What is the BIGGEST barrier to Running the Entire Length of Africa? – #37

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My name is Russ Cook and I’m attempting to become the first person ever to run the entire length of Africa this is where I started this is where I’m heading and this is where I am now I’ve run 5,314 km so far and I’ve got

11,286 left to go so far on the mission I’ve survived alone in the desert pissed blood been robbed at gunpoint thought I was going to be killed in the jungle had my support van smashed to bits and in this episode I get attacked by dinosaurs make some new friends fight some

Children and the thing we’ve all been dreading finally catches up with us someone asked for a a trigger warning for all foot content so here it is please subscribe and like the like the what is it like the video and um like And subscribe like And subscribe like

And subscribe like And subscribe that Bell like And subscribe hit the notification Bell to to make sure that you don’t miss a single episode of this pure entertainment going on in this episode I get a blister in the depths of the Congo I also shag a gorilla look at that man blister

Plasters incredible invention can’t on a scale of broken to slightly less broken and pretty manageable where are you at don’t know mate don’t know we’ll see reckon you got another 62k day in the locker real easy Bice wow so massive Russ is this where you want me to do some video

Editing oh yeah yeah waa that is wow so we’ve got a plan re brazaville what is that plan plan this is the plan girls and boys Carry On Running normal day today and then when I finish today we’re going to bang it into brazille we’re going to swing by Cameron

Embassy real quick pick up our Visa we already submitted our EV visa application so should be quite straightforward Gus whilst we’re doing it is going to take the van go and chat to a little Carpenter who’s going to make some kind of shelf unit here notice

We took the seat out and then we’re going to reconvene together get back on road hopefully late afternoon and get some more KMS this is the only logistical problem of the week so for our for our weeks it’s actually pretty pretty decent man and we’ve actually got a plan for we don’t know

It’s probably just a cold M I’ll be R the fans are going to want to know is the bucket hat gone forever but I I quite like this one it’s surv right I need to leave right I hit the road once more I was feeling rough after my monster day but

The tarmac waits for nobody so I smashed it anyway the landscape was tur into beautiful grass land and the temperature was still pretty Fable so I was in good spirits by the first stop yo yo yo here he is bit stiff you look a bit

Stiff dude did you manage to get 8 hours last night did rough I just kept hearing maybe every 15 minutes while I was still awake little off yeah I fell asleep to the very calming sounds of that was so many made this the foolish the most foolish mistake of them

All and left my light on all day no yeah yeah yeah So that obviously every in every flying insect in the entire Congo rainforest is in my bed I was like Noah you can’t get rid of them no I’m not even joking I committed like a mass

Homicide last night with them like I’m talking at least 30 40 bro it’s like we teleported to Avatar or some man cuz like that there was so many insects I’ve never seen before I also watch the hardest geizer have a full-blown get out of bed like what the is that to a moth

I’ve actually been pulled out hard a butterfly no no no it wasn’t a mo it was a tennis ball with wings it was massive it was massive bro was just a butterfly bro it could have been a dinosaur man it was huge mate they don’t do anything

They just it was a mate I thought it was a dinosaur yeah it’s a bit of a rough one last night yeah a bit of a rough one this morning I imagine yeah um Russell I need you to be really honest me now are you going to make 60k today

Um deciding which body part I use to knock Stand Out is that a yes or a no then on the 60k front what are you saying bro I’m the captain all right I decide yeah and I’m just asking what you’ve decided Captain the captain runs to his own River boy I don’t answer

Questions no time do that mean also if if you’re line now it’s no questions we’ll be no questions St YouTube’s going to be a bit is R gets into an interview and he’s just like no comment no com I’m going to this piece of paper that my

Publicist just me there will be no further comment at this time mad that your publicist works for n quick yeah it’s crazy it’s crazy a big b here days you know right see if you can beat this Lor across the road oh yeah farewell I shook off my stiff legs and

Got back at it steering the great ship HMS Tac towards Tunisia I pounded it for another 20K ignoring the pain from my pathetic legs with their pathetic blisters near the end I bumped into an english- speaking cyclist and struck up a conversation right mate you brought a

