Joe Choong

RunPod

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Running, Sports, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In this episode of RunPod, Jenni is joined by a Gold medal winning Olympian fresh off the jet from Tokyo! Joe Choong represented Team GB in the Modern Pentathlon and returned to Britain with a lovely bit of bling! The first British man to take gold in this event. Joe chats to Jenni about the moment he knew he was going to win the gold medal and what it feels like to be the world number one in the sport. They discuss fellow Team GB competitor, Kate French, who also won Gold in the Women’s Pentathlon. You’ll hear about training for an event like this and how intensive it is when you have to excel at 5 different disciplines. We learn which of those 5 modern pentathlon disciplines is the hardest, which is the preferred and Joe shares a ton of tips for anyone keen to improve their own running. Also he touches on how training for the modern pentathlon compares to other running events. A great listen with a brilliant athlete who has most certainly made us all incredibly proud and after this episode you never know he might even inspire you to join a local modern Pentathlon club! --- L'OCCITANE have given me an exclusive discount code for RunPod listeners, so you can get 10% off all purchases online and in-store, as well as FREE delivery on all online orders with the code RUNPOD. Code valid until 12th September 2021, exclusions apply.

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0:00.0	Hello there, welcome to Run Pod, the Run Club of the podcast world.
0:07.3	I'm Jenny Faulkner and I am so excited and totally thrilled to be joined today by someone
0:12.4	who's fresh off the plane from Tokyo.
0:15.4	He's returned home to Britain as well with a shiny gold medal in tow.
0:20.5	It is Olympic gold medalist. Joe Ching, hello.
0:24.8	Hi, Jenny. Hey, how are you doing? Oh, I am so well. But how are you? Oh, my goodness, you have had
0:30.1	quite a good couple of weeks. Yeah, it's been incredible, to be honest. Like, you obviously do all the
0:37.1	training for it and then
0:38.2	just got home and no one, no one tells you what to expect when you get home after winning the medal.
0:43.2	So yeah, it's been amazing. I know because it was so strange out there not having, I mean,
0:47.9	it's so sad all these empty stadiums, but were you oblivious to the fact that we were all genuinely
0:52.9	standing, shouting at the telly going going, come on, come on!
0:56.4	When you were running in that last stretch, oh my goodness, you just got faster and faster and faster.
1:01.7	It was amazing.
1:03.2	Yeah. I honestly didn't notice the empty stadium when I was competing.
1:09.3	Honestly, I thought my coaches were loud enough.
1:11.5	Every time I did a lap and ran past them,
1:13.3	it was really like putting that sense of the occasion on me.
1:17.2	And I was just having to really sort of focus when it got to the shooting part
1:20.7	because I'm not sure with the crowd whether I'd been able to shoot as fast as I did.
1:24.8	Well, you were so good.
1:27.1	So we should explain to everyone.
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