How to plan your dream runcation

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Anna and

and hello listeners. Today

we are going to be talking about run vacations, also known as running vacations. It's currently very early days in winter and I don't know about you all, but we are already sick of it. it's times like these where you need a holiday and there is no better holiday than a running vacation with friends. Exactly.

If you've listened to cheeky much over the years, you'll know that we always preface that we are no experts. However, in this one instance, we are happy to say that we are indeed knowledgeable. We if not experts well.

bleeding. So

So we are gonna give you our top 10 tips for planning your next vocation. We are also going to do a rundown on a. Historic record attempt that's coming up in the women's running world, which is Faith Kip Y's four minute mile breaking four. Most of you would be familiar with Kipchoge's sub two hour marathon that was held, I think it was six years ago, maybe in 2019. Yeah, so this is similar to that. Except I would say even harder.

Yeah. Well, I think that's the consensus.

Well, I, I think that, yeah, I think the consensus is that she's less likely to break than

Yeah. I think this feels more ambitious. Not that wasn't, obviously breaking two hours of marathon is so ambitious, but people knew he could do it. Everyone was like, he's got it in him in the right. Whereas this feels like, feels really ambitious, which is exciting. It

so cool. first of all, before we get into all of that, as always, we'll kick it off with our notable runs of the week. Phoebe, give me your worst run or running adjacent activity.

Okay. It's, it's running adjacent, although it filtered through to some runs. which is that I randomly this week on Tuesday, I got a toothache. I'm

starting to wonder how that filters down to some

does. I'll tell you how, because when I ran it would throb, oh, like every It would throb a bit. And I was like, this is so annoying. And it definitely accelerated how quickly I went to see a dentist about it, because I feel like this is the kind of thing I'd normally be like, uh, whatever. It's a tooth. They gotta go away. But I'm like, this is so annoying. Every run, I can just feel

So does it get worse when you run?

when I step, it would like jolt and it would it. but funny story,

Mm.

I went to the dentist this afternoon and I was saying, oh, it's really sore around here. And I dunno why. And like, even I did yoga this morning and it was in different poses it was hurting. Oh yeah. It was really weird. And I went and literal saw this, random dentistry happened to have some availability free. And he was looking into it. And he is doing these scans, like things the dentists do. Yeah. And then he sat down and he goes, Hey, are you a bit stressed?

Aw.

And I was like, yeah. I was like, I actually am. And he was like, oh, have you been waking up, in the nighttime? And I was like. Yeah, I have been, 'cause I've been waking up really early in the morning for no reason. Well, because I'm stressed I think. And then he was like, yeah, you've been clenching your jaw. giving you, you were too late. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, oh my God, this is so funny because just this just feels really, it's a classic,

It's

it. So

so brand.

I need my dentist. I need my dentist to tell me

to tell you, I think you're a bit

But yeah, so he said, if it's a tooth problem, it'll be, this is pretty niche tooth chart for everyone. But if it's a tooth problem, it'd be one tooth. But mine's that whole. Part of my jaw

Ah,

and Okay. Which is a bit of a giveaway. And then did these press down on all these random muscles all over my face and neck. And some of them were super tight. yeah. And really tender. And

he give you a massage?

massage. No, I wish, Some places I was like, yeah, that feels nice. Like,

Yeah.

but he was like you can go and get a face massage. which I dunno if I'll be doing, but yeah, the other thing was. I always sleep on that side of my face. And that's my right side of my face for anyone interested. Um, and so

know your sleeping

before? Yeah. I always, always on that side and I need to flip it over. Yeah. and he gave me some exercises to do.

cute and then how can you actually stop the clenching? Has he given you something bite down

on? Well, I, no. So He said, hopefully we can just manage it with releasing the muscles. I tried to be like, should I try and get less stress? And it was like, that's not my area of expertise. I was like, fair enough.

we'll need a longer appointment for that.

So anyway, hopefully tonight I'm gonna sleep on my other side. And I, maybe I'll do some meditation, vomit

some meditation for like

Just stop it

Yeah. And leave your phone, don't look at your phone for half an hour or

Yes. Yeah. I need to start doing some of those, those classic things. It's just classic. Just it's just the classic thing. anyway. What was your worst. Running related activity of the week.

