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Hello there, I'm Jenny Falconer, back with you on RunPod,

where the aim is, as always, to unite runners and with a bit of chat about the feel-good effects that running brings, hopefully you'll also be encouraged to get your trainers on and get out the door.

Today, I am joined by someone who has covered a lot of miles in her athletic career, but who also helps others in their

running journey. She's represented Great Britain at two Olympic Games, as well as picking up a bronze

in the marathon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She is now also a coach and a mentor. She is

Liz Yelling. Hello there. Hello. Oh, it's so nice to speak to you. And I know

that I've been kind of like speaking to you on and off over the last couple of years. So I'm

pleased that we finally got you in and got a date sorted. Have you been for a run today, Liz?

I have indeed, yes. That's impressive. See, I wanted to go for a run, but I've had loads to do this morning. And there's nothing worse than having it planned and it's been cancelled. And I'm still in my gym kit, my running kit. And I want to go and I don't know when my window's going to come along. Oh, yeah. I don't like that feeling at all. I think for me, I just get out and do the school run, drop the kids off and then I'm out then. And so I just go straight from the school run and bank the miles in there and then I can feel smug all day. Yeah. You see, I'm not feeling like that today. So you're really, it's really annoying at the moment. I'm feeling frustrated. Obviously, I mean, you've been a pro-runner in the past. So now, how often do you go running? So now the focus of my running is very different. So rather than training for performance, I don't really consider myself in training mode. I think I just run for sanity as a mother of three and run to keep healthy and fit.

So my training focus is quite different and the reasons I run are very different.

And I run between five and four times a week and I run anywhere between kind of four miles and 10 miles.

So, but all just how I feel.

So if I feel really awful one day, I'll run shorter and run slower.

And if I feel better and I think I'll cash in and run a bit faster or further.

So yeah, it's all kind of done on feel now.

You see, I think that's a really good attitude to have because so many people

head out for a run and then they don't do the mileage they had hoped to do that day and then they

feel bad and then they're frustrated and then they go, right, I'm going to have to go harder tomorrow.

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