Guest yeah yeah just met Marcus on side of the road so I thought I’d bring him over to St he studied in the DLC he’s a Veterinary oh wow do you want a drink do you need some water water energy drink I need to drink mate should we give him

A perfect head you go M what do you think good so good so she cycling where you going I’m go I’m going to this Village that I did buy it just to the city okay and then I came with it here it it helps me sometimes to move around here yeah make

It easy nice to meet you man it’s good to meet you too I like Marcus man he was cool he was cool it’s it’s interesting is like you don’t see many bikes around here 36 today 36° rough Less Hills though different how the Feet’s feeling I’ve been thinking about them all morning since

Watching a lot better than epod uh when I watched episode yeah my feet were well actually yeah does this count as a spoiler because it’s afterwards but it’s before but we haven’t watched it but we’ve experienced it wly wobbly Tomy me G what is one

Question you want to ask R if you could just pick like one meal for the rest of your life what would it be ooh my immediate answer would be Domino’s pineapple pizza with stuffed crust and a garlic and herb dip but I couldn’t do it

To myself cuz it would ruin my body hey it’s half one and I done marath just at 600 a.m. it’s just golden bro I hate waking up at 6 a.m. but it’s worth it yeah this morning I heard Russ’s alarm go off and him just going I was sleeping there my head was

There I looked and I saw gas and I went secretly hoping I’m going to have a after this I think anyway yeah stand not do too good yeah you can really see it my nose now I got a comment on a YouTube video that said I look like um Harry Potter at rock

Bottom that really is Carnage though cuz it’s true like they’re absolutely right anyway Algeria was always going to be a problem for us we couldn’t get the visa first time around when we switched the route we kind of just put that problem into the future basically the big

Problem for us is that you that foreigners cannot cross the morania border into Algeria but it is the only border that is that we have any chance of getting through the rest at all they just absolute noos right so for for it to be possible for us to go through

There we’ll have to get clearance from the absolute top top people in the government in Algeria so it’s going to be long big problem very hard to do they got 18K 18K here we go my mind was on the future of the mission as I hit the road for my last

18K Algeria had been the biggest roadblock for us since the mission started they had denied our Visa at the last minute which was the reason we flipped the mission on its head and started in South Africa we put it down as a future problem but now the future

Was only 3 months away and the problem still hadn’t been solved this could literally make or break the mission and it weighed heavy on my mind as I came to the Finish Line you all done yeah I was struggling a bit when it got to about 50

And then I thought boy these legs need to figure themselves out bit with Sprint on at the end yeah trying to trying to kick my legs into to doing something what some mad snacks get your hands on one of them got War as well fresh oh boy oh these

Look Sensational they’re really good man oh yeah thoughts that’s a elite snack game right we’ll let you recover onwards drive we set off on a road to brazille driving 2 hours into the city eventually landed up at a cheap hotel to spend the night ready for a day of

Shaking and moving in the Morning first thing we headed to the center of the city to park up the van the embassy wasn’t open yet so Gus went to search for a carpenter while he was gone he took the time to check out brazzaville’s Mighty Cathedral stunning isn’t it you’re quite

The religious man R what do you say ah it’s beautiful Man sost BR this was a beautiful place but Gus was soon back and the time for sightseing was over we left Gus with the van I’m raced to The Cameroon Embassy you guys look very comfortable comfortable we’re broken where are we we are in the cameroonian embassy currently waiting to

Be seen well the one thing I can’t stop thinking about is that apparently the Cameroon Embassy drinks hu that’s a good people isn’t it hu is just International these days you know they hit up been gongo they saw me running drinking like cool but yeah we have e visas yeah so we

Just need to put our visas into those things and then they’ll allow us in the Visa process was quick and easy for once which made a nice change and after they took our details they printed them on the spot and we were in and out in an hour things were looking good to

Get some running in later that day we headed back to the cathedral to reconvene with gust the Carpenters were busy building the shelves so we had some waiting to do then out of nowhere all hell broke loose they’re dragging someone away there I’m not entirely sure it just

