What made you decide to give politics a crack?

Yeah.

So I got reached out to by this lovely person called Bryony.

She lives in the eco village here in the Gold Coast and she, she didn't beat around the bush.

She said, Hey, I'd love to talk to you about running as a local politician or politician.

I probably heard local politician and I get random inquiries about random things all the time.

And so I sort of ignored it.

But how did the reception from potential sponsors change after you said you were going after a Guinness World Record?

Mm

... wouldn't turn.

You would just run down this straight road for 42 kilometers until you'd set up camp at, at the next spot.

But as we sort of weaved into the towns, uh, I didn't have a set plan.

What I did was I leant on the community.

So I would put up on social media, "Hey, I'm running through Mackay, I'm running through Townsville," go- you know, "Gold Coast, uh, Blue Mountains." And the, the local running community said, "Hey, well, we've got this incredible trail.

I would love to show it to you." And they would come and meet me in the morning and run me through the prettiest, you know, 42 kilometers, with a general, you know, southerly direction.

So how, how did it look? Did you follow roads and footpath the whole time, or was it much more a choose-your-own-adventure?