16 Weeks to Go: Pinky Toes Down, Hannah’s Coast to Coast Debrief

Hannah’s back from the run, toes shredded, confidence boosted and in this episode, Joel flips the mic around to hear how it really went.

We talk physical pain, emotional headspace, what surprised her the most, and what the team learned ahead of India. This one’s the final piece in our three-part Coast to Coast series and a real window into what it means to run hard, trust your crew, and the true power of Marmite.

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This colonial-era boundary enforced a devastating salt tax, causing immense suffering and millions of deaths, but has been largely forgotten from history.
By retracing this route, Hannah seeks to honour its legacy and transform its meaning, inviting others to discover their own version of extraordinary. This journey is not about guarantees of success—Hannah faces the real possibility of failure—but it’s a powerful reminder that taking bold steps, even in uncertainty, can inspire meaningful change.

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Like, physically, it was difficult. I'm not going to lie. I think, you know, for context, you know, I lost, you know, all the, all the skin on my little toes, like halfway, basically on the third day. So that was so painful to run on. It was, it was unbelievable. Today on the Project Salt Run podcast, we speak with Hannah about her journey through the coast to coast trail, completing a three part series on Hannah's seven day run across the United Kingdom. Welcome to the Project Salt Run podcast, a podcast which is following me, Hannah Cox on my journey and countdown to running a hundred marathons in a hundred days across an old inland customs line in India. Join me and Joelle while we talk about what we're doing, why we're doing it, all the things we don't know what we're doing. Basically join us while we learn how to do Project Salt Run. How to run a hundred marathons in a hundred days and how to make Hannah not die, I think is the key point of this podcast for the most part.(...) Exactly. Yeah. So, you know, so it's me and Joelle chatting about training and fundraising and the rest of the team and also interviewing people along the way who are going to help us with our journey. And speaking of interviewing today, today we're just interviewing you actually. Well, I'm interviewing you, I should say more on that because you've just finished running seven days across the United Kingdom on the coast to coast challenge. It is now finished.(...) You survived minus two pinky toes, but you managed to make it through the whole thing.

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It was a bit of a trial and tribulation. Yeah. I mean, I felt like not too much of a trial or tribulation reflection could have been a lot worse, could have been a lot better.(...) But we got through it. Yeah, no, well, we made it through. And you know, it was a heck of a... I wouldn't change it for anything. It was awesome the way it was and we worked it out. And it was great for us to function as a team because it was our first time really getting to work together out in the field and getting to do something, but getting to work together, that's how I feel.

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But we worked on this project for quite a long time, about four or five months we've been working on it. A lot of stuff fell through right at the last minute. We had to do a whole religious plan.(...) We had the weather went south when it was supposed to be really amazing.

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But battling through all of that, getting to the end, what was your final thoughts like as you were running down the little cobblestone lanes and heading to the beach? I've been in headspace. Yeah, what was your headspace there?

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Well, obviously absolute elation that I was no longer running with 2D gloved little toes across England.

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I think that's still my favorite description. I'll let you have a strong stomach.

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But actually, I think the thing that struck me the most is when we got to the sea and we threw in the pebble that picked up at St. B's head. And Natalie and I literally stood in the ocean because it was so hot. It was like such a gloriously sunny day on that last day.

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What struck me really was this realization that we might actually be able to do this. This is actually something we can do.(...) It really felt we put a lot of pressure on ourselves about this coast to coast challenge being, this shows how we work as a team. This shows how I'll be able to put up with multi-days of running.

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And if anything, I got to the end of it and thought I feel so confident now that 100 marathons in 100 days is actually something feasible. And it's not just this nice number that we've come up with of running. It felt terrifying in that both, but so exciting at the same time. Did it?(...) Yeah, so that's it. I think confidence is probably the word I'd be looking for for how I felt when I got to the end. Were you kind of hoping that you'll all finish strong and it'll be good? Or did you expect to kind of feel one way or the other? And were you anywhere near that? I mean, I think for people who listen to the podcast episodes we recorded while we were out there, the two things I was most worried about was really bad weather and getting an injury, which is kind of things happened, both terrible things happened on the first day.(...) So if anything, it was like the worst possible, what felt like the worst possible outcomes of the coast to coast happened immediately.

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But then we were still going. So and that continued to give me kind of confidence throughout the week. I think for me, it was seeing how the team worked together.

