1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,680 Speaker 1: Hayes Willing Moody. I hope you having a great Friday afternoon. 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: I mean everyone's across this. 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 2: You definitely should be need Brockman around one thousand miles 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 2: in twelve days, we said, we said the other day 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 2: when we spoke to Harry Gars, was completely unfathomable. 6 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 3: Australia was watching it again getting inspired by it and 7 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 3: amazingly we have got the great man on the show 8 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 3: right now. 9 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 4: Good I ned, Hello, boys, what a pleasure to about you? 10 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 4: Pleasure to about you? 11 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: Mate? How I mean? I'm the first question for me? 12 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: How is the body feeling? 13 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 3: What's the what's the biggest physical issue since the run? 14 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 4: Look, the body is feeling relieved. I wouldn't say it's 15 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 4: pain free. I haven't really slept yet most run. It's 16 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 4: been a bit of a struggle. I'm just had to 17 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 4: go get four MRIs just to work out what's actually 18 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 4: going on. I've seen a pretty match STARp and my 19 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 4: right knees a bit buggered and a few shin problems. 20 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 4: But apart from that, I think the most overwhelming feeling 21 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 4: is relief. Relief that I don't have to wake up 22 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 4: and put my fricking shoes on again. 23 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 2: Netdie, you said after the run that no part of 24 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 2: that was enjoyable. 25 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 4: Yep. 26 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: Is that still true for you? 27 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 2: And does that affect how you feel about whether it 28 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 2: was worthwhile? 29 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 4: I'm not questioning, ever, I will never question it was worthwhile. 30 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 4: It was always worthwhile. Regardless of what popped up, it 31 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 4: was always going to be worth it. But I think 32 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 4: going into these things, you can't expect one thing because 33 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 4: you'll never get it. I was hoping for at least, 34 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 4: you know, five minutes of fun, but it just never came. 35 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 4: And it was always like I was wasting time or 36 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 4: rushing to get somewhere and adding an extra sixty k 37 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,759 Speaker 4: on each day to you know what was happening around 38 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 4: on the run across I was. It just there was 39 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 4: just no room for anything. And so even in the 40 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 4: shower at night before I go to bed up to 41 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 4: run on one sixty, I'd feel like I was wasting 42 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 4: time by only having an extra minute in the shower. 43 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 4: So I realized the enormity of it about two days 44 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 4: in and just said, you've just got to head down, 45 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 4: ass up, and just fight to the absolute end to 46 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 4: get this thing done. And that's all we did. 47 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 3: I was glued to all the stuff coming through on 48 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 3: social media. I saw vision of your mom putting you 49 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 3: in a wheelchair. Yeah, so can you run me through that? 50 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 3: Because if you're requiring a wheelchair to get from your 51 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 3: bed to. 52 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: The track, yeah, how were you then running lamps? 53 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 4: Yeah? The thing was right. So after day one, my 54 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 4: feet got so mutilated from the track and the wet 55 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,959 Speaker 4: that there was blisters upon blisters and tearing of my feet. 56 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 4: So this peeling of like a calis layer of skin 57 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 4: underneath this red raw bleeding underlaying of skin. So essentially 58 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 4: I couldn't walk on it, and in order to be 59 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 4: able to run, I had to almost try and numb them. 60 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 4: So the wheelchair from my room to the track was 61 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 4: just that little bit of a reprieve for about thirty 62 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 4: seconds before I stood up, and then for about an 63 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 4: hour started to numb my feet to a point where 64 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 4: I could run on them, to which we would then 65 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 4: run for eighteen hours a day and get back hopping 66 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 4: the shower and try and do it all again. It's 67 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 4: just yeah, my feet of copped it, absolutely copped it. 68 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 4: And I'm still doing it now. But again, as I said, 69 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 4: I'm trying not to complain. I'm trying to just kind 70 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 4: of lay it out and explain just how hard it 71 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 4: was and that I'm definitely not glorifying it. But I 72 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 4: do know for a fact that it was worth it. 73 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 4: We're well over three million dollars raised now, So to me, 74 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 4: that's yeah, that's the most important thing. 75 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 2: Hey, Ned, I don't think anyone can imagine what their 76 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 2: mind would do to them in that sort of a 77 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 2: state of punishment daily. I mean, I as your friend, 78 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 2: I don't necessarily want to know the answer to this, 79 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 2: but I think I as somebody who's just interested in 80 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 2: this space in general. 81 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: What was the hardest. 82 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 2: Thing that your head was throwing at you while you 83 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 2: were running the thousand miles? 84 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 4: I think the thing is is when I make it 85 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 4: this decision, I have to do it. And so the 86 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 4: hard part is is, you know, it's not like a 87 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 4: fight where I'm fighting someone else and his will is 88 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 4: imposed on me, so I have to make sure I 89 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 4: beat him. It's me verse my mind. And so when 90 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 4: you're in there, the constant battle every single second to 91 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 4: never ever throw in the towel. Yet the only way through, 92 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 4: you know how, is to get sixteen hundred and ten kilometers. 