Hello there, welcome to Run Pod. I hope that your running has been going well over the last few weeks because it is a strange time right now. And the weather can be hit or miss. But hopefully that hasn't stopped you getting out there. I always say that even if it's raining, once you get started, you won't notice it as much. And even if you do, sometimes it just adds to the whole experience

and you feel even more like you've earned that hot shower once you do get home.

The one area many runners do struggle with isn't the motivation.

It's the nutrition.

Certainly it's an area that I struggle with.

Are we eating the right food?

Could we be choosing the wrong foods? That's why we're a little

bit bloated or lethargic or demotivated sometimes. Well, luckily today, I have a dietitian on RunPod

who can help us with some of the myths she can advise us and what little changes we can do to

improve our running and as a very keen runner herself,

what does she do? Because let's be honest, I bet she's doing it right. Today, please welcome

Charlie Watson to Run Pod. Hello there. Hi, thanks so much for having me on. Oh, no,

thank you so much because I've followed you on Instagram for a long, long time. And I know that you love running, don't you?

I do. Yeah. But although I feel like as with a lot of people in 2020, I had a bit of a love, love hate relationship with running. Luckily that love is definitely back for 2021. The one positive that's come from the new year for me.

What was it that happened last year? Do you think was it, was it just everything that was going on?

I think it was stress of kind of working for the NHS, feeling I didn't have a very good balance

between sort of life and work and having races cancelled. I had a bit of an injury. I think I

probably was ill at the beginning of the year and never fully recovered. So a whole host of

reasons. And I just took a lot of time off from running and got a Peloton bike, which I'm obsessed

with, and have gradually reintroduced running and didn't put any pressure

on myself last year. And I think that's really helped in terms of being excited to run every time I do

run this year. Do you know what? I don't think you're alone. There's a lot of people that get in

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