All right, good evening everyone and a big thank you for coming.

I really do appreciate it.

It's really nice to see so many faces, friendly faces, and it really means a lot to us.

Myself, Shane, Matthew and Simon for sharing this evening with us.

I'm going to introduce you to Martin, who is my publisher and has helped me massively

to get this project underway over 12 years ago now and it's still going and

without mine none of this would ever have happened and uh mr clayton would probably still be

out there doing the things you always did so anyway i'll end you over to martin thank you all right

good evening everyone i first met Paul must have been 92 or 93

we were both runners for Collingwood Athletics Club and I know he knows this guy it was 29 going on 50 in terms of his

attitude and his attitude to run in and his attitude to everything and I remembered that

he was 29 and this will only mean something if you understand times for running

10k is about 6.2 miles so that's quite a decent distance

well he was 29 and he ran a 10k we're talking just over 6 miles in 20, under 30 minutes, in 29 minutes.

I'd never seen anybody run, especially for someone at my own club to be running.

I, to be fair to myself, I ran 38, which was an elite time in those days.

This guy ran 29.

So that was the first time I noticed him because of his running. But he had a,

there was a certain determination, a singularity about him. It was something different about him.

And it wasn't just the running. Running is a, it's a lonely thing. and yet this is why running clubs are really

good because people who are solitary people and most runners are solitary people and I know

that from being one as well. You have your own little world and little things going on in

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