00:00 So it's called Believe to Run. I started, as I say, in April. I was like a full-time
00:06 office worker for about 10 years. Just living miserably, hating it, like, don't get us
00:12 wrong, it is for some people, but I just, I don't like sitting down. I just knew it
00:16 wasn't my purpose. And so I just took that leap, I quit my job, had no clients or whatever,
00:22 and I just went for it. I had a bit of help of friends and stuff like that, and I just
00:26 went for it, and I just had full belief that it was going to work out, and it just has.
00:32 It's just getting better, going from strength to strength. And I'm just a client base, I'm
00:38 attracting people who are like me, you know, like positive, want to get better all the
00:42 time. And as I say, I just absolutely love it. I love it, I do group running, one-to-one,
00:48 coaching, I just, I like helping people, even if it's an hour out of the day, just come
00:54 and escape life and come and just feel good for that hour. I've had a few of them running
00:57 the Great North Run. We've done a few events this year, we've done the Sutherland 10K,
01:00 we've done the Great North 10K, people have done, like, trail runs on the weekend, stuff
01:04 like that. Some people don't run to race, they run just to feel good, but as most of
01:08 it, I've got a big client base doing the Great North Run, so I'm doing a lot of training,
01:13 helping them certain parts of the run, so I've got, like, the Felham Bypass, so we're
01:17 working a lot of hill sprints and stuff like that to get them stronger to go up there.
01:20 And there's just a few clients just absolutely giving it all, like, on the weekend when they've
01:24 got no time still going out doing long runs, and that's what I'm there for, to accountability,
01:29 to make sure that I'm doing them, and I just know I've got a great team around me and we're
01:34 going to start strong and finish strong. I've done the London Marathon in April, and I felt
01:40 strong there, I've done that for the memory of my granddad, I lost my granddad in February,
01:44 so I'm, and I'm also running the 150 mile run in October for Calm charity. I know I've
01:50 lost friends because of mental health, my friends have lost friends because of mental
01:54 health, and I think it's a big pandemic of, especially men, you know, like, feeling like
02:01 they've just got no purpose in life, and Calm relates to that charity, like, that charity
02:06 relates to that, so I want to be a big part of that, so I'm running the Great North Run
02:10 for Calm, and I'm going to do 150 miles, so I also do my own events as well, so I'm going
02:16 to do, like, a mental health 10k in South Shields, so I just want to try and raise as
02:20 much money as I can for that. If it's the first time, obviously enjoy it, that's the
02:24 big thing, don't sprint at the start when you're running downhill, I even do it now,
02:31 like, people get, even with training, people just get ahead of themselves and just want
02:35 to start, like, so fast, but you've just got to, it's a half marathon, you've got to take
02:41 your time, be patient, bring it back for the hills, go slow up the hills so you can continue
02:47 at that pace as soon as you get above the hill, and as I say, just take the energy in,
02:53 you know, you've got the crowd there clapping, giving drinks out, you'll be people there
02:58 just doing it for different charities, so just make yourself proud and just finish strong.
