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🗓️ 11 November 2021
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Anything goes with James English Ep/222 Becoming Forrest Gump.
Inspired by Forrest Gump, Rob ran across the US for 20 months and got through 33 pairs of trainers Rob Pope, a 43-year-old from Liverpool, set out to run across America a grand total of five times. He had his late mother’s words ringing in his ears – “Do one thing in your life that makes a difference.
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0:00.0 | Oh, Boon my own today's guess we've got Rob Pope had you brother. I'm really good man, really good. |
0:21.3 | It's really good to see you. You've just done one of the first things ever |
0:26.3 | becoming forest. We'll plug that straight away which is your book. You've ran 15,621 miles in 422 days, one man's epic run across America. |
0:37.4 | The first other, congratulations, phenomenal achievement. |
0:40.3 | Cheers, what made you do it? |
0:42.1 | I just felt like running. |
0:44.0 | Class, well, a lot. Unbelievable. It's a pleasure to sit across from me like these kind of things is as |
0:51.4 | inspirational and it shows that what can be done |
0:53.6 | when you put your mind to something first and foremost how are you brother? I'm |
0:57.3 | doing all right man it took me a good while to not sort of a walk like a |
1:02.1 | you know see when you see like the 90 year old |
1:03.9 | fellas doing the London mannoth and stuff like that it's that can stand up |
1:06.8 | straight these days which is nice you know I've finally finally been rolled out |
1:10.4 | and and sort of psychologically I think I've got over the struggle of not being on the road, |
1:18.5 | something I thought I'd never get, you know, to the, I remember seeing in a Facebook group and they said |
1:23.3 | how does everybody deal with it after the after you know you finish you trip |
1:28.3 | across because a lot of people have done it once you know a couple of nutters have |
1:31.5 | done it twice it's just the club that have done it more |
1:34.0 | than that's pretty small and I was reading this course I wasn't going to comment and |
1:38.0 | saying oh wow I'll be fine but I have been pretty bonproof before in my life and then I come back from this and I'm just a bit like there was something just huge that was missing because like even though I had to run every day there was this ultimate freedom that I'd probably never had and never will have ever again and like you know |
1:55.8 | instead of a struggling to adjust to that you know. |
1:59.8 | Yeah. |
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