(upbeat music) - Hi there, I'm Michelle Frost, the host of the FitMind FitBody podcast. Welcome to the Delirious West series, where we follow everyday runners preparing for the Delirious West 100 and 200 mile events in April 2025. As the name suggests, things are about to get a little delirious. In this series, we'll journey alongside some incredible individuals who are pushing their limits on West Australia's stunning trails. Each episode, we'll check in with one of our dedicated athletes to hear about their training progress, the challenges they're facing, and the victories that are keeping them moving forward. Whether you're gearing up for your first ultra, or simply love inspiring stories of perseverance, you are in the right place. So lace up your sneakers, pop in your earbuds, and let's get delirious together. (upbeat music) - Today on FitMind FitBody, we are starting another special series, just like one that we did last year. This year, we are going to be concentrating on a much longer distance. Instead of 100 kilometers, we're doing 200 miles. We're talking to some very brave people. We're going to do 200 miles over on the West Coast of Australia in Delirious West. I think we call it some of this crazy names. I know anyone who listens to the podcast will have heard me many times try and introduce, try and remember all the funny names that this group of races are called by. But this one that we're talking about is Delirious West. And today we have Andy and Del Thompson. Hello. - Hello. - Hi. - Welcome aboard. Thank you for agreeing to jump in and share your journey to the start of this race. Before we get into all of the nitty gritty about this race, let's find out a little bit more about you guys. So Andy and Del, you can choose to answer any way you like between you, but give us a little bit of your background. Like, where did you go up and all that kind of stuff? - The potted version. - You start? - Well, I grew up in the UK. I'd moved over here in the mid '90s, I guess. - Okay. - I'm a geologist by trade. - You like rocks? - Yeah. - Cool. - Rock liquor. - I love it. - I've always been, I've always done crazy things. Not all physical, but I've done a lot of crazy stuff. I've been in the bush a lot and I love maps and I love adventure. Yeah. And I got into running about, really serious running about six years ago. - Oh, wow. Only six years ago. - Yeah. - And talking about a crazy distance. - I had a mid-life crisis. I was quite overweight and unfit and didn't want to die of something related to that. - Of course. (both laughing) I can understand this. - I'm from New Zealand. I used to do a lot of hiking over there. I never really ran. I was never into running, but I would cycle. I came to Australia in the late '90s. I'm a geologist as well. I've had a career change the last year or so. I started running it about the same time. We actually moved over to Sweden for Andy's work for a couple of years. And over there, we would, in the winter, we'd go cross-country skiing every day. And then when the snow melted, we're like, well, now what are we gonna do? We'll have to start running. So we would go running in the forest. And over there, there's no private land. You are allowed to go anywhere that you want to. - Oh, wow. - And I remember reading something about trail running. I'm like, oh, this sounds interesting. What's trail running? And then realized that's what we were doing. Like running on these little, - Yeah. - Like reindeer trails, basically. - Oh, wow. - Through the forest. And yeah, then when we came back here, we found out about park run. And so we went along to our local park run, at Helena up in the Perth Hills. And there we met some crazy ultra runners. And very quickly, it became a very normal thing. Of course you're going to run a hundred K race. Like, why wouldn't you? So yeah, it all kind of went a bit of exponential there for a while. Yeah. - It snowballed. - Yeah, it did. - Definitely. - What do you think, what do you think drives you guys to do things that are not sitting in front of the television on the couch, on a regular basis? Instead, you're heading out, seeking these adventures. - I find it's really good for my mental health, actually. - Yeah. And we both had health issues. I had 10 years ago, I had breast cancer and went through chemo and all the treatment. And for me, chemo was really painful. Like my legs from the moment I put my feet on the floor in the morning, they would just be in pain. I had to sit down to make the kids sandwiches for school. It was horrible. And now when I go for a really long run and my legs hurt, it's because I did something. - Yeah. - It's because of something that's been done to me. - Yeah. - It's because I did something. We live up in the purples. I love running trails. I hate running on roads. I very, really do it. And yeah, just being out in the bush. I just, yeah, love it. - It's such a great reframe as well. - Yeah. And meeting all the people that we've met, we've just met so, such an amazing community over here of like, like-minded crazies that- - From all