The Imposter Podcast AU
Ever feel like you're winging it through life? You're not alone.
Welcome to The Imposter Podcast AU — the down-to-earth Aussie show where real people tell unreal stories. Hosted by Burso, a former soldier and cop turned community mischief-maker, this podcast dives into raw conversations with everyday legends, underdogs, and the occasional wildcard.
We unpack life behind the titles: the messy middle, the quiet wins, the funny fails, and the moments no one sees. No fluff, no filters — just banter, bold stories, and a few brutal truths.
Whether it’s trail running disasters, near-death moments, or figuring out what the hell we're doing with our lives... this is a space for the honest, the hilarious, and the human.
The Imposter Podcast AU
The Sweaty Sock Symphony: Tales from Amateur Marathoners
This episode brings the trio—Burso, Fitzy, and Joe—back together for a mix of trail-running prep, personal stories, and absolute chaos. With Joe signed up to run the first 19km leg of the Surf Coast Trail Marathon (while still recovering from Influenza A), and his mate Chris doing the second leg, the episode dives into the unfiltered realities of amateur endurance sports: the motivation, the gear, the setbacks, and the questionable preparation.
There’s no shortage of friendly roasting and classic Fitzy shade as the boys cover everything from text message ghosting, to accidental podium finishes, to toe trauma. Joe admits to doing “almost zero prep” for this race, aside from a solid pasta meal and packing some emergency Skittles. He reflects on the brutal Wilson’s Prom Marathon, where dehydration and searing granite heat saw him sheltering under a tree for 15 minutes before walking the final 6K—only to discover he’d placed on the podium due to mass DNFs.
Open-ended questions this episode answers:
- Can you run a trail marathon without training and still have fun—or even place?
- What’s more important—running tech or snacks?
- Why do your toenails always betray you when the running gets tough?
- Can banter, resilience, and a bit of stubbornness carry you through a cold 19km?
The episode also explores the infamous Surf Coast Century, the appeal of team-based endurance events, and the possibility of putting together veteran teams for bigger challenges. Fitzy, ever the pragmatist, gives gear tips while shaming everyone’s Strava usage. Meanwhile, Joe’s story about getting his best half-marathon time after stepping off a submarine becomes one of the many “how the hell did that happen?” moments.
But it’s not all running. From Burso being taunted by an 11-year-old parkrun assassin, to Fitzy’s blackened toenails, and heated arm-wrestle rivalries with tattooed authors, there’s no shortage of off-track stories that make this episode a rollercoaster of laughs and relatable chaos.
🧩 Anecdotes Listeners Will Enjoy
- Joe’s surprise podium at Wilson’s Prom because no one else finished.
- Burso’s park run rivalry with a child who stops, stares, then sprints away just to mock him.
- Fitzy pulling off his sock mid-episode to show a still-black, half-missing toenail.
- The tragic tale of a ring camera catching Burso in a shirt-over-head stealth mission.
- The running gear debate that somehow ends in a savage takedown of Dave’s pace.
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Look at this he's so hostile.
Burso:We've already started. Fitzy, are you on? Yeah, can you hear him? I'm on. I feel like I'm having some sort of weird microphone issue.
Fitzy:Can you hear?
Burso:me. Yeah, good, yeah, we got it. Welcome back. Go, joe, I'm on You're on, fitzy, I'm on, you're on, it's here. I'm on you. Good, I'm good. All right, we're in no wrong one. It's been a while. I don't know what you want from me. Anyway, yeah, I mean, what part are we on? Who knows who cares. Anyway, joe's here, fitzy's here, I'm obviously here. It's been who knows how long, but we're together because Joe is running a marathon.
Joe:I think he might have oversold it a little bit. It's not quite a marathon.
Burso:It's not Okay. Half a marathon Fair enough.
Joe:I wanted to. I remember we spoke a while back about me doing the first half and then seeing how I was feeling and then maybe just keep going. But I've decided I'm not going to do that. I was just saying before I had influenza A last week. I'm still not at 100%, so I've decided to just do the first half and let my mate, chris, do the other half.
Burso:So this is a team's event, isn't it? In case anybody had any concerns that I was doing some sort of run, it's not me, it's a different Chris person. This is a team Different Chris person. You just shouted into the thing, then what's that?
Fitzy:I don't know it's not working when I move back.
Burso:No, that's how a microphone works. It's not working. Yeah, it's working. Is it a team's event?
Joe:Yeah, so we've actually registered for the team's marathon, so I'll we tell him what I'm doing Team marathon we're not starting again, I don't care.
Burso:Team marathon. Yeah, I don't care, we're two minutes in this is us, this is how we do things. Two-person team Correct, do you want to? I just wanted to press this button. No, that was the wrong one. Nope.
Joe:There we go.
Burso:I can't to that.
Joe:Yeah and Fitzy, I sent you the screen grab of it and you never messaged back. Oh, I reckon, if you go, through your text, you'll see a picture from me, and I never got any response.
Burso:Yeah, because it was down Moncton Peninsula.
Joe:No, no Wilson's Prom, oh, miles away yeah.
Burso:Didn't prom? Oh, miles away you do the hills between. Wasn't there a two hill marathon or something you did as well, a trail run between the two base trail.
Joe:That's near me can you do that as well? No, no, the official running is um, or you just did the practice? No, no, well. So the funny thing is that that two base trail run it's 28k and it's over arthur's seat, which is not far from where I live, and um the actual events early jan. But I didn't qualify because you actually have to qualify for that event. But I've done the two-base run five or six times and I couldn't compete in the actual event because I had to qualify.
Burso:There's a wah-wah-wah one, but I don't know which one it is. Yeah, yeah, I didn't qualify.
Joe:I used that course as a training course for my marathon and I didn't actually get to do the event because I didn't qualify for it. What do you have to do? Like a time you have to do an actual registered marathon in the 12 months prior to it?
Burso:Oh, okay.
Fitzy:I think Marathon or another ultra distance race.
Joe:Yeah to qualify for it because it is pretty and it's in early Jan, so it can be stinking hot. So, yeah, I use that for my training. Run lots and lots during my lead-up to the marathon at Wilson's Prom, which was probably March or April.
Burso:So the Wilson's Prom one does that qualify you now to do the two-base?
Joe:I don't know.
Fitzy:There'll be a time on it so you can look on the website.
Joe:Yeah, I assume there's some sort of expiration period for when that counts, but I don't know. I just like doing the run myself. I just turn up in Dramana and run up over the hill and end up at a lighthouse 28 k's later.
Fitzy:I'm feeling better because I've gone back through the text. There is none, none with a screen grab or anything. So I was going to say that does not sound like me not to message back. So I was going to say that does not sound like me not to message back.
Burso:Maybe it does, maybe Joe needs to.
Fitzy:I don't think so I was thinking that doesn't sound like me.
Burso:I don't know, joe, I reckon you go back to yours.
Fitzy:Well, if there is, it hasn't come through to me. I'm looking at all the texts that are there.
Burso:Is it this show or another?
Fitzy:There is definitely, yeah, definitely, definitely this show. Is it you? Yes, sort of there's a, there's a, there's a heart one there, and I know that we also had a phone conversation in the middle of that, so I know that, like, there's a little bit more than just the text yeah, so there's.
Burso:There's just one way to text messages at the moment, and you're just saying feeling left out yeah, possibly, but we also did talk.
