The High Performance Podcast — The 'Hardest Geezer' On Finding Direction When You're Lost | Russ Cook (E418)

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The 'Hardest Geezer' On Finding Direction When You're Lost | Russ Cook (E418)

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Russ Cook, better known as the Hardest Geezer, became famous for running the length of Africa. 352 days. 10,000 miles. The first person ever to do it. But before all of that, he was a teenager scrubbing a Waitrose toilet at 4am, opening a cupboard to find a single tin of new potatoes, and hiding a gambling debt from…

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