Brock Williams - Running marathons to help others believe
Brock Williams is a 22 year old, 3rd year chiropractic student, who has shifted his life significantly from his days of school yard trouble maker.
Brock was never a great student, and spent most of his later years in school giving the teachers grief.
Brock grew up thinking he would play some form of elite level sport, but it wasn't meant to be, so from the age of 17 he fell into the cycle of coasting through life, not applying much effort to anything, and drank every weekend away.
In an effort to change his life, Brock decided to study chiropractic and make the big move to the city and start fresh.
But the real catalyst happened last year when Nedd Brockmann ran across Australia. Brock excitedly checked instagram each night when Nedd was doing his recaps, and something shifted inside him. Brock thought this was amazing.
From there, Brock signed up for his first half marathon. He then developed a love for marathons and started noticing a heap of unintentional associated benefits. He was more productive, and more motivated to eat healthy and do more exercise.
Brock then ran a marathon in his own time around his home town of Rosedale, and the pride began to swell.
He then signed up for the great ocean road 60k ultra marathon, got up each morning at 5am to train, and finished the run while at the same time raising $3,500 for the Starlight Children's Foundation.
Brock’s focus is now on his mate Xavier who is fighting cancer, by running from Adelaide to Sale in 16 days this December, averaging 62.5km per day. All money raised will go to the Sony Foundation.
Brock says the purpose of all this isn't self attention, but the belief that he can play a role in people realising their potential. He also says he doesn’t have any god given talents, but wants people to realise that everyone is capable of so much more, and it all comes down to a tiny bit more effort.
Sony Foundation - https://www.sonyfoundation.org/
Starlight - https://www.starlight.org.au/
Socials:
FB: Brock Williams
Insta: Brock Williams @brockwilliams_training
Adelaide to Sale Donate - https://www.sonyfoundation.org/event/brocks-border-run/donate
Enjoy the visual here on Youtube