Fitzy:Like I said, there's, there's. I'm a more of a talker than a texter, but I usually will. If there's a question or something, then I'll definitely text back.
Joe:Yeah, so I did the Wilson's Prom Marathon. That's not true.
Burso:Look mine, go both ways. Yeah, just so you're aware he does text. Quick press on the buttons. Oh there, I can't remember which one it was. Which one were you going for? I was going for that one. I don't know why it's green, because that's like green for go. Yeah, it's good. Cool, this is awkward. Five minutes in Five minutes, in what event are we doing? Yeah, let's just get on to one, let's look forward, jay.
Joe:Is there a button for that?
Burso:Looking forward. No, I've only got the… that's back. Yeah, I've got this one. This is what happens when you text Nothing. Finally, that one works. Yeah, this is going for longer than I thought it was going to. I think I just double pressed Right. Anyway, five minutes in Awkward Fitzy Joe moment. We're moving past that. It would have been a great time to open a Savvy, but I didn't get any Savvys out, so it's awkward. What have you got for?
Fitzy:us Surf Coast, marathon Surf Coast.
Burso:Marathon Run by Ooh. Isn't it like Rapid? Is it Rapid Centre, or whoever? They are, same people that do the Surf Coast Century.
Joe:No, it's not. No, I think it's a different crew to the Surf Coast Century.
Burso:It's actually we're not sponsored, we don.
Fitzy:No, we do. Actually, it's Chris Ord's company and he's an absolute champion. He does really good events. Somebody wants?
Burso:in. Look at him.
Joe:Is it 17% off? Savvy Is that.
Burso:Yeah, it is, but that ain't this guy sounds thirsty for some All Trails. All Trails. Don't they have an app? Or is it different again? Is it All Trails app?
Fitzy:There's an All Trails? No, it's different again.
Burso:I've probably got it wrong now, Right Anyway? Runs tomorrow You're doing the 19, the first half. It's not really a half, because it's 19 and the other one's still 24 or whatever it is, but you're doing the first bit.
Joe:We thought it would be a good opportunity to do some running and have you been training together, you and Chris?
Burso:Because Chris is jumping on the alpha one, so this is your chance to throw shade.
Joe:Well, I don't know, we did one run.
Burso:Charles didn't throw shade, he's scared.
Joe:Chris is too nice, I couldn't throw shade at him.
Burso:Oh, this is weak. I was hoping to. This is what I wanted. I wanted Chris and Alex to jump on and throw shade before they did it. Then they both choked anyway on their run, so I don't care anymore. Yeah, they don't even listen to this. Don't worry about it. If I get a text message, I'll know that they do it, but they don't so it won't be from fitzy no, fitzy won't it's terrible texting just leave this on the whole time, just to just to interrupt with the thing.
Burso:So what made you decide this was going to be? What made you decide that doesn't go for a long time? Yeah, it doesn't. What made you decide you wanted to go for this one?
Joe:There's other ones isn't there. There's heaps to choose from and I've been wanting to do more marathons since doing the Wilson's Prom earlier this year. But because I'm at uni all of my extracurricular time, where I would normally be running, I've had to study.
Joe:I had to do assignments and stuff. So I've given away um any sort of long distance running for the moment, just while I'm at uni for the year um, and that means I'm not in marathon shape. So I've got a break between units two and three now for the next sort of six, seven weeks. So I've always had it in my head that I'll do some sort of obstacle or some sort of event in this sort of period while uni's on a bit of a break. And yeah, this came up, looked good, there was the team option, because I thought I'm probably not up for a full marathon at this point. So I just thought I'll spoke to Chris and I said let's do it.
Burso:He went all right, I'm trying to get a crew together for Surf Coast 100, do the teams there. They've got four people. You've done that before. What's the ratio on that? Because Joe was actually saying he was keen on doing like 25, swapping.
Fitzy:It's a little bit all over the place. There's a. I think the first leg's a bit shorter, it's about 21, 22. Leg two's 30. Leg three's about 27, 28. And then you finish it off.
Burso:You didn't do when you had like, when Dave was doing it, because he's useless. How far did he go?
Fitzy:Or did he do his whole leg? He did the 21. Did he?
Burso:So he did the flatter section. But Dave goes all right, he just plods along, gets there.
Fitzy:What's with the lack of throwing shade at people at this time? Oh, dave was useless yeah good Dave he knows who he is.
Joe:Yeah, well, I like the idea of because I haven't done something like that before. I'd like to do a run and then kind of cool down and then go again and then have to warm back up and go again. I think that would be an interesting challenge, because I absolutely don't think I could do 100Ks. I don't think I could do 50Ks. Nick did 100. Nick's better than me, I guess you could do it.
Burso:Yeah, I was going to say Nick made me feel like I could do it when I saw him at the end. He was absolutely at his life.
Fitzy:He was, but I can tell you right now he showed a lot of heart. I was pretty proud of him. I was like he's hurting but he just kept soldiering on. Is that the?
Joe:one. I remember you boys talking about it, and is that where he described his urine looking like Coca-Cola?
Fitzy:Yeah, he pretty much nearly got rhabdo. So yeah, probably don't do that. No thanks, so Surf Coast Trail Marathon, so where does it start?
Joe:It starts in Torquay and goes down to Fairhaven. I think I'm not from this side of the bay, so I don't really know the country too well. But I'm just looking forward to some nice scenery and just really no pressure whatsoever from me or anyone else to do anything at all. I just want to go and enjoy it, get a rhythm, look at some nice country and some nice trails and kind of go from there.
Fitzy:Okay, Well, I can tell you you won't have any pressure from anyone on this particular course. I've done this one a few times and it's one of the best ones. It's a ripper and it's great scenery. But yeah, it starts in Torquay, which you're not going to. Yeah, starts in Torquay, which you're not going to. Are you going to go to the start and watch your mate, Chris take?
Joe:off. No, I'm going to go first.
Fitzy:Oh, you're going to go first. I'm going to go first, right, sorry, you're doing the first leg to Poinatas. Poinatas, yeah and yep, okay, and Chris is taking off from there.
Joe:So, yeah, should be pretty chilly in the morning. It's gonna be cold. Yeah, yes, I've bought a. I've got a big jacket to wear. Um, I think the only thing that'll suck is, once I get going, the hands will get cold. I don't have any gloves, so I'm just gonna get sweaty, just gonna do it without the gloves yeah, I'm not that soft like verso have you, uh have you done much um research?
Joe:no, no, in true average joe's fashion, I've done almost zero prep or research. I do have my running gear in good order, but that's about it. I haven't really looked at the course, I haven't really done any reading. Um, I bet the only thing I've paid attention to is, um, my running kit what have you got?
Fitzy:run us through the kit oh, so just got.
Joe:I've just got the vest and I've got the water and the gels and got a little first aid kit in the back and just things that I like to carry when I'm sort of running in the bush. So it's got little snake bandages and stuff, but yeah, that's that.
Fitzy:I can tell you right now you can put the snake bandages away. They are not going to be out tomorrow. It's going to be about three degrees in the morning so yeah, yeah, um, do you have a plan when you go and do these runs? I know that some people are really fussy with how many grams of carbs they have.
