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Hello there and welcome to meet the Rompad Run Club.

Yep, I'm thrilled to say that this brilliant bonus series is back.

These are episodes in which we get to meet you, members of the Rompod Run Club. We all have our own

reasons to run and in this bonus series, we get to hear yours. I'm Jenny Faulkner and today I'm thrilled

to be joined by a drama teacher, Vic Potridge. Hello there.

Hi, Jenny. How are you? Very, very well indeed. How are you doing?

Yeah, I'm really good, thanks. Really good. Well, look, it's lovely to have you here.

And before we start, let me just establish, where are you at the moment? And how long have you been a drama teacher? So I'm in Northampton, so I'm kind of nearly in the middle of the country.

And I've been a drama teacher for about 17 years.

Okay, all right.

So a little while as a drama teacher, but relatively new as a runner, because am I right and saying until June 2020, running wasn't your thing?

Oh, I probably didn't even own a pair of proper trainers.

Yeah, no, before then I was overweight, unhealthy, bad diet, bad habits.

Really, really, I was a walking advertisement for everything that you shouldn't be doing with your life.

Oh, really?

I mean, so then what changed? What changed to make you want to kind of make your life

healthier? Well, I'd always wanted to. But then obviously when you have kids and you know what

it's like when they're toddlers and there's a bit of fish figure left on the end of the plate and all

of a sudden it goes in your mouth and you go to work and then

you're stressed and then the bottle of wine comes out at the end of the day and it's not just one

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