June 10, 2024 • 6 mins
Guinness World Record holder Emma Timmis discusses what it takes to achieve one and her new record for 2024.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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monkey you Beck.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Jeez, well I see that you guys do lots of
crazy things as well.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Wow, twenty four hours of handbill, I mean, yes it was.
It was a little while, but you know, for a
good cause, which is exactly what you're doing for a
great cause as well. But something trying to break a
world record? Talk us through it.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
So I'm going to be attempting to set a new
female world record for the greatest distance on a treadmill
in one week.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Wow, So what is that? How long is someone in
the past run on a treadmill over a week?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Females? Eight hundred and thirty three kilometers?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Jeez?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Now, Megan, you did two hours on the treadmill last week.
You see that felt like that was good? I wanted
to die afterwards. Are you going to be on a
treadmill non stop?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I will be getting off to eat and sleep good.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So what is it ever? Over one hundred over one
hundred k's a day something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, so if you average out the current world record,
it's one hundred and nineteen one nine, so obviously I
need to do about one twenty or more per day.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
How do you feel like, because you know we've working
you in the past, I mean, you ran across Africa,
which was well the equivalent of like ninety marathons or
something over eighty nine days. So how are you feeling
about this? Is this a realistic thing that you could
potentially do?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh, I'm pretty confident in my abilities. Yeah, physically, I
don't think there's a problem. It's just it's going to
be such a mental challenge.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Mates, you ran across the continent of Africa.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I think I think I know if you can go
on to are you listening to podcasts? You're watching like series?
Do you do anything like that? Because I find you, know,
you go to the gym, you're on the elliptical or whatever.
It isn't after like ten minutes you're like, oh, right,
I've come on. I feel like I need to do
something else. But you're going to be there all day,
every day for a week. What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah? So I will be listening to some podcasts. Although
when I did the forty eight hour record on the treadmill,
I actually found after a few hours my brain couldn't
even focus on the words they were saying in the podcast.
So I'll have some kind of repetitive, non wordy dance
music that I'll listen to. And then also there's just
going to be loads of people around me, So I
(02:13):
think the energy from other people will keep me going
and I'll be able to chat to people when I've
got the energy to do that.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Because you do hit a wall when you're running. What
the runners like yourself? Ultra marathon runners are ultra long
distance runners. What do you think about it? Like?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
How do you keep yourself going?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Mentally?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh? Well, in terms of the question what do I
think about? There's a lot inside this brain of mine,
So there's never like any limit to what I'm thinking about.
I think of all kind of weird and wonderful things.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I suppose yourself a lot of the world's problems.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh absolutely, I'm in control of everything in my own
little space in my head.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That's incredible what you're doing. So you're raising money for
the speed Freaks Trusts. Is it right with us for that?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah? So the speed Freaks is an amazing charity. It's
a very young charity. They'll be celebrating their third birthday
while I'm on the treadmill. And they use running and
walking alongside connection and community to aid recovery from addiction
and it's just so successful. So they started in christ Church,
but now they are set up in Auckland and in
Fengray and they's demand all over the country. But unfortunately
(03:14):
they're at their limit financially, so they really need help
and support. So that's what this is all about, raising
money for them.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Speedfrea.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's a great name for the organization too.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, the participants chose that name.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, it's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I mean they'd probably go a lot, a lot quicker
and a lot longer too if they were. Let's see
a fantastic cause. And can we just go into your
African journey when you ran across Africa and I was
spoken to you about it before. Are you running into
lions and you know drafts?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And oh we saw lots of drafts or lots of elephants,
lots of warthogs, but no lions thankfully.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Any animals come, you know, trying to teck you or
come near you.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Ah, there was a rhino pushing the vehicle in the
middle of the night. So we slept in a rooftop.