Well, mine also happened today, mine was this morning. I took Ted for a walk the park, which we frequent twice a day. Dave went for a run and he was running around the park and then had just met me after. Luckily I had his jacket and then we were just wandering for a little bit. Ted proceeded to play with this. Labrador thing called

Thing. Smaller dog,

Dog thing. And you can always tell when Ted's kind of had enough or getting a little bit scared because he starts sort of running towards us or then he'll let the dog chase it, but then he always kind of comes back

to us. Yeah. he's like, okay. Yeah.

Anyway, and then he did that one time and Dave and I were just chatting. But then I was just chatting to Dave, not bracing for anything, and it has just run straight into the side of

No,

and I have gone down. It was so painful. feel like super painful things don't happen that often when you're an adult. but I was in agony and then I was so scared. I've never had a knee injury or anything before, and I have heard of horror stories of people Doing their ACL or breaking their leg park. And I genuinely was like, I can't move my leg. oh my God. And it was so, I reckon for about 10 minutes or so. And then I think, 'cause I freaked myself out because I was thinking of that.

Oh, you would've been in pain? Yeah. Did the owner and chat to you? Uh,

sort of. She kind of tried after a while, I think after I was still down for

minutes. Are you kidding That she didn't run straight over?

Well, I think she must have thought I was fine. But then when I hadn't gotten up, she sort of came over and then I kind of just gave her a wave like, I'm fine. 'cause I was embarrassed because I was crying. God Dave was there. And then he sort of helped me up and then I kind of hobbled home and it's fine. It's completely fine. I definitely haven't done anything but it is. It's really sore. I cannot walk up or down stairs or up a hill.

Oh

my leg like locked It feels like, do you remember when you're a kid and people used to kind of buckle the back of your knee,

oh, yeah,

yeah, yeah. It kind of feels like.

like that's what's

That, but constantly,

Oh, that is not good. Yeah.

Anyway. so I can't run anyway

had luck.

I kind of thought it would get better, but it's just, yeah. And I try to sort of shake my leg out and I cannot, it's so sore and stiff. Really. Yeah.

long after it happened did it take you to think, oh, I can, at least I can make it my worst run of the week?

Well, it actually wasn't until I was speaking to mom and dad on

the phone. Yeah.

on the way to work, and then dad said, oh, well, at least you've got your worst

run of the nice. You're like, ping,

actually maybe Dave said that. I don't one of them a

Dave Dad, Dave.

Dave, Ted. so yes, that was my worst running adjacent

Oh, Anna, I'm sorry.

It's um, good content.

content.

if nothing else, it's character building. What about you? Gimme your best

run best. Yeah, we a

we need to

need to lighten I have to say I had some lovely rainy runs. Just wanna give a shout out to rainy runs. Yeah, I had some just.

quite peaceful

you. Yeah, there is something really, really peaceful and I feel like it's way quieter. And I feel like when you're running with people and it's rainy, you're like in a bit of a bubble with them, and I don't know.

You have a, yeah, it is quite bonding. And don't you find the drivers are nicer to you as well? I almost think there's some sort of camaraderie in the fact that, oh, you're out for a run, a giveaway. I always that drivers are

And same with other runners you see out and about. It's like you're all out

There's a bit more sort of, of that united

yeah. But I would say my best run actually was on Wednesday morning, I did a run, with my friend Eddo. Yeah. he, I haven't been able to run as much with Edin as I would usually like to because he's got a small child and he often runs really early in the morning 5:00 AM and he's often done by six, I see him. And he also lives. About eight Ks away so we don't live somewhere that it's super easy to run. to each other. However, we've been doing something recently where.

Oh,

so he still gets home at 6 45 and then I'll run from there. Back to but we still get that time together, but we haven't wasted any time and it's in either of us, both of our schedules. And it was a run.

such a good idea. So

Efficient. Yeah, it's really efficient. And this was a run where. as I just said, I woke up that morning and for a variety of reasons I felt really stressed. first thing like, you know when you wake up and it all hits you and you're like, oh my God. yeah.

all. Mm. And it's so pure. yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What, what activity would you do when you're super stressed where you'd be like, oh, the birds are so nice.

Yeah, I feel like there are activities that you definitely can feel better walking away from. But I went, I wasn't just like back to neutral. I was in a great mood. I was I'm fine. Everything is fine. I feel great. I'm so lucky. I'm so happy. nice. It was really nice. So yes, that's my best run. what's your best running related activity?