Happened no me neither I mean this is a funeral and then some people just started running they were chasing after a dude they started the guy with a big green pipe was running after dude like pushed him to the ground hit him with a STI a few

Times I saw him chopping at another guy with a machete machete man yeah they were literally chopping at a guy in the street there with the machete there’s a bike on its side I just saw a dude running dragging a machete across the floor and like everyone running away from

Him what the just happened seems like it was over it started don’t know there’s a lot of people here man yeah standing outside now was very odd like everyone’s very panicked looking they’re holding the gate closed only letting in certain people I’m not sure this was a very strange situation

For us I still don’t know exactly what happened in all the chaos but it was a sobering moment and I’m Pleasant to see it wasn’t our place to get involved so all we could do was hope that everyone was okay and push on with the rest of

The day we decided to leave the car park though and go and visit the workshop to see how things were getting on this like an example of uh where are we Rose uh we’re in the carpentry B said right we’ll see how that turns out then yeah maybe it was

Slow progress our shell were still just a pile of wood at this point and time was ticking if I wanted to get any running in that day as the guys worked all we could do was wait where are we Russ we are in brazille whereabouts in

Braille waiting for the man to put some things in our van but hang on I thought that’s where we were earlier when it was still daylight yes we’re still we’re still waiting oh if I knew it was going to take this long I wouldn’t we I wouldn’t have got sh it’s not that

Important yeah going to be good but it’s like not worth taking a rest day for no so we quite frustrated to be fair but what can you do man what can we do now what you what do you think we can use now St I think we should find out if

He’s definitely going to finish it today if it if he does it doesn’t really matter what time cuz we have beds so you can get some kid I mean even right now it’s 35° I think we just passed the point of no return to say 63 yeah it was dark now

And still our van was empty Gus decided to get involved and help out but the inside of the van was boiling progress was slow and he was getting more and more frustrated hours past as everyone on the street shut up shop and went home to be fair to the carets they stuck at

It just like the boys who told the van they were working with limited tools way past closing time in vicious heat and eventually after many design changes and loads of glue they got it done hello what time is it hello it’s 10 to 11 yes sir it’s been a long day here on

Project Africa honestly was it worth it probably not we got shelving isn’t that amazing are you happy not really Gus is broken there’s no privacy here guys sorry how do you feel do you feel proud it’s hour and a half drive here cameraman stands on the

Drive bang bang I drove for a long 2 hours squinting out of our scratched up plastic wind screen to a makeshift campsite near the start line and collapsed into bed 6: a.m. yet again what are you saying right it’s just a one slip up boy it’s

Not even a slip up like it was just a logical decision it’s fair dude yeah it would have been stupid to wake up at 6 morning we drive back from brazille to here and I just found a place for us to sleep I I was going to you why didn’t I

Drive uh cuz you weren’t you were not with it lad I was like not even Luci it so uh I’m really ill at the moment and I I I said I’d Drive yeah basically the double champ is stepped up all right how are your feet what’s the

Condition like before you put them away this one I thought it was giving me the same viers you know that um that guy from Star Trek Darth cidus yeah yeah yeah it’s bit like a little angry man on the bottom of my foot you know what I

Mean yeah fair enough just chill out bro I’d like to see you play a role in Star Trek man in Star Trek yeah yeah you just get your lightsaber out just be like all right mate I’m going to slap you silly with it you I think Chuck pass on it pretend it doesn’t

Exist Cal best way to deal with stuff that traa yeah traa mental health problems nasty blisters ailles issues do you think you’re going to be able to get a solid number in today yeah not 60 though I mean it depends how hot it gets if it gets anywhere near as hot as it

Has been 60 is looking un like boy I was feeling good about the 6s as well it’s all right back to it tomorrow get back up on the daily starts and you should be all right what do you think of this ear shelf like do you think it’s any good do

You think it’s a a work of an artisan excellent work wasn’t it g yeah like I think it’s very good that we decided not to make it ourself but leave it to the professionals yes did a good job they were quick but you know look it works it works they did a great

