Hello, I'm welcome to the Jamesmith podcast episode number 21, I believe.

And today's podcast is called Chronicles of a COVID-19 Strava Wanker.

So today's episode is about running activity trackers, burning calories.

Everyone because of the COVID epidemic has now become an amateur runner, myself included,

been showing up a little bit because I used to, I can't really just a shit on running a bit.

Not because I was anti-running, a lot of people have thought that I am anti-running, I'm not.

I'm just pro-resistance training. The way I see it when we have the option, we should always be

selecting resistance training. A lot of people are in this mindset of thinking they have to run to

lose fat and through trying to move people out of that mindset, people think I'm anti-running.

Well, that's your right running, used to running a lot when I played rugby.

And I suppose how this is all begun and started was Charlie, my housemate,

started training for a bithalon. So I was like bithalon, what two is that? He was like running and

swimming. And I was like sick. The cycling part of me is always, really, I'm like, no, don't want to

jump on a bike, I don't like being a bike wanker. I'm from Barkshire in the UK and whenever the weather

gets nice in spring, you try and take your car out, go anywhere and the roads full of fucking

mini-launch Armstrong's doing the tour to Flipp in France and it pisses you off. So I didn't want

to be one of those guys. And one day he came back and I was like, yeah, what are you up to today?

He was like, you know, I'm just prepping this bithalon 4k run, 600 meter swim. So what?

It's a mini bithalon. As I mate, I could do that. And then it kind of got in my mind. Suddenly,

then my mind was occupied with this notion. I was like, I could do that and I kind of got, I was like,

I'm going to beat him. What I'd love to do is turn up to bithalon. It's very out of character for me.

Doing run, do must-wim and, you know, myself to be like, oh shit, got quite a good time.

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