walks of life. - Yeah. - I love that. - Amazing how many people you meet when you're a runner. - Yeah. - And it's like, you know, a lot of the time, you know, we ask each other what does Felix do for a living? What does, you know, what are all these guys do? I mean, I know Big Kev's a, sorry, talking about people we already know, but I know Big Kev works in the oil industry, but that's because he tells everybody on the run. And you just, when you're running out in the bush, you know, like a long run, three or four or all day, you just talk crap and nothing's off limits almost. - Well, no. - Yes, it's just a great way to escape reality. - Yeah. And you don't even consider asking what do you do for a job? Because it's like, well, that's just the least of interest. And when you're out there running on these trails, it's like, of course, that's not very interesting. What do you want to talk about where it for? - That's why we're out here, escaping it. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Pretty much. - Well, when we first started the podcast, we often talked about how running helped us break down that intimidation of talking to people when you're sitting eye to eye, when you're running and your eyes are forward. You kind of talk about all kinds of things that you maybe wouldn't have told, you know, your mother or whatever, you'd just share all of the stuff. - It's like with the kids. I mean, you talk more in the car driving along than you do set across a table at dinner time. - Exactly. Yeah. That's amazing. How many kids do you have? - Three. We've got three girls. - Three children. - They traveled away with you as well, obviously, when you were. - Yeah. - How long were you over there for? - Almost two years, not quite two years. I could have stayed there forever. I loved it. Absolutely loved it. - Cold? - Best place to be. - Is it cold? Imagine it's cold. - But it's, you know, you just dress for it. - Yeah, perfect. - I think the coldest we got was what, minus 35? - Oh my gosh. - You knew it was cold when there was ice on the inside of the door handle. - Holy moly. - Yeah, it was a bit insane. We took our dogs over with us as well. - You did? - And yeah, we had to put little boots on them to stop their paws from freezing up. - What? - The little things. - What kind of dogs do you have? - Retrievers. - Oh. - Golden Retrievers. - When they came back, did they have to stay in quarantine for a little bit? - Yeah, just 12 days in Melbourne. So not long. - Oh, okay. - Yeah, not long. - Is that because you want to get the dogs there and back the nuts? - Yeah. - We, I've got five kids and took the three younger ones traveling for a year and a half or so. We did, but one of the things we did was how sit in Europe quite a bit. And we have that for Australians who'd taken their dogs into England. And yeah, I just remember talking to them about that and that whole drama of quarantining them and bringing it. - Yeah, no, there's no quarantine going over. And it was, yeah, just 12 days coming back. So yeah, they were fine. - That's great. Yeah, that's awesome. Well, what an adventure. (laughing) Now, you said, Del, that you are not a rock scientist anymore. - Yeah. - What, what are you doing now? - I'm a, I've retrained, I'm a phlebotomist. So I spend my days stabbing people. - Oh, what? Can you say? - Hey, I take blood tears. I take blood samples from people. (laughing) - Oh, what? They're like a lobotomist, like out. Oh, wow. Why did you choose to do that? - I don't know. I just kind of fitted in with the family, fitted in with training, puts in with everything that we do. I just work part-time and yeah, I'm really enjoying it. I'm surprised surprisingly (laughing) and it's interesting. Like people just offload all their problems onto you and it's just, I'm happy to just listen to what they're selling me. Like, it's not my problems. I don't have to get involved in it. So I'm just there to listen to them and help them along with whatever they've got going on in their lives. So yeah, I really enjoy it. - That's so cool. Now, do your girls run? - No. - No. - They hate it. - And I was gonna say, what do they think of you running? - The youngest one says, you know, I realized one day I will be a runner, but at the moment, I just don't wanna do it. (laughing) It's like, that's fair enough. It's almost like she's affected that's a needable, inevitable that you will start running one day. - That's beautiful. Yeah, often we'll talk about things like what it is to be a parent of, you know, of kids and the example that that sets, whether they express a desire or a will to run when their kids are not, I think is irrelevant to me. It's the fact that you do it and you have that example that as they get older, it's a path they can choose or something in their toolbox if they want to. - I think they talk to their peers and their teachers and they say, look, oh, my mom's running, or my dad's running 200 miles or 100 miles. And a lot of the people at school just say, that's impossible. (laughing) You can't do that. (laughing) I think Helena