00:34But I don't know, I've never done it dressed like this before.
00:36Well, that's what I was going to, the big question, is that wig breathable?
00:40I hope so.
00:40We'll find out.
00:42We'll find out, yeah.
00:43We'll see if it stays off.
00:44Yeah, yeah.
00:45Well, good luck, mate.
00:45Cheers.
00:58We've got trainers.
01:06We've got shopping trolleys.
01:07What's going on, Oliver?
01:09Hello.
01:10You all right, mate?
01:10Who are you running for then?
01:12So I'm running for the food bank.
01:14Yeah.
01:14Food Bank Plus in Shrewsbury.
01:16Why the Food Bank Plus?
01:17So, it's to raise awareness, predominantly for the food bank, which provides an essential
01:23service to the local community and wider appeals.
01:26Now, I'm worrying.
01:28You're not planning on running with a trolley, are you?
01:30I am, yeah.
01:31I'm an absolute idiot.
01:32You are?
01:32Yeah, I am.
01:33What about the grass and the gravel?
01:35I'm just going to have to deal with it.
01:36I'll make it so.
01:37I mean, my voice went up two octaves then.
01:39That's how concerned I am.
01:40So you're not about times today.
01:42You're just about kind of finished the thing, isn't you?
01:43Absolutely.
01:44Have you adapted the wheels?
01:45No?
01:45No.
01:45You're going to have done with some little pram wheels on it.
01:48Absolutely.
01:49Well, good luck, Oliver.
01:50That's all I can say.
01:51I need it.
01:52So we've got in the middle here, first place, Isaac.
01:55And just to our left, James, coming at second.
01:58And then third place, Charlie.
02:00So, how are you feeling, lads?
02:04So, did you come here today thinking, I might have this?
02:12I'm feeling good.
02:13I'm in form.
02:13There was less competition.
02:14I was first last year.
02:16Were you?
02:17I was quietly hoping that nobody got it to him.
02:20Yeah, yeah.
02:21These two guys made it hard for me.
02:22Yeah.
02:22And you were just saying, it wasn't one of you saying he's good on the hills or something?
02:26You were good downhill.
02:27Ah, downhill, yeah.
02:28Except for the one hill that counted.
02:29Yeah, yeah.
02:30I was expecting you to go.
02:32That's why I pushed public on that.
02:33No way.
02:33And your brother's running this.
02:35Yeah.
02:36So, is he going to be suitably impressed?
02:39Or will he be giving you a stick saying, ah, you're a jammer?
02:41You paid for the ticket.
02:42Did he?
02:43Well, it was just a fine bit.
02:45Charlie, you're a shrewsbury runner.
02:47I am.
02:47Pleased with you third?
02:48Michael Smith.
02:49I wanted the win, obviously.
02:50You had it for most of it.
02:52These boys were cracking for me.
02:54Were you leading for a part then, were you?
02:56Yeah, yeah.
02:57Yeah, yeah.
02:57Only there was no Ilze.
02:59Yeah, yeah.
03:00Yeah, yeah.
03:00Just leading the metrics.
03:01Great work, guys.
03:02Enjoyed it.
03:03Yeah, have you done it before then, lads, I'm presuming?
03:05First time doing the metrics.
03:06Did it half last year.
03:07Yeah, yeah.
03:07Don't do it next year, guys.
03:09Yeah, let James come back in.
03:12Well, well done, lads.
03:12Great effort.
03:13Well done.
03:15You're through the finish line.
03:16Running for Oswestry Olympians, winner of the half marathon.
03:20What's your name, boss?
03:21Ollie, how long have you been running for, chap?
03:25Probably since the age of 15, 16.
03:28Yeah, yeah.
03:29Started off running on the track.
03:31Yeah.
03:31And then slowly over time as I got older, gone up in distance a little bit.
03:34So do you compete all around the country?
03:37Yeah.
03:38Used to compete a little bit further afield.
03:40Yeah.
03:41Was actually running out in the States for about a year on a scholarship out there.
03:45Yeah, yeah.
03:46And that was on the track.
03:47So you used to run 800 metres.
03:49That was my main event.
03:50Yeah, yeah.
03:51Then as you get a bit older, lose a bit of speed.
03:54But carried on running.
03:56Had a little bit of time off.
03:57Did a few triathlons.
03:59Yeah.
03:59And then had a couple of kids.
04:01Yeah.
04:02And then realised that a triathlon probably wasn't the best.
04:05Yeah.
04:06How old are your kids?
04:08Four and six.
04:09So a bit early to tell whether they're going to follow the running bug.
04:11We've been out in the States last week and my youngest dad, young lad, Nico, six years old, he did a fun run and smashed like a mile and a half.
04:22No way.
04:22Oh, thank you.
04:23He's definitely more of a sprinter.
04:25So, you know, going on that angle, for people who go, oh, running is crazy.
04:31What has running given you in your life?
04:33What do you enjoy about it?
04:34It's a good question.
04:35I think, thinking more of a, like, holistically, I think, for me, it helps with, like, my development in, like, educational field as well.
