This is a Global Player Original Podcast.

Hello there, I'm Jenny Falconer here to welcome you to Run Pod.

Now, this is the Run Club of the podcast world where running is celebrated, all running, all levels, newcomers and those who have been running for years.

And today we are joined as someone, well, she's a former Love Islander, but more than that, she is in the final year, final few weeks, really, of medical school.

But she's also a really, really good runner.

Please welcome along to Run Pod, Priya Gopaldas. Hello there. Hi, Jenny. Thanks for having

me. What an intro. I know it's really good to meet you because we met at the Royal Parks Half

Marathon. Yeah. You just smashed that race. You were so good. You do a lot of running. I do. So,

yeah, I do all sorts of distances. I literally, with that race at the Royal Parks,

I don't know where that came from. I actually think it was a crowd that got me through, because my

training for that was minimal. I've been training up for an ultra and be going very slowly before.

And so, yeah, I don't, I don't know where the speed came from, really. I got my P.B at the Royal Parks Half Marathon a few years ago.

Maybe it's a good one for PBs.

I think I got 1.35.

Oh, wow.

And that was, and what did you get?

I don't, I don't remember.

I think you got something really fast.

But I was, I was so proud of that.

And I think it's because I had trained for a fast marathon before so then off the back I just

threw myself into it because it's shorter suddenly yeah yeah exactly it's like the

mentality you're sort of like it's half the distance of a marathon like I can do this easily so you just

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