93 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 4: It done so by understanding that's what it's going to take. 94 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,679 Speaker 4: I think the turmoil and the just the lack of sleep, 95 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 4: the exhaustion, the injuries, the places my mind goes, the 96 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 4: decisions I had to make. Those things were the hardest 97 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 4: part in order to get there. It meant that I 98 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 4: had to do things I've never done before, and that 99 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 4: that was the most frightening I think. Yeah, once I 100 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 4: crossed that line, honestly, it wasn't a elation. It was 101 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 4: just pure satisfaction that I never have to put my 102 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 4: shoes on again if I don't want to. 103 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, and do you feel that way? Do you feel 104 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: that I do right now? 105 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 4: Because I at the moment, it just I'm instilling so 106 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 4: much shock. As I said, I haven't slammed. I'm still 107 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 4: trying to process what the hell just happened. It was 108 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 4: fired off flight for twelve and a half days, So yeah, 109 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 4: it was it was traumatic. I'm not going to beat 110 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 4: around the bush. It was very traumatic. But you know, 111 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 4: this is one of those ones that I'll look back 112 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 4: on and be forever proud of and memories that I'll 113 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 4: have forever because I got through something very very hard. 114 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 3: One of the more mentally tough blokes that I've had 115 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 3: the privilege of become friends with is a guy called 116 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 3: Harry Garside, who people would know Olympic boxer, and I 117 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 3: saw he ran a bit with you. We had Harry 118 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 3: on the show earlier this week and he said this mate. 119 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 5: Quite early in the piece. He said to me, one 120 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 5: of his good mates, Tommy, did about eighty ks within 121 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 5: one of the third day or something like that. He's like, 122 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 5: Tommy refused to drink water next to me, and he said, 123 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 5: that's me a lap three. So I'm begining now. I 124 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 5: can't drink water next to him. I think that I'm weak. 125 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 5: So the whole time I didn't drink a water near him. 126 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 5: Had the ways we went to the talk, I run 127 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 5: off and got a lot of water. 128 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 1: Did you notice that ned that he was so funny? 129 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because my mate told me, probably the toughest 130 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 4: you know, I know, he was just trying to be 131 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 4: super stoic and make me feel like he was okay. 132 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 4: And I had to tell Harry because I wanted to 133 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 4: see what he do. 134 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 5: That's hilarious. 135 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 4: And then I had another mate rock up and within 136 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:27,039 Speaker 4: six laps he was already chugging my water bottle. So 137 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 4: I was having a good laugh at that too. That's hilarious. 138 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 4: I love that so much. 139 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 3: And all the support you got, mate, because I mean, 140 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 3: just like the run from from from Perth to Bond Eye, 141 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 3: you know, there's so many messages of support and stuff 142 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 3: that come through. Was there was there one that really 143 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 3: stands out for you? 144 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 4: I don't think so. And again it was really hard 145 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 4: to properly give them the respect they needed because I 146 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 4: was just so in it. I'm reading them all now 147 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 4: and it's just overwhelming. And the message of support on 148 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 4: the donations, the story shares, the messages on Instagram, just 149 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:05,280 Speaker 4: the direct messages, they're just so you know, people were 150 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 4: so inspired and so grateful that I pursued it and 151 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 4: continued on with it until the very end. And we've 152 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 4: got so many people sign up to My Uncomfortable Challenge. 153 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 4: It starts on Sunday. It's just been really really special 154 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 4: to see that people getting behind it, sharing it and 155 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 4: wanting to do their own thing because they felt inspired 156 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 4: to do so. So I'm just, yeah, I'm over the moon. 157 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 4: And as I said, I'm still a bit rattled, still 158 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 4: a bit trying to process it. All, but what I 159 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 4: am is incredibly proud and grateful that I've got amazing 160 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 4: people around me because I know I'll get through it 161 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 4: and we'll be fine. 162 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, you kind of have growth without challenge, Ederic, and 163 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 2: you'd probably know that more than most people. Absolutely, the 164 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 2: growth that you'll get out of this, Mate, will be 165 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 2: something for you to enjoy forever. 166 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: To donate or sign up to Net's Uncomfortable Challenge. 167 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 2: Here too needs uncomfortable challenge dot com Mate. 168 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you. 169 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 2: Before you get out of here what you want to 170 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 2: do is did you start this with any idea of 171 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 2: what you were going to. 172 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: Do afterwards or you know? 173 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 2: Or is it just have you kind of leant into 174 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 2: the fact that life was just a bit of an 175 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 2: open book when you finish the last. 176 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 4: Lap, Yeah, I think exactly that I have know this 177 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 4: time around. I don't want to like I've already done 178 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 4: you know, I did the fifty marathons, did the run 179 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 4: across I was did this? I do that because I 180 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 4: want to do it. I don't do it for any 181 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 4: other reason than the wanting to do it part. And 182 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 4: they're wanting to help. There's no motives to keep in 183 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 4: people's faces. If I could raise the money without being 184 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 4: in people's faces, I would, you know. And so it's 185 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 4: very much a day by day thing. If something pops up, 186 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 4: and I'm sure down the line, I'll definitely be doing something. 187 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 4: It might not even be running again. I might just 188 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:42,719 Speaker 4: leave running with a bit of a bang and go 189 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 4: out on a thousand miles. Who knows. But for right now, 190 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,959 Speaker 4: I'll just try and enjoy family time, enjoy you know, summer. 191 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 4: And you know, I've been a year off drinking and 192 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 4: a year off going out, and I've had to make 193 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 4: a lot of sacrifices in order to get to this point. 194 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 4: So I'm just excited to share and revel in what 195 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 4: we've built and hopefully just get back to health and 196 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 4: enjoy my time. 197 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 2: Sounds pretty good, mate, Well, thank you for your time. 198 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 2: As always, You're very generous with it with us and 199 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 2: we really appreciate it. 200 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: It's great to hear your voice. Great, appreciate you. 201 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:12,959 Speaker 4: Love you, guys. 202 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 2: I know you're in a dark and probably a bit 203 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:16,559 Speaker 2: of a scary spot right now, and it feel it 204 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 2: feels a bit empty, but it'll get all the hell 205 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 2: of a lot better one day, mate, Get some rest, 206 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 2: so much upside to come for you, I promise. 207 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:27,439 Speaker 4: Thank you boys, appreciate it so much mate, Love you too.