00:00Alright, my name is Gerard Bedwarsen. I'm a demi-strider running club. Now this will
00:13be my 35th Great South Run, even the one that was cancelled, because the dockyard was closed
00:19I had to do it back to front, so I did 5 miles out, 5 miles back. Yeah, so in 2012, best
00:27time was 59.48 seconds, but that was in 2005. In 2012 I had bone cancer in my jaw, so the
00:37reason why I can't talk sometimes, I've got a chain in my face, or in my jaw, so I've
00:41got a new jaw. And I actually had my daughter's graduation around about the same time, but
00:47I cancelled the major operation to make sure that her graduation I could go to and Great
00:54South Run was done, so I managed to do that one, including the solo one that was cancelled.
01:00So we are running the Great South Run in memory of Sam, who's still on the run, he's 39 years old.
01:08So the charity we're running for, a charity that come in when you lose a child in the hospital,
01:14they take lots of lives. So it's not just one run in her memory, but also it's raising money
01:22for this wonderful charity that come in.
01:27My name's Philip Pollard. I'm 82 and a half years old. I belong to the Portsmouth Joggers
01:35Running Club, have been for 42 years. I've done all the Great South Runs and 23 Great
01:45North Runs. It's like a challenge. I've always run, I've always done something. I ran football.
01:51When I finished football, I started to run and I continue to run.
01:55My name's Jackie Clark. I'm the service lead for Portsmouth City Council Fostering Service.
02:01And we're here today because our service supports more than 230 fostering households who look
02:11after the children that are in care for Portsmouth. So we have got 25 members of our fostering
02:19service, including team members, foster carers and some of the children that we care for
02:25running on the Great South Run today. And it's all about celebrating the success of our fantastic
02:31foster carers and also promoting our recruitment because we've got a lot, but we absolutely
02:37need more foster carers to come forward. So this is all about promoting that.
02:42Having done it six times before without the chair, I was really disappointed when I couldn't
02:50do it. And that sparked a spiral of depression that I really struggled to cope with. So when
03:03I got the help to get this chair to be able to do some sport again, I had to do it. I
03:15had to come back and join in with things like park run and that sort of thing. I have an
03:21idea of trying to get just under the two hour mark is my plan for this run. After that,
03:31who knows, maybe next year.
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