Bruce Fordyce

Let me use an example.

Bruce Fordyce, one of our champions in South Africa, has won the Comrades Marathon nine times.

He has won it eight times consecutively.

There's no one else in the world has done that, folks.

There's no way Usain Bolt could have run the Comrades.

He's not built for that.

And there's definitely no way that Bruce Fordyce could run the 100 meters in under 10 seconds.

Each one has got a specific talent and a gift, and I believe it's been given them by God.

I mean, there's so many, right? Like I've been so blessed to have the ability to do a lot of travel through parkrun.

So, you know, doing the parkrun in San Francisco underneath the Golden Gate Bridge or doing a parkrun in South Africa alongside Bruce Fordyce, who's an absolute legend and hero in that country.

To me, he's just my mate Bruce who I've met through parkrun, which is cool.

My wife's South African, so she thinks it's pretty awesome.

We've chatted to runners who've overcome everything from addiction or depression to illness such as cystic fibrosis, spina bifida and Parkinson's.

And along the way, we've even spoken to a few big names in the sport, the likes of Born to Run author Christopher McDougall, the South African running legend Bruce Fordyce and Commonwealth Games medalist Liz Yelling.

So check out our back catalogue to listen to some of those episodes.

Now what all those people have had in common is a deep love of running and it's what we hopefully have here at Running Tales too.