BAREFOOT BRITAIN_ Episode 23

We're in Tewkesbury, but it's time to run to somewhere very special to my heart three two one Gloucester a go-go Some seriously sticky Territory, so there's tractors mud beneath my feet We have got a whole new gang of runners up here, oh my goodness This is definitely gonna be the most people I've had run with me coming into my hometown. Come on Picked up even more runners now. We are reaching critical mass I Will let you into a tiny secret. I am always late and today has been no exception I finished a 20 mile run today, and I'm heading straight in to talk to a big group of girl guides Hopefully there'll be some brownies in there as well some younger ones And all the way up and down the country since I've left the Shetland Islands I've been going into these guiding units and talking to the girls about having adventures challenging themselves So I'm going to do that today and hopefully they've got some good questions for me But one day I Got lost and I was in the middle of the road and I stood backwards into something cold and wet and I thought I'll check What it is in a minute. It's probably a bit pool mud or something Look at my phone directions, right put my phone away. I look down and I was stood in a dead rabbit. I Mean my heel was in its stomach. I'm gone. I ran the whole rest of the day like this Yeah Okay Thank you very much Just had an amazing session with the girl guiding girls in the next room telling them adventure stories and now we have time for some Questions if you've got a question for me Samantha It feels in one sense quite heavy when I put them on and try and go for a run I feel like I'm running in moon boots because they're so heavy on my feet and then in another sense it feels like Because everything is so easy and running over gravel and stuff like that is just I don't even have to think about it Why am I bonkers You definitely think I'm bonkers. I'm honored Okay I am bonkers because if I think about being the same as everyone else and it's really crowded where everyone else is You know, it's kind of you're bumping around for space you try and do the same thing So I've decided to be a little bit bonkers because then I'm in a different place There's lots of space around me and then my brain can explode in a million different directions and I can be as creative as I like Yes Absolutely love giving the guiding talks like I have done this evening every time I think how can I possibly go on I have no Energy, I walk into a room full of guides. I tell them adventure stories. They go mad They make me laugh and smile and they've also been a huge help the whole way down the country as I've been speaking in units the guiding community Has rallied around they've helped me get Barry the bag from one place to the next and they've helped keep me on the road And keep me pumped up for the miles to come