September 24, 2024 • 5 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hi, thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today
we're talking about running and how good it is for you.
It may not feel so good, but apparently it's amazing
for you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
So it can reduce your cellular age by nine years,
so biological age. But you have to run, wait for
it five days a week.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I know how good it running is, right, And I
went through a phase I was trying to run and
I lost a lot of weight running right, But I
never hit that run as high.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I have hit it before. I think a couple of
times when I trained for a half marathon, but I
feel like that was in my twenties and thirties, and
now that I'm forty one, I don't know. My problem
with running is every time I go back to it,
remember was it last year or the year before? I
did that couch to ten k that's right, yes, And
I got running about eight k's and that's when my
(00:51):
achilles started hurting. She tippy fe out. Now that I
think about it, maybe it was in perim menopause. Maybe
I should go back and have another crack at it.
But the problem is you've got to run for about
three weeks straight before you go through that utterly painful
I hate this, Why would I do this? Phase?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Three weeks is a long time to hold.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Out, especially you're really hating something like Yes. I also
read a study about running. For eighty percent of people
when they run, they're thinking about the pain and how
awful it is. Now any activity where eighty percent of
people who are doing that activity don't enjoy it, they
can't be fun.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Why we do it, though, is because the euphoria. Afterwards.
I'll give you the history of my running, and then
you give me yours.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
So how did it go for you?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
So I started out and probably age seven and eight,
despite being quite sporty, I don't think I really grasped
the idea in cross country that you have to push
your body to actually do well. Right, So I was
like a little bit disappointing for an athletic girl when
I was seven and eight years old. It's like, why
wasn't I doing better and cross country? And then it
suddenly clicks when I turned about ten or eleven and
I went to my intermediate and I won that out
(01:51):
of like six hundred kids, I got the cross Country Cup,
and I was like, this is great. And it was
only because my dad said, do you want to do
well in the cross country? I was like yeah, and
he said, well, you've got to train for it, so
I'll wake you up and we'll go for some runs.
So he woke me up maybe three times a week
for about three or four weeks, and that's all it
took to get better at running. And then I realized
(02:12):
that actually running is the key to pretty much every sport.
I mean, no matter what anyone says, running is still
going to give you that stamina and bass fitness that
you kind of need if you're playing cricket or basketball
or netball or rugby or whatever. So then I carried
on doing it. The problem is, you're really good when
you're fit and you're in a good zone. The moment
you stop running for maybe four weeks, then you've got
(02:33):
to earn it back and that's where the punishment starts.
And so when I was maybe how old was, I
want to ran my first half at eighteen and maybe
at UNI. I did my second half marathon when I
was like twenty two, and then I haven't done one
since because you know, kid's got in the way. But
people say you're actually better mentally to run when you're
our age because you know how to push through pain.
(02:54):
But I also feel like I don't care as much,
so I feel like it might try Now I'll be like,
I don't need to feel Uncomora, why would I want
to do the same?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I a creature of comfort.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I was like, no, I just I don't if it's
going to make me feel uncomfortable, why would I bout
myself through that?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But I get it, so.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Run because they want to feel something, you know what
I mean? Oh, at least this gives me some feels.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Were saw alive.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So when I was at school and stuff, at that
cross country, I was a whipp it. I was quick
at the cross country, so.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I was doing all right. And then we had athletics
days and one hundred meters.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
In the two hundred meters, I was normally in the
top three, so I was quite a quick kid. But
then again I started playing sport, and then you did
into radio, and then I was working shift with basically
doing the mid dawn so midnight the show started to finishing.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
At six in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
To get out of routine.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Way to smash routine, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And then years later you know a Nika More, a
friend of Nikomo, right, so she took up running and
I remember bumping into her and she lost so much
weight because she was diabetic.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I just started. I hated. I started walking. Suddenly I
started running little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I started trotting, and I was like, run lamp post,
walk a lamp post, run a lamp post.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
So I started doing that too.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I remember doing a bit of running when she did
it too.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
