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Hello there, welcome to RunPod, the Run Club of the podcast world, with me Jenny Faulkner and with a guest who is returning to renew her RunPod run club membership.

Now, she's someone I've known for years. She used to read the

news on my radio show when I worked on Hart and then she left to be a full-time runner. I remember

going, what? You're going to be a runner because she'd only been running really for a short space

of time. She now works with the running channel. She is an insane, incredible runner. It's Anna Harding. Hello there. Thanks, Jenny. Sorry, you make me sound like I'm an elite athlete there. I think you are. I think actually you are an elite athlete. I mean, obviously I don't see you as often as I used to, I used to see you every single morning. But whenever I see what you're up to, on Instagram, I'm like, oh my God, another crazy challenge. Another one. You just love them. Yeah, I do. I do. I love having something to look forward to. And I love just like, just trying. You never know whether it's going to work or not. And sometimes I don't succeed in the challenges, but sometimes I do. And I just, yeah, I love that about running. I do love that. I feel like that you represent us all. So you're kind of like the real person that's going out there doing these amazing challenges and showing us how easy or how hard or how glamorous or how lacking in glamour each of these different races are. And I love that about you and you keep it very very real but actually

you do smash most of them come on oh thank you yeah no I like to fly the flag for the average

runner we don't all have to be you know the very fastest you know I love being mid to back of the

pack that's where the party is most of the time anyway. I do love this. I like it.

How is 20-22 being because you were last on Rumpud just before lockdown. And so obviously,

there's been a lot that's gone on since then. A lot of races, a lot of races like in gardens.

I know that you did a huge epic run. Was it in your mum's back garden?

Yeah. Yeah, I did a marathon in my mum's back garden, which was about 20 metres long or something.

It was many, many laps.

That was really cool.

And then when everything started to open back up again and we can get back to racing,

it's been an incredible sort of 18 months.

I did Berlin Marathon. I did Boston Marathon, which was

incredible. I've done a beautiful marathon on the Isle of Mull up in Scotland. And also the

Loch Ness Marathon I did earlier this year, which is beautiful, as you well know, Jenny.

Well, I don't know what the Marathons like, because I haven't done it, but I do know it's a

beautiful part of the world. And I know a little bit more about the marathon from watching your

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