Sam Troth

But it wasn't on an off-camber road, which, you know, like as soon as I started walking the road, I realized how much pressure was on your outside heel.

Um, and it wasn't 50 Ks every day or 45 Ks every day.

Um, so I had trained, but my feet weren't hard enough.

So blisters were, were a real issue at the start or for the first month or so until they turned into massive calluses and then they were sweet.

But, um, just one foot in front of the other bro.

And I was unassisted.

So I had no choice.

Like the hotels were booked in front of me.

I've got to be there tonight otherwise I've got nowhere to sleep shit was there any point through those how many days 60 odd days 67 yeah any point there where you just thought oh man I don't know if I can continue yeah when I got to the very top I got to Whangarei I remember I got to Whangarei and it was naively bro I thought oh shit you know like the media will pick up on this like this should blow up

But sexual violence isn't a nice conversation to have on the television, bro.

So had I been walking for men's mental health or had I even been walking for suicide prevention, I would have been all over all the media.

But because it was sexual abuse, I got a multi-television, stuffed an article as a fave family, someone in our family, my wife's family works there, so they called in a favour and it was literally they ran a story as a favour.

It wasn't something they wanted to run.

A couple of other small papers.

So when I got to Whangarei,

I was actually quite frustrated and disappointed my back was sore my legs were sore my hips were sore um I'd meant to be on um I can't remember if it was the the AM show or breakfast I was meant to be on a morning television show and they bumped me um and I remember just crying in the hotel and I rung my mate I was talking to him and I was just crying and I was just like fuck man like

put everything out there and I feel like I've just, I haven't achieved as much as I could, you know?

And he's like, fuck bro, you're smashing it.

He's like, make a video now and get it all out.

And I made a video.