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Though obviously we had challenges within that and stresses for people as the week went on.

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I think the main thing for me was that kind of it was kind of sad at the end because everyone left immediately afterwards because of other commitments. So it was just Natalie and I went out that evening that she had to leave the next morning and I was kind of like left on my own in Scarborough another day in the Airbnb,(...) realizing I was going to have to go straight back to work the following morning and kind of get back to reality with no time to decompress from it really.(...) And it doesn't even feel like I've had any time to decompress from it now. It's like what a week since we did it.

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Yeah, it's been breakneck as well because you were straight back to Manchester, then straight down to London and then straight back up, right?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we had obviously through my other business, the Better Business Network, it was London Climate Action Week. So I was attending a conference there, then co-hosting a networking event, then I moderated a panel.

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Then we did our live podcast with Kate,(...) CEO of 1% for the Planet at Blue Earth Forum, which was really cool. What an amazing series of events and stuff those guys put on, like absolutely amazing. And then straight from that, I went to Glastonbury and I got home yesterday and I've been in the office today. So breakneck speed.

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So because obviously, like I said, we were working on the coast coast for ages and I even had quite a big fair amount of expectations kind of going into what the run was going to be like compared to actually what it really was. How did you actually think the run actually went compared to what you kind of imagined it?

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So I mean, what was amazing for me as the runner was everything outside of running I did not need to worry about. So I'm a project manager, event manager, festival manager. So I'm used to having oversight on how every part of the process is done and being responsible for every part of that. So actually not having to do that for the coast coast was so relaxing for me.

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Having the trust in the team to have sorted out the campsite, sort of buying the food,

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setting up the checkpoints, knowing where the best places were for that. And really all I had to do, all I had to think about was making sure I had the course of my watch and doing the running and having that stress of being in charge of the whole project management of it taken off my shoulders was actually very relaxing. And also knowing that if any challenges were coming up in those areas that the team would shelter me from it and I trusted them enough to make the correct decisions in those moments of how to adapt and change. And I'm sure stuff like that did come up. My experience of the coast coast was I wasn't aware of any of the other stresses going on because everyone kind of just allowed me to be the runner, which was amazing.

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And I loved the fact that we were able to regroup together every night. I think the best thing about the coast coast for me was, you know, I'd get back, you know, I'd either lie in the bed and cry, which happened a few nights and then have a shower or I'd go and have a shower straight away, or I'd lie on the floor for a bit and then I would have a shower. Cry in the shower. Yeah, there'd be a cry in the shower, a combination of all these things. Basically a cry would take place at some point. Maybe I'd already had it on my run, so I'd got it out of my system.

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There was that routine of it, which was like, come back, have a shower, come out the shower, everybody's sitting, eat a meal together, and then go to the pub, have a pint. And what I made very clear on the second day was once we've got hot, I've got halfway through my drink, then we can have a mini-dee-bree from plan from the next day. And we didn't kind of overwhelm ourselves with that, I don't think. I think we were just kind of thinking 24 hours ahead. Yeah, it was a nice pace.

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And also finishing off the day with our three favourite things, I think was a really good way to end each day because it made you focus on the positives that had happened on that day and not the negatives. Focusing a bit more on kind of the emotional side, because it was such a blend in between like a huge physical strain for you obviously, and then quite an emotional toll of...(...) I always focus on that's the one thing that I struggled the most with running, especially long term is like the being inside your own head and that struggle.

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Most days you had a little cry, and I wanted to say, were you prepared for that? Was there anything that surprised you with that? Or was there anything with the physical side that you were kind of taken aback with that was more difficult?(...) I guess the question should be, was it more difficult on the physical end or was it more difficult on the emotional side?(...) Good question. I would say probably on the emotional side.

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I think the thing I struggled with actually the first... I think it was the first two days is that I ran with people the entire time. Like so people did different parts of it with me, but there wasn't any point where I was running on my own and I did not like that. So it was very clear to me after day two, like I needed to have sex sections where I'm running on my own.

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I actually felt in some of those situations, pressure from the other person I was running with to be either speaking or not speaking or running a certain pace and actually just having that breathing room of time on my own on the run was really important because I do most of my runs on my own. So it's actually that I go running with Natalie. We do like run club together on 5K. I might do some social runs maybe once a month, but actually the majority of the time I spend money is running on my own and actually being around people all the time for those first two days, I found incredibly difficult.

