Hello, welcome to another gathering of the Run Pod Run Club.

I'm Jenny Falconer and can you believe there have been almost 100 episodes of Run Pod now.

And one thing that's become apparent in many of these episodes is the fact that plenty of people run for their mental health.

You might be running now. That

might be exactly why you run because it really is a thing. Exercise, running and the release of

those endorphins really do help to boost your mood and make you feel good. Well, one person

who knows this better than anyone is Jessica Robson who used running to help her come out of a dark place.

And then she founded Run Talk Run to help other people in a similar situation.

We're going to talk all about this today.

But first, welcome Jess to RunPod.

Thank you for having me here.

Hi.

Oh, no, thank you so much for coming on. It's

lovely. Right. So let's just establish now, where are you? Have you been for a run today? How are you?

You all good? I'm in the Eastbourne. I haven't run today, but I have done a few run talk runs

this week. So I'll probably get out later.

Okay. Do you run every day? Is that something you do?

Not every day. No, I find I would injure far too fast if I ran every day.

I'm very much a 5K plodder as opposed to a serious, hardcore, push yourself kind of runner.

So I don't push myself to run too frequently.

Okay. Well, can I just say I completely agree that that's a great mentality to have because during lockdown and also in, well, in the months kind of like between the start of lockdown and

now I have overrun and now I am injured. So yes, it can happen.

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