Job job thanks guys time to bang bang SK ski yeah here we go don’t cross the road oh it felt good to be back on the road after my unexpected rest day my body was feeling surprisingly good too and the heat was bearable so I smashed up the

Pristine road until it was nothing but Rubble I was Keen to make sub 60k days a thinger the pass and pushed on with Max maximum aggression soon arriving at the 20K stop how’s it been yeah it’s actually not as hot I don’t think no we do have a real issue with the solers

Though nothing’s charging like zero it was getting seven n now so we we’ve called Harry to get in touch with the guys this is big problem this be problemo we fixed one thing and then the next thing breaks there is that okay it’s the end of an area what’s happening

Uh we’re saying goodbye to this camel back it served its purpose but she’s a bit naed yeah I don’t want to smell it before you ask yeah it’s bad how many is how many is that cam back done 4,700 km something like this that’s pretty decent shift day don’t to bounce

We’ve got an audience to that we have we’ve made some friends they’re really cute kids man they are very cute we’ve been having some Shadow Boxing Wars um yeah I T them about ones and twos and then you keep doing that every single day for maybe

Like 300 days and then you run the entire length of I climbed into the privacy tent and ran at them to Good Times classic prank That wa we’re being attacked so you’re going to have to fight off the hordes before you can start I’m going to get you all right see you soon m i powered on sended small humans flying like Skittles as I went things were feeling good but suddenly out of

Nowhere I saw a turtle peeking out of his shell or rather I felt it where are we going we’re going to get some uh different some toilet paper to R Us it’s an emergency toilet paper drop complete the mission you’ve been given with R emergency it’s like a flying

Refuel emptied and refreshed I stomped the tarmac with new found energy blazing through dense beautiful jungle and Tiny villages to the next stop God good how’s it right [Laughter] it’sing yeah yeah yeah we get it in now we go up now we go Up just so them I still got a sauce couple ones and twos on the foot pit you know we met a couple guys that said they had a chat to you as well a couple Americans oh yeah they were good guys actually yeah cool guys yeah so we gave

Them our number and then they said if we need anything from bras they’ll bring it up for us one’s a doctor one’s an electrician and the one’s missionary one of them was 8 that old guy about 86 years old he’s a doctor yeah very strange to hear an American accent I

Can’t lie it’s been a good break yes yes time to hit it I left the crowds behind and sped on as the jungle opened out to beautiful rolling grasslands on Route I spotted a vast Canyon through the thick vegetation The boys caught up with me halfway Midway through another incredible Turtle encounter yo you’re good yeah yeah yeah good to carry on just doing a bit of that oh no I’m mostly okay it’s just like every now and again it will get a bit shooty

And I go oh just hold that for a minute and then it will pass and then I’ll carry on what did you see on your run and you saw a Gorge right yeah yeah yeah well I couldn’t really see it but I kind of could I could half see it and be like

I bet that looks good on the dve start running again cool see you soon I finally managed to get the Mir cap back in its hole sped up again for the last few km finally making it to the Finish Line yo Bon Swan Bon is that another 60k

Day it was bang bang that’s impressive I didn’t think you get it in today now nether did I to be honest but it helped that it wasn’t 8 million deges let’s have a look actually temperature yeah it’s been all right today best Pace in a

While today as well back in the 6 Minute K Visions still 34 today what do you reckon the next major logistical issu is going to be someone getting ill well we already are I feel a little bit but do you play sorry that’s right yeah who know stay

Tuned I reckon probably won’t take long probably take one episode something go WR I reckon we’re going to get bought up in a huge fire explosion wow yeah so all in successful day mission complete see you next time oh what on but our next logistical issue was closer than we

Thought throughout all our time in the Congo we’ been in dry season and it was due to stay that way the rainy season brought with it mashed up impossible roads for the van which would cause huge issues for the future of the rout but all of our delays had left us

Dangerously close to the start of rainy season and up to this point have been pure luck it hadn’t caught up with us tonight was the night our luck changed as something brewed on the horizon Thunder in the next episode we party with the locals commit a crime and the heavens finally open