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And once I was, I guess, allowed to then run on my own or people didn't feel that they had to be joining me at every part of the coast to coast, I think relieved a bit of pressure from everybody. I think people felt the pressure to be running with me, but someone had to be running with me the whole time. Whereas actually it was the opposite that I wanted time on my own, whether that was the end of the day or the beginning of the day or the middle of the day, it didn't actually, I think we mixed up a bit, didn't we? There were some days I ran the first bit on my own, some days I had a middle bit on my own, some days I had an end. I didn't actually have a preference of when that was. It was more that I just had a bit of time on my own every day. Yeah, the time to do it. And obviously we learned a lot through that, but was there any point, I guess, throughout the entire journey that you thought, oh man, this is my limit. Like this is the point, the breaking point kind of thing.(...) This is going to sound really awful.(...) Only having to be around people too much.

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Like physically it was difficult. I'm not going to lie. I think, you know, for context, you know, I lost, you know, all the, all the skin on my little toes, like halfway, basically on the third day. So that was so painful to run on. It was, it was unbelievable, but I knew it wasn't a large enough injury for me to stop running. So while it was incredibly painful to run on, I knew I could just take painkillers and I would, I would get through it. And it had an end point of, you know, a couple of couple of days down the, down the line. I think if that injury had happened in India, we'd probably take a few days off for it to heal for us to, you know, get better, better fitting trainers and then start again.

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But we just didn't have the time to do that. Didn't have the time to didn't need to do that. And he pushed through, which still blows my mind. I would, I would, I would have bailed in a second, man. I would have seen that pinky toe and I'd been like, absolutely not.

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But it was, it was pretty bad pain. You know, it would wake me up in the night. My feet, my feet were waking me up in the night. I wasn't sleeping very well because of that.(...) But I do, I, I, I live on my own. I spend a lot of time on my own. I run on my own.

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So actually it was being in the proximity of people from the minute I wake up to a minute, I go to bed. It was a new challenge, a very big, a very big challenge for me. And it's something I talked about with the team before. Like this is not something I'm used to. I do like to have my own space.(...) I was able to have that through the running. And I think it's just about how do I,(...) it's almost like in India, how do I also get that in the morning or in the evening as well? Like when I'm not running, like that extra bit, because I think I'm definitely going to need that when we're out there. Continuing on working with the team and kind of learning, you know,(...) with, with it and having the team support, was there anything new about other than, you know, notice, realizing you needed that space? Was there anything new about working with a team under pressure that kind of surprised you or was a big takeaway for you?(...) I think everyone on the team was who they were before the run, if that makes sense. I wasn't majorly surprised by anyone's behavioral actions or, you know, reactions to how things went down.

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It made me way more confident about the team that we had in place, actually. It just felt like everybody really was bringing their A game and, and the kind of positions we put everybody in was the right type of role for them and that that's what they were excelling in. I think we also were under a lot more pressure on the coast to coast than touchwood. I hope we will be on in India because hopefully we'll have that additional support of the expedition team if we can afford it, which we're fundraising for, obviously.

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And we need for safety and all those other reasons. But there's lots of jobs kind of on the coast to coast that people were taking on, especially Michael, the filmmaker, who took on a lot of the operational logistical work and also did some pacing, too. None of those jobs he'll have to do in India. Same with you and Becca, you were getting up and responsible for kind of all the food, all the drink, all the checkpoint stuff was actually in India. Half of that will ideally be going to the expedition team who will be helping source the food, the water,(...) washing up, setting up camp, all those things that were part of your responsibility.(...) So it felt that everyone coped well with their role, but also with the knowledge that they'll have less of that role to do in in India. Plus, we'll have Alex, of course,(...) while we're out there, which will be great. So I felt like it was quite high pressure in some instances, but it didn't feel that that meant that we weren't we were going to struggle in India. There was nothing that I was like, this is a huge red flag. What about you? Can I throw that back at you? Yeah. Anything that you know, I think I think it was kind of one of those everybody, if anything, it was funny because I remember Michael was like, oh, wow, like, you know, you're really good at dealing with with stress and and being back and we're both kind of like, this isn't stress.

