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Chapter 1: What motivated Nedd Brockman to run 1000 miles around a track?
Probably being a bit under ready for it, but still completed it in 12 and a half days. Fastest person to ever do it since I've been alive, which is a pretty cool stat. I've only been alive for 25 years, so there's a few guys did it before that, but yeah, ended up 130K a day around a 400 meter athletics track for 12 and a half days.
Why decide to do that particular event?
A culmination of a few things. I ran across Australia two years ago and kind of felt this desire to want to keep doing these things and push my body. The more discomfort you put yourself through, the better of a person or, you know, more of a person you become.
Um, and off the back of that, I knew I wanted to do something every one or two years and, uh, thought about running across the length of the UK, uh, was to hear a lot of people have done that, uh, bit too hilly for me. So I chose, uh, stupidly a thousand miles around a track. Um, and yeah, I didn't really think too much about it. I don't really think too much about these things.
Um, I feel like anyone who takes these on are usually a bit older. They're usually, you know, 45, 50 have done, um, 25, 30 years of running prior only started, uh, three and a half, four years ago. So I think my naivety and stubbornness kind of go hand in hand. But yeah, then got to the start of this year and went, well, I'm going to do this, going to lock it in.
And I do a lot of stuff with homelessness and wanted to align the two and ended up finishing it in 12 and a half days, which throughout the period, throughout that time, I don't think I've ever felt as much pain as I did in that 12 and a half days.
Talk to me about the training preparation.
Yeah, it was, a lot of people ask that, like the, what's the physical side of things versus what's the mental preparation? I think, you know, obviously, as I said, I didn't get the record, so I didn't, probably wasn't physically prepared enough, but I don't think I will be forever. another 15, 20 years. And that's why.
Accumulating an awful lot of time and attention.
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Chapter 2: How did Nedd prepare for his ultramarathon challenge?
But if you're yourself and you have those people that violently love you and can't support you enough, like... As long as you can say it for that, and exactly as you said, these people are so insecure about themselves and so worried about what people think of them too, that they prefer to spit hate and anger.
In saying that, in the running world, I would say majority of people accept me and appreciate that what I'm doing is probably a bit dumb and not the road to take, but it's also one that I would not change for the world.
I would do the Oz run again 10 times over at 22 years old to continue to, like, I just want people to, I've said it for like the last probably three years, any keynote I've done, any speaking to anyone, I want people to live, like live, just make the most of it. Stop waiting. Stop getting on your phone. Stop. Just go and do the thing you've always wanted to do. Give.
So give without wanting anything in return. I think there's a lot of that where it's like, people want something from an exchange or want something from doing something. I feel like if you can just give and give your time or energy or a smile or money to someone or to whatever it is, um, that is a very rewarding existence. And then to get uncomfortable.
I love the fact that you can intentionally put yourself in really hard scenarios and you'll find out things about yourself that you'll never have learned unless you did those things. If you did the hard things. Um, and so yeah, live, give, get uncomfortable. That's all I want. That's all my message is.
And if I can get people to hear that through what I do, regardless of that being running, swimming, kayaking, rock climbing, whatever I decide to do next. And I'm sure I'll keep ruffling feathers with that.
purists of the sport who can't stand the responses paying me what they're paying me or can't stand that i'm getting to speak at these events where like but it should be this guy because he's can run this really fast marathon time it's like i appreciate that and those people are incredible those i i could never match it with the elites of the elites in the marathon world or the ultra marathon world it might take me years to get there but i hope that i have a message that people can go
Yeah, that's cool. I like that. I appreciate that for what he is. And yeah, I don't want to get that mixed up with me being, I've never gone on the, I'm just attacking this thing because it's there and I feel like I'm capable of doing it. And off the run I did, it definitely shows that I am capable. I just have to do the years and years and years.
But by the time I'm able to do it, I'll probably want to do something else. So, yeah.
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