Hello, I'm currently out of office.

An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break.

So, I've gone to Barbados for a month for science. Yours, Toby. Take your holiday as seriously as

British Airways holidays take your holiday. Atul protected. This is a global player original podcast.

Hello and welcome back to this Big Fish mini-series which follows me as I attempt to complete a Guinness World Record of 30 marathons in 30 days on sand through the Jordanian desert.

This episode is going out on Monday morning, so when you're listening to this,

I will very likely have started my first marathon of the challenge.

I wanted to sit down with my wife Vogue before I left,

just to have an honest conversation about her feelings surrounding the challenge,

and whether or not she actually believes I'll be able to complete it.

If you missed last week's episode with my running coach Chris Taylor and trainer Sean Stafford,

please do give it a listen. We go into loads of detail about the day to day and the challenges

that lie ahead.

Darling, do you remember when I spoke to you about this in Scotland?

No, not even slightly.

I think you're kind of crazy with loads of stuff.

Like, I remember when you had decided to do the Marathon de Sabaab and I was like, why would

anybody?

And the fact that there were like hundreds of people wanting to do it as well,

I find things like that mind-blowing because it would be something so far from what I would ever want to try and achieve or enjoy that I just can't actually understand how people want to do that and they want to do it for fun.

They're very rarely fun.

They kind of are, there are moments of fun. I think you get a real sense of achievement when you complete them, if you complete them, if you don't complete them and you fail, that's a big learning.

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