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Hello there and welcome to RunPod, where all runners are welcome.

It honestly doesn't matter whether you're a running pro who dreams about running

or if you're someone who's just started and who hopes to take a first 5K off the bucket

list, all runners of all abilities are welcome here. And the thing we all have in common is that

we run, whether that's fast or slow. It really doesn't matter. I'm Jenny Faulkner and today I'm

joined by someone who graduated from couch to 5K this summer, Ruth Lagsford. Hello there. Hello, I love

that, graduated. I feel like I should have one of those mortarboard hats and be letting off

balloons and streamers. I know. I'm sure if there was a kind of graduating in running kind of

mortarboard hat, it would come with some kind of Lycra outfit with it as well.

That would be it.

It would have to, wouldn't it?

It would have to say that it was a really nice feeling,

you know, when it pops up on your phone

and they do little kind of these little firework things

and going, congratulations, you've passed, you've graduated.

And it was a huge, huge sense of achievement, actually.

Yeah, I bet. So how does it feel

to be a runner now? Well, it felt great when I'd done it, but I have to be absolutely honest with

everybody. Once I graduated, I thought, right, I'm just going to give myself a few days off.

Then I got a bit busy. I had to help Jack move to uni and move his

halls and things. So that was another kind of, they started to become excuses. Then it was I did go

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