Russ Cook

So I think those two things, got family back home, I've got boys that I've sold a dream to, sold this big vision to that I need to deliver on.

Mate, I'm penned in.

I'm penned in so much to the point where the amount that I can tolerate, the amount of suffering I'll tolerate is now exponentially higher than it ever would have been if it was back to me in a hammock

in the middle of Bulgaria on my ones that no one knew about.

So yeah, oh mate, I can't talk enough about accountability.

It's so important, so, so important.

No, exactly that.

And even that, that's like a...

I wanted to prove myself right, but it's almost like a redemption story for all of the times in my life where I didn't deliver on the thing that I said I wanted to do.

I wasn't behaving like the person I wanted to be.

I had in that moment there an opportunity to be the man that I wanted to be and also have a bunch of people see it.

It's quite a motivating and powerful force that I had.

That is what running...

has eventually become for me is like my little meditation time.

And for me as well, like I'm a believer in God and it's that running will often be sort of my time with God, which has turned out to be like quite a beautiful experience too.

So yeah, I mean, you hold both things, right?

Like it's the carrot and the stick.

The stick is the horrible gritty stuff, the proving the people wrong and blah, blah, blah.

And then you have this carrot of,

I want to not only just run away from things, I want to run into something good.