

  <&>side two</&>
  <&>0:24</&>
  

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      <theme music>well triathlons are something which <.>j</.> <.>gra</.>
      graduated on from running

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      i was into um <?>i</?> was encouraged by my brothers really

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      that's that'd be the main point

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      my brothers were into marathons and so i sort of got pulled
      along after a while to small races ten k races duathlons which
      is a bit of biking bit of running bit easier to begin with and
      then um</theme music> triathlons which is <.>the</.> the
      swimming bit as well with the biking and running <{><[>but</[>
      <.>th</.> <.>th</.> the main thing i go for now is called what
      you call multisport where you put in kayaking in with running
      and biking

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      now that's what i actually prefer at the moment <&>1:00</&>

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      <[>mhm</[></{>

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      you prefer that at the moment <{><[><unclear>word</unclear></[>

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      <[>er yeah yeah</[></{> yeah cos i'm <laughs>not a very good
      swimmer</laughs> <O>laughs</O> <latch>

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      like me

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      what are the challenges <.>o</.> <.>o</.> of this sport piripi

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      what you know you must get some sort of a buzz some sort of a
      challenge at the end of an event

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      what is it

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      what is that high

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      <drawls>er</drawls> yeah i wish i could remember

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      most of my highs i think come from the actual the training
      programme i i put myself through and <.>i</.> it's a goal you
      give yourself to complete these different events but you're
      actually against yourself it's a fitness thing but it's to
      complete events um comfortably within er sort of <.>m</.> a time
      you may give yourself or indeed i've lately taken to doing them
      with my son who is just eighteen he turns eighteen very soon and
      um it's a competition with someone as young as him

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      oh it's a big competition i tell <laughs>you awesome at times</laughs>

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      i must say he <&>2:00</&> sneaks away a bit on the bike but um
      i've got the legs on him in the running <,> <?><O>tut</O>
      <indig=Maori>ne</indig=Maori></?>

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      are these events held er around the country quite often

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      um <O>voc</O> most of the ones the the running events um every
      every harrier or running club has marathons or half marathons
      run in their areas

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      recently or in more recent years there have been other groups
      who have like the police who have actually got a triathlon club
      and other groups like there's a multisport club in wellington
      that runs these events right throughout the year so you'll get
      them in winter as well as summer and so er you can have swims um
      in the winter though more people participate in these things in
      during the summer but they're right year round <?><.>s</.></?>

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      the bigger events the multisport events um the key ones are like
      the mountains to the sea from mount ruapehu down the wanganui
      river er

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      that one comes on er labour weekend um each year and <?>then</?>
      you have coast to coast which is from kumara on <O>tut</O> the
      west coast of the south <&>3:00</&> island over to sumner past
      christchurch and that's in february of each year but there are
      certain big events which are always held and you actually do
      your training calendar based on er the bigger events so you can
      er peak

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      i'd say <?>your</?> peak to me is like you're not actually
      absolutely stuffed by the <laughs>time</laughs> you get there

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      they <{><[>say</[> good training is when you're actually um you
      know pretty tired most of the time but it's a good tiredness

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      it's not a <drawls>er</drawls> you know sort of <latch>

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      <[><?>mm</?></[></{>

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      mm

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      bad tiredness

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      we'll get into this training training er area piripi <,>

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      what is the amount of time you can put in per week per month in
      training for a particular event

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      <O>exhales</O> well <O>voc</O> initially they say for marathons
      that you should be getting up er in your training of marathons
      and doing something like er over a over a week you need to be
      doing at least say sixty ks er a week

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      now a marathon is only something like forty two ks but you'd
      <&>4:00</&> actually should be piling on the ks during the week

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      now <.>ac</.> to go out like that and the average time you'd get
      for an average person would be something like five minute ks is
      about er what my average is

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      most times i'm a bit er faster than that so if you put that
      together you're spending out each day at least an hour or so out
      in training and that's just for running

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      if you want to put in cycling with that you got to add in at
      least an hour a day cycling

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      most people can't fit it all in so what i tend to do is i've got
      a trainer a wind trainer at home put it up on wheels you know
      and you give that an hour each night

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      i've taken now to running to work or cycling to work so i can
      put it in

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      i've always done running each day so you put in cycling about an
      hour each day and then you got to do paddling and you got to
      find <laughs>time to get</laughs> paddling in during the week
      and the only time you've got during winter months really is
      mornings or evenings after work <O>tut</O> um

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      both times it's dark er

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      you really need to go out with someone else

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      i <&>5:00</&> wouldn't advise anyone doing any paddling on their
      own and er so i'd go out in porirua harbour's where i go out in
      titahi bay um six o clock say er

