00:00I always find it funny when you see them all in these big costumes and you think it's, I don't
00:06know if having to run, but then they've got fridges on the backs and the dress is like a chicken.
00:11Like, you know what I mean? So they've got all that extra weight as well.
00:15It's become kind of an institution, hasn't it? When it first started, it was all about Brendan Foster. And we
00:22used to live out near the old Dixielanders at Gateshead Fellingway. And everybody used to sort of come out of
00:28the local housing estates, stand up the side of the road. And my main recollection of it is you could
00:34hear the sound of the hoofbeats before you actually saw any runners coming along.
00:38I think it's a very good thing, especially nowadays when people are so like kind of sedentary. I think it's
00:43always good to have something like this. And I think we're quite lucky to have such like a big one.
00:50Because I know a lot of people, not even from the North will come up and do it. And Newcastle
00:55doesn't have a lot in terms of like things of national importance. So it's positive all around. It's positive for
01:02people's health and I think it's positive for the area as well.
01:05When I watch it, I cry. So when they all go past, I'm like, because I get dead emotional watching
01:10them. Because then I'm thinking, God, what? You see the things on the back who they're running for and that.
01:15And then you start thinking and yeah, I get dead emotional.
01:18I think it's because of the size of the actual run itself. Like, I think the Great North Run, I
01:23genuinely think of it alongside the things like the Boston Marathon or something like that. I do think it is
01:29that big.
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