Mine is actually. Kind of funny because it's with your boyfriend and your brother, but not you. know. I went to the gym on Tuesday morning that Sean and Joe go

Oh yeah. And Joe go

Yeah, we went on Sunday and our friend Claudia came, and it was really good. But Tuesday's class in particular, it was a bit more intense. And it was really good. It was so efficient. I think we were only. Actually working out for 30 minutes or But it was really hard and it just had this good sort of flow in the sense that there wasn't heaps of chatting between exercises and none of the exercises were super complicated.

that Melbourne is so weird how it has cafes like that.

eight eight's so late.

Who is going to cafes 8:00

I know. Yeah. Can you

you explain to me how do those sessions actually work? what do you do in them?

so. there was this board, or they have a TV screen. Each gym I feel like is a little bit different, but this one had a TV screen and it had each exercise that you did. So there were nine exercises and you did three sets of the whole thing. the first one going 45 seconds on 15 seconds off, and it's in that off period that you sort of move the next thing. And so just say you start with a couple of other people and then you all just move together. So then everyone's always on a different thing.

So is this a cardio one

Yeah. I feel like it was more cardio. still strength ish, but cardio. One was an assault bike.

tough.

and then another one was these pushups that I can't do. yeah, that kind of

That is really

Yeah, it was good. They, they

they seem really good, functional full body workouts.

Yeah. Yeah, they are. Yes, yes you do.

Okay. I am so excited to talk about this core topic. We actually should give a shout out because I feel like I never do because Sean came up with this

Mm.

and he often you no. Well, he doesn't listen, but he has a running joke that I don't talk about him on the podcast, and so now I can point to him and said, Sean came up with this idea, and it's such a good idea because right now, I mean, we're nearing, We're nearing the winter solstice. We are,

We are. I actually was going it up day. Do you know what date it

I think it's 21st. Maybe 22nd. I think it's always one of those two it's always around there. Yeah. Which means it's the shortest day of the year, which means only gonna get longer. But it also means that right now, like 21st. God, I'm good. it means most running is happening in the dark, before or after work in Melbourne. The sun's really, it's not coming up till after seven 30.

Yeah. I feel like this is when everyone just running vacation or just normal

holiday.

people just wanna get outta here. Yeah. I

Yeah.

feel like you just want some sun. Or even if it's not sun, you just wanna be alive during the day, not at work. it's light.

light. That's all you want. So what is a running vacation and why are they so good?

Well, according to Google ai, a run cation refers to a vacation or trip centered around running, often involving a running event or experience. And I say to Google ai, that is the perfect definition.

well done Google ai. Can't

ai. No. So it's pretty much destination Yeah. Race or running event.

I remember seeing that cation started, trending as a thing and I was like, oh, I didn't know there was a word for it, but this is something that I feel like. We've for so years,

Yeah. And there's something about it that I feel like gets you more excited and then just a normal holiday. 'cause it's like a holiday with purpose.

it is. tell me about what's the best vocation you've ever had?

Yeah. See I find this tricky 'cause we go up to the Gold Coast I really, really like going to the Gold Coast each year. I just feel

for the Gold Coast, um,

for the Gold Coast? For the Gold Coast or yeah. Yeah. I just feel like it's such a fun weekend. It's normally at the the start of July and it's kind of when you wanna be getting out of Melbourne and everything. But I think because I've always expected that to be. Good. my best one I'd say was, I reckon maybe five years ago, there were maybe about. Eight of us or so that went and rented a house down in Lawn, which is on the coast in, Victoria. And we did the, it was the Great Ocean Road Running

Festival. Mm-hmm.

but we all did the run. The, so most of the events are on the Sunday. but there's a 14 K race in Apollo Bay on the Saturday afternoon that's a little bit more. LAX, I'd say, than other fun runs. And also particularly because we weren't doing one of the, no one as well was doing the half or full marathon and we went, yeah, so it would've been May, we went down there. Everyone was sort of good friends with at least one other person, but not everyone

knew Yeah. Each

that well, and I feel like the whole group just got along really well. It was really nice weather, which really, really helped. We went to Apollo Bay, did the run. It was really fun. a few of us ran together and honestly it was, it is such a beautiful run. anyone's ever been thinking of. Doing, the Great Ocean Road, the 14 k, it is so, so nice. You just go inland from Apollo and kind of run up to this stream and then run back down.

