If ever there were three words to make any runner turn around and stare at the non-runner who utters the phrase until the non-runner either walks off or bursts into flame, they are: “Run Forrest, run.” However, Rob Pope, a vet from Liverpool in the UK, has broken Winston Groom’s fictional character’s record by running across the USA five times, starting in Mobile, Alabama and finishing in Mississippi.

Rob has run over 24,000 kilometres on his journey, which was inspired by his late mother, who told him to do