College, where they go, which is just on the scar, has probably got, it's more than its fair share of trail runners, but yeah. Most people, for most people, a really long run is a marathon. They haven't got, and for a long time, that was our version of a long run, a really long run, but now that's a training run. - That's just Sunday morning. - And you run one marathon, but I've run a lot of ultras. - So do you do most of them together? - Oh, no, no, we've done, well, we did delirious this year together. - Yeah, that was all part of the plan. - Yeah, that was part of the plan, was to run it together, so that was interesting. - It was just, it was easier logistically, there's, you know, we could share the same aid team, we could share the same paces, it was, and it was just better that way. - Yeah, it was good. - Do you go in the same events, even if you're not running together? - Generally, yeah. - Yeah, not always. I mean, Andy's done Hurdie's backyard ultra a few times. I've only run, I think I had a plan to just run a couple of laps one year, and I, yeah, I just volunteer for that one now. I don't like running on that surface, it's just road running, just does my legs. (laughs) - We often do the same event at different distances. - Yeah. - So we've got the feral pig coming up, I'm doing 100 mile a delts doing 100 K. - Yeah. - I like 100 Ks, you can get it done in a day, and then go to bed. (laughs) - So tell us a little bit about your experiences of these ultra distances, you know, beyond your marathon. Like what kind of events have you done? - Oh. - There's some people out of there. - I've done, I've done a couple of milers, I think. - Yeah. - The feral mila twice, I've done delirious 200 twice. I've done transcend twice. - Yeah. - I've done Margaret River Ultra once. I've done a lot of, I've done birdies three times or four times. I've done herdies every time it's been on, which is, I think, four times. - Sometimes we'll just-- - I've done light horse ultra. - Sometimes we'll just go out for a really long run, like this one day we decided to run a 50 Ks around John Forrest. So we just ran all of the trails that we could to make it up to the 50 Ks. And we had a friend that came along for a couple of the different loops that we did. And we just use our car as an aid station, so. - Well. - It was good, yeah. - So that's like a trail version of, well, I suppose like a backyard ultra in some way. - You can call me that. - Yeah. - I'm always thinking of-- - You just did all the mountain bike trails and all of them, I think, in my trail and all the others. We're heading over to Terrawera next year to run the Terrawera, where 102 they call it over there, so. - Yeah, we thought the 100 mile would be too much, just before delirious. - And it's all the same thing for the day after, so she's a bit furious, so she doesn't want to go there for 18. - Oh, no. - We're like, it's only one day. - It'll be fine. - It'll be fine, it'll be fun. (laughs) - So what do you think keeps you guys signing up to these big, crazy distances? 'Cause it takes time. - I think it's a normal thing to do now, 'cause nearly all of our recent friends, they're all doing it as well, so, and it, it's almost, if you start moving in ultra series communities, it just becomes normal. - That's what everyone's doing. - To do these huge distances. I mean, it's not about its challenges. I mean, and that's one of the attractions, actually, the problem solving, I don't really plan these things. I just prepare for them. So you have to, I mean, it's delirious. It was this, delirious, just gone, was the hottest one ever. - Wow. - And you just had to think about, you had to, so many people dropped out in the first couple of days, 'cause they didn't carry enough water and they overheat it and they went too fast, especially in the heaps of the day. And we passed numerous people that had run out of water and they even didn't finish or came in delirious. But we just modified our plan and drank, carried a lot more water and drank a lot more water at the aid station. - And when it got slower than we thought we would have to. We've got our money's worth. We came in an hour and a half, inside a cut off. (laughs) - Wow. - We did it, we did it. You know, we had, what, almost 10 hours quality sleep. We got a camper van and... - Oh, wow. - Two hours sleep a night. - Which doesn't sound like much, but some people didn't get any sleep. - For five days. - Yeah. (laughs) - I remember at the finish line, seeing Aaron Young there. And I was just like, oh my God, 'cause this was Sunday lunchtime. You finished Friday night. You've had two full night sleeps in a bed. (laughs) - Oh, what? - And here we are. We've just definitely got our money's worth. (laughs) - Oh, I love it. (laughs) - That was great. - What are you, have you both signed up to do which event on in April next year? The 200? - 200 miles, yeah, together again. - It'll be the third time I've done it, be the second time I've done it. - Yeah, I'm gonna see you make sure it's not a fluke that I managed to do it. (laughs) - So is that why? - I think it'll be very different this time. It'll be a lot colder. So this year, we were able to have dirt nets where you just, when you're so tired that you're really not going anywhere, you just lay down on the trail, have a sleep for five minutes, 10 minutes, get up, and then you're much quicker. I think that this next year, it's gonna be hard. It could be colder at nighttime. - Yeah. - So you're really gonna have to put some more thermals on or whatever you need to rather than just laying down what you're wearing, yeah. - Or just slept during the day? - Yeah, maybe slept during the day, but. - Somewhere cool, in the camper. