"I like running in much the same way I like drinking tea. There are days when I don’t run, and days when I don’t drink tea, but they’re rare.

I’ve averaged 5 runs a week for at least 25 years- from the ages of 18-43 (min 6500), and before that at least 3 runs a week from the age of 14 (min 624). This wee montage in cloud-land likely doesn't contain my 8000th run, it’s likely my 8000th and something, but given how obsessed us runners sometimes get about numbers it seems right to round-down. Having found myself in NZ on a film tour, and doing the math in my head one day while yogging, I thought it about time I visualised a love letter to this zennish, normalized, sweaty bloody pastime I’ve found myself in a lifelong relationship with."

• Beau Miles

Filmed on location in Aotearoa New Zealand: Queenstown, Wanaka, Christchurch, Hamilton, Auckland.