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You know, this is this is really straightforward. You know, we have pretty much everything, you know, all kind of set up. Whereas,(...) you know, with other things that we've done, there's there's no that we have no idea what's going to happen next, you know, kind of like, so. So, yeah, it was it was pretty everything. Everything just kind of came as you know, as we were expecting, which was which was cool. That gave us a lot of confidence.(...) I think that comes from I think experience, right. So some of us have had experience of way more high stress situations and what we experience on the coast and other members of the team. Those were the most high stress situations that they'd personally been in for whatever reason. I think of anything, it just goes back to that kind of honesty and transparency bit of like being if you need help asking for it. Yeah. And not feeling uncomfortable in asking for that. I mean, I think as the probably as the oldest member of the team there.

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I feel like quite comfortable. I don't know. Don't know whether it's my age or whether it's my personality, but I feel quite comfortable saying.

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I need a minute. Please go away. Yeah. Like, you know, yeah, whatever. And there were times, you know, when I get into a checkpoint, I'll be like, I just need no one to speak to me for five minutes. And it and people are just like, fine. She's just saying what she needs. And that's fine. We're going to get up with it.(...) I feel like if you're not comfortable saying what you need or you don't know what it is that you need to make you feel differently, it's it's harder. So I think it's just more of a case of knowing when to ask for help. And I think that's something that for some people is more difficult than others.

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Connecting this kind of like more directly to the actual India run itself.(...) And how do you how do you think this helped us, you know, other than the team running aspects? Like, how do you think this kind of helped us build on to I'm sorry, I should have said help us prepare.(...) I think it helped us realize what's important to certain members of the team and what's not important to certain members of the team. So something that's really. I think something that was important to all of us was we all liked that end of day thing together. I think we all really benefited from it. I feel like we felt it was a good way to kind of finish the day.

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I felt like there were things I recognize I need when we're out there, for example,(...) a bit more space in the day for me to have time on my own and things like that. I think we've got our debrief. Don't we next week? Where we'll get everybody's kind of individual feedback on what they need or want out of the of the India experience. I think the main thing for me was it was sustainable for seven days. How we did it, how we did it over those seven days would not be sustainable for 100 days. And we need to figure out how everybody's individual working style kind of Venn diagrams into the perfect experience for everybody. And making sure everyone's being really honest about what that what that looks like. For me, I am going to be running for 100 days. So which is fine for me as long as I know I'm doing it. And as long as I get my pockets of and if one day, for example, I can be like, right, I'm going to go up at three o'clock this day and do the whole run in the morning and then got the whole of the rest of the day off to relax or whether I break that up into some days where I run 20K in the morning and, you know, 20, 22K in the afternoon and have the break in the middle so I can kind of mix up how I decide to do it. But I still know I relentlessly have to do it for 100 days, whereas I'm hoping that when we have the debrief, if you or Becca or Mike or Natalie or whoever says, I think what's going to work for me is I get one full day off a week or I think what's going to work for me is I don't mind working every day, but I would like it that some days I just do the evening. Do you see what I mean? I think it's more like everybody knowing what their thing is because I can't tell anybody that and you can't tell anybody that. So it's just everyone being like really, hopefully have got enough out of the coast to coast to know what that is or the majority of what that is before India, because I'm hoping that that was a key part of the experience for everybody of understanding how projects that one can look for them in a really positive way. Is there anything you would keep from the journey that you want to take over to India that you thought just really works?

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Eating together every meal, every dinner, I think really worked.

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I think I think even though it's cheesy, but I am cheesy, doing our three favorite things of the day with each other at the end of the day, because there'd be some days where I'd be like, this really pissed me off today. This really annoyed me today. But then I was forced to think of three things that I'd really liked about that day. And we almost had like the debrief where we kind of didn't particularly air maybe what pissed us off, but we were able to kind of try and talk about it, resolve it. And then after that, talk about the three positive things. And then after that, just hang out as mates was a nice way for me to bookmark the end of each day. So I think those are two things I'd really like to keep. And also me running solo for a portion of the day, at least probably about 15, 20K would be ideal for me, I think. Yeah. So that's definitely one thing we'll have to point out. But yeah, what are yours? What things do you want to keep? Oh, a Marmite. Keep the Marmite. I don't know how easy it is. The squeezable Marmite. I think the squeezable Marmite, I don't know if we'll be able to find that in India. Maybe we'll just have to bring a suitcase of it. I don't know. But that was pretty easy. If it's between Alex and the Marmite, we might have to leave Alex behind.