Joe:None of that sort of stuff no, we're just um, I've had my second big meal of carbs tonight. Just some plain pasta. I'll get up and I've got some oats for breakfast and then I'll have a banana about 15 minutes before I start and then that's it. And I've got a bunch of gels and I'll put some Skittles in my vest that I'll eat if I need. Probably won't eat them, because one of the lessons learnt from me with the Wilson's Prom Marathon was I didn't eat anywhere near enough.
Joe:I mean, what made that marathon particularly tough was that it was 37 degrees and, if anyone's familiar with Wilson's Prom, a lot of sort of large granite outcrops and the the radiant heat coming off. The course was just ridiculous and and I was actually sick again for that. So I sort of hit the run at about 60 or 70 percent then through in the fact that it started at nine o'clock, which I'm like a early start. I'd rather start running at like five. So we started at nine. It was already 30 degrees when we started, um, and yeah, we had to run up mount oberon, which is that's, a mountain of decent height. So the course was pretty brutal, the temperature was disgusting and I was somewhat still a bit bit crook, but, uh, you got through it in about six and a bit hours.
Joe:So I struggled through that one but I just, um, just the, just the fuel, didn't have the fuel in me, just the whole, the whole way I just felt under fueled. So I've just kind of that's. My major lesson learned was eat more and try and eat when you're running. Because it was so hot, I just didn't want to eat and I reckon I went through about eight litres of water and I measured myself. I lost two and a half kilos, yeah, right, just in that one run over about six hours. But yeah, it had been on my bucket list. Nice, yeah, like a marathon. It had been on my bucket list for a long, long long time and I just thought, no, I'm going to do it.
Fitzy:What was the feeling like when you came across the line?
Joe:Oh, just, I had nothing left, absolutely nothing left. And at the end, actually, the crew were really really lovely and they did a fantastic job of sort of rehydrating us and keeping us cool and calm. And then, after, like, I'm just laying on the floor not doing so good, and then one of the ladies says to me she goes oh, do you reckon you're right to stand up? I said, like, do I have to? She goes yeah, we want to get a photo on the podium. I said nah, I didn't, I didn't make the podium. She goes yeah, you did. I said what? And I looked around and I said no, there was about. There was about six or seven blokes that were in front of me, um, behind that guy who was standing there who got second. She goes no, none of them finished. So there was so many non-finishers in that race that I ended up on the podium.
Fitzy:Oh good, you found the hack.
Joe:You find the ones that are really hard, that everyone drops out and yeah, and yeah, it was funny, like I remember, because part of that Wilson's Prom course you run along the beach as well, and so, yeah, I just remember thinking this is pretty tough and there were spots there where I just had to hide in the shade. For I think there was one spot I sat in the shade under a shaded tree for probably 15 minutes, just didn't have anything left, and so the last probably six Ks I just walked. Yeah, that was a good test of resilience for me and I got through it and I thought I would be able to drive myself home from Wilson's Prom, which is about a two and a half hour drive home for, and, yeah, I couldn't do that. So I called the wife and my mother and father-in-law came and rescued me. Oh, wow, yeah, I was pretty cooked.
Joe:So, yeah, george and Anne came down from Inverloch, which is where they live, and yeah, I stayed the night with them. I just didn't have anything left. I reckon I drank probably after I finished. I reckon I drank probably after I finished. I reckon I drank three Powerades and still I didn't have a wee until about midnight. So I was pretty dehydrated, whoops, yeah.
Burso:How much did Nick drink? Because he was cooked afterwards.
Fitzy:Nick's major problem is that I didn't realise that he was taking urethane.
Burso:Why it was taking urofen. What's that?
Fitzy:Very, very very, very bad to have. I always get this wrong.
Burso:I always say oh savvy imposter code 17% off get around it.
Fitzy:Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories Very, very bad to have on endurance events Pretty much. I don't know the technical stuff about it. You don't need to Just make it up. No, no, it's pretty bad.
Burso:How many followers is this for health advice you?
Fitzy:can literally kill yourself doing it. So you should never do it, and a lot of people obviously. When you're doing ultra events and things, you get inflammation, so you think I'll take anti-inflammatories and that'll help things, but you're doing yourself a lot of damage. Panadol's okay, a little bit of Panadol or something not going to hurt you.
Joe:Why was he taking it?
Fitzy:Because he was, you know, swollen knees, swollen ankles, all that sort of stuff that happened and I didn't realize that he was doing it and that's probably why, yeah, it was bad as it was. He was pretty good he was drinking enough throughout the day and you know doing all the right things, but yeah, it wasn't going to work Tomorrow, I say. I think your problem tomorrow is going to be to remind yourself to have a drink because it's going to be that cold and yeah.
Joe:I've got the two soft flasks on the front and I've got the bladder in the back, but I've only half filled it. So I'm going to be carrying about three litres of water and I think if I drink half of that, that'll probably be enough.
Fitzy:I would leave the bladder out if I was you and just take the two in the front.
Joe:It's more for balance If I don't have the bladder in the back, the whole thing flaps around a lot.
Burso:So you're taking Nurofen ibuprofen in brackets before running, especially long-distance events, is generally not recommended due to potential risks. While it can provide temporary pain relief, it can also mask pain. It could indicate a more serious issue and increase the risk of kidney damage, like probably when Nick was running or gastrointestinal problems which combined with the physical stress of running, and there probably was going or gastrointestinal problems which combined with the physical stress of running.
Fitzy:And there probably won't be much about ultra events in there. But yeah, generally you know ultra events for most people. You're going to be out there for 13, 14, 15, 16 hours. So, yeah, you're doing yourself some damage which we're not talking about tomorrow. So I think you're going to be fine.
Joe:I think tomorrow I'm just going to I mean you said before it starts in the sand. I think that'll not be heaps of fun, but once you get onto the trail it'll be fine.
Fitzy:Yeah, there's a little bit of beach. From memory I've got to remember which ones do which on the beach. I think you go out and back to start with and then get onto the trail. Do which on the beach? I think you go out and back to start with and then get onto the the trail, um surf coast trail in Torquay, um, which does go onto a little bit of sand in one spot, but kind of fun actually where it does it.
Joe:Yeah, I'm looking forward to. I don't think tomorrow is going to be stressful at all and that's probably the right it's. It's the right run for me to do at the moment, seeing as I haven't been training and I was crook last week, so I'm just going to go enjoy it and maybe later on Does the Surf Coast 100 do a lot of that course again. It does a pretty good proportion of it, yeah, so I think that's in August or September, like later in the year About then yeah.
Joe:Yeah, so I might. Depending on the uni schedule, I might see if I can do two legs per week of the team marathon. I just think it would be a unique challenge doing a run and stopping and having to start again later.
Fitzy:Well, Chris pretty much volunteered before to do some of it. He virtually said that Dave was useless, so making it that he could do better than that.
Joe:Didn't you say there was like a 19K leg.
Burso:That's a bit shorter 21, I think is the shortest. I'm definitely better than Dave 21.
Joe:There you go.
Burso:There you go.
Fitzy:What speed did Dave get? He wasn't too bad actually, he went all right, shut up.
Burso:No, he wasn't. What time.
Fitzy:I think he's a bit quicker than you. He'd probably be over 21K. I reckon Dave would probably be a good hour in front of you.
Burso:No, Over 4K. That's when my time starts to shine. You've never seen me run further than 3.2K.