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Hopefully, we're hoping that we're gonna have crew. We'll have to wait and see. - Right, the problem is there's so many people doing it this year, I think. - And teams, as well. - Sorry, next year. Teams, you know, there's a lot of, it's really hard to find paces and crew. - Yeah, yeah. - 'Cause a lot of the paces and crew are actually feeling, I mean, the first year I was involved with Delirious, which was the wet year when they delayed it until October because of COVID. - Yeah. - I paced Glenn. So I volunteered for the first couple of days, and I was with the race director driving her around for the, and she was a medic as well, she's a nurse. So I drove, we did logistics for the first day, and the second, the first night, I crewed, I manned an aid station, I was the aid station at Mandalay Beach, which is about 110 Ks in. And then I had a bit of a sleep at Walpole, and then I paced Glenn, 130 Ks. - Is that all? - Basically two days. - They were both Delirious. - Oh my God. - And that was a really hectic year. That was the, I think the course record was set that year. It was a slightly modified course because it was so flooded, especially the first 100 Ks. And to run, what effectively 80 miles, with Glenn over two nights, and he hardly sleeps either. And like, he was, he does it just for the hell of it. He just, he loves that escape. I mean, he'll talk to him this afternoon. He just loves the escapism of it. It's just an adventure. - He's done it, everyone. - Wow. - You helped out yours, isn't it? (laughing) It's really inspiring. He's a great coach to have, because he's done it. He knows, he knows what it's like. He knows what to expect. So, yeah, he's a good coach to have for these sorts of things. - So, what do you expect will happen in this next one? Sounds like you've got a few-- - I would expect the unexpected. - Yeah, that's kinda scary. - I mean, I've never, actually the one I did in October, it did rain quite a bit. But yeah, and it was like, it was quite cold. So I had to wear about four or five layers. And I don't know what to expect. I mean, I wasn't expecting 42 degrees in Denmark, I mean, that was the hottest guy in Denmark ever, I think, and we were running in it. - It was not. - We were hiking. - Yeah, we were not running in it. It was crazy, by about Friday, or Saturday morning, I think. I was just like, I feel like we used to have a life. Like, we started running on the Wednesday morning, and then at random times, people start calling it another day. No, but it's Thursday, okay, it's Thursday now. Now it's Friday, all right, oh. And I'm like, I'm sure we used to have a house, we used to have somewhere that we lived with. Now we just live on the trail. All we do is we, our crew chief's name was Lauren, and we would run to Lauren. And then Lauren would deal with everything and fill up our packs and then send us off our way, and we ran to Lauren again. We're just running to Lauren for five days running to Lauren, 'cause we knew that she was gonna be there. - Oh. - It was a good day, it was just weird. It was a weird thing to be doing. Totally forgot about kids, and totally forgot about our house and our lives. - And your puppy dogs? - Yeah, the puppy dogs. You crashed out on the floor here. - Yeah. - Yeah, it was just... - I've just come, I've just come from six weeks on a small yacht with, there was four of us from Darwin across to Broome. - Yep. - And so I can completely relate. Like there's no one else out there when the odd cruise ship goes past, whatever, but there's no shops, there's no, like we just got off and did some walks around in the chimney. - Yeah. - It's about like, it was... - It's weird, even our crew, like they've been shopping one day. And Lauren was talking to Yerta about, like they were just like, right, now we need to blend in with the muggles. Like they just felt like they were so out of the world and so out of way from civilization as well. - Right, got to act normal. Gotta go to the shops, we've got to act normal. - We've blended in with the muggles. - We went to a mall yesterday. And that was the first one I've been to. - Oh well. - I've only been back in reality for like a week and a half. Is that just like, whoa, this is almost too much sensory overload. - Yeah, I'll definitely. - Too much going on. - There were the vector times in malls, yeah. - Well, that's true. But yeah, so totally understand that