Yeah. That's nice. Yeah.

What about you?

Gosh, I feel like I've got a top

Three.

well no, I was gonna say, that actually just reminded me of peer to pub. That's also

that so fun. Oh,

got a

change it.

Yeah. 'cause that's got a run one day on the

and Yeah, and then the swim. Yeah.

that is super fun weekend. No, I would say, I mean Berlin was the ultimate 'cause that was like a Europe trip planned around. a race and yeah, it just felt like, 'cause the buildup for a marathon, the stakes high. a buildup. that was such a fun weekend. I think. Gerona Gerona,

was really fun.

We did a cation with you and I and Spanish correspondent, no. And London Correspondent Leash. People remember we recorded episodes from their last year. and that, that was, I could not been fun

Oh gosh. Maybe I wanna change mine to

think it's fair enough. 'cause you were in, you couldn't

yeah, actually true. You know what? Yeah. I loved the company I love being there. Also. My parents were there. That was so fun. But yeah, actually run with you guys, which was a bit sad.

Um, and then go, I feel like I need to give Gold Coast a shout out because. I met Sean there,

Yeah. So

yeah.

that was also a really, that was what, 2022? Yeah. That was a really fun year as well. A

fun year.

Or maybe I'll change it to that. I don't

that, but I mean hopefully in terms of Convincing people to do vacations if they haven't already. It's a different level of bonding you get, I feel

like

other holidays where you, maybe other holidays you might go out and don't get me wrong, you can do that on vacations too. We'll talk about that. But running is you really just,

It's something, well, yeah, it brings you together and you're all kind of, you're all set for. Something and you've all been working towards whatever

that Yeah. Yeah.

So I feel like then afterwards your sense of joy

Yes. you very Yeah. and pride of each

Yeah. There's quite, a big bonding. of.

Definitely. I think But I feel like, I mean we just spoke about some of the best vocations we've had, but you can also have bad vocations and that's why we're here.

to give you our top 10 tips, give you

to give you our top 10 tips for how to have the best cation of your little running life. So, Anna, kick us off. What's our first tip?

number one, a line on your intention. so this, we're speaking about if you are going to go to a race or just going for a fun run. I feel like

or just to run.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. racing can up the stakes, as you sort of said with Berlin. but it also can just be, you can just go on a fun team. Trail run something as well. it really doesn't have to be anything, I just think, or

camp

Yeah, exactly. But I just, I feel like aligning with everyone else that's on the trip, if you're all sort of in it for the same reason, like that's a really good place

to, you need, you wanna be able to match each other's energy. it's not good to have some people who are taking it super seriously and want to get a PB and you know, structured all around that. And then other people who are literally there for complete fun. you get this awkward mixing of

a bit of an awkward dynamic. And then you sort feel a bit sorry for the people who are trying to take it really seriously because maybe they might feel a bit isolated, but then you sort of feel bad for the people who aren't. 'cause they probably wanna explore and like do other activities

it just, it isn't a recipe for a fun

So number one. about number two?

Number two. we've got a few little thoughts around travel plan considerations. so if you are traveling for a race. Try to get there. So you have a full day beforehand? where you can relax and not be sort of flying in the night before the race. But then, yeah, but then plan the majority of your trip to hang out for after the race because that is when you can really explore and,

You know,

just be

and actually enjoy. Really. Yeah. Yeah. I have a bit of a horror story. I remember a few years ago, some of our friends went up to the Gold Coast they were all during the marathon and they went up there for the entire week beforehand and were all just staying together. And I remember, and I was also really bad weather, and I remember them saying that. They just all got cabin fever and they were all kind of just feeding off each other's nerves and

everything. Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing. Especially if it's a race that everyone

go. Yeah, exactly.

We also have a thought in terms of travel plan considerations around the right group size.

Mm.

Because there right and a wrong

size.

Yeah. What do we land on?

So I think around five or less, well less than five, I'd say three to four. you can all fit in one Uber, and I feel like because there's not that many of you to consider, you kind of can all just do the same thing. Or alternatively, I feel like you go the complete opposite and have eight to 10. Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's full rental cars of thing. But I think you have to have the understanding that you can all just go off and do your own things because the logistics of trying to decide do next with a group of eight to 10 or that bigger number, it just. Sometimes it just doesn't work. So feel like there needs to be a group understanding that you

do, you can go a few ways. Yeah. I kind of remember Berlin 'cause there would've been definitely 10 of us. We just end up having to be like, you want get your bibs now. That's fine. You wanna do this now? That's fine. Like,

Yeah. You go off. Yeah. And meet later.