Joe:No, no, we saw you do parkrun that time.
Burso:Oh Jesus, was I ever in pain that day. Well, he didn't run it, did he? You were way up front.
Joe:And then, we had to wait about a few minutes to see you.
Burso:Yeah, that was pretty abysmal. What was that? Like 33 minutes, Is that right?
Fitzy:I don't know. I think it was longer. Actually, I think you had another 10 minutes and then you probably were coming in.
Burso:Oh no, I had to talk to somebody at one point. We had to walk. That was for them, that wasn't for me.
Joe:There was like a little tacker that beat you wasn't there right at the end. What?
Fitzy:Oh, yeah, there was a little kid.
Burso:Yeah, I did a park run up at Park Hour and there's this little devil child up there. She'd be maybe 11 and she would run and then stop and turn and watch me.
Joe:Love that.
Burso:Like didn't just run. So I was just like whatever, don't care, would wait, it's good, passive yeah, it wasn't even passive just staring at me. And then it was like, well, wait for me to catch. And then I started trying to run, like just off the track, so she couldn't hear me because she was like trying to pretend she didn't know I was coming. I was like whatever. And then so I was like trying to be real quiet and then I called up to her at one point because she didn't realise. Then she turned around and just sprinted, took off.
Joe:I'm like you're the devil.
Burso:And then I was like you know what, maybe I'm breaking her here, maybe she's tired, maybe that's why she's doing it. She's acting real tough.
Joe:I think it's cool when kids are good, like 5K is a fair distance for any. You get little tackers that can actually smash it Like one of my wife's best mates. Her kid is only this tiny little thing. She'd be 10. And when she'd run it with her mum she'd be heckling her hurry up, mum, you're slow you suck, you know some good heckles.
Joe:And then I said to her one day I said, oh, why don't you come run with me? And I'm like a 22, 23-minute park run. And I said, mate, are you ready for it? And yeah, this kid, she's 10 and we did it in 22.50. She ran with me.
Burso:She was a good five paces for every. Probably one of mine.
Joe:She's a little kid too, and I was so stoked for her. I was like mate, that's a great time for a little tacker and her first park run. I would have been stoked with that time. I was stoked with it. Anything, that's 23, in my opinion.
Fitzy:Some people can just run. I don't know if you guys know who Lucy Bartholomew is. No, she's an Australian trail runner and famously actually she did the Surf Coast Century when she was I think it was 16. She was the youngest person to do it and they had to sort of lobby to let the organisers let her do it and they virtually came to the thing all right, you can do it, but you have to run with your dad. So she had to run with her dad that first year. No problem at all. She killed it.
Fitzy:I think she's got a course record there now. She's done all that stuff. She's been all around the world running. But she found out very early that she was quite good at running. Um, she went to another trail race where her dad was doing 100k. She was meeting him at the checkpoints and feeding him when she was 15 or somewhere in that age, but she was running from checkpoint to checkpoint in front of him and meeting him there to do all that. So when I heard that story I'm like wow, that's crazy. She virtually ran 100K looking after her dad to do 100K.
Burso:That's amazing. So I had that park run when I came in. I ran over the line and the lady's like, oh, congrats, well done. I'm like no, that's rubbish. This kid just smashed me or whatever. And then not only did she smash me, she sat there and bloody, took the piss out of me the whole way through. And then the bloke comes over and he goes yeah, she did it to me last week, mate. I was like what? Yeah, I was like that's rubbish. And then the lady's like that's my daughter, she does it all the time. She thinks it's hilarious. I'm like this is bullshit. An 11-year-old kid just baiting old blokes running around going jokes on you.
Fitzy:You had the last laugh, though, didn't you? You tripped her over.
Burso:Oh yeah, yeah, Took her lunch money Good.
Joe:Threw rocks at her.
Burso:Yeah, it was weird because it was like on a USB and crypto now, but it's just weird trying to take lunch money off kids anymore. Don't know what happens. Anyway, back to running. I don't know how this podcast turned into mainly a running podcast. It got really weird. Might have something to do with Fitzy. Yeah, Fitzy's definitely taken over, hasn't he? That is his thing.
Joe:Yeah, but then you started running that turned into a thing I've always been running. I just didn't talk about it as much.
Burso:And then Nick rocked up and he started running. So I was like all right.
Fitzy:I'm going to start running doing his. Is he still on? Still doing his 3k a day, should we?
Burso:blue toy 3am in go on. Oh, you two keep talking. I'll see if I can work it out see if he's got something.
Fitzy:I haven't talked to him for a while and he's every day he's doing his 3k. You never know he might. He might go down and do surf coast trail marathon tomorrow could turn up.
Joe:Good turnout. There's your missus, she's doing it tomorrow. She's on the full distance.
Fitzy:She is so, yeah, you'll start off with her. That's your aim. Do not let her beat you.
Burso:Is Mel going to smash him?
Fitzy:Look she's going to do, she's going back to the road, so at the moment she's probably talking about doing a marathon. She got a ticket again this year to Gold Coast and Gold Coast is where running sort of distance started for us. So she's going back to the Gold Coast this year to try and get a PB for a marathon on the road.
Fitzy:What sort of time, I better not say, because if I say it and it doesn't, come off, it's not what she wanted, then I'll probably be in trouble, but I can say that she'll be going under four hours.
Burso:Oh, awesome, yeah. According to Mel Mac, she's going for under four. Mel Mac wants under four for her next marathon. According to the YouTube channel Yep.
Fitzy:There you go, the YouTube channel. She's on the YouTube channel and it says that she wants to do under four. Then good.
Burso:Yeah, she's got. I was going to say seven weeks to go, but it says two weeks to go. On that one.
Fitzy:So she's got five weeks five weeks to go to Gold Coast. It's the 6th of July, so yeah.
Burso:Yeah, Gold Coast Marathon under four, she wants.
Fitzy:She'll go under four.
Joe:I personally think she'll go well under mean. She's in good running shape at the moment, whereas I am not.
Fitzy:She's in always good running shape. She doesn't stop training, yeah.
Joe:My training has dropped right off.
Burso:She can stop doing YouTube videos out the front of my house, though it's weird.
Joe:I know where that is.
Burso:Oh yeah, that's just down past there. It's good times we're going to be up now.
Fitzy:We happen to live near you, so it's probably what happens to be that she's filming somewhere while she's out running.
Joe:Look to be fair, I don't know how many times you've seen me run past your place? I'm going to say no.
Burso:Yeah, I'm glad we both jumped on board. Yeah, no, no, that's right, although you do have a weird video of me when I came to your house. That time I can't remember what I was picking up. I had to drop something off, or whatever.
Fitzy:Hard rubbish. No, no, no Hard rubbish. We've got a hard rubbish.
Burso:Yeah, we have, we did do that one time.
Burso:We tried that once. Yeah, no, I had to grab something from your doorstep or whatever it was, and then it was like I don't have it on this phone. It was like I just ran up and I like had my shirt over my head or whatever and just like grabbed something and then ran off. Next minute it was at the station. It was like people were sending me videos like, oh, we've had a complaint. There's some weird unit that was out the front of his house. I'm like, oh, that's right, the old ring camera. Eh, Glad I was wearing a disguise. Anyway, where were you at? What are you going to? What was your meal?
Joe:What was what?
