Hello there, Jenny Faulkner here with you to guide you through this episode of RunPod. Now,

it's been said before and it's absolutely true, but everyone has their own reason to run. Fitness,

mental health, weight loss, personal challenge. And for some, it's also a mechanism to help cope with grief.

Well, today I'm joined by someone who wasn't really a runner until, well, I guess a pivotal

moment in his life. And I think that many people will completely relate to why he started.

So welcome to Run Pod. Will Gidge. Hello there. Hello, Jenny. Thank you so much for having me.

Oh, I know, it's lovely to

have you on Run Pod. And I know, I mean, gosh, I've looked at you on Instagram. I can see that

running is very much a part of your life now. You do loads of incredible running challenges as well.

It's become a big part of my life, which it would be strange to say if you'd have asked me four years ago, I'd have said,

I'm not really sure about running because you just go out, you suffer for a while, you're not around any teammates having fun, well, for the most part.

And it's just a struggle and then you get back and what does that mean?

Yeah.

I don't want to go into details yet because I want to hear about it in a bit, but if I just say 48 marathons and 30 days, that's basically

what you're planning to do in the immediate future, isn't it? Yeah, it should be quite fun,

I reckon. It'll be a nice challenge, one I'm certainly looking forward to. And yeah, I kind of,

I like the madness. It's quite a funny thing when you do any sort, I think any kind of challenge, even in life, not just with running, but when you, when you overcome something, you miss those moments where you struggled the most. So this is going to be a good opportunity to have an extended version of that.

Oh, my goodness. I can't stop. I have to ask now. So 48 marathons, why 48? Because there are

48 counties in England. Okay. And are you going to do each marathon in each county?

Yeah, that's correct. So most days will be two counties and two marathons and then every three or four

days, there will just be a singular one, which will be as close to a day off as I'm

going to get. Oh my goodness. And the last one is the London Marathon. Yeah, that's the real sort of

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