Hello there and welcome to Run Pod, the Run Club of the podcast world. I'm Jenny Faulkner, here to unite runners to motivate you off the sofa and with any joy get you running. I mean possibly faster, perhaps even runner, but ultimately it's just about encouraging you to run. My guest today is someone who told me it it must have been just over two years ago, how

she surprised herself by running in the first place. Well, now here we are a couple of years on.

Not only is she still running, she's absolutely used it to her advantage. It's been there for her

at a time when everything else in her life was very much changing. She will obviously explain more about that in this episode. I'm thrilled to welcome back to Run Pod. One half of the brilliantly funny scummy mummies, it's Helen Thorne. Hello there. Hello, Jenny. What a joy to come back on the podcast. I mean, I remember, you know, a good couple of years ago sitting with you and it was

just before lockdown and we're all like, what's going to happen? Where are we going to go? And now

we've all entered this new world. We've all been changed, I think significantly in the last

couple of years. But yeah, I've had a few big things. I've had to tackle, really? Just a couple.

Yeah. Just a couple of little things here and there that's it i do

remember that episode helen we sat in we sat in um old par one in lester square and everyone was kind of

getting into lockdown mode no one was wearing masks really yet and we were all kind of like laughing

about how ridiculous it all was and then the next

week we went into lockdown. It was extraordinary and and I think we're all slightly in denial.

It was all like, oh, it's going to be six weeks and none of us had any idea about what was

about to hit us. But yeah, just, just before lockdown, I found out that my husband was having an affair and my

marriage ended very, very quickly. Some might say the best possible time because he moved out,

got a flat within a week and then he moved out the day of the lockdown. So I entered lockdown

with homeschooling, kind of contemplating the next steps in life, but a whole

new path had been sort of drawn up. So I was sort of in a bit of a spin. And so, yeah, it was a very

tumultuous time. And so I had to face both becoming single, alone, a single mom and all those

sort of things, in complete isolation. So I couldn't go out, couldn't go to the pub, you know, the traditional things you do after a

break up and go away with your friends.

No one could hug me.

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