Hello everyone, welcome back to the FoodMedic podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Hazel. I'm a medical

doctor, nutritionist, PT, author and vendor of the FoodMedic. Today I'm joined by two guests

in the studio with me, Ben Parker and Joshua Patterson from the personalized running app,

Runa. Now if you follow me on social media you will already know about this app because

I'm constantly raving about it and I'm always using it. I use it to program all my runs,

and prepare for all my races and so many of you have told me how much you love this

app too. I also work with the brand in partnership and really believe in what they do. So rather

selfishly I wanted to find out more about Runa, how it came about, get more tips on how

to be a better runner, and hear more about some of the crazy challenges that these guys

get up to. Ben has spent over six years as a professional running coach and is also

a certified England athletics coach, Ironman coach, personal trainer and Palatis instructor

as well as being one of the founders of Runa. In his spare time, Ben is a keen athlete himself

and competes within his age group at Ironman events with multiple finishes. He also enjoys

Ultramarathons whilst holding a marathon PB of 2 hours 34 which is just so mind blowing

onto me. Ben also recently qualified for the Ironman 70.3 World Championships. And we're

also joined by Josh, Joshua is a four times world record holder who has established himself

over the last six years as an ultra athlete, completing world firsts and breaking several

records. Most recently he was the first person to complete a marathon in all four UK countries

within 24 hours and the first to run a marathon in all 76 UK cities consecutively. I actually

joined Josh on the last one and I'm still so impressed that he did 76 back to back

marathons just let that sink in. And because of all of that Josh raised just shy of 400

peasant for Samaritans in his aim to help mental health across the world which is incredible.

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