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      i try to get out three times a week

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      at the moment my son and i aren't <laughs>doing very</laughs>
      well on that but on the weekends you would try and get out and
      give yourself at least a two hour paddle at least once a week
      <{><[>so</[> and you build this up as you come nearer the event
      where you would be doing something er of the order of at least
      three three hours a day in one of those disciplines <latch>

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      <[>mm</[></{>

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      disciplines right <latch>

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      you're meant to have <laughs>a day off too</laughs>

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      that's the other thing i forgot

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      meant to have a day for your body to to <{><[>recover</[>

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      i find that hard to actually have a day off er like i had a day
      off on sunday so i didn't run or cycle

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      i just paddled for two hours

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      <[><softly><unclear>word</unclear></softly></[></{>

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      right

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      that's a <{><[>day off</[>

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      <[>what about</[></{> food intake piripi the <{><[>type of food</[>

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      <[>very important</[></{> um er well pasta is the big deal um

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      you got to have sort of a high carbo loading they call it carbo
      stacking sort of er food regime so you get into a lot of pasta

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      my <&>6:00</&> particular one is to stock up on pasta about two
      three weeks before a major event and i will just have pasta no
      meat

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      cut out all the meat

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      i always have a lot of vegetables er for my meal

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      i have a big breakfast a cereal breakfast and i've <.>la</.>
      taken lately to um porridge to a thing called fruit porridge

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      love it

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      my son and i go through heaps of the stuff um that as well as
      say muesli weetbix <.>f</.> <.>f</.> <.>f</.> for <?>a</?> fill
      just during the day um

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      fruit i'll have a just have a fruit lunch

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      it's the only thing i have after my runs

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      plenty of liquids

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      i'll probably go through about two litres of er fluid mainly
      water each day

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      big meal at night pasta lots of vegetables rice fish not so much
      of the meats or chicken

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      to me celebrating after an event is to actually have some meat
      but i've gone off meat in recent years anyway <{1><[1>so</[1>
      that's <{2><[2>the</[2> sort of <&>7:00</&> <?><.>f</.> er</?>
      regime

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      some people go in for more um complex sort of um diets but <O>swallows</O>
      yeah they get too fancy and mostly when you want to go out and
      be er sociable with people you can always get pasta somewhere or
      something like that you <{3><[3>know</[3>

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      <[2>mm</[2></{2>

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      <[3><?>oh</?></[3></{3> right

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      okay piripi it's the day before an important event <latch>

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      oh i'm stuffed <latch>

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      how does one prepare the mind you know er

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      <.>w</.> what's going through your mind <{><[>before you</[>
      actually start an event <latch>

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      <[><drawls>well</drawls></[></{>

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      well actually <.>i</.> i've psyched myself up for my event so
      i'm i'm i'm <?>i'm i'm</?> psyching now for the coast to coast
      in february next year

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      i'm doing it right now um

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      i i work months beforehand for these things

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      the day beforehand you can't even get through to me

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      i'm <O>tut</O> i'm away with the fairies um

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      everything has got to be prepared so your support team is just
      as important as you are and you've got to make sure <?>that</?>
      your support team knows exactly er where bikes where running
      shoes are going to be in the transitions

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      if you're doing a multisport event you're gonna have to change
      your gear so the gear you have <&>8:00</&> has got to make sure
      that it's the stuff you've trained in so you don't introduce any
      new gear on <.>a</.> on a race day er

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      you have your tired old sort of shorts and whatever's worked <.>f</.>
      with you heaps of vaseline um <.>for</.> for irritations and
      rubs and things and that um your supporters are ready and you're
      ready

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      MAINtenance of your gear is is the key thing that everything's
      just right so you spend a lot of time on that last day just
      making sure the bike's tuned up well and that the bike shop did
      the right job if you're getting them to do it um

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      all your gear works well

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      you've got the changes for your lens

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      i mean you get into all sorts of things for your for your
      glasses and things like that cos cos i wear glasses most of the
      time i'm terrified of running with actually out anything <?><.>p</.></?>
      protecting my eyes so i wear contact lenses now so i discovered
      that you could actually go and er you know run in the rain but
      those sorts of things you make sure everything is there and
      you're right

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      now you can tell from that you're <.>getting</.> you're fairly
      psyched up so <,> <.>you</.> you're a bit <laughs>unbearable</laughs>
      <latch>

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      <O>laughs</O> <latch> <&>9:00</&>

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      <laughs>to tell the truth</laughs> and during the event <drawls>um
      you</drawls> <.>you</.> you will miss certain things