Ten we were on the top of the vehicle and
a rhino came up and was pushing it becausebably quite
intimidated by it. You could hear elephants, so the male,
the young male elephants in the middle of the night,
they walk around snapping branches and making noises because they're
(04:11):
trying to attract females. And you could hear them snapping branches,
getting closer and closer and closer to the vehicle, and
that was quite scary, but thankfully nothing happened with them.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Last you don't want to encounterbody.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
What about like eighty nine days I think across Africa
was incredible? Like what about safety for you? Because I imagined
some places were out there on your are not just
wild animals, but you know, did you encounter anything like that?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
We would generally say so, I had a support crew.
There was four other people, one on a bike and
three in a vehicle, so the vehicle was always relatively
close and the bike was next to me all the time.
And yeah, generally the people in Africa just wanted to
help us as much as they could.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Awesome, did you find out the rein down in Africa.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
There was a lot of rain at the end. It
ran into a rainy season.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Your feet, it's a fun of your feet on your
website from you Was this your only fans? I'm not
sure what I'm looking at right now, but but it's
is running across every very swollen. I imagine eighty nine days,
very blistery as well.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, yeah, well they've been a lot worse than things
I've done since. I probably thought it was bad at
the time, but now I know what it's like, really
really bad feet.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
How do you run through a blister?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Like, once I've got one, I'm like, okay, well I'm
out there. Yeah. A lot of pain management and mental control.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
What about the stats? You're worried about the stitch and
getting through that to run my kids, I go around
by kids and I've got the stitches and you're like
through kids. Yeah, what do you do? What do you
if you get the stitch? What's your advice?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh? My advice from when I've had it, when I
was younger, would be to push your fingers onto it
like a younger person.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You got the stick when you were younger, you always
felt that you got the stitch to.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Really get to do with age. Maybe as you get older.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You good luck. If you do get the stairs, push
through up, say grunting.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Don't you like when you get the stets You're like,
whatever works for you.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, you don't want to be doing that in the
middle of snip. We'll go and we'd love to talk
to you again. I don't know if you're taking phone
calls through your thing, you're probably managing that, but we'd
love to talk to you, even throughout or at the
end of it. It would be great.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh yeah, my crew have got a phone and they
can point it towards my mouth and I'll grunt to you.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh great, Have you got the
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Amazing Thank you God, thanks
This Gentleman Being podcast brought to you by HelloFresh, the
Experts and Tastes that kiwis love you your your mad
monkey you Beck.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Jeez, well I see that you guys do lots of
crazy things as well.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Wow, twenty four hours of handbill, I mean, yes it was.
It was a little while, but you know, for a
good cause, which is exactly what you're doing for a
great cause as well. But something trying to break a
world record? Talk us through it.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
So I'm going to be attempting to set a new
female world record for the greatest distance on a treadmill
in one week.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Wow, So what is that? How long is someone in
the past run on a treadmill over a week?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Females? Eight hundred and thirty three kilometers?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Jeez?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Now, Megan, you did two hours on the treadmill last week.
You see that felt like that was good? I wanted
to die afterwards. Are you going to be on a
treadmill non stop?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I will be getting off to eat and sleep good.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So what is it ever? Over one hundred over one
hundred k's a day something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, so if you average out the current world record,
it's one hundred and nineteen one nine, so obviously I
need to do about one twenty or more per day.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
How do you feel like, because you know we've working
you in the past, I mean, you ran across Africa,
which was well the equivalent of like ninety marathons or
something over eighty nine days. So how are you feeling
about this? Is this a realistic thing that you could
potentially do?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh, I'm pretty confident in my abilities. Yeah, physically, I
don't think there's a problem. It's just it's going to
be such a mental challenge.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Mates, you ran across the continent of Africa.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I think I think I know if you can go
on to are you listening to podcasts? You're watching like series?
Do you do anything like that? Because I find you, know,
you go to the gym, you're on the elliptical or whatever.
It isn't after like ten minutes you're like, oh, right,
I've come on. I feel like I need to do
something else. But you're going to be there all day,
every day for a week. What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah? So I will be listening to some podcasts. Although
when I did the forty eight hour record on the treadmill,
I actually found after a few hours my brain couldn't
even focus on the words they were saying in the podcast.