ceiling. How do you, you both have busy lives? You have children, you know, you both have work, you have the puppy dogs and just normal lives. How do you feel in the training for something like these kind of events? - We fit it in when we can. Sometimes we'll be up running early in the morning. Sometimes it'll be late at night. There was one day that I was running in the evening. It was dark and then I had to get up to get my next run in the next day. I had to run at about four in the morning. And I went out with my torch and I'm just like, it's the same dark, like I was running last night. It hasn't been a day, like it's the same dark. It's just like weird. We just fit it in where we can. And then we, our weekends are all, weekend mornings are all running long runs and... - And Sundays are even longer runs. - Yeah, just fit it in where you can. We try to get to the gym. Last year we were really dedicated doing strength work as well. - I'll ask if you do that. - And this year it's been a bit harder. Our gym has moved so it's much further away and it's later in the evening. So we only go once a week. And then we try to do weights here as well. - Yep. - So yeah, it's all about a lot of strength training to just get rid of all those niggles and... - Yeah. And just slow down. That's the best way of running an ultra. - Yeah. - You never look at your pace really. You just look at the time of day. You basically just need a clock. Actually, you just need the sun. And then you know... - And then the stars. - It's 12 o'clock, basically. - I love that. - Because if you run in for four days, you just need to know when the next day is really and it's when the sun comes up. And the day sort of finishes when the sun goes down and then the next day starts when the sun comes up and then there's a void when it's dark when you don't really know where you are. - What do you think that these kind of events have taught you guys about yourselves? Like what have you got out of it? How's it transformed you? Like what kind of different people do you think you are now than when you before you started these crazy adventures? - A lot tougher than I thought I ever was. It amazes me that your legs can run just as far as they need to. So if you go out for a 30K run by the end of it, you're like, my legs are naked. I can't go any further. But you can go out for a 50K run. And you're like, at the end of it, you're like, well, my legs are naked. I can't go any further. But you could go out for a 100K run. Like they'll do what you want them to do. - Yeah. - Very, very mental. - Yeah, it's all up in here. It's all. - Well, you know, it's not 200 miles, don't you? It's more like 220. - Yeah, I bet. - It was 350. I think 200 miles is 320, but it was actually 350. - No. - It was one of the guys that ended up, he ended up pulling out at about the 200 mile mark on a beach. And like, he'd run it's 200 miles, but it's the 10 days to go, like it's crazy. - So the guy nuts is a bit like that. Like it's advertised as 101, but it's 103. And I think it has last two Ks. - We call them Ks Lometers, like because Sean Kessler, he's the one who does all these events. So yeah, Ks Lometers, those extra Ks at the end. - We won't charge you for the extra time. 'Cause if you don't get lost. - Yeah. - And then you have even more. - Yeah. - All right, well guys, I am thoroughly looking forward to seeing how your journey to this start line goes. - Same. - We've already established you've got the race in the, I can never say it, the Tarawara. - Tarawara. - Tarawara in New Zealand. What, have you got anything else between now and then that you've planned that isn't just training? - Yeah, we've got WTS. We came after this. - It's like a flare. - It's called the Wateris Trail on foot. It's down at dwelling up and it's 50 miles. There's also a hundred mile option, but we're running 50 miles there. - Okay. - Well, on advice, on advice of Blaine. He said too, 'cause we're doing the feral peg at the start of November. - Yeah. - How far, I've obviously heard of the feral peg. - That's a hundred miles. - And I'm doing a hundred Ks. - Okay. - Then we head out. - That starts at midnight on the front. Well, the hundred mile starts at midnight. - Crazy. - And the cutoff is, I think, 40 hours. - Yeah. - And they got that again. That's on the northern end of the bib. I mean, the delirious west is on the southern end of the bib, it's the last million or so Ks of the bib. So the feral miler is the last sort of 130 Ks of the bib. - Okay. - Biblam track for anyone who's wondering what that is. - Yeah. - It's a great race. That's the one that really got us into. So it was a few years ago now, it was a really hot year where they canceled all of the distances, except for the 50 Ks, and they moved it to the Sunday 'cause there was a fire on the bib, opt in these fires and they have to read. - There's a big route here in here. - Drama there, Tommy, yeah. And Andy entered the 23 K. And we were like, wow, that's such a long way. I was so proud of him, he ran 23 K, it was so good. And I was on an aid station. And I