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      you will actually sometimes not know where the people are in the
      transition

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      people have been known to take wrong turnings <drawls>um</drawls>

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      you know people er will run back out the way they came

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      you can get quite disorientated <.>wi</.> after with a long
      event if you've been going

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      one of the later ones was a triathlon in palmerston north and
      that was a <O>tut</O> eight and a half hours

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      i'm proud to say i was the last one in until someone pipped the
      post

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      he actually went past <.>th</.> the finish post in the paddle
      and he went out past palmerston north and <.>fe</.> er finished
      out at opiki and he didn't realise that he'd passed the end so i
      actually came second last but that was eight and a half hours
      and er you know <.>in</.> after that sort of time you know when
      you <.>tran</.> in <?>the</?> transition period you're pretty
      tired and you can sometimes um er go the wrong way

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      you give your bike to your support person to <.>a</.> to grab
      while you you throw your gear off and if they don't you know
      grab it the bike just falls over you know and <&>10:00</&> you
      can get pretty brassed off at that so <O>voc</O> your your
      language is a bit colourful at times but the support people are
      meant to <laughs>support you man</laughs> <.>an</.> and er at
      the end of it they'll let you know sort of you know what a
      person you were to live with and all the training

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      what do people mean what <.>do</.> what do the <.>th</.> the
      experts mean by hitting the wall

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      <&>drawled groan</&> <?>oh</?> yeah the wall

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      i've climbed all over the <{1><[1>wall</[1>

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      i didn't know what it <laughs>meant</laughs> until i found it in
      a marathon er

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      it was my first marathon and we were doing fine up to about
      thirty ks

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      i was running with my brother and it was good and he was really
      good and as we went through the first mark this is out er
      mangaroa which has got some sort of hills in it there and went
      through the first mark the first um half marathon <.>g</.> that
      was great

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      went out twenty ks

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      how are you going

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      says <whispers>oh <?>and</?> i'm all right you know</whispers>
      steady into it

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      thirty ks that's the bit where it sort of starts to hit you

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      well it just hit me with a big rush

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      suddenly i was just <drawls>um</drawls> i didn't know

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      it was like <?><.>you</.></?> if you hit something and i had my
      whole body slow down

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      my metabolism went <&>11:00</&> crazy <?>and</?> actually my
      eyes i had <laughs>trouble</laughs> seeing

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      <unclear>word</unclear> describe it now you <{2><[2>wonder</[2>
      why these people <{3><[3>do it</[3>

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      all through it i wanted to carry on but he was aware that you
      know i was getting fairly um dazed so we'd had a fair amount of
      liquid then so we slowed right down and he talked me through it
      and i just wanted to give up lie down whatever and he talked me
      through it and sort of said well just go slowly then just go
      slowly you know

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      he didn't want me to start walking you see and so i just <O>swallows</O>
      got down to a sort of barely crawling pace and he talked me
      really through that

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      i didn't quite know um where i was

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      i knew i was on this road but you know i knew why i was doing it
      and i wanted to finish but everything else just wasn't sort of
      functioning

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      <.>my</.> my breathing <.>we</.> <.>w</.> went all all all light
      was terrible actually

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      he talked me through it and um i came through

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      i finished that one

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      that was my first marathon <&>12:00</&> that was three <drawls>hours</drawls>
      forty and um <.>th</.> <?>that</?> appears to be pretty good

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      well i went out for my next one on that one determined to crack
      it the next year did three hours <laughs>fifty you know</laughs>
      got a whole lot of cramp so the wall is something which is just
      there and um you got to experience it i think you know to to do
      it <O>voc</O>

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      once you've done that i think you can sort of say to yourself
      well okay what could be worse than that and that's the way i
      look at it

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      what <?>can</?> be worse than that

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      tell you what <laughs>can be worse is</laughs> cramp that i got
      the next year but it was nothing like that wall

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      i mean cramp was just something which i needed to take more
      fluids on prepare better for it and it appears i'm just a wee
      bit sort of vulnerable to cramp and actually stop and do
      stretches and i didn't

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      i sort of tried to carry on like a hero and sort of paid for it

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      i was screaming out to people <with pained voice>you got any
      lollies any sugar</with pained voice>

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      i was just craving some um some glucose and i got it in the end
      and and i recovered but i was down to a sort of a hobble and
      then i got going to a walk and then a then a run again but that
      was three fifty <?>and that was</?> that was probably more
      painful than the wall <&>13:00</&>

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      <[1><O>laughs</O></[1></{1>

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      <[2><?><softly>mm</softly></?></[2></{2>

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      <[3><?>mm</?></[3></{3>
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