Katya Jones

RunPod

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Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The new recruit this week is known more for the cha cha, the rumba and the salsa, than the jog, the sprint or the tabata. She’s a World Dance Champion and a regular on Strictly, in this episode Jenni is joined by the uber fun and incredibly talented Katya Jones! Now Katya took up running to maintain her fitness levels when she’s not dancing, which was most of lockdown. She quickly realised that although she is very much ‘dance-fit’, she really needed to get ‘run-fit’. Jenni and Katya discuss how fitness requirements for different sports vary so much; Katya explains why she never did any running whilst growing up in Russia. They also talk about how you can do decent dance training on a treadmill and why running is such a great way to get to know your local community. It was a lot of fun recording this episode - so we hope you enjoy listening.

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0:00.0	Hello there, Jenny Falkini here to chat all things running with you on another episode of RunPod.
0:09.3	And this is where runners unite. And I've said it before, all runners. The fast, the slow, the shorter long distance, the gazelles, the plodders.
0:18.9	It really doesn't matter how you run or how often you run or why you run.
0:23.8	You do some form of running and that is what matters.
0:27.1	Today I'm joined by a fairly new runner.
0:30.3	Yes, she is incredibly fit but she's known for her dancing fitness.
0:35.2	She is one of the strictly pros.
0:36.8	She won it a few years ago with Joan McFadden,
0:38.7	so she has lifted the strictly glitter bowl.
0:42.0	But she's also, by the way, a world champion dancer.
0:45.6	She specialises in ballroom and Latin American.
0:48.3	She can do it all there on the dance floor.
0:51.3	But can she run?
0:52.8	That is the question today. Welcome to Runport, Katia Jones.
0:57.8	Hi, hi Jenny. Thanks for having me. Listening to your introduction, I'm definitely not a gazelle.
1:03.7	I'm thinking to myself. I bet you are. I bet you are. I bet you still, because of your dancing
1:10.0	background, I bet when you run,
1:12.6	you still make it look very elegant and lovely. Do you know what? As you said, I am a very new
1:19.5	runner and it all happened literally a few days after the lockdown has been announced and we were
1:25.9	only allowed out for exercise purposes.
1:29.0	So I thought I'll give it to go. I've never done sort of consistent running, you know, as a
1:37.0	form of exercise. But I started and it wasn't easy and I can confess I'm still not fully in love with it, but I'm committed
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