Yeah, what's her greatest achievement?

She won the Commonwealth Gold Medal in 1970 and she made the Olympic final in 72 and that was when the Eastern Blocs was taking drugs, believe it or not.

And in 1972, the time that she did was a British record for about 20-odd years, I think it was, something like that.

Now, did you hear that he almost didn't get there?

Yeah, his father had to mess around and arrange all the flights because originally they were flying from Auckland to New York on the Monday of last week, and the flights were cancelled because it was snowbound in New York, so there was no flights going.

So Ben, his father, who is his manager, if you like, did all the arranging, and they flew via San Francisco the next day and spent the night in San Francisco and then flew up to Boston...

And I think they arrived in Boston about 72 hours before his race.

So they had a bit of a job to get there.

And go on then, tell us your greatest achievement.

I've My first debut marathon was a world record for a person making his debut over the distance.

And the next marathon, I got a silver medal in the European Championships.

And I finished third in London in 1981.

I finished third in New York in 1978.

And I finished fifth in New York in 1980.

Now, did you hear that he almost didn't get there?

Yeah, his father had to mess around and arrange all the flights because originally they were flying from Auckland to New York on the Monday of last week and the flights was cancelled because it was snowbound in New York, so there was no flights going.