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Hello there, welcome to a special bonus episode of Rumpot. See this as a midweek training session to accompany your Friday main run.

Susie Chan was our guest in the previous episode and bearing in mind how many questions

you have for her, well, I decided to open up the interview and take messages from you. So, members of

the Rumpo Drun Club are responsible for asking the questions that follow. Enjoy. And remember,

if you'd like to send in requests for future episodes, all you need to do is be a part of the rum podron club on facebook

you can find the link on the show notes i'm jenny falkner and here are susy's answers to your questions

claire says hey susy what was your first marathon? How did you feel afterwards?

I ran my first one recently.

I was aching for days and I'm still a little shell shocked, but I am proud.

Claire, be proud.

Honestly, I would say genuinely that somebody described this to me, Jenny, as your first marathon.

They said it's the best and the worst day of your life.

And I sort of know what they mean because it's so difficult, it's so grueling. So to answer your question, Claire, my first

marathon was Paris. I believe it was 2011. And I felt diabolical at the end. I was I was in pieces,

absolutely in pieces. And I could remember I booked a, which was like a kilometer away from the finish line.

It was too far at the end.

It was too far. But I walked in the wrong direction.

And honestly, I don't know how long it took me.

And I could barely walk the next day.

I had blisters.

Honestly, it was just, and I couldn't stop eating for, well, I think I haven't stopped eating since, for at least

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