BROOKE McIntosh looks far from an athlete weighed down by injuries, yet she gets the answer to the stock standard question out of the way quickly.

"The knees are going good, the hips are going good," Brooke said on a stopover in Euroa on Friday morning.

"And they're my only problems really, but they're fine, so I am fine."

Brooke took delight in diverting from the Hume Freeway to greet a groundswell of support from Euroa Primary School students on Clifton Street.

The students waited patiently to see her and EPS school principal Kim Flack - accompanying Brooke - run into town on day 56 of a 14,000km journey around Australia.

Brooke began her 71km Friday run in Longwood at 8am with the target being Winton by nightfall.

She took a diversion through Euroa to greet students, grab a coffee, and raise awareness of the deeper issue of mental wellbeing.

Brooke said mental health had always been close to her heart, with her personal contact with many people facing their own battles.

She said that after an earlier 'drastic' feat of running 1600km through Western Australia in August 2023, she decided the challenge was not big enough.

"You do something drastic to get people talking and when I completed that run, I said 'I'm not finished yet, I actually want to keep going all the way around Australia'.

"Doing something so drastic gets people talking about it - 'what does she think she's doing?'

"That then sparks just one more conversation along the lines of 'she's doing that to raise awareness for mental health'."

Her campaign's title 'Just One More' stresses the importance of having that single extra conversation with someone in need of talking or of spreading the importance of talking about mental health around the community or, in her case, around the country.

Brooke's inspiration also came from having worked on WA's mines.

"I know how tough some of those guys out there do it," she said.

"They are sure tough, but a lot of people have these masks on and it's not until you sit one-on-one with them and then you hear their stories of what they have gone through and what they are still going through.

“They soon reveal that the big macho on the outside is actually a soft teddy bear on the inside, with emotions wanting to come out too."

Brooke said that the importance of physical health needed to be matched with mental health.

"I am big on our physical health, and we take care about it enough, but what about our mindset?

"I believe that if we don't have our mental health then we don't have our physical health."

Just One More support team manager Suz Tutty said she and team-mate Dan McKinnon needed to deal with many logistics during each day.

"When she is running, that's when we get things worked out," Ms Tutty said.

"Like today, we needed to get the indicators on the van fixed and the guys over at Murphy's (Motors) have been great.”

Ms Tutty said the campaign was hoping to raise $100 per kilometre to raise a total of $1.4m.

She also said her role was more than just ‘wing-woman’.

“Depending on who you talk to, I am either the bodyguard or the mum,” she said.

“So, it’s everything in between.”

She said people did not necessarily need to donate to the cause if they were not in a position to do so.

“Of course, the purpose is to attract sponsors, but we also appreciate that people have their own strains and challenges at this time so if someone wants to support the mission but may not be in a position to support us financially, the greatest thing they can do is just have that one more conversation with someone.

“Having a link shared with someone else is just as good as people donating.

“We see people, we hear people, and we appreciate that everyone is going through their own thing and so that's the purpose of having just one more conversation."

The EPS children gave Brooke a hearty welcome with cheers and posters saying 'One More Conversation', a response that buoyed her journey.

"When you come into a town like this and the kids turn out, it's just incredible.

"Never had that before - stuff like this just keeps me going."

Donations can be made at https://just-one-more.raiselysite.com/