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Kelsey, him, Andy Badley and her Sarah Hartley. What a week

it has been. And you know what? We are going to be talking about a subject today that absolutely

fascinates me. You know why Sarah? Because I don't know what I'm doing. Supplements. Yeah.

There are so many supplements out there. It feels like my social feed is constantly full of people

trying to sell me lots of different supplements. Sell you. That's the key. Yeah, so we're going to go through the most used and heard of supplements used by runners and try to understand how they could benefit your running. Yeah, and we also need to talk about the fact that recently, you two, I wasn't here, this is what happens when I'm not here, had a slightly controversial chat about what happens if you run, walk a marathon and whether you say that you've run it or not. And I feel

that that's caused a little bit of a stir. And so we're going to take on another topic that might

cause a similar issue, which is chip time versus potentially versus Strava time. Oh yeah, it's all

going to kick off at the edge. Let's do it. So it all kicked off

right last week because we discussed if you run a marathon but you walk partly during that

have you run a marathon? And the comments went wild. Mainly because I think you said you can't say you've run it. You said you can't say you completed a marathon, is that right? I don't think I was too controversial, Andy. I walked for about 20 metres during Valencia Marathon two years ago. I only done one marathon. Do you think I've run a marathon? Well, this is this is why it's a high pressure game. So

in the main you ran. So I mean, in the main. You ran with one hand. So I, if you, if it's just,

you know, you walk to a toilet station or you, you know, you're picking up some water or drink.

Then you still ran it, I would say.

Can I just quickly ask?

You still completed a marathon.

I was not dismissing people who had finished the marathon, done 26 miles.

Great, go for it.

I was just saying that if your strategy was a bit like me, right?

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