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Hello there, welcome to a rather special episode of RunPod. It's the final episode of 2020. It's

Christmas and I have a brilliant guest for you today. It's the Run Pod Hat Trick. I'm Jenny

Faulkner and it's fair to say that after the year we've all had, we're definitely already

for some eating, drinking and being merry and perhaps in amongst all the celebrating, or perhaps

you might even have a little time to get out there for a run. In fact, maybe that's what you're

doing right now,

in which case, welcome along to the special gathering of the Run Pod Run Club. I do have a treat

for you today, for I am joined by a man who is a comedian, actor, writer, and he is a runner. In fact,

he's done so much running over the last few years. I'm amazed he actually

has time for anything else. I'm thrilled to welcome Eddie Isard to Run Pod. Eddie, hello there.

Hi there. How are you? I'm very good. How are you doing? I am good, thank you.

Do you know what the funny thing is? I mean, I remember when I first saw you doing the run around Britain, when was that, 2009?

And I hadn't realized that you were into running prior to that.

But then I found out that you hadn't been into running.

I was like, oh, what?

How on earth did that come about then?

Well, you kind of started running just for this huge challenge as a friend of

mine um dr gary that my um friend since i was 13 who's is my now sports doctor and he said it's visceral

what you're doing is visceral um if you if you if you're trying to raise money and you're trying to do a sporting event and it's, you know, sport relief, you've got to do a sporting challenge.

If you're swimming, David Williams did fantastic things, but it's, it's tricky, especially if you're going across the channel.

You know, you have to have a boat there and it's basically David face down or any swimmer face down in the water. Running is much more up there. It's

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