By Chris Dunlavy
ODDLY enough, Stephen Gilpin was slumped on his coach when he decided to run 10k every day for a month.
“I was watching a programme called Iron Cowboy,” explains Gilpin, head of the medical department at Rotherham United.
“It’s about a guy called James Lawrence, who did 50 Iron Man triathlons, on 50 consecutive days, in all 50 states of the USA. He was literally putting his body through hell, getting in an RV, then driving hundreds of miles to do the next one.
“I thought ‘If he can do that, what can I do?’. It was the...