Burso:Well, you had your meal beforehand, you had your dinner planned, then you've got a breakfast planned.
Fitzy:Talk about this mate Pasta, just pasta, oats in the morning.
Burso:Banana 15 minutes before. Are you going to soak them or anything? Oh, I'll probably soak them. Do that weird soaking thing that people do.
Fitzy:This is what happens when the host of back and then decides he'll ask the questions that have already been talked about?
Burso:Man, I'm into Savvy now, so I'm catching up on that. Savvies are good actually. I was like lemon lime. I was like yeah, I don't know, I'm not really a big fan of them, but occasionally they hit.
Joe:all right, I like them for the nootropics.
Burso:Oh, do you. Yeah, what's your favorite one?
Joe:The pink one.
Burso:Yeah, exactly. Oh, mark Curry will be dirty. He would have been like if he'd said, like Ryoflovin, or made up a word like that it's on the air, isn't it? Yeah, it's probably in the ingredients.
Joe:Make up words, call it whatever you want. I can't even read it.
Burso:The lights are too dark. That's a mistake.
Fitzy:So you said yeah, was it a week ago or two weeks ago that you had COVID?
Burso:Influenza.
Joe:A, I actually got a positive influenza A test last Tuesday. Come on, mate, I wasn't.
Fitzy:COVID, it was influenza, sorry.
Burso:Weren't you part of this podcast?
Fitzy:Yeah, I'm just bugging it up. You know, they all make you sick, that rolled all four of us, the whole house went down.
Joe:Yeah, the whole house went down and it was awful. I woke up feeling like I've been hit by a week, so I've only been back at work this week. And yeah, it rolled us all. And the funny thing was my wife and the kids. They got their flu jab about a month ago and I couldn't make it at the time to get mine, so I didn't bother, I was getting around to reorganising it. But so, yeah, we all got it as bad as each other. The wife and kids had been vaccinated, I had not, and it was as bad for it made no difference. And so I said to my wife. I said should I go and get the jab now? She said why You've had an anxious jab. Yeah, sure You've had it. I mean, I don't know, I'm not anti-vaxed by any stretch, but just well, you've been, you've been vaxed because you had it.
Joe:It's like it's a bit different. I mean, I had it last winter, but I haven't had it this one.
Burso:It was like that one time I got autism. There's no point having the autism vaccine after that. I've already had it. Awkward silence from Fitzy.
Fitzy:I don't know where to go with that one.
Joe:What is it you're drinking? What's that?
Burso:It's that calm water stuff that I put in front of you, but then I grabbed a Savvy anyway, so it's sort of like the opposite. They're both having the opposite effect. But I haven't had any of this. I put it in like so you make like a soda water thing and then it's just like a fizzy drink, but it's not like terrible for you like the 15 monsters I had earlier today it's probably, probably better than a monster.
Burso:I'd say a mozzie, as you say mozzies I've never said it I've never called it a mozzie, I don't know why you're starting it always. You always call it a mozza mozzie, mozza mozza.
Fitzy:You want a mozza?
Burso:sam calls them zzz's no he calls them a zz pop coke zeros. Yeah, he them. Zezipops or just Zezis, and he doesn't actually care if it's a Coke Zero, it's just a kind of a Zesi.
Joe:But you know what feels like a real treat If you have a leaded Coke in a glass bottle.
Burso:A leaded Coke did you say, oh yeah, that's old school. Yeah, it's good, people wouldn't know that there was lead in fuel back in the day, even though it does say unleaded still doesn't it? Yeah?
Fitzy:On Coke, yeah on the Zezzy.
Burso:Boys, and that's funny actually. Yeah, it does say unleaded petrol. You could just say petrol now, because we don't have lead.
Joe:I remember when I was little, when I was a little kid, one of the first cars I remember my parents ever having was a 180B, and it was leaded. It put leaded fuel in that. Yeah, and my funniest memory of that car was, I think my dad had gotten the shits with us, one of us slamming the doors. He's like don't slam the door. And then he slammed the door and the glass shattered.
Burso:He told us exactly what not to do.
Joe:Good one dad. Good one dad. Good one Dad. Oh no, sorry, it was a 120.
Burso:120. Y yeah, it was a 120.
Fitzy:Y.
Joe:The small kind of Datsun. It was blue and it was the car we had at the same time as an XA Falcon with the big bench seat in the back. I remember going on road trips and just sort of slipping around in the heat on that sweaty suede as kids, without seatbelts.
Burso:Yeah, and your dad was having a dart in the front and maybe a beer, because you were allowed to do all that then back.
Joe:then you were allowed to do whatever you want. Then there you go.
Burso:Yep, good times, memory lane. Wish I could smoke, I mean, for under $75 a pack, whatever they're paying nowadays, mind you, you can just do raiding, raids or like firebombing and stuff like that. Isn't that what you do nowadays? You get like cheap cigarettes?
Joe:I don't know, I've never been a smoker.
Burso:You see it on the news. I don't know. There's like tobacco wars or whatever it is there was kebab wars, at one point tobacco wars.
Joe:Are there vape?
Burso:wars I reckon there would be once. It's illegal. Is it illegal now? I feel like it's been.
Joe:Was it single use are illegal now.
Burso:Oh, so it's only refillables you can keep.
Joe:I don't know. We're making ourselves know we're bullshit.
Burso:now we're talking about a bunch of stuff that's got nothing to do with us.
Fitzy:There's a bunch of stuff that none of us have got any idea about or care about.
Burso:We should probably start talking about tampons. That might help us as well. It's like, yeah, a lot of input on that length of the strings and stuff. We should probably change that stuff. Anyway, what shoes are you running? Have you got some special shoes? Just some trout shoes?
Fitzy:You've been to like Hocker. It's the only one you know, hocker.
Burso:Try and sound like I know what happens in the running world.
Fitzy:I'm an Essex guy.
Burso:Oh, that's old school. What, not Kayuma's? No, that's not a one. Kazuma, what's that brand?
Joe:Keanu you're thinking of, aren't you, Keanu? Yeah, so I've got Keanu's is my regular sort of street runners and then I've got several far off. I knew that was true Chewbacca's. Oh, I think so.
Burso:I'll show you anyway, didn't Mel get a new pair of shoes from America or something? You were talking about something.
Fitzy:Oh yeah, she got some speed land, speed play yeah, they don't bring them to Australia. So she had to Speedland Speedplay yeah, they don't bring them to Australia. So she had to hire some company to send the shoes to there and then send them to Australia.
Joe:Sounds like a very time-consuming exercise, like I wasn't sure on trail shoes whether they're actually any good at stopping your feet from getting wet. So I bought a pair and one day it was bucketing down with rain and I thought I'll give these a go and see if they actually do anything, because trail running in Melbourne in winter you're going to get wet at some point. So I thought, oh, I may as well try it. So it was bucketing down and I went for a run with my regular Kayanos, did a 5K loop, came back, put new socks on, new shoes, did the same loop, same condition, the same everything, and the trail shoes kept my feet basically dry. I was really surprised they actually did what they said they would do.
Fitzy:So they should some have Gore-Tex around them. Eventually water will get in, but what they're very good at is draining that water out as well. So you'll find that if your feet do get wet, they dry very quickly and it's not worth worrying about yeah.
Joe:Like the Kayanos, when they got wet, it was like a squelch fest.
