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Hello and welcome to yet another gathering of the Run Club of the podcast world. Welcome to RunPod where all runners unite.

So you can be elite or amateur long distance, sprinter, treadmill trainer or round the block plodder it makes no difference

everyone's welcome and after all the minute you go for that first run that's it you are a runner

i'm jenny falkner and i don't i don't actually know which category i fit into probably enthusiastic

runner not so good i'm never going to win i might dream of it but i'm happy enough getting around in a time I'm proud of. And today, I'm joined by not one, but two guests.

This is novel. It's a bog off. It's a buy one get one for you. Although I say that,

it's really hard to book these two people at the same time. It's taken as ages to get together

here, but we've finally

nailed it. So please welcome today to Run Pod, Anna White House, and Matt Farkerson, aka Mother and

Papa, Pucker. Hello. Hello. I'm slightly out of breath having come up the stairs. So I think

in terms of your intro, I think, coming, something below amateur? Yeah, we're at the plotter's end, I think.

We're at the plodders end.

Okay, because that's what I was going to ask you which category.

Okay, so you were definitely plodder side of it, which is, there's no bad thing about that.

No, I have no shaming that whatsoever.

I mean, this is progress for me. has been remarkable progress that I'm very proud of. Was there running at school? There was running at school in that it happened,

but as much as possible I tried to avoid it.

I was the kid that when the cross-country came up

would be pleading with his mum for a note

and then cutting the top off the note and changing the date

the next time it came around.

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