Welcome to episode 125 with Sally Orange, who is an endurance runner, mental health campaigner and speaker.
She holds 11 Guinness World Records, has ran over 70 marathons and has completed 22 years’ exemplary service in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a Physiotherapy Officer. This included an operational tour of duty in Afghanistan.
She captained the first British female team to complete the relentless Race Across America, the world’s toughest cycle race and has also ran the toughest footrace on earth, the Marathon des Sables.
And she’s also cycled the length of New Zealand, swam the English Channel relay and skied 250km across the largest plateau in the Arctic Circle. Most of which she has done dressed as various pieces of fruit to start stigma busting conversations about mental health.
In this episode I chat to Sally about her first marathon at the age of 34, why she started running and how it led to these adventures.
We talk about her own life long mental health challenges and how she balances looking after herself with taking part in these endurance events.
We also talk about fancy dress and starting conversations, her 22 years in the Royal Army Medical Corps and how to dig deep when you need to.
It was amazing chatting to Sally about her adventures and equally amazing to hear the mental health story behind them!
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