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Speaker 1: Ned Brockman, you will know as the tradee turned endurance

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Speaker 1: athlete who famously ran across the country a year ago,

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Speaker 1: raising two point six million dollars for a homeless charity.

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Speaker 1: He's now written a book about the experience. It's called

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Speaker 1: Showing Up. It's out tomorrow and he's showed up with

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Speaker 1: us this morning. Good morning, Ned.

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Speaker 2: Mate, Good morning guys.

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Speaker 3: Are you going very very well?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 3: Are you run across the country? For we are mobilized?

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Speaker 1: You became the fastest Australian and just the second fastest

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Speaker 1: in the world across Australia by foot in just forty

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Speaker 1: six days.

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Speaker 3: Have your feet recovered yet?

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Speaker 2: Yes, the feet of recovered. I'm not sure if my

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Speaker 2: head's recovered. I you know, it took a lot of

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Speaker 2: our energy and a lot of will to get it done,

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Speaker 2: you know, not being a runner only three years ago.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm still still getting through it. I don't

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Speaker 2: think I'll ever be fully recovered from me. Sings, But

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Speaker 2: that's part of a part of the play mate.

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Speaker 4: Not being a runner.

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Speaker 5: So you didn't really like running and then you run

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Speaker 5: four thousand k's what's going on?

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Speaker 2: Then?

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Speaker 4: Ed?

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Speaker 2: How did that be out to be honest, I don't

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Speaker 2: really like it still.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's running during the pandemic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, literally started Yeah, through COVID and as a form

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Speaker 2: to lose a bit of weight. Minute. Yeah, I very

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Speaker 2: quickly found out I could run quite well. So I

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Speaker 2: just took it. And Yeah, the euphorio I felt each

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Speaker 2: time I ran further and took longer to achieve something

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Speaker 2: was just you know, accelerated, and so I went with it.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, the run across I was came about from

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Speaker 2: from doing these kind of hard, long runs, and I went,

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Speaker 2: why not me? Why can other people do it?

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Speaker 4: Why not?

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Speaker 3: Why not? Ned?

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Speaker 1: So very forest gump pomp you running started running, not going.

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Speaker 2: You're not the first time to say that.

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Speaker 1: So the book is about the journey, both the physical

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Speaker 1: and mental side of it.

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Speaker 3: In fact, what is tougher the physical or the mental

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Speaker 3: side of it?

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Speaker 2: I think they go hand in hand, you know. I

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Speaker 2: think like it's one hundred percent physical, one hundred percent mental.

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Speaker 2: It's without the you know, the tough physical You can't

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Speaker 2: you see there and waking up every morning going how

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Speaker 2: on earth am I going to go again? Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: hard to pick either because they both play a role.

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Speaker 2: But Yeah, the book. The book's much more than just

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Speaker 2: the run across. It's probably half that and the other

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Speaker 2: is like the belief and you know, kind of the

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Speaker 2: things that shaped me into having this mindset and why,

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Speaker 2: you know, after only three is a running I took

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Speaker 2: on such a big feat. So it's been a really

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Speaker 2: cool journey writing the book and being able to reflect

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Speaker 2: on what I've done and why I've done it, and

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Speaker 2: being able to have a book at the ripe old

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Speaker 2: age of twenty four is something pretty special.

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Speaker 5: Hey, mate, We think people who swim from cott Dorotto

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Speaker 5: Cottaslada Rotto are crazy, but you you ran from Cottaslada

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Speaker 5: to Bondo. But it's such a beautiful spot Cottisi. You

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Speaker 5: must have thought, oh, I really want to leave.

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Speaker 2: Here, mate. I was. I remember I got there about

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Speaker 2: a week earlier and I was watching the sunset and

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Speaker 2: I was like, this is absolutely starting one of the

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Speaker 2: best parts in the world. But yeah, I was actually

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Speaker 2: kind of getting a bit stressed when I was there,

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Speaker 2: you know, the week out, because I was like, Jesus

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Speaker 2: is too nice. I don't know if I'll be able

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Speaker 2: to get uncomfortable every single day. Are quite pleased, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: we got what we've.

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Speaker 4: Got it done.

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Speaker 3: Why the charity we are mobilized.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so obviously homelessness. I saw it happening a lot

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Speaker 2: in Sydney and I wanted to help. You know, it

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Speaker 2: had a profound effect me every time I saw someone

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Speaker 2: who was on the street and I wanted to help

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Speaker 2: and mobilize. They do incredible work with our friends on

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Speaker 2: the street. And now through the money that we've been

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Speaker 2: able to raise, have done this direct giving program, whether

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Speaker 2: it's the first of it's kind in Australia, and we

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Speaker 2: already have twelve people on the pilot program who have

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Speaker 2: been given an opportunity to get in the housing market,

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Speaker 2: a job, medical healthcare assistance, so actually really making you know,

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Speaker 2: real time difference. And it's pretty special to see my congratulations.

