Rob Pope: Real Life Forest Gump Is Back!

You know, sort of, uh, the saddle sores, 'cause I don't ride me bike really, you know, a- a- any, in any serious way.

So never mind people asking you about blisters on your toes.

Saddle sore?

Yeah.

Did you have...

Oh, how was your backside?

Bad saddle sores-

Oh

... on the, on the inside.

And like sort of I was trying to have a look at them in the mirror, but then I was frightening myself, so [laughs] I stopped.

I've gotta say, well done.

Well done on doing it, because this is the thing, and anyone listening now who's been out and felt that niggle when you're running, and you're like, do you know what? The wise part of you would go, "Stop, rest, let it recover-"

Yeah

... don't get it worse.

But you had this deadline, and so you had to kind of keep going.

And as you say, you weren't running in necessarily the safest spot, so probably sprinting every now and again wasn't helping it either.

Yeah, I know.

It was like, it was the world's most deranged interval session.

And, like, the cool, the cool thing was, was when I told the team about it, um, at the factory in York, they're trying to become completely carbon neutral.

And so they've got these incredible electric, proper, you know, HGVs that do, do their runs for them now.

And they were like, sort of, "Oh, you know, we can do this.

And, you know, if you're traveling in the electric truck, and you can just go from place to place, and, you know, we can still do, like, a little run or a walk there.

It still fits with the ethos of what we're trying to put forward." But that, that's just not me.

It just couldn't suit me, and I said to them, I said, "Listen, I have to...

You know, if you can't run, then walk.

You know, sort of, uh, the saddle sores, 'cause I don't ride me bike really, you know, a- a- any, in any serious way.

So never mind people asking you about blisters on your toes.

Saddle sore?

Yeah.

Did you have...

Oh, how was your backside?

Bad saddle sores-

Oh

... on the, on the inside.

And like sort of I was trying to have a look at them in the mirror, but then I was frightening myself, so [laughs] I stopped.

I've gotta say, well done.

Well done on doing it, because this is the thing, and anyone listening now who's been out and felt that niggle when you're running, and you're like, do you know what? The wise part of you would go, "Stop, rest, let it recover-"

Yeah

... don't get it worse.

But you had this deadline, and so you had to kind of keep going.

And as you say, you weren't running in necessarily the safest spot, so probably sprinting every now and again wasn't helping it either.

Yeah, I know.

It was like, it was the world's most deranged interval session.

And, like, the cool, the cool thing was, was when I told the team about it, um, at the factory in York, they're trying to become completely carbon neutral.

And so they've got these incredible electric, proper, you know, HGVs that do, do their runs for them now.

And they were like, sort of, "Oh, you know, we can do this.

And, you know, if you're traveling in the electric truck, and you can just go from place to place, and, you know, we can still do, like, a little run or a walk there.

It still fits with the ethos of what we're trying to put forward." But that, that's just not me.

It just couldn't suit me, and I said to them, I said, "Listen, I have to...

You know, if you can't run, then walk.