Yeah.

the last thing I would say, the travel plan considerations is pick a good time of the year and somewhere with nice weather, that's what. You are after. So for instance, I mean, I say this, but Gold Coast is notoriously bad weather for the Gold Coast

Marathon some reason. It's so

weird because normally it's so nice

I know.

of year up there. but being in Melbourne, flying up there in July is Chef's Kiss.

I think that's a good point because the goal might be different for different people, but the goal is generally you wanna go somewhere where you can get outside,

Yeah. And enjoy Yeah.

Tip number three is thinking about where to stay. So I think, again, if it's a race you sort of wanna be thinking about trying to remove as many logistical challenges as possible. If you can walk or run to the start line, to the BIB collection, those things make a really big difference. the other things we thought about is it's helpful to have someone with a kitchen.

I agree. I would opt for an Airbnb over

hotel

because the kitchen as well as there's a place to hang out, I think, especially when you're there for a few days. You want somewhere cozy where you can put your feet up and not feel Yeah, exactly. downtime, not feel like you're just on top of each other all the time. so number four, if it is for a race, make some pre-race traditions. I love this bit.

Yeah, this makes about

like you go back in time and become a little kid

again.

like you do each other's hair. Or all have matching braids, like matching nails, that kind of

stuff. I remember you guys all when and got ribbons one

Yeah.

like matching ribbons. It sounds trivial, but these things actually Make the experience what it is. Right? Yeah. And I would also to add to this, this weekend is your excuse to go full running nerd? Buy a new outfit for it. do your flat lay the night before? Yeah. lean in, embrace the. Running Neffy side of you. Also, I think cooking dinner together the night before is a really

nice. Yeah. pasta

a big pasta together. All sit around, Talk about the plans of the race, watch a movie.

there is not, I don't know, I haven't done this in a while, but I. one of my favorite things to do, which is so weird, is to sit with

friends.

a movie

together.

Yes.

is that? I dunno,

like you're not talking or anything, there's something so wholesome and comforting about being around some of your girlfriends or boyfriends. Yes. And

And this is

a mo sitting on the couch watching a

movie. This is the thing about the running vacation. Other holidays with friends. You do not sit around at night and watch a movie you

Because

go dinner, you go Whereas this, the part of the purpose is to relax.

Yeah. well that leads us onto our next one. Number five is. Book a post run activity, or post event activity. So book a long lunch or if you're, I particularly love the lunch, do it after 2:00 PM or something so you can all have a shower. Get changed. Regroup a little bit. cause I feel like especially with those race days, sometimes you're getting up quite early, so by the time dinner comes

oh, long lunch perfect.

Yeah. So I highly recommend. Booking a long lunch. There is nothing like, this is gonna make me sound like I have an issue, but there's something so satisfying about having like a cocktail or a

my

wine After you've done a race.

it is, it's a different, yeah,

it's a different sense of Yes. Satisfaction. Anyway, I,

No, I definitely think it's part of It's part of the whole experience is you have the pre night before, then you have the celebration afterwards. Everyone's commiserating on their race. debriefing, you're talking through like Um, that's where

could meet your future partner. Yes.

Yes, true. Holy heck. So tip number six,

Just

a note about food. If you're running a lot. People will be hungry, don't rely on, as opposed to other holidays. I actually think it's really important that you stock up on snacks. And that they're gonna be feeling to, otherwise people just be hungry the whole time

Yeah. And I feel like other holidays sometimes you can just rely on the three meals,

But

kind of things you want to, to be able to open the cupboard and

something.

Especially before a race, you wanna be making sure you are fueling correct correctly. So I would do a big grocery shop at the start. Yeah. Even if you're organized enough, maybe do an online order ahead time.

is such a good

idea. Yeah.

hassle? I also often bring, a little bag of my protein and magnesium or anything like that that I wanna bring with me.

I literally take gluten-free wee everywhere.

