Lots of you are probably fundraising for marathons right now.

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And when you raise 200 pounds, you'll then receive a £100 pro direct voucher to spend on

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don't worry, GiveStar can add your existing donations to your new page.

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Hello and welcome to the running channel podcast, me Rick Kelsey, her, Sarah Hartley,

and him, Tom Dunn.

Many of you will be wondering, well, Sarah was also wondering for a time, where's he gone?

Where's he been all our lives?

He's kind of disappeared off the face of Britain, Europe.

He ended up somewhere in South America doing the world's highest marathon, and that is what we're talking about today.

We are.

It was a bit of a pilgrimage, isn't it?

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