Welcome to the Ronnie Channel podcast, coming to you from Tokyo, Japan, here at the World Athletics Championships.

Over the next nine days, we are going to be interviewing athletes, giving you our take on the big events, and just taking in the atmosphere here in Japan. I am so excited. I actually can't quite believe that we're here. It's amazing. And a huge thank you to ASICS for sponsoring this podcast, for bringing us out here in the same way as they did last year. We were really excited to do it in Paris and even more excited to do it again here in Tokyo, which is not at all hot and Rick hasn't been talking about it. No, I'm not sweating at all. Well, more on that later. But as always, we will be answering your questions too and we would love to hear from you. So what would you like to know whilst we're here? Email us at podcast at the running channel.com and we will get back to as many of you as we can. Would you give this music, by the way?

Oh, I really like it.

Should we get into it?

Yeah.

It makes me feel zen.

Does it?

So zen.

It took you five tries to get into this today. Yeah. Normally, we just go straight in and we don't edit at all. No. Just takes out his own mistakes because Sarah and I are always just on the money. But today, there was a real struggle, wasn't it, mate? How's the jet log, mate? It's the jet log. Yeah. Rick, honestly, any person that he's talked to in the last 24 hours, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry. Is that like being waterlog? Yeah, I feel like I'm back on time now. It's taking me a couple of days, but I am. Because you spent most of the time since we got here sleeping while all the rest of us have been doing the work. Listen, when your body says nap, when your body says nap, nap, yes.

When your son says milk, milk.

Are we going to? have been doing the work. Listen, when your body says nap, when your body says nap, nap.

Yes.

When your son says milk, milk. Oh, we're going to have to explain that. Sorry, that's a little tip bit. Rick gets through 20 pints of milk a week. That's right. That's right. We used to get it delivered to the door, but they, Sainsby's just had enough. Well, they might as well have just walked the cow to your door.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. this morning. You were like, oh, I've got my fan now, whips it out. Honestly,

it's the size of a 50p going.

Yeah.

Also,

and then it ran. So, yeah, it is, I mean, we should try and give context to it. There's going to be a lot of chat on the TV if anyone's watching the World Championships about how hot it is. The races, is the road races that have been happening with the walk

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