We've teamed up with Assex for a bonus three episode mini-series of the Running Channel podcast. We've each taken the other two on our everyday escapes, what we enjoyed doing for our running. And we're going to now bring you along too. First up, it's me. Let's go.

Is this going to be predictable, do you think so? Well, we have actually all previously talked about our perfect run and I think we're all in a lovely position where quite often

we can escape from our desks to a version of our perfect run or how we design our

perfect race. So it was no surprise when Andy dragged us out to a pine needle forest. I did. I'm still

shuddering with glee from take genuine. So the point here is like what would be your perfect way

of getting outside and getting for a run? And mine is that it's escaping into, I can still smell the pine forest trees.

Rick was so concerned about getting his shoes dirty,

which I think I've spoken like a true North Londoner.

Well, I did say, was it going to be predictable, as in was it going to be muddy?

Yes.

Oh, no, the pine, I think pine needle forests are different. Like, if you go to like a deciduous forest, maybe to get to the pine needles, Andy. You have to go through the mud. And I was wearing white shoes. You were. And you just kept like picking up bits of the pine needles and just rubbing it between your hands. I wanted to be like, you know, when Russell Cryron and Gladiator goes out to battle, even though I was in a much more positive frame of mind than that, I was like just, you know, all the footballers that pick up the blades of grass before they go on the kind of hollow turf of their home ground. That was, that was me in the beautiful forests of Bedfordshire where what did you think though?

Have I convinced you?

I've got to say I have run on pine needles before

but not with other people

and I thought it was absolutely lovely.

I forgot how bouncy it was.

It was surprising how fast you were able to go.

I thought because we were going to go on a trail run, we were all going to have a nice

slow bimble through the forest, whereas you, at one point you literally said like, oh,

I just love it because it really slows me down.

And at which point me and when it turns to each other and went, really slow it down. As went, flying over a tree stump. There were some feld trees, weren't there? Which we had to kind of leap over. Yeah, it was a wonderful, should we go through it? Should we go under it? Should we go over it? Andy went round. I went through. Sarah, you're too young. Or rather, yeah, you don't have children. and so I'm sure the bear hunt rhyme. Yeah, yeah, that's what I meant. Okay, going over it and throw it and etc.

What is it about that? Sarah, you're too young, or rather, yeah, you don't have children, so I'm sure the bear hunt, right?

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