So I'll have some kind of repetitive, non wordy dance
music that I'll listen to. And then also there's just
going to be loads of people around me, So I
(02:13):
think the energy from other people will keep me going
and I'll be able to chat to people when I've
got the energy to do that.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Because you do hit a wall when you're running. What
the runners like yourself? Ultra marathon runners are ultra long
distance runners. What do you think about it? Like?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
How do you keep yourself going?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Mentally?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh? Well, in terms of the question what do I
think about? There's a lot inside this brain of mine,
So there's never like any limit to what I'm thinking about.
I think of all kind of weird and wonderful things.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I suppose yourself a lot of the world's problems.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh absolutely, I'm in control of everything in my own
little space in my head.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That's incredible what you're doing. So you're raising money for
the speed Freaks Trusts. Is it right with us for that?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah? So the speed Freaks is an amazing charity. It's
a very young charity. They'll be celebrating their third birthday
while I'm on the treadmill. And they use running and
walking alongside connection and community to aid recovery from addiction
and it's just so successful. So they started in christ Church,
but now they are set up in Auckland and in
Fengray and they's demand all over the country. But unfortunately
(03:14):
they're at their limit financially, so they really need help
and support. So that's what this is all about, raising
money for them.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Speedfrea.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's a great name for the organization too.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, the participants chose that name.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, it's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I mean they'd probably go a lot, a lot quicker
and a lot longer too if they were. Let's see
a fantastic cause. And can we just go into your
African journey when you ran across Africa and I was
spoken to you about it before. Are you running into
lions and you know drafts?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And oh we saw lots of drafts or lots of elephants,
lots of warthogs, but no lions thankfully.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Any animals come, you know, trying to teck you or
come near you.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Ah, there was a rhino pushing the vehicle in the
middle of the night. So we slept in a rooftop.
Ten we were on the top of the vehicle and
a rhino came up and was pushing it becausebably quite
intimidated by it. You could hear elephants, so the male,
the young male elephants in the middle of the night,
they walk around snapping branches and making noises because they're
(04:11):
trying to attract females. And you could hear them snapping branches,
getting closer and closer and closer to the vehicle, and
that was quite scary, but thankfully nothing happened with them.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Last you don't want to encounterbody.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
What about like eighty nine days I think across Africa
was incredible? Like what about safety for you? Because I imagined
some places were out there on your are not just
wild animals, but you know, did you encounter anything like that?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
We would generally say so, I had a support crew.
There was four other people, one on a bike and
three in a vehicle, so the vehicle was always relatively
close and the bike was next to me all the time.
And yeah, generally the people in Africa just wanted to
help us as much as they could.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Awesome, did you find out the rein down in Africa.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
There was a lot of rain at the end. It
ran into a rainy season.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Your feet, it's a fun of your feet on your
website from you Was this your only fans? I'm not
sure what I'm looking at right now, but but it's
is running across every very swollen. I imagine eighty nine days,
very blistery as well.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, yeah, well they've been a lot worse than things
I've done since. I probably thought it was bad at
the time, but now I know what it's like, really
really bad feet.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
How do you run through a blister?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Like, once I've got one, I'm like, okay, well I'm
out there. Yeah. A lot of pain management and mental control.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
What about the stats? You're worried about the stitch and
getting through that to run my kids, I go around
by kids and I've got the stitches and you're like
through kids. Yeah, what do you do? What do you
if you get the stitch? What's your advice?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh? My advice from when I've had it, when I
was younger, would be to push your fingers onto it
like a younger person.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You got the stick when you were younger, you always
felt that you got the stitch to.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Really get to do with age. Maybe as you get older.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You good luck. If you do get the stairs, push
through up, say grunting.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Don't you like when you get the stets You're like,
whatever works for you.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, you don't want to be doing that in the
middle of snip. We'll go and we'd love to talk
to you again. I don't know if you're taking phone
calls through your thing, you're probably managing that, but we'd
love to talk to you, even throughout or at the
end of it. It would be great.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh yeah, my crew have got a phone and they
can point it towards my mouth and I'll grunt to you.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh great, Have you got the
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Amazing Thank you God, thanks
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