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Ned Brockman, welcome to the show. How are you, mate? Good. Thank you for coming last night.
Thank you for having me. It was a fun night. I didn't know what to expect, as I told you last night, but I feel like a lot of people felt a lot in that room. When I saw you, it felt like all the energy was on you. It's quite an intense, I think, environment, that stuff. But yeah, it was really cool. I loved to hear all the questions and the answers. It was great. Thank you. Yeah.
Talk to me about what you've just finished doing recently. This is the first time you've actually got to sit down on a podcast and talk about it since you completed everything.
Yeah. I'm a bit traumatized, to be honest. So it's good. I'm excited to talk about it. As you said, I just haven't really chosen to do it because I guess I wanted to process it a bit. But, yeah, I ran 1,000 miles around a track in what was hoping to be 10 and a half days but ended up a bit longer than that just due to a few –
Probably being a bit under ready for it, but still completed it in 12 and a half days. Fastest person to ever do it since I've been alive, which is a pretty cool stat. I've only been alive for 25 years, so there's a few guys did it before that, but yeah, ended up 130K a day around a 400 meter athletics track for 12 and a half days.
Why decide to do that particular event?
A culmination of a few things. I ran across Australia two years ago and kind of felt this desire to want to keep doing these things and push my body. The more discomfort you put yourself through, the better of a person or, you know, more of a person you become.
Um, and off the back of that, I knew I wanted to do something every one or two years and, uh, thought about running across the length of the UK, uh, was to hear a lot of people have done that, uh, bit too hilly for me. So I chose, uh, stupidly a thousand miles around a track. Um, and yeah, I didn't really think too much about it. I don't really think too much about these things.
Um, I feel like anyone who takes these on are usually a bit older. They're usually, you know, 45, 50 have done, um, 25, 30 years of running prior only started, uh, three and a half, four years ago. So I think my naivety and stubbornness kind of go hand in hand. But yeah, then got to the start of this year and went, well, I'm going to do this, going to lock it in.
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