Hardest Geezer, Russ Cook

Eddie Hearn: No Passion, No Point

BBC

Sports, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Endurance runner Russ Cook, tells Eddie Hearn about his epic adventure running the entire length of Africa, through 16 countries in 352 days. He raised over a million pounds for charity on his 16,000km challenge.

It was the realisation that he needed to sort himself out and a spur-of-the-moment decision to run home after a night out clubbing that sparked this passion that has taken him around the world.

He tells Eddie about the setting off with a fraction of the money he needed to complete the mission but he believed that if he shared his story financial backing would come. They discuss the power of sport to change lives for the better and what the future adventures might look like.

Produced by Jane Thurlow

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0:27.0	Eddie Hearn, BBC Sounds, No Passion, No Point, delighted to be joined by The Hardest Gieser.
0:39.5	We'll come on to the Hardest Gies, because that's one of the purest nicknames I've ever seen.
0:45.0	I've heard because the story is fantastic but congratulations.
0:50.0	Thank you're
0:52.8	and I think now I'm so pleased to see you getting a recognition you deserve
0:56.6	because when I first heard the story
0:58.4	yeah I was actually looking at the money you were raising it.
1:00.4	Yeah yeah he might jack it in it was a slow burn the words
1:04.8	in the end the numbers were incredible yeah but were there times where you were
1:08.4	looking at it like halfway and going come on guys I'm looking at it's it's one of them, I think, you know, a million quit in the end is, I'm buzzing with that and, you know, if Pete, I was, my kind of take when it was like, it'd be great if people couldn't donate, I was my kind of take when it was like it'd be great if people can't always donate.
1:27.5	So I get it as well, you know? Hardest geezer.
1:31.0	Come on, tell the story. I just presumed because you're an unbelievable runner, but it goes a bit deeper.
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