Hi there and welcome to another gathering of the Run Club of the podcast world. Yes, this is RunPod with me, Jenny Faulkner. And it's that time of year when for many of us, we're in training for a race of some sort, whether it's, you know, building up to a 10K, a half or a full marathon, there are events of plenty on the horizon.

And my guest today is someone who's committed for the first time

to run the 26.2 miler, and he only started running in the last couple of years.

You will have definitely listened to him on his podcast or on the radio

or you've seen him on the telly it is the brilliant

Jamie East hello hello there are you doing very well how are you yeah terrified kind of

wondering what I let myself in for this isn't for coming on run post no no no sorry yeah

this is lovely okay just check it but yeah I feel like I've, I feel like I'm on the psychoanalysis couch now.

I feel like I need some advice.

This is it.

You're just going to have to let it all out.

Yeah.

This is where we just, you know, talk about running and moan about it and talk about how great it.

The thing is, though, so you've just started running running but you are constantly watching television because you talk

about it a lot. How on earth do you find time to even go for a run? Well this is the big thing with

running isn't it? It's the number one reason that people stop running I think is when I think a lot

of people enjoy a run but to then kind of I guess, a runner or kind of like start

doing marathons or 10Ks or whatever that require a bit more of a regimented kind of program.

Immediately the wheels fall off quite quickly because it's kind of like, well, my program's

telling me I'm supposed to be doing a run today, but I've got this, I've got that, I've got that.

It's, for me, I found it quite refreshing because I need that kind of discipline in my life.

Otherwise, I find myself just aimlessly wandering around London, kind of like watching TV here,

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