Half-marathon winner Ashley Ferguson speaks to the Standard after a dominant display at the running festival.
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00:00 I'm joined here by Ashley Ferguson, winner of the half marathon for this year.
00:04 Mate, congratulations.
00:05 You're catching your breath a bit, how are you feeling?
00:09 Not too bad, bit of a kick at the end of the stunt.
00:14 Just happy to get a new PB and what not.
00:18 Tell me a little bit about your preparation, obviously you got your PB today mate.
00:23 You must be thrilled with leading in what you were able to do and obviously produce
00:29 on the day.
00:30 I've been training for a lot of 5k sort of stuff for the at season, so doing a lot of
00:34 speed work, but then I suppose in the month leading up to this I tried to increase my
00:39 workload a little bit, try and get some longer runs in.
00:42 Yeah, how long have you been at the long distance game?
00:45 Has it been something you've worked on for a long time?
00:48 Probably in particular the last three years since COVID probably.
00:52 Yeah, so COVID was kind of the reason you took it up?
00:55 Probably motivated me to get outdoors a bit more, away from the computer, doing uni and
01:02 what not.
01:03 Yeah, absolutely.
01:04 No worries mate, congratulations on the win.
01:06 Thank you so much.