Yeah. There you go. Bring, bring things with you That you know you're gonna want and might be annoying to

get,

Especially. Tip number seven, if you've decided not to travel for a race, you're just traveling to go somewhere that you want to go for some runs with friends, eg. Like we did in Gerona. pick somewhere that you actually wanna really explore that area and the surroundings, and try and think about, other basically fun running adjacent activities you can do. Think about booking saunas, yogas, swims, whatever it is Fill out the weekend with fun running adjacent activities. Yeah.

Yeah. Love that.

Tip number eight is about joining a shakeout run.

Yes.

if you're getting there a full day before, it's usually a good excuse to join in on a shakeout run. And these are also some of the funnest parts of these weekends. Brands are putting on amazing shakeout runs before races. Where they'll often supply, like food and drink for your carload. I don't know.

sometimes they have recovery

they have recovery boots. They have recovery boots. When we were in Berlin, we did one and it was one of the highlights of the weekend. Like the food was so good, we met heaps of like the heaps of locals there. you just sort of, it builds the anticipation

Yeah. kind of immerse yourself in the

Yeah. You get around it. Yeah.

so speaking of shakeout we are actually hosting a, so we're actually hosting a shakeout run with Lululemon. On the Saturday, the day before the Gold Coast Marathon. So

we'll give more details

Yeah, yeah. But come one, come all It's at their clubhouse, which is at the QT Gold Coast. we'll tell you a bit more about it, but yeah, I have been to the shakeout runs before and they are, they do it so well. They're

Yeah, it's, it's gonna be really good.

Love it. Tip number nine, start a group chat to build the hype and also to plan. This

so

important. This is, this is key. So you wanna start a group chat. You wanna delegate responsibilities. For instance, who brings what, who's booking what? who's booking the lunch afterwards? You don't all need to bring a hair, straightener. Mm. One person brings a hair straightener. Yeah. Another person maybe brings a packet of hydrolite Tablets. It just, it makes for efficient packing and then it also ensures that you don't forget anything as

It also just, it builds type.

Yeah.

to do with creating a WhatsApp group and naming it. Come up with a fun name your WhatsApp group.

GC Baby.

Yeah. GC Baby. Or, What did we have during a training camp? That's not that fun, but that's,

That's really, that's pretty basic,

Hey, come up

but it was fun.

It, yeah. Come up with a WhatsApp group and then start building hype, if it is your training for race, you can update each other on your training. We used to share a pump up song of the week every week. Yeah. This also makes me wanna ask a question to the listeners. What is your group chat called for your upcoming vocation? I'm curious. Yeah, let us know. I think there'd be some fun ones

because at the moment,

I'm

to think, I feel like the one that we've got for GC is

is it GC Baby or is just

I don't even think, I think I added the baby to spice it up, but I don't

God, we gotta work on

so yeah, I need to work on that. Okay, number 10.

you say this.

This is always

this was me on the Gold Coast, to be fair.

Yes, true. This was you last year. That the only time that, that wasn't me. I've, I've only ever done one, sorry. No, I did one in 2019, but last year, aside from 2019, I've been to the Gold Coast every year. It was the first time I've been able to race.

No way

I

I know, I'm so sorry.

know,

Wait. We should say what the tip

is. Oh, sorry. Yes. a contingency plan for your injured because chances are that someone along the journey, in between you booking the trip and actually having the trip might get injured or might get sick or for whatever reason, just can't actually do the race. So make them your, one of our friends the other day called it your, the c. Co. Which, no, CVO, maybe Chief Vibes.

Yeah. Officer,

job. Give them a job. And also talk about maybe they wanna come up with something that they can do their own challenge. Like I remember one time on the Gold Coast, a couple, maybe two ago three years ago, no, I think it was three years ago, I did a big swim because I was injured, so couldn't do the half marathon,

And I swam 10 Ks. I did, I did a few Ks in the line next to

you did. That was so nice. that's why we weren't even that close. I know.

Oh,

Oh,

that's

I wish go back then and be like, if only you knew,

Only we knew. Oh, cute.

but yeah, I don't know. It's, it's like nice. Being injured. You're obviously, you have a lot of fomo, but there's nice having a, your own sense of purpose and because then you have something to celebrate as well. Like you feel like you've kind of achieved

Yes. Or even gerona, you and Nas would rent out bikes. these epic bike

Exactly. Yeah. was so cool. Yeah.

So do make it make a contingency plan. Inevitably they'll be on little injured.

