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Hi, this is the Running Channel podcast.

My name is Rick Kelsey.

I'm a journalist.

We've been doing this show for about three years. Over there, that's

a guy called Andy Badley. He ran in two Olympic Games and he retired in 2017. He used to

run very fast, not so fast anymore. But what's important is that the person who sits in

between us, Sarah Hartley, she's the star of this show,

because Sarah Hartley's just done something rather special. She has just ran a sub three hours,

30 minute marathon in Rotterdam.

Yeah, I did.

And we're going to talk all about it. It's all about you today.

I'm going to be allowed to speak for a whole episode.

All about you.

Uninterrupted.

Oh, well, let's see about that.

And what a way to celebrate the fact that absolutely nothing has changed on the podcast

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