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Hello there and welcome to this special bonus episode of RunPod.

I'm Jenny Faulkner and recently I spoke with Laura Henshaw

and Steph Claire Smith, who are Australian models, influencers, fellow podcasters and the founders

of Kick, which is a fitness app reminding you to find your why by being active and doing what

works for you. I love chatting to them and I love the fact that they encourage us all to stay fit and

active for health reasons and not because we want to aspire to look a certain way.

Anyway, they've recently launched their own running app and within it they've got a ton of running

programs.

So I wanted to ask them for their top tips for anyone taking on a 5K challenge, maybe even for the first time.

You never know, it could be you.

Here's what they said.

So if we were going to give everyone some tips on how to get started on 5K and not to worry about everyone looking at them, what would they be?

I think the first one would be know that you have to mentally tell yourself you can be a runner

because if you put that barrier before you start, you'll go out for the first run and you'll

just have that negative self-talk being like, who do I think I am?

I can't do this.

I haven't done this before.

This is hard and it is going to be hard. Like, I know when I come back from injury, I don't know if you've experienced this, but it is tough, the mental game of like,

this doesn't feel comfortable and usually it does. You have to mentally tell yourself,

start your run, I am a runner. Like you're starting. It's just about moving.

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