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As far as weight, we just need the extra weight. Yeah, no, I can't agree enough with the meal thing. You know, we found that on all of our expeditions and trips, it doesn't matter what we're doing or the scenario. I find having family meal is just such a hell. And I get that term, family meal, from working in restaurants. Like when I worked at good restaurants anyways,(...) you know, you would always have family meal before service. And that was a really great time for us to just kind of get to go back and forth and kind of, you know, if not just bullshit about nothing, you know, talk about gripes or kind of come to a better understanding over a more neutral environment rather than being forced into it, you know, kind of thing.(...) And yeah, I don't know. It's just a great way to build camaraderie and yeah, a really unique tool that I don't feel like team organized expeditions or organizations or whatever really take advantage or even understand how powerful can be. But I wanted to jump over to people who are because, you know, I was telling you earlier today that I'm a friend of mine has dragged me into doing a full marathon, which.(...) It's so exciting. Yeah.

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But, you know, for people who are looking at something like the coast to coast or moving in that direction and especially for people who follow along, because now this is the this is our third and final part. For the coast coast series that we've been putting out. And if you've been listening along, thank you. It's it's been actually really fun to make these. It's been a really different way, but I hope everybody's enjoyed them. And it's been a it's been cool to get to know, you know, people a little bit more, especially interviewing them on the road.(...) But yeah, what would you say to somebody who's followed along with this journey on, you know, how how, you know, any tips or tricks on how they might approach starting to get into possible. The coast coast.

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Well, I mean, I couldn't have done it on my own. So the only reason I did it was because I didn't have to think about anything else apart from doing it as in, you know, the ops, the logistics. So, I mean, that's why races are so popular, right? There's like the North Northern Traverse and people can do things like that. like that. So I'd recommend if you're going to do it, then maybe doing like an organised race is probably like a really nice way to make sure you're safe and looked after and you've got all your checkpoints and your food and everything sorted.(...) I mean, I felt really privileged for us to be able to do it kind of on our own timeline and on our own schedule. I mean, we slightly changed it. On the rest day in the middle, we changed the course and the route for the final three days so that we could meet Cliff in Robin Hoods Bay on time on the Saturday to then have enough time to get to basement tracks in the evening.

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So I mean, I was just like I had a great team around me to make it all possible. And I think anyone that I mean, this is kind of why we started the podcast, wasn't it? Because you hear people talk about these amazing adventures or things that they've done when we go to adventure travel shows or to conferences and things like that and travel whatever's.(...) And you and I both know as people have worked in this industry or gone on our own adventures that it's never one person doing it. There's a whole team of people making it possible for that one person to look like it's just. So I think for us with Project Sort of Arm, we've always been like it's Project Sort of Arm. We're a team. I'm just the person at the front, you know, maybe leading the team, but it's not possible without the team. And actually everybody in the team is bringing unique talent, skills and abilities that makes us a powerhouse together. Like that's from believing in each other, but also from having the confidence and trust in each other as a team. I think it proved to me the coast to coast that we are a really strong team. And that's why I was so confident when I got into Robin Hoods Bay, because I was like, we are actually a really good team.(...) And I've never been a team sports person, so there we go.(...) But there was that sort of feeling. Did you not feel that when we felt that? I was like, we are actually like all together.(...) We've absolutely smashed this as a team. And that was that was pretty cool to see. So yeah, any advice, you know, find other people to help you do it. But I guess don't think you can be don't think you can be somebody that can do stuff like this on your own, because that's not how that's not how any of these things ever work. I also really wanted to impress to people like after you did that run, you had to run down a giant fuck off hill and then we had to walk back up it. But you I feel like and I was actually kind of worried. I was like, oh, my God, is Hannah gonna be able to walk back up this thing? Like feet are already wrecked. Like she's gonna be exhausted. And actually, you were in such great spirits that it wasn't even like an issue. Like we just walked. We even stopped at a few shops.(...) Yeah,(...) I bought some sherbet pips, which definitely are not as cheap as I remember them being when I was a kid. Like I bought that bag. Sorry, it's a side note. Side note to everybody here. I'm 41 and used to get penny sweets and used to be able to go to the shop and they'd like fill you up, you know, back in my day. But you know, the big jaws along the back, which they like way out on the weighing scales. Yeah. Now they do that in Robin Hood's Bay. And I think it's a bit of like a tourist thing, you know, like it's kind of oldie worldy sweet shop. And I thought I went into one on the way up and I thought, I'm gonna get myself some sherbet pips, which if you don't know are the best of the tuck shop. Sweet. So basically like tiny little,

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how big would you say they are, Joel? I don't even know what that size is.

