Russ Cook

It was a bit more of a direction problem.

I didn't know what...

Because I think that it's really valuable to come to that conclusion through the mistakes.

They keep you in line.

I know now that gambling is a bad thing for me to do because I've been there.

I've spunked all my wages month after month on roulette and acres at the weekend.

That's deeply entrenched, but I know that's silly.

Whereas if I never had done that...

then I wouldn't... So I've done that in so many different verticals.

I've done that with the party and with the drinking, with the sitting down on a Sunday morning after a hangover with the Domino's and the pizza and the ice cream in bed forever and just wishing, oh, I wish this was my life.

And now I know, it's like, no, no, you can have your comfort moments, but it's not good for you and it's not what you want either.

I wouldn't change it looking back at all now.

is the price of ambition yeah be embarrassed and fail yeah but we go again don't we exactly what you did yeah so let's talk about the moment that you went again yeah oh I guess there was a lot of going against to be fair um I think that's quite an interesting part of the journey because people see like the run in the Africa thing or whatever and they think oh wow that was you know did that but I'm like mate I literally and even since then I'm constantly failing at things I'm trying to do um

So, yeah, I mean, the going again, from the tin of new potatoes.

Yeah, let's go from that moment.

Yeah, just a few of them.

So, I think I didn't even have the bravery or courage at that point to really start looking at the places that...

were going to be successful I was going for all the easy ones first so I would do the partying the drinking going out the doing the things that I shouldn't be doing those were all of those kind of like quick I'm searching for like little dopamine hits like oh is that going to make me feel better is that going to make me feel better I remember I ran back from a nightclub in Brighton and then that was 11 miles after a night out

And my mate texted me after that saying, come and run Brighton Half Marathon and then we'll do the full marathon after.

And it was actually the process of just training for one marathon that really showed me a different path.