was watching all of these, the runners at the back of the pet coming in, I'm just like, oh my God, like this is me. Like if they can do it, maybe I can do it as well. For the next year, I did. I signed up the next year and did a 50 Ks. - Absolutely. - Yeah, it was really inspiring watching other people and how they managed it. But yeah, what else have we got? We've also got six inch, that's our Christmas, that's the trail runner's Christmas party. - Yeah, that's just a debrief, really. - Yeah, it's a 46 Ks down at dwelling up on the Mandibitty. And that's a great round of this. - So the Mandibitty, I don't know if you know the geography of Western Australia, that's a long distance cycle track. - Oh, is it? - No, I didn't know that. - Yeah, so I followed this different route from the bit 'cause the bit goes from Perth to Albany and then the Mandibitty as well. Sometimes I cross over, there'll be certain places that cross over, but yeah, so that's 46 Ks and just for Christmas. - Just before Christmas, that's why you call it Christmas. - It's the way, yeah. - Yeah, the Christmas party. - Yeah, it's the weekend before Christmas, basically. - Yeah. - So when I talk to people on the podcast, we talk about what motivates them. Do they need to have a goal or a race booked in to get them out of bed, to do a lot of the harder training? - No, I feel like I just have stuff just going on. - Just love running. - We just, we have to basically designate to actually coach which ones are K to training runs and which ones are actually a goal race. - Okay. - But most of our runs are now K to training runs. - Yeah, yeah. - And delirious is our A race. - Yeah, that's what time-- - I mean, A race is the longest one I'm doing. Everything else is just a training run. I don't race them. I don't even call them races. I'm so slow, they're just events. Well, they're not just events, but they are running events, not races. - I think that's the same for me. - I don't think that you're, no, you've got a third person. - Oh, yeah, I did get... - She says she's slow, but over the longer the distance, the quicker she is. - Oh, I love that. - I came third female for the 100 Ks at Ferrell a couple of years ago. There weren't very many of us running. - There was six, we're not at that. - We're not at that. - We're not taking six, we're not at that. - There were six finishes and several people didn't finish and she claims that now coming third is not a good result. - I think that's amazing. Well done, you're encouraging me that I can make it maybe. - What are you doing? What's running, are you doing it delirious? - Well, I'm planning at the moment to do the 200, according to Kev, I mean, I've only done 103 in my past, but this year, yes. - Yeah, I don't even run 100 Ks before I did delirious this year. - Well, Kev, don't let me, I can do it, I believe him. - I got my baby and then I doubled it and then I tripled it. - That's so good. - He said, it's just a moving picnic. - Yes, it's a long distance eating competition. - Oh, yeah. - That is a nice do the best. - You can do that, you can do that. Like a walk-down on way. - And it's not a run, it's a glorified hike. I mean, you do run, but if you can run like, you know, 20, 30 Ks a day, you're probably doing more than most people do. - Yeah, yeah. - I mean, a lot of people don't run this the second and third day and they'll run the fourth day. - Okay, 'cause they've kind of got themselves in. - It's okay, the pain all just blends into one. It hurts to break it down the run. - Oh, stop, you can stop now. We'll go back to it being a moving picnic. - Oh, you've got, you've got to eat a lot. - You got to eat. - Anyway, it's going to be exciting. All right, I'm very excited to talk to you guys next month. Thank you for sharing a little bit of your journey. You are motivating me to want to actually turn up to the heart and start, right? - I see. - Rather this thing. - Yeah, it'll be great. It should be great. - So ridiculous. - It's such a ridiculous distance, so crazy. All right, thank you. We will talk to you again next month. Don't jump off straight away, but I will finish the recording now, but thank you for agreeing to jump in and being a couple of our athletes. I'm really excited to talk to you each month. It's going to be so much fun. - Cool, okay. We'll see you soon. - Great. - Thanks. - And just like that, our journey begins. A huge thank you to all of our everyday runners for sharing their stories as they're stepping up to take on the delirious West 100 and 200 mile challenges and to you, our listeners, for joining us on this exhilarating adventure. Remember, it's not just about the finish line. It's about the journey, the community, and those moments of clarity along the way. Keep rooting for our runners and stay tuned for their regular monthly check-ins to see how their training is unfolding. If you're enjoying this series, we'd love to hear from you. Why not leave us a review and share the podcast with your friends? Let's all get a little delirious together. 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