What starts as a simple decision to run can end up taking you much further than expected.

In Season 1, Episode 3 of the Chase Your Extraordinary Podcast, Chloe Mistry speaks with Sam Douglas — a member of the Chase Your Extraordinary community whose running streak has grown to more than 1,650 consecutive days.

Sam talks about starting out with the World Police and Fire Games in Washington, building running into everyday life, and why her current streak was never meant to become what it is today. She shares the practical reality of keeping it going through holidays, illness, bad weather and even a trip up Mount Kilimanjaro.

The conversation also explores Sam and her husband Stuart's 209-mile journey across Iceland, the moment she realised she was capable of more than she had assumed, and why she believes ordinary people can do extraordinary things without being elite, sponsored or professional.

Sam also looks ahead to her first official marathon, a return to Iceland and a 100 km challenge in Swedish Lapland.

This is an episode about consistency, curiosity, taking things step by step and discovering what can happen when you stop assuming something is beyond you.

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Hosted by Chloe Mistry.

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