Rob Pope

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Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week on RunPod, Jenni welcomes a real life Forrest Gump. Rob Pope ran across America 5 times, running for 422 days and completing 15,621 miles. Jenni chats to Rob about why he took on such a massive challenge, the 33 pairs of trainers he ran through, the extreme colds and extreme heats he ran through, the animals he came across, the injuries he confronted, the route he took, procrastinating distances, the running community and warmth he had from supporters and the obstacles that tried to stop him. An incredible story by anyone's standard and Rob has even written a book 'Becoming Forrest: One Man's Epic Run Across America' about his experience. A story it will be hard to forget. To join the RunPod Run Club Facebook group, please visit this link: Facebook.com/groups/runpodrunclub *** L'OCCITANE have given me an exclusive discount code for RunPod listeners, so you can get 10% off full-sized products to help with your festive purchases online* and in-store*, as well as FREE delivery on all online orders with the code RUNPOD. Code valid 30th November – 29th December 2021. *exclusions apply: 10% off on full-price items only (excluding Advent Calendars, Immortelle Overnight Reset Serum, Immortelle Overnight Reset Eye Serum, Gift Sets, Gift Cards and all discounted items)

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0:00.0	Hello there. Welcome to Run Pod. I'm Jenny Faulkner and my guest in this episode is amazing. He has been described as a real-life Forrest Gump. I mean, we've all watched that film and marvelled as Forrest ran across America. One day he just set off and he just kept on running. He runs back and forth across the
0:22.3	country for three years, two months, 14 days, 16 hours until one day he just stopped. Well,
0:29.5	someone who has done all of that is Rob Pope and he's here. Hello, welcome to RunPod.
0:35.5	Hi, how's it getting? Oh, it's going very well.
0:38.1	I am so excited to chat to you.
0:39.9	I hope I got all the numbers right there because I know that you're very much across them all.
0:45.1	But it's, I mean, I've got your book sitting here as well, becoming forest.
0:50.6	I mean, it's just brilliant.
0:52.3	What a great read.
0:53.4	What a brilliant book. What an epic
0:55.3	adventure you've had. Yeah, I don't do things by arms and even the book's quite a monumental
1:02.8	piece of engineering, really. Oh, no, it's all so brilliant. I mean, honestly, so let me get
1:08.2	this straight. You crossed America. Is it five times over 18 months?
1:12.2	Yeah, it's one of those sort of random numbers, really.
1:15.3	It was four complete crossings, but over five times in terms of distance.
1:20.8	And I actually used to flip it.
1:23.1	They say I did it 4.76 times.
1:25.8	And I did the maths the other day and it's 4.77 so I must
1:29.2	have an eye for these things. How many miles is that all together?
1:33.7	Give it well take. We're calling it 15,621. All right. Just give or take around that. Okay, fine.
1:41.3	Gosh, that's impressive. It must have been quite interesting working out the maths, or did you
1:45.8	constantly wear a GPS watch and
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