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Speaker 4: That is unreal to have those tangible results.

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Speaker 5: But it comes to sport we have Yeah, you talked

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Speaker 5: about your body breaking down. Every day we have a

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Speaker 5: couple of AFL players are coming in here and we

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Speaker 5: hear about their ranks and pains and what they go through.

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Speaker 4: That's their job. Do you have a new appreciation for

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Speaker 4: athletes and what they go through?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yes, And now I think it's a teetering edge.

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Speaker 2: Like I've always understood that athletes now very much as

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Speaker 2: opposed to back in the day. You know, there's all

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Speaker 2: the strength and conditioning and nutrition and everything's so dilled in.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm a bit of a cowboy operator where

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Speaker 2: I just go off feel, and you know, the lack

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Speaker 2: of all this structure probably helps me because I don't overthinking.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, in terms of you know, the athletes, they're

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Speaker 2: on strict protocol and always dealing with you know, that

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Speaker 2: teetering edge of between injury and being fully fit. So

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Speaker 2: I do understand for sure. But yeah, it's a whole

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Speaker 2: new world that day in, day out ultra running because

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Speaker 2: you're running on injuries from the get go.

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Speaker 1: Now, have you had any feedback on how the money

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Speaker 1: you raised two point six million dollars, Can I just

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Speaker 1: say again has been spent?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So, as I said, the direct giving program, because the

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Speaker 2: funds that have been raised to being able to get

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Speaker 2: tall people off the street, so it's happening in real time.

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Speaker 2: And so because the money there, Mobilized only had seven

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Speaker 2: and a half thousand dollars raised each year. That was

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Speaker 2: their largest ever about so the fact that now being

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Speaker 2: you know, a lot more money. It's allowed them to

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Speaker 2: instill this program and actually start making life change. It's

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Speaker 2: incredible to watch.

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Speaker 5: Does a non Cliff young Cliff he meant anything to

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Speaker 5: you heard about him?

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Speaker 2: The shuffler tells me about cut.

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Speaker 5: There's a long time ago. Now, he was an old

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Speaker 5: man when he started running. You just kept running and

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Speaker 5: running and running. I don't think he's doing for charity.

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Speaker 5: He was in the marathon, the Ultra marathon. But you're

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Speaker 5: up there in that legend status. But the fact that

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Speaker 5: you're having results.

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Speaker 3: But you've got a better running style, have a better running.

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Speaker 5: Style, the fact that you're having those tangible results for

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Speaker 5: people on the streets is unreal.

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Speaker 2: Man. Yeah, no, it's it's amazing at the end of

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Speaker 2: the day. Like, I would never call myself a run

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Speaker 2: I'm just a person who love doing hard things, be able.

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Speaker 4: To champion chauses you're running there and.

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Speaker 2: You know, do hard things because people, you know. I

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Speaker 2: think in this day and age, we are very comfortable

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Speaker 2: and we like taking easier road and I think the

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Speaker 2: more we can get uncomfortable, whether that be running or

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Speaker 2: you in your day to day life, choose the harder option.

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Speaker 2: We all have the ability to live a more fulfilled

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Speaker 2: life by having to earn things. So that's the kind

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Speaker 2: of message I want to spread, and that's what the

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Speaker 2: book will be able to do. So I'm very excited.

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Speaker 3: Pretty sure you are a runner. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: i'd run if a bear was chasing me you would,

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Speaker 3: but I'm pretty sure you are definitely A run of Ned.

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Speaker 1: Five dollars from every copy of the book showing up,

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Speaker 1: which is out tomorrow, we'll go to the charity we

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Speaker 1: are mobilize. What isn't anything in the pipeline? Ned, have

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Speaker 1: you got plans for another ridiculous stunt in adow?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I do, just want to bring it.

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Speaker 2: It's five dollars from every copy from my website, Ned Rocklin.

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Speaker 4: Got okay, cool?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, I've always got I've always got things

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Speaker 2: in the pipeline. You know, it might be running next time.

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Speaker 2: But as I said, like the running hasn't changed to me.

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Speaker 2: It's always been what it is. It's not really my passion.

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Speaker 2: It's just something I can use as a tool, and

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Speaker 2: so you know, it maybe pull up so maybe something

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Speaker 2: we're down the line, I do something that's hard and

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Speaker 2: doesn't involve running. But yeah, definitely September. Next year, I've

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Speaker 2: got another one planned, so so stay tuned. Guys.

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Speaker 4: Okay, thanks to your passion and thanks for showing up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Awesome guys, thank you, that's great.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Ed.

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Speaker 2: Awesome guys, cheers, Appreciate it.