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Sugar sugar, sugar, sherbet. We had in the States, we had like dots, but that was like an ice cream kind of thing. I don't know if that was ever over here, but it was like, I don't know. They're kind of about the same size, maybe a little bit bigger. And it was more of a hard candy, right? Like, yeah. So it's a hard candy and it's basically sherbet. They're called sherbet pips.(...) And I used to be able to short, I used to get a whole bag of them for like a quick, like 50 period quid or something. So I'm going to treat myself to a hundred grams of sherbet pips,

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nine pounds.(...) Oh my God. I didn't know they were nine pounds. And then Mike, and then I, Mike left them on the side in the van and then I left them on the side of the Airbnb and they just became one massive, melty, sticky sherbet pit, which was wrapped in paper. So then I had to throw it away.(...) So it was food waste too. But yeah, I think that's what kept me going. I just had all that sugar going up the hill as well. That's what helped me out. Yeah. And then also the knowledge that there was the pub at the end where he had the big, what was it? No, you had the fish and chips too, right? We all had fish and chips. Yeah, it was very traditional. It was very traditional. What was the, what was the, well, yeah. And then also for listeners that, well, I don't know if they heard the last one, but you finished it off going to a basement Jax concert. How the hell did your feet survive the basement Jax concert? Cause you had standing tickets, right? Did I, I don't think I told you what happened at this basement Jax concert. So there's a song that they have called Where's Your Head At? And we'd been trying to get them to say, where's your head Jax? They did ignored all my hilarious Instagram reels.

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But the Scarborough Open Air Theater got in touch with me at the Airbnb.(...) And they were like, when basement Jax come on, that's like, obviously, they're usually their encore song. They have loads of people dressed as gorillas go onto the stage dancing to that song. Do you want to be one of the gorillas? And I was like, I can't believe I haven't told you this story. Oh my God. Yeah. So I'm on the phone and like, with Natalie and I get off the phone and Natalie's like, what's that? And I was like, they've just asked me to dance as a gorilla on stage with basement Jax for where's, where's your head at, at the end. And she's like, you've got to do it. And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I had a shower. I spent about 30 minutes taping up my toes because I was having to put them in trainers because I was going to this outdoor standing gig. So I couldn't wear my sandals. It was too dangerous for like how gross the floor would be.(...) And then I finished taping my toes and I just thought, am I an idiot? This is where I get myself hurt. I'm on the stage and I'll like fall over dressed as a gorilla. And then I can't go to India. So then I had to message them back and be like, thank you so much for the opportunity,(...) but I'm going to have to decline being a gorilla on stage. And then we went to the gig. It was really, really good.(...) And I am glad I didn't leave Natalie because it was so great to like be dancing with her to that song in that moment. But I am also regretting not being a gorilla on stage. Could have been a gorilla. But yeah, but you know, also the great thing about that gig was it was at the open air theater, which means the curfews at like half past 10 and it finished a mere Natty. We're just like, do you know what? We're just going to go back, eat an entire pizza reach, which we bought earlier in Tesco's and hadn't eaten before we'd gone out because we were so full from our fish and chips. And we literally got back both ate an entire pizza and went straight to bed.(...) It was, yeah, it was pretty good. It sounds glorious. It sounds really glorious. It was glorious. It was awesome. All right. To finish this out, what's the one thing throughout the entire trip that you couldn't live without during the run? Marmite. Marmite. There we go. That's the one.(...) Oh, sorry. And my friendships. Oh, yeah.

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And to L.(...) Right, guys. Thank you so much for listening. We will be back next week. We're getting down to the numbers now. I think this is this is episode 16.

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We are we're going to be in like single not I keep saying single double digit day. Three, three months. It's getting crazy. It's getting crazy. So yeah, getting down to the line, everybody. But join us next week.(...) And until then, keep running. Stay safe.(...) Bye.

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