Paul Sinton-Hewitt

our previous ceo was the one who came up with the the tagline make the world healthier and happier now that doesn't sound like such a big step given where we were but before that my tagline was you can have one wherever you want one

There's a big jump from have one wherever you want it to make the world healthier and happier.

It becomes purposeful.

It becomes all about the things that we've been building into this all the time.

This thing about mental health, physical health, emotional health.

And so now that's the fabric of what we are.

And we're now a charity and our charitable objects are all about health and well-being.

We're a health charity.

We're not a sport.

There's no mention of sport in any of our legal documents.

So it's absolutely, as you say, subconsciously

I knew that this would help me and subconsciously we made the steps in the right direction.

But at some point it became a very conscious thing.

And for the last 15 years at least, I think consciously we've been putting in place these taken away barriers from participation, taken away barriers from creating the event.

Making sure that, for instance, making sure that the last person to cross the line is always a volunteer, is never a participant.

David, where did you come on that day?

Were you towards the last part of the event?

I was about to celebrate you and say how wonderful that was.

be fair like that there isn't like a a finite time you know what i mean like if he'd walked the last loop i didn't explain you know do you know what i mean like if well the game would have been sharp we will uh everybody is welcome you can walk the whole thing honestly and um and we'll always have someone behind you who will finish behind you so you will not be lost in the list

And, you know, my wife had a knee operation just about a year and a half ago.