Yeah. Particularly if I'm coming on.

there's someone called Anna. We wanna hear about how your vacations go.

Yeah, we do.

Let us know if you've got one planned. Let us know how it goes.

let us know what your best one is, because I want some inspo having this chat makes me realize I really go to the Gold Coast a lot locations and maybe I should spread my

word. We need book a different

Yeah, I agree. Um, alright. Hope you enjoyed the alright. Hope you enjoyed the top 10 tips. Now it is time for the rundown where we speak about something that is happening in the running world and I'm pretty excited by this. So I wanna talk about the pursuit of breaking four, which is faith KPI's attempt to break the four minute mile, which has never been done before by a woman.

God. She's inspiring. She's amazing.

she will attempt to shave at least 7.65 seconds off her already world record time of 4 0 7, set in 2023 to become the first woman to break the threshold. Roger Banister as a male first surpassed roughly 70 years ago, so I remember. I remember speaking to my dad when he was growing, well, not when he

was

up. obviously wasn't alive, but when he was sort of saying when he was growing up, if someone broke the four minute mile, was crazy. it was such a huge achievement. It kind of was a barrier into being like best of the best. Yeah. And it is so inspiring and I just find it so amazing that. Now we are dreaming that a woman will be able to do that. the pacemakers haven't been confirmed, but Patrick Sang, who is faith. KPA Gun's Coach is overseeing the strategy and overall preparation.

The marathon. So it won't be a real record, right? As in,

um,

will it be because

no, it won't be. 'cause it's not an official race can't have pacemaker

for the whole thing,

that chop in and chop out kind of

thing. One of the, we did hear that. I don't know if this is just a rumor or if this is a legit thing that Jess Hull might be helping out with the pacing and we saying it doesn't look like this is actually what happened, but how cool would, would it be if it was all women Pacers who they just would need to pace up for like a lap each? there's women who could do that. But imagine that would be

that would be so if anyone can't think of. Who Faith Kipi Agon is, she's the one that beat Jess Hull in the Paralympics in the 1500. So Kipi Agon will make one attempt at the milestone, and that is happening on June 26th at the, gosh, I'm gonna pronounce this

correctly.

Sorry to any of our French listeners. TI

beautiful

in Paris, which is time and location specifically selected to align with her current training schedule. also the conditions that are forecasted for around that time in Paris, to ma try to maximize her performance.

So

how,

Can we put this number into context a little bit more? I know you said 7.65 seconds off. Something you said to me before, which I thought was helpful, was her 1500 meter time is 3 49. Yeah. So she'd have

3 49, which is a

world world record by a a little

wide.

And

And she

would need to run an extra 120 something meters. In 11 seconds.

Yeah. Less than

less than 11

10 point something seconds.

which isn't even possible, obviously. Yeah, so,

So she's gonna have to go about. Two seconds quicker each lap off her previous mile

That is crazy. Which

if when you're running that fast, that is huge.

were saying there are a lot of people who are extremely cynical about it. Like, I think you looked on Let's run just before and the. people basically being like, there's no way

Yeah. Yeah. Let's run that forum that we spoke about with William. G the other where it's, interesting way to spend your time. But yeah. A lot of people are skeptical, but I think whether she breaks it or not, I feel like this, there's this huge moment of. obviously a lot of money and time invested into a woman doing. Yeah. Something that, as we said before, we did see Kip, this was put on for Kiro

years

years ago. and as Faith said herself, it's a way to go as women to push boundaries and dream

I know. It very inspiring and I agree. I love, it's so rare that you see this much focus on a woman held up as the best athlete, you know, of the generation or whatever. it's so cool to see. So that's in a couple weeks we will be, following very closely. Yeah. And keep you

Yeah, we'll keep you updated. We'll, we closer to the day. we'll pop something up on our Linta story, so if there's a way to watch or anything, you can all tune in. Yep. Lovely,

lovely. I think that's it for today. Hope that everyone enjoyed the episode. Yeah.

Yeah. Let us know your vacations and Let us know the ones that you've been on and the ones that you would highly recommend going to. And if there's a little list, we can sort of collate that and share So everyone what? What's that saying about shared knowledge is the best knowledge or something? I dunno.

A knowledge shared is a knowledge.

something. Yeah. Anyway, on that note, bye.

Bye. Bye.

I had an urge to tick your then. I dunno why. Anyway, Maybe we got out bit.