Fitzy:Yes. And it doesn't go away.
Joe:Yeah, it doesn't. And and it doesn't go away yeah, it doesn't, and you can feel the heat coming out of it as well. So when I got back with the full squelchy regular runners, I was like, oh, these trail shoes, they can't be any better. And they were. So they make a difference and they've got more grip and stuff, but they're a bit more rigid and I'm still down some toenails from the Wilson's Prom Marathon.
Burso:Who, yeah? How long ago was that? Yeah, but don't they grow back.
Fitzy:I still don't have toenails and I haven't run for ages on the trails.
Burso:Oh really.
Joe:This is why you can't have this podcast on. That bad boy, it's still black.
Burso:Give us a toenail.
Fitzy:It's coming off, then it's coming off I mean that's it there. Yeah, it's gone. Yeah, It'll probably grow over half of it. It'll grow over the other half. That doesn't come off. Yeah, it's always fun.
Burso:Why do we need?
Fitzy:toenails.
Burso:You don't what they just fall off as soon as you put too much effort in. I don't get it. I feel like initially that was probably some time, All those evolution things. Maybe we needed claws back in the day. You admire my socks Much better than your feet you feel fucking black nail that was on there. I'm going to have to put a bloody M15 plus thing for that toenail, especially if it just fell off. That would have been gross If you pulled your foot out there and it just fell off.
Joe:I'd be like Can't give it to you. Missing yeah.
Fitzy:Well, the run that you're doing tomorrow, normally you probably wouldn't need trail shoes, but I would definitely recommend them the way that we've thought, the weather we've had. So it'll be slippery, slippery, yeah, on parts out there.
Burso:Isn't that the biggest difference, though like the tread, yeah, there's a few things.
Fitzy:I mean you look at road running shoes now when you're talking speed stuff now they're quite unstable. So if you pick up a pair of Asics Metaspeed or something along those lines which are a carbon-soled shoe, they're very, very strange to get in and you've got it doesn't feel like you've got any support. You run on the balls of your feet. Trail shoes you can't do that. You've got to have stability throughout the shoe because you know you're up, you're down, you're all over the place. So there's a lot more stability in them and even the fast shoes don't sort of feel like the road shoes do.
Joe:It's just different. So when are we getting you to do your marathon? Remember, we've been talking about this for a while now.
Fitzy:It looks like he's doing Surf Go Century in a team, so it won't be a marathon.
Joe:I'll definitely be, there, we spoke about you doing the 42Ks, but over 24 hours.
Burso:Yeah, I remember you talking about that. Yeah yeah, no, that was for you. Oh yeah, right. Well, I mean, we had things happen with the podcast.
Joe:We had to shuffle around that sort of stuff. So things got reset. Oh, and I reset the challenge.
Burso:Yeah well, we'll see how we go. It might be on, it might be on, it might be on. We'll see what happens.
Joe:What about a backyard ultra? Have you ever done one of those when you just do like a 5K loop and do 100 of them?
Burso:That sounds terrible.
Fitzy:Yeah, I think they're five or six or something, 6.3 or something. It's weird because I think they do it for miles.
Joe:Yeah, it's like one loop that you just do and every hour the clock resets and you've got to go again.
Burso:I'm like no, that's terrible People go for days. Yeah, they're idiots. That needs to be assessed. Why wouldn't you just run somewhere and back?
Fitzy:Yeah, it's not my thing.
Burso:What the laps or no, you get bored, I reckon, imagine trying to run a marathon at a 400-meter track. That's just what's. He Isn't that dude? Yeah, we should know who he is.
Fitzy:I'm trying to think if there is an event in, it's like New York or somewhere in the States, it goes for weeks.
Burso:And they virtually go around.
Joe:They go around a basketball court virtually You're in a basketball court.
Fitzy:It's virtually a set of courts. It's not very far, it's like 800 metres or something a lap and they just keep going around and around and around and around. It goes for weeks.
Joe:It's some stupid event, even the idea of doing like a back out ultra, where there's six or seven Ks or whatever they are and doing like 25 laps even just doing three laps sounds pretty boring. Yep, and I don't even think you can change the direction. I think it's all the same way.
Fitzy:Yeah, I don't know. It's not something that I've ever really looked into or thought about doing.
Joe:Yeah, really looked into or thought about doing. Yeah, no, I think next year when I'm not at uni. Ned Brockman.
Burso:Sorry, oh, yeah, he did that?
Fitzy:He was doing that. I know what you're talking about. Didn't he run like?
Joe:1,000 kilometres or something he was trying to do a-.
Burso:It says 1,600 k's in charity 1,000,.
Fitzy:Was it 1,000 miles Completed?
Burso:1,600 kilometres running 12.5 days.
Fitzy:Yeah, he was trying to do 1,000 miles and I think Was that a?
Joe:round of a sports track.
Fitzy:Yeah, 400 meter track. It was pretty phenomenal, brutal.
Burso:But it's like I mean he had a crab, which is good but, jeez, he raised a heap of money too.
Fitzy:He's a nutcase, he's a freak yeah.
Joe:Yeah, how much did he raise?
Burso:2.5. A million. Yeah, just this year. Wow, he ran from Perth to Bondite in 2022, raised 2.5 million. Oh, my God, I don't know how much he raised. Oh, he raised 2.8 for the uncomfortable challenge completed a 1,600K run, or 1,000 miles around a track in Sydney Olympic Park, in 12 days.
Fitzy:Yeah, I think he was supposed to do it in 10 days and they reset it or something, because it just sort of went to shit on him towards the end, like when I say go to shit, he still completed it, but it sort of went to a point where it was like we can't do this. He was in I saw some videos of it and he was in a lot of pain, but he just kept getting out there.
Joe:I was thinking, you're a nutcase.
Burso:He's good, good. I've never raised a bunch of money for charity. That's even more people like him. He's a unit. He's got the picture, he's just bandaged up.
Joe:He's all sorts, he's just like whatevs.
Burso:Yeah, yeah, yeah, good looking lad, though Tug Did you get it oh yeah, got a haircut, got rid. Yeah, he went for a job today oh, that's why, yeah, so he cleaned his back up, story checks out yeah, he had a mad mullet the other day when we saw him nice, fair enough. Yeah, I mean, ned looks faster with that. Yeah, like when it's trimmed, like it's not, he's pretty quick. That's a pretty mad, pretty mad little mullet set up. Have we got any predictions for tomorrow? For tomorrow, yeah, I don't know.
Burso:About four and a half hours for Chris and I yeah, but you're 100% finished.
Joe:Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, even if I have to walk Laughing yeah, even if I have to walk, I'll finish.
Burso:Yeah, Chris, 100% you reckon.
Joe:Yeah yeah, he and I did a run over Arthur's seat one day. He's in good nick, he's been doing.
Burso:He's a good horse. He's made it all day.
Joe:Yeah, but he's into rowing what he's gotten into rowing, okay.
Burso:As in like indoor rowing on the thing, no, no, like actual on the water, rowing On the water.
Joe:Yeah, like when he was in high school he was a pretty competitive r. Haven't done much running, but he's in good nick anyway. Yeah, so he'll be fine. Fair enough, I think tomorrow will be good. I'm just looking forward to getting back out there because I haven't run. I don't reckon I've done any running at all in probably seven weeks.
