The Royal Parks

The default, yeah.

And even at the end of the Royal Parks, there was a relaxed and a fitted...

It was across the board of size ranging and fit.

And I was like,

And there's still about, well, there's well over a thousand gaslights in London if you choose to go and find them in the areas around the legal areas, the temples or in Westminster.

And the Royal Parks have got large numbers of gaslights.

Quite nice to go and see in the autumn evening as it's getting darker.

And obviously gas is still used today, just not for lighting our homes.

I think probably the best example.

Example of this is when the Royal Parks had to ask grieving crowds to stop leaving marmalade sandwiches in Green Park after the Queen died.

It's all bollocks,

mate.

Now, listen, my guest this week is one of the most trusted voices in the country on menopause, right? She's a GP, an author, a mum.

and a runner in fact we both lined up at the royal parks half marathon just the other weekend and with october obviously being menopause awareness month today she is here to tell us what running can do for our health how it is to run through this kind of time of life and also let's just have a chat about running welcome to run pod dr naomi potter Oh, thank you for having me.

This is the podcast I've been most excited about.

I love that.

Do you find yours fluctuates?

Yes and if I've had an injury it takes a little while to come back because I'm nervous without realising it.

I've got like this little confidence block because I'm scared I'm going to make things worse by pushing it too much so sometimes that can happen and in fact the royal parks for me was the first run i've done this year confidently and quite strong and i didn't i usually stop for a little walking break on like on every run and just because i'm always worried about getting injured and also i get out of breath the royal parks are the first it was a 13.1 mile run obviously first time i haven't stopped like for months and months and months wow I kept going and I got a time that I liked and I was so overwhelmed because I hadn't got an injury.

I cried crossing the finish line.

And there are, in fact, there are like bans on foraging in some of the parks there.

There's a group of seven parks called the Royal Parks in London where there is an absolute ban on foraging.

Yeah, and there's a couple of local bans as well on different places or there's certain areas you have to apply for a one day pass to forage for fungi.

And you will be that will be checked on that kind of thing.

It doesn't feel like a real super trainer kieran you're reverse tapering i guess

i don't know where i am now um yeah i was supposed to be doing although the last part i said i wasn't going to find any more races finley i was supposed to be doing the maverick jurassic coast 55k ultra on the weekend oh he did royal parks instead i did royal parks for this last weekend and jurassic supposed to be next weekend so i did half

Sneaked in a one second PB.

Was that a PB? Because you were getting very close to, well, what do you call it? What do you call it when you get fast? Sub 80?

It's not

a tricky race to go too fast in.

I mean, I've PB'd at Royal Parks a couple of times, but it isn't.

You think if you get a time there, you can definitely beat it somewhere else because it is quite narrow and windy at the paces.

You may be given access to public land.

So if you go to the Royal Parks, the public can go-

To private land, you mean

...

Thank you.

Yeah, private land.

So if I go to Royal Parks, it's open to the public, but that is not owned by the public.

It is a private land, but it is, it is permissible.

And whatever kind of runner you are, fast, slow, brand new, or coming back after a break, this is your space, and every mile counts.

Uh, this is the bonus episode, the Extra Mile, and coming up on the Extra Mile today, we have the Running Rundown with Royal Parks, Chicago Marathon mentions.

We've also got messages from the RunPod run club and a bag full of practical tips from an Olympic legend.

But first, it was a massive weekend for running.

Hope you conquered it.

Hope you're feeling good now.

Pete Riddleston did the Royal Parks and ran for his wife, Jo.

And Andy Fountain was there as well in his Rocky Horror costume, warming up for the epic challenge of 10 marathons in 10 days next year.