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This is a podcast from Rover. You

0:30

might not believe how long this race is. Tell us how long the race

0:32

is and what you need to do. Yeah, so it's

0:34

in a place called Nanango, which is pretty much

0:36

in the middle of nowhere. It's two hours out

0:38

of Brisbane. It's the last

0:40

man standing format. So, I mean, technically it could

0:43

only go for 30 hours, but my intention is

0:45

to go for 120 hours, provided

0:47

we've got the people in the race to

0:49

get us that far. So, if we get

0:51

the distance that I'm hoping for, it'll be

0:54

800 kms. Man, you

0:56

plan to run this coming Saturday

0:59

morning, all going well. 800

1:03

kms, like you just said, for

1:05

120 hours, five continuous days and nights of

1:07

running. You're doing it for I Am Hope,

1:09

which we're going to get to soon. In

1:11

fact, if you want to text the word

1:13

run right now to 3520, there's a link

1:15

there with the info and stuff. How

1:18

the hell do you run for five

1:21

continuous days and nights? How's that possible?

1:24

You try not to think about it, really. If

1:26

you think about the scale of

1:28

the task at hand, you'll really sabotage yourself

1:30

and blow it out of proportion. Then all

1:33

of a sudden it becomes a lot bigger in

1:35

your mind and you don't end up succeeding. So, you

1:37

just bite it off in little chunks. Well,

1:39

how does the human body survive? Because I

1:41

am battling a toe injury at the moment.

1:43

Would it be safe to assume your feet

1:45

give out first? What

1:49

happens? How does it go? Provided

1:53

your mind is strong enough and you will your

1:55

body to keep going, it will keep doing what

1:58

is required of it as soon as you... you

2:00

let weakness sit in and you say you

2:02

can't do it anymore, then you're absolutely right.

2:04

You won't be able to do it anymore.

2:06

Your body will give up after that point.

2:08

So yeah, you just keep on pushing through

2:10

and it hurts, but it's

2:12

a finite experience. It might last two

2:14

days, it might last three days, it

2:17

might last five days, but eventually that

2:19

pain will subside. That's quite funny. You

2:21

will yourself to keep doing this and

2:24

you'll get hundreds and

2:26

hundreds of kilometers and then the race

2:28

will finish and it'll be five minutes

2:30

after finishing and then your body will

2:32

totally collapse. You'll seize up and you'll

2:34

go through the floor. Body basically says,

2:36

yep, I've done my job. I'm signing

2:38

off. That's what Raj, that's how he

2:40

feels after every show that we do.

2:42

Sam Harvey, stay there. We'll come

2:47

back. The weather conditions, what are they going to be

2:49

like when you're running or trying to

2:51

run 800kms in 121 hours? Like it would make

2:53

any difference to you, Raj. It

2:56

looks a bit crisp. Oh, the

2:58

weather looks good. Okay, cool. Sweet.

3:01

Sweet, off we go. One

3:03

foot in front of the arm. Seven

3:06

and a half days to go. Sam,

3:08

being that it's May and it's Queensland, is it going

3:11

to be high? What's the weather going to be like?

3:13

Honestly, I think it's going to be perfect weather.

3:15

It's a very easy flat course and we're getting

3:17

some pretty damn good weather. I think it's going

3:20

to be a high of about 21 on

3:22

Saturday with a low of 10 where

3:25

we did the same venue a month later last

3:27

year to make it a little bit cooler during

3:29

the day. But it was still in

3:31

the mid 20s during the day, but it got

3:33

down to negative two overnight. So we're just making

3:36

it a little bit easier on ourselves this time

3:38

around. Oh, nice. Sam Harvey with us. You start

3:40

this Saturday, you can text the word run to

3:42

3520. I am hope last year you raised $30,000

3:44

for them, which is an amazing

3:48

mega effort. Obviously, I'm going to raise

3:50

some money again this year. You are

3:52

the current New Zealand backyard ultra record

3:54

holder, which was Uran's 677

3:56

kilometres and 101

3:59

hour record. hours. So I mean you're asking to

4:01

try and do another 20 hours

4:03

running and you know another 130 odd

4:06

K. It's incredible. I am interested how long

4:09

and when can you have little breaks for

4:11

or are you just actually running for a

4:13

hundred hours? Yeah

4:17

I mean if you're not super fast

4:19

or fit and you're going at a

4:21

slow pace, yeah you are mostly running

4:23

continuously without much of a rest. Because

4:26

it's a loop format and you do one loop every hour

4:28

which is 6.7 K's. If you do that 6.7 K's a

4:32

little bit fast and come in with 10

4:34

minutes or 15 minutes to spare then that

4:37

time is yours to use as you will

4:39

so you can have a bit of a

4:41

sleep, you can have some food, you can

4:43

change your clothes or change your shoes if

4:45

you need to. How often will you use

4:47

that? You know do that 6.7 in half

4:49

an hour or whatever and give yourself sort

4:51

of four half hour breaks. Yeah now half

4:53

an hour is pretty spicy. You can do

4:55

that but you're gonna crash and burn pretty

4:57

quickly. I'll generally run them in about

4:59

45 to 50 minutes and

5:01

that gives me 10 to 15 minutes rest

5:03

every loop and when it gets to night

5:05

time then probably 10 or 15

5:08

minutes sleep. How

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much are you eating? Like what's the plan here?

5:12

Bunk at a KC. Yeah. Chew

5:15

it back Voltairns. Yeah it's

5:18

basically a glorified eating contest disguised

5:20

as a running race. You're

5:22

eating a heck of a lot it gets to the

5:25

point where your palate becomes quite fatigued and you don't

5:27

really want to eat or drink anymore but you kind

5:29

of just got to force it down. So drinking anywhere

5:31

from like 500 to a thousand mls

5:34

of electrolyte every hour and

5:37

then having real food, pasta,

5:39

rice, whatever. I try not to

5:41

rely on gels too much in these things. I'm

5:43

eating mostly real food but once the palate becomes

5:45

so fatigued that you can't really stomach anything anymore

5:48

then gels become a pretty good

5:50

fallback option. And now Sam if you, this is

5:52

the last man stands as you said so if

5:54

you use 6.7k if

5:57

you go over the hour that's it you're out isn't it? Correct

5:59

yeah. Considered a DNF did not finish

6:07

I want to bring in Mitch

6:09

producer Mitch 23. Yeah talking

6:11

of DNF He

6:14

was just training for his very first marathon

6:16

it was gonna be in June in Christchurch

6:19

not a runner I think it longest running

6:21

might have done in training with how far

6:23

much odd say 14 K and what's happened

6:25

I hated every step of it and I

6:27

gave up I quit Sam.

6:29

I folded I was wondering have you ever

6:32

tried smoking weed? That

6:40

does that gonna help you through Sam? No, I don't think

6:42

that would help me Maybe

6:47

booking for another marathon sometime later on this year Sam

6:50

I think Mitch should book in for a coaching session

6:52

on my website and I'll be able to help them

6:54

on to the next one You couldn't make me do

6:56

it with a cattle prod Wow,

6:59

I know you haven't got much quit in

7:01

you Sam because you've already achieved so much So

7:03

on behalf of all the rumble listeners, good luck

7:05

to you, bro It's something none of us could

7:07

even even start to imagine what you're about to

7:09

do as a challenge and you're doing it for

7:11

a good Cause you can text run to 3520

7:14

money raised for I am hope that's bloody good

7:16

of you mate 800 K and

7:18

120 hours five continuous days from Saturday

7:20

morning