Burso:I don't get any anxiety after sleep. Not after sleep, that was, I don't know what I was like. Not after the sleep, I don't know what else. My brain wasn't working then I just heard that. Did you even say words then?
Fitzy:So you haven't even had a shakeout run since you've had influenza.
Joe:Nothing, I haven't run anywhere at all.
Fitzy:Oh, this is good. This is good, we'll see how it goes tomorrow.
Joe:Your missus is going to run circles around me.
Fitzy:Maybe she's sort of a funny one. Sometimes she'll have a bad day and just be like nah.
Joe:No, I think like I've always got a good baseline and that's why I'm not worried about tomorrow, like if I didn't have Not worried about.
Burso:I saw you at the bloody bright thing. You'd never run before. At least you've run now. They did the challenge at the Spartan Beast or whatever it was. How many. Ks was that 21?
Joe:It was a half, that was 21.
Burso:Yeah, none of them had done any prep.
Fitzy:I've got no problems. I reckon Joe will kill this. I've seen him run only smaller distance, but he can run.
Joe:I reckon the half isn't a concerning distance for me.
Fitzy:Yeah, yeah, you'll get your way through. It won't? You Even if it all goes to shit, you're like, I'll just walk, I'll just get to the finish.
Joe:And I've got Skittles in my bag, so it's fine. Should we put you into?
Fitzy:the have you got a camera?
Joe:I'm going to bring both my phones. Good, I'm going to bring both. My work. I've got a work phone running app that I like to use, but then Chris has also got me onto Strava, and when you put, you can't start Strava and the trail running app at the same time. Do you not have a watch? I do have a watch.
Fitzy:Why are you using your phone?
Joe:Because it's just easier to operate. No, no, no, no, hang on, run me through this. It just says this, do you?
Fitzy:have a watch that you just push, go for the trails, or do you have a watch that you go through and say Well, that's a different app again, isn't? It. You don't need an app.
Joe:Yeah, the thing on the watch even if you just start running, it just starts going. So I'll do that. What sort of watch do you have? It's a Samsung Galaxy watch. It's not a proper Garmin running watch, but it's a smart watch.
Fitzy:It's a smart watch so you, you can, you can run a, you can run something, and that should just link straight across to strava. Yeah, when you've, when you finished it? No, I haven't synced them.
Joe:No, because the the strava app that's what, that's what I'm saying. Like the strava app and the trail running app seem to struggle to run at the same time, and so I've. I use the strava app on my work phone, but because my watch is synced to my personal phone, it doesn't coordinate.
Burso:I don't know.
Joe:To be fair, about the only thing I take semi-seriously is eating and drinking before a run. I don't plan it. I don't really look at apps and stuff.
Fitzy:Yeah, okay, I'm still confused why there's an app running on your phone.
Burso:Yeah, when you've got an app that runs on your phone.
Joe:Well, it's multiple, then you can compare them.
Fitzy:It's the same run, though, but you already know what the distance is.
Joe:And when you run over something, it gives you a time.
Burso:It's the internet, I like it. So Chris is doing the second stage. So you know about the finish. I like it um again, so Chris is doing the second stage.
Fitzy:So you know about the finish. Do you know anything about this run at all? Nah um, do you know where it finishes? You know it's at Fairhaven at the Surf Lifestyle Club.
Joe:Yeah, the Surf. Lifestyle Club I've never been there, so I don't know what it looks like okay, what I was going to do is good players.
Fitzy:They've put something back in place this year.
Joe:Oh was it like Tough Mudder, where you have to run through like the electric zappers.
Fitzy:Yeah.
Burso:There's chasers everywhere.
Fitzy:No, but they have put the finish back in where you've got to run up the stairs. So you used to run and finish up the stairs. Last few years they've been running and you just sort of finish on the beach.
Joe:But the stairs off the beach and then up to the top. What I said, joe's problem, yeah, what I said to bursa earlier, it was like what we'll do is I'll just take off first and then at the midway point, um erin, chris's wife, is gonna ferry me to the end, and then I'll go back, maybe a k or so, and that way chris and I can run the final kind of K together and Bursa can get a photo of us.
Joe:That's cute, so I will do the stairs but I won't be complaining about it because I wouldn't have done anything for two hours.
Burso:Maybe you'll get a chance to warm up and then jump on there. Yeah, might take the drone down, get him to do some slow-mo of you guys running along the beach, or just real time, but it'll be slow.
Joe:It'll be slow. Everything I do is in slow-mo. You like to talk about the team shirt thing? Team veteran.
Burso:Yeah, yeah, and not sponsored.
Fitzy:Will you be running team veteran shirts?
Burso:Yeah, chris and I are both wearing the yellow shirts. The boys will be. Yeah, they're just looking for some free airtime.
Fitzy:Oh, they'll get it. What about free entry?
Burso:Has that happened through? No, he was already doing it, even though it was. I'm trying to do that for the Surf Coast Sentry. I'm trying to get three teams of four in, so I'm thinking about getting one. There's two resi units that are interested in doing it and then ideally the payback will be like we'll get support from those gang. They'll turn up and help out and then ideally we'll get like some lads like you and Joe and then Joe again and you again. Probably We'll just split it in half. Just do the halves. You can wear my watch. That way Joe will think I ran out.
Joe:The watch debacle is not going to be sorted. That was the idea. We went and Chris and I will both wear the team veteran shirts and get a photo.
Fitzy:At least you'll be easy to be seen.
Burso:The flying bumblebees, get around them. Have you done the Puffing Billy run?
Fitzy:No, I haven't done that one.
Joe:You have to run up the hill, Either way. I don't care, I'm sitting on the train.
Burso:Yeah, it's on the train. I'll just be on the train. It it's on the train.
Fitzy:I'll just be on the train. It's one of the ones that years ago I wanted to do that and I was like I can beat that train Now.
Burso:I go.
Fitzy:There's no chance I can beat that train.
Burso:You don't reckon. No, people beat it though, don't they?
Fitzy:Yes, people do, I think years ago, I might have been able to.
Joe:Now I've got zero chance. How far is?
Burso:it 13.5. Yeah, I knew the distance Not too bad.
Joe:Do we have a time? What's the time?
Fitzy:There's some quick runners, that yeah 13.5 Ks.
Joe:I could do that in an hour and 10, hour and 15.
Burso:It's cool. I've had a look at some of the videos. It's pretty cool. The family just sit on the train and then they just pick you up, grab you wherever it is. I'll work out how long this thing takes.
Fitzy:Yeah, you've got spectators on the train heckling the runners. Yeah, that's sick.
Burso:It's massive too, like there's a massive amount of people on there, but so the Surf Coast Century is going to be on the 13th, I think it is, which is this Saturday, and then the Puffing Billy's on all weekend September. Yeah, in September. But I might try and get people on the Surf Coast Century to do that one, and then everyone else who doesn't want to run a stupid amount of things can go and do the Puffing Billy.
Joe:Are you coming to the veteran games?
Burso:Drew's out still, but probably.
Fitzy:The team's on, for I think if you can get the four groups, or three groups for Surf Coast Century, it'd be a lot of fun. I mean, do you want to do the whole 100? Not at the moment.
Joe:no, Well, there you go, no running's not going so well for me at the moment.
Fitzy:I've been back on the bike. Is Nick going to do it again? I think so. I don't know, did you get him on?
