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Hello there and welcome to another gathering of the Run Pod Run Club. I'm club leader, Jenny

Falconer and I am as always thrilled to have you tune in and join the club. All runners are welcome. Even if you don't think

you're a runner and lots of people fall into that category, doubting whether you are in fact

a runner when you haven't maybe picked up a race medal or you haven't run that far or that fast,

but that's not what it's all about. And this episode i'm joined by someone who's a prime

example actually uh mark white never saw himself as a runner and in fact never thought he would be a runner

and here he is now founder of the social initiative run grateful mark it is so lovely to have you on run pod

yeah thanks for the invite yeah is that true you never thought you'd be a runner yeah it's just it is so lovely to have you on Run Pod. Yeah, thanks for the invite. Yeah. Is that true?

You never thought you'd be a runner? Yeah, it's just trying to cast my mind back to that moment in time,

really. Yeah, what is a runner? You know, and you have all these kind of judgments on it. But if you don't

relate to anything in life, then you kind of prejudge it. And then you kind of see the telly and the people going quick and far and all that and you kind of

go where do I slot in here so it took me a little while to find my place and what I believe to be

a runner and yeah it feels pretty comfortable so I haven't looked back since so it's funny I think

everyone has that first first thing it's kind of like almost uh imposter syndrome when you go out running and people

go, you're a runner and you're like, oh, not really. Because I always, when I started running,

I always looked at the telly and watched all like, you know, the polaradcliffs and whatever

running and then they're runners because they're like professional. And everyone else is just like

half-heartedly having to go at it. But actually that's you need to do yeah I believe so and especially I would say I mean I'm tuned into it now my own little way and uh you know I spend my day with run grateful and other things that I've got up to over the years so running has dramatically changed my life which I never anticipated.

Yeah, there's a reason why I started to run and everything this happened as a consequence.

It's just been a little bit overwhelming really, to be fair if I think about it.

But yeah, I suppose the last few years in particular the conversation around not just the

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