Hi there and welcome to another episode of Run Pod, the Run Club of the podcast world,

where every week we recruit a new member who shares our passion for all things running.

And it doesn't matter whether you run faster, slow, far or just round the block.

Once you commit to that first kilometre, that's the minute it starts becoming part of your life.

I'm Jenny Falconer, and my guest today is responsible for encouraging over a million people to set their alarms early on a Saturday morning.

Poplar trainers on and head to the park for a 5K run.

I mean, this man, quite brilliantly, turned a simple idea in his local park into a global phenomenon.

I'm talking about the fella responsible for park run, Paul Sinton Hewitt, CBE.

I mustn't leave that bit off.

I wouldn't mind if you did.

Oh, no, that's it.

That's the posh bit there right there.

No, you're right. You're right. It is the the posh bit and it's something I'm incredibly proud of. Oh, well, it's such an honour to have you here today. My neighbour, when I told him that I was

chatting to you, he's like, he's God. And there's so many people that go to Park Run on a Saturday morning

and they would love to meet you and just come up and tell you how you've changed their lives and all the rest

of it. So we're very pleased that you are on the podcast this week. It's a pleasure to be.

Thanks, Jenny. Now, I'm just going to get this straight in now because while we're doing this

podcast, there will be people doing a park run. Yes, I know. So you're walking up to your park run start line now. I can see how it works.

And while you're running, Paul is going to be chatting to you.

So Paul, you're going to have to do some motivational chat every now and again.

Throne a come on, keep going.

Don't let the pram overtake you.

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