Burso:I've got to turn this off and bloody sync the Bluetooth so I can't just do a dial-up on air thing?
Fitzy:Let's see. Or do we want to pause it? Let's have a go.
Burso:No, the pausing's terrible, because I always turn her off.
Joe:I can't remember what's pause and what's stop, and then you'd lose the last 40 minutes of this gold. Oh, exactly what am I going to do with this?
Fitzy:Well, he keeps saying it. No one will listen to this People do. It's weird. I was just saying to him before.
Burso:This will yeah, which will be 17, 17 listens, let's go for 18. Oh, results and records. What have we got?
Fitzy:here. What are you looking for?
Burso:I'm just trying to find the times, like how long does it?
Fitzy:Oh, you're going back to Puffing Billy.
Burso:Course record, yeah, course record. Steve Kelly in 2015 did it in 42 minutes 27. Melissa Duncan did it in 48, 27 in 2018. Slouches right, slouches, yeah, 42 minutes.
Joe:It's up a hill though I don't know.
Burso:Oh, there's a junior dash 1.2K. I might do the junior dash. What time do I have to beat, though? You could do it 4.15.
Fitzy:4.15?
Joe:I wouldn't have thought so 4 on what I've got to beat, though you could do it 4.15. I wouldn't have thought so.
Burso:4.15 for 200 metres? No way that's by a girl too.
Fitzy:Oh no, Hang on, there's a man with a female Hang on a minute.
Burso:Well, it's 4.45. The girl is 4.45. I don't know how old she is. Annie Clark, they're 4.45.
Joe:Good.
Fitzy:Good on her.
Burso:Absolutely belittling me. I've seen kids having a go For me it would probably be. I'd be on a good day, six at the moment.
Fitzy:That would be a good day, and I've warmed up, because otherwise I'm just having a hard time. You've tried to trade before and Dave would do six at all days.
Burso:Not now, he wouldn't. He would no, dave.
Fitzy:You're not having this, are you? Dave's got you covered, mate, well and truly.
Joe:Dave's one of the few people heavier than me.
Burso:He's a big boy, isn't?
Joe:he, he's a big boy.
Burso:Yeah, dave's a big lad. Dave's got you covered. You're so foolish, he's got me covered. Stop staring. Anyway, I've done a. I can't wait. Team veteran.
Fitzy:You can be on the team veteran line as well, Chris. You guys should go off at it I reckon he'll beat you by 20 minutes.
Burso:20 minutes, oh, over 20Ks, that's fair.
Fitzy:That's not a horrid beating 20 minutes if you're having a good day, I reckon.
Joe:What if we settle it in a park? Run Start small. Is he local? Yeah, he is. He's down this way. Where's he talking?
Burso:Yeah, he is. He's down this way. Where's he talking?
Fitzy:I don't think he'd even bother, he'd just be like, pfft, he's scared.
Joe:It's not even worth it. It's because he's scared. I'm just going to beat Chris. Nah, he'll just come out and do this. It's not that time I beat Pete, he'll be out taking photos and still like.
Burso:Nah, it's like that I beat. Pete in an arm wrestle. He didn't want me to talk about it publicly, but I smashed him. How was?
Joe:the table afterwards.
Burso:Oh yeah, the table lost out of all of it. But the table came third, pete came second.
Fitzy:Pete the. Author.
Burso:Yeah, he's an author.
Fitzy:Oh yeah he was shit-ass, Like he'd go on about this arm wrestle crap like he was nothing. He's a big unit too, isn't he? He wanted to arm, wrestle me, look at me, and then, when it came to it, he's like nah and back out.
Burso:Look at me, what a wuss Do you? Know who I am Weak as piss. Weak as piss he might be actually back.
Fitzy:He's weak as piss.
Burso:Just so you're aware, he may be back down soon. He might what he might be back down soon.
Fitzy:Oh, what? So he can like let's have an arm wrestle and then not do it again. Cool, whatever, oh.
Burso:God, the shade is nice Mate he would have arm wrestled all of us, one after another, and been watching TV and ignored us.
Joe:It's like you saw him, didn't you? He's the big tattered bike, yeah yeah, he's a huge unit.
Burso:Yeah, the unit yeah.
Joe:I'm not versing that guy. Yeah, look at me.
Burso:Look at me Quote that's our new thing. Look at me, look at me, I was going to say didn't someone else already do that?
Joe:Yeah.
Burso:Awkward, righto. What do you reckon? Give me a time Combined for both of us? No, your time.
Fitzy:How far has your run? I feel like I love this because you've got no idea. I don't know, I don't really know, I don't know I don't really know the course.
Joe:I reckon it's about 20k. I'm not in, not in good running. I'm in reasonable shape, but I'm not in running fitness and oh jeez, was that the cat again? Yeah, neville, neville, I don't know, somewhere around two hours yeah, I've done, I don't know, somewhere around two hours. Yeah, I've done a half in an hour and 40 minutes.
Burso:Give us a time because you're going to tell us tomorrow.
Joe:So make a set a goal Two hours. If I can get it under two hours, I'd be impressed yeah. I think the course will be harder than I think. What would a record be? My best ever? Half is an hour and 40. But that's hour and 40,.
Burso:But that's… Hour and 40, but that's 21. This is only 19 and a half for you.
Joe:Yeah, but that was also on a road course Funny story that PB that I got for the half was when I was supposed to be at sea on a submarine.
Fitzy:How deep do submarines go? Yeah, stop the top of your head with your nose.
Joe:We were supposed to be at sea and we had a defect, and so we came alongside and I said to a couple of mates hey, do you want to do this? Um, what was it was the hbf run for a reason being a perth local. And so, yeah, we went out with zero training, had been at sea 12 hours or 24 hours before that. Yeah, clocked an hour and 40 minutes for a half marathon. No training still in sea stank and I was happy with it.
Burso:Zero training out of a submarine You've actually been running nowadays.
Fitzy:So an hour and 40 minutes, that's the prediction, that's my PB.
Burso:You're best for a half, so that's an extra 1,500 metres. It was also on the road. Just throw it out there, just throw a goal, just throw a goal.
Joe:Hour and 58. Right. If I can get under two hours, I'll be wrapped because I just think the course will be slow to start with if it's on the beach.
Burso:Hour and 58 on which app. Maybe the mean average of all three of them and the actual clock timer when you run across. Yeah, do they have a little timer thing? Like I know, on the Surf Go Century they had a little dot that you could follow people around. Not that it was 100% accurate.
Joe:Is there a way that you can like sync your Strava so it follows, so you can watch someone else like do their run?
Fitzy:Yeah, we can talk about this one off air, because I feel like Strava is not your thing.
Burso:You don't think it's his? No, oh, you don't think it's easy.
Fitzy:No, I don't think you've got the watch technology and all the rest of it. Yeah, can be, done Can be done.
Burso:Why are you making this sound like you've got some hack that we're going to talk about? We have to do it over here.
Fitzy:No, because it's All right.
Joe:I'm already bored thinking about it Exactly, but some rest of it's just doing some weird.
Burso:No, I'm looking at Wrapping it up.
Joe:I'm looking at the course. Is there any hills? Some hills A little. Yeah, there's a couple. Yeah, there's a couple. If I can get under two hours, I reckon that'll be sweet. I reckon so too. Yeah, cool.
