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Sally Gunnell OBE

RunPod

Global

Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week on RunPod, it’s all about staying active throughout this period of self-isolation and who better to turn to for guidance at this unsettling time than Olympic gold medal winner, Sally Gunnell OBE! Now Sally might not compete on the track any more but she still loves running and the way it makes her feel. Whilst we are limited to going outside to exercise once a day, in this episode of RunPod, both Sally and Jenni champion running as your activity of choice and discuss the impact of the strict new regulations on exercising. Sally also introduces the new ‘Sally Gunnell Run Club’, which she’s launched to help anyone get started out running at this time, to encourage everyone off the sofa and get out there, so that we can all benefit from fresh air, vitamin D, a healthier outlook and a fresh mindset. Enjoy. Happy running

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0:00.0

This episode of Run Pod is sponsored by M&S, where you can shop all your favourite sportswear brands.

0:09.2

Hello there, I'm Jenny Faulkner. Welcome to a brand new episode of RunPod. At a time when running is something more and more of us are actually turning to for exercise, for headspace and for our once a day reason

0:23.3

to get out the house. Britain is dealing with an unprecedented situation. We're self-isolating

0:28.2

and socially distancing ourselves, although going out to exercise and get a breath of fresh air

0:33.6

once a day is still allowed for now anyway. So today I'm joined by someone who's trying to come up

0:39.9

with solutions for people needing motivated or helped off the sofa. The wonderful Sally Gunnell's here.

0:46.6

Hello. Hello. You're all right. Yes. Are you okay? Yes, we're right. We're surviving. I've got my

0:53.5

three boys and a husband all locked in a house

0:55.8

and yeah, we're so far so good. It's strange, isn't it, everything that's going on? You would never

1:01.7

have predicted this would be the situation. No, not at all. And I think part of it is just not knowing

1:07.6

how long or what we're going to go through, isn't it? And it is. It's very stressful worrying times. And I think the more that we can keep our sanity and our health and

1:17.6

everything and stay positive, the better that we'll get through this. And hopefully the

1:23.1

quicker that we can get through this as well. Yeah, no, absolutely. And I mean,

1:28.0

over the last few weeks as well, Sally, we've seen so much cancelled. You know, in terms of

1:32.6

sport as well, even the Olympics being postponed, that's not happened before. It's massive, no.

1:40.1

And, you know, my husband has got three guys all trying to train for the Olympics.

1:45.3

And I think it was just the uncertainty.

1:47.5

I think that was what was so stressful because, you know, as an athlete and, you know,

1:51.8

we're trying to get them keep going because you don't know whether it's going to get

1:55.8

cancelled until it officially has.

1:57.7

But, you know, to have the motivation to push yourself day in, day out and to do

2:02.2

really hard sessions was so difficult for them. So now that we know it's going back to next year,

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