04:45Like, I mean, I didn't really know what I wanted to do before I went to uni.
04:49Yeah.
04:50I enjoyed running at that point.
04:52And, obviously, the uni to choose if you're a good runner was Loughborough.
04:56Yeah.
04:56So I went to Loughborough to do sports science because I was enjoying that sort of aspect of the training, like, training philosophy, training, sort of, like, history.
05:02Still didn't really know what I wanted to do, but, like, at the end of Loughborough, I offered on a scholarship out to the States.
05:08So I managed to do a master's out there in Alabama.
05:12So I was able to train almost like a pro happily whilst getting a decent education as well and being, like, well looked after.
05:19Yeah.
05:21Stayed out in the States going to triathlons out there fairly naturally because it was too easy on the West Coast at that point to get into triathlons.
05:28I just came back, did a couple of tries in Snowdonia.
05:32I was like, oh, it's a bit different.
05:33Snowdonia?
05:34Yeah.
05:34Coming from, like, San Diego to San Diego.
05:36Yeah, yeah.
05:38Carried on the tries.
05:39Did well.
05:39Actually had a fairly big setback off the back of, like, three, four years of triathlons.
05:46Actually ended up in hospital.
05:47Yeah.
05:48Like, pulmonary emboli.
05:49Yeah.
05:50Yeah.
05:51Close to dying, really.
05:54So from close to dying to pulling a first in the street for you?
05:57That's what it certainly taught me.
06:01Like, it's, like, not to push it all the time.
06:05Because I think at that point, prior to that point, I mean, we never know if, like, it was the training that actually caused it or if it was just one of those things.
06:11Yeah, yeah.
06:12But, like, I was certainly pushing hard, like, at that point.
06:15And then I had to take a step back and realise, like, you know, like, I don't need to be pushing so hard all the time.
06:21And then, like, my wife and the kids have given me good perspective.
06:25And I think this year I've learned, like, yeah, just to back off, enjoy the running, like, get the consistency.
06:33You don't have to run too fast.
06:34Yeah.
06:34You don't have to do too many miles.
06:36I'm fortunate I come from, like, a speed background.
06:38So I don't usually lose the speed and that's what helped me at the end of the race today.
06:43Like, I'll always have a good finish on my last K.
06:46I know, obviously, other people aren't as fortunate and that's, like, where a genetic element comes to it.
06:50So there's some people getting to the last 1K thinking, I've got this, and then in comes all of the words.
06:56Well, yeah, like, I like it.
06:57I mean, I still feel like I'm an 800-meter runner.
07:00Yeah, yeah.
07:00Like, it was a good, sort of, 15 years ago that I stopped.
07:03But, you know, I ran to a decent stand there.
07:06And I think, like, realistically, like, you get drawn to the event that you're naturally good at anyway.
07:11Yeah.
07:12And I did enjoy the 800 and that's, like, it's, like, a little bit of sprinting, a little bit, like, endurance.
07:17And, like, you have to be really quite strategic in the training you do it.
07:20Yeah.
07:20And that's what gave me the interest to, like, to study the sports science and physiology.
07:25Yeah.
07:25And, like, now we have, like, a, sort of, like, sports therapy and physiotherapy business in Trude's room.
07:31I do, yeah.
07:31Give it a shout.
07:32What's that called?
07:32Optimal Movement.
07:33Optimal Movement in Trude's room.
07:35Yeah, so me and my training partner, Joe, from the first, who's, I think, actually, he definitely used to help organise the Trude's room.
07:42But I think he might have won it at one point.
07:43He was definitely up there.
07:44Well done.
07:45Yeah.
07:45But, yeah, we started the business together, just, sort of, like, off the back of us both having fairly, like, sort of, like, influential, sort of, like, injuries in our lives.
07:56Yeah.
07:56Yeah.
07:56Like, just to help other people, like, get over their injuries and, like, I guess, bring in a little bit more of them.
08:02It's a holistic approach to, like, injury treatment and, like, training as well, because I think a lot of people, they try and make, like, partition, like, training from life.
08:14Here we go, good work.
08:15Whereas, like, as you get older, certainly, they have, like, a knock-on influence on each other.
08:20Yeah.
08:20And, like, I think it's incorporating that into the treatment as well.
08:23Like, understanding that, like, okay, you know, you've just had two kids.
08:27You're knackered, you're sleeping less, like, maybe pushing for, like, your first Ironman isn't, like, the best option.
08:33Yeah, yeah.
08:34So, like, be patient, have faith in, like, the long-term sort of, like, consistency.
08:38Yeah.
08:39You don't have to push it too hard all the time.
08:41Yeah.
08:41You just need to be patient, and I think that's lacking probably in society now, because everyone wants results very quickly.
08:49Very true.
08:49You see it at the top level, you see it at the amateur levels as well.
08:53It's, like, what sort of issues, like, sociologically within sport.
08:57Yeah, yeah.
08:58Yeah, I think, obviously, it's a net benefit an event like this.
09:01Yeah.
09:02And it's good to see the sun come out at the end.
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