Summary
Today's guest, Helen Skelton is a Presenter and No.1 Action Woman.
Best known for Presenting BBC's Blue Peter, and Countryfile, Helen has had some amazing active life experiences. She's kayaked the length of the Amazon, competed in a Boxing Match, done High Wire Walks, and a Skateboarding Competition, and tried her hand at Farming as well as dancing on BBC Strictly. On top of all this, Helen is an incredible runner who has done many Marathons across the world.
Basically - she's the dream RunPod Guest, who will definitely get you motivated and inspired
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Run Pod is sponsored by M&S, where you can shop all your favourite sportswear brands. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello there, I'm Jenny Falconer, welcoming you back to Run Pod, the Run Club of the podcast world. |
| 0:14.9 | And to motivate you in this episode, I have the number one action woman. |
| 0:20.1 | I mean, I kid you not, she's done everything. |
| 0:22.0 | She was a blue Peter presenter, so that tells you everything from the start. Actually, with |
| 0:26.5 | everything that she's done, she has had some amazing life experiences, from kayaking the length |
| 0:31.5 | of the Amazon to competing in a boxing match with sport relief. She's learned to high wire walk. I don't know, she's |
| 0:38.3 | beaten a world powerboat champion. She's taken part in the UK women's downhill |
| 0:42.6 | skateboarding championships. She's been on Strictly. She's a farmer of sorts. And we can also |
| 0:49.1 | add runner to the mix. She has done her fair share. She has done everything. She is amazing. It's Helen |
| 0:55.0 | Skelton. Hi. Hello. I don't know if I've done everything, but yes, sometimes my friends are |
| 0:59.7 | like, all right, just let that one go. I'm like, okay, fine. Is there anything actually that |
| 1:03.5 | you haven't done that you're like, I'd really like to do that? Oh, loads of stuff, but it's when you're a Blue Peter presenter, that is your job. Like, your job is to try random stuff. So I feel a bit of a fraud when I take credit for it because I'm like, I went to work |
| 1:15.4 | and they'd go, okay, on Monday you're going to be a dog sledder. On Tuesday, you're going to |
| 1:18.7 | interview Jack Black. On Wednesday, you're going to learn how to make ropes. That job is the most ridiculous of jobs. The further I get from Blue Peter, the prouder I get of it, |
| 1:29.1 | because I think when you're a parent, anything that inspires and excites your kids, you sort of |
| 1:35.0 | cling on to. And that's what that job is. That's what that shows about. It's about getting |
| 1:39.1 | kids excited about the world. So I've done many random things. I'm useful for not a lot, but I am quite useful in a pub |
| 1:45.6 | quiz because I have ridiculous pockets of weird information. It's funny, isn't it? I did a show, |
| 1:50.4 | not Blue Peter at all, but I did a show in Scotland called The Big Country, and they said it was |
| 1:54.4 | Blue Peter for adults. So yeah, it'd be similar. You'd be doing, you know, like flying kit planes on Monday. Then you'd be rock climbing on Tuesday. |
| 2:02.1 | You'd be paragliding the next day. |
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