She was quits sparring, she really so. So I got inspired
by that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And then I started and I was running a bit further,
and I was running about three to three to four
five k's and things like this, right, And because we
were quite a flat little part of New Zealand where
I live.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
So there's no hills, I was great.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
But then my knees started hurting, my back started hurting,
and everyone seed to get some decent shoes.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Thin. I looked at the price of running running.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Shoes three hundred plus parks.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, and I don't like it that much.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So it's interesting how when you're young, the kids that
are just naturally fast, and then you assume that they'll
just carry on being fast, and then they don't.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
It all switches.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And then so for me, and then I wasn't enjoying it,
and I take the dog for a run and then
he'd like, he'd want to sniff things and then stop
for things and so on the lead. I didn't really
enjoy that either, so he would slow me down, and
so then I started running, and then.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
My mind would wander.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And everyone says it's so calming because you think about
all sorts of stuff and you're very mindful thing to do,
but my mind would wander, and I think about all
sorts of scenarios and sometimes work yourself up when you're
not supposed to be doing that. And then people said,
we'll run with earbuds or headphones on and listen to things,
and I found that really uncomfortable as well.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So all up, anything I tried to do with running,
it's uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Basically, there are people that find it therapeutic. In some
people that are never going to understand it. They're just
going to be in pain every time.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But we should do it because apparently it reverses our
aging by what nine years.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast,
Get your day started with Coasts Feel Good Breakfast, Tony Street,
Jason Reeves and Sam Wallace.
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hi, thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today
we're talking about running and how good it is for you.
It may not feel so good, but apparently it's amazing
for you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
So it can reduce your cellular age by nine years,
so biological age. But you have to run, wait for
it five days a week.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I know how good it running is, right, And I
went through a phase I was trying to run and
I lost a lot of weight running right, But I
never hit that run as high.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I have hit it before. I think a couple of
times when I trained for a half marathon, but I
feel like that was in my twenties and thirties, and
now that I'm forty one, I don't know. My problem
with running is every time I go back to it,
remember was it last year or the year before? I
did that couch to ten k that's right, yes, And
I got running about eight k's and that's when my
(00:51):
achilles started hurting. She tippy fe out. Now that I
think about it, maybe it was in perim menopause. Maybe
I should go back and have another crack at it.
But the problem is you've got to run for about
three weeks straight before you go through that utterly painful
I hate this, Why would I do this? Phase?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Three weeks is a long time to hold.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Out, especially you're really hating something like Yes. I also
read a study about running. For eighty percent of people
when they run, they're thinking about the pain and how
awful it is. Now any activity where eighty percent of
people who are doing that activity don't enjoy it, they
can't be fun.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Why we do it, though, is because the euphoria. Afterwards.
I'll give you the history of my running, and then
you give me yours.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
So how did it go for you?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
So I started out and probably age seven and eight,
despite being quite sporty, I don't think I really grasped
the idea in cross country that you have to push
your body to actually do well. Right, So I was
like a little bit disappointing for an athletic girl when
I was seven and eight years old. It's like, why
wasn't I doing better and cross country? And then it
suddenly clicks when I turned about ten or eleven and
I went to my intermediate and I won that out
(01:51):
of like six hundred kids, I got the cross Country Cup,
and I was like, this is great. And it was
only because my dad said, do you want to do
well in the cross country? I was like yeah, and
he said, well, you've got to train for it, so
I'll wake you up and we'll go for some runs.
So he woke me up maybe three times a week
for about three or four weeks, and that's all it
took to get better at running. And then I realized
(02:12):
that actually running is the key to pretty much every sport.
I mean, no matter what anyone says, running is still
going to give you that stamina and bass fitness that
you kind of need if you're playing cricket or basketball
or netball or rugby or whatever. So then I carried
on doing it. The problem is, you're really good when
you're fit and you're in a good zone. The moment
you stop running for maybe four weeks, then you've got
(02:33):
to earn it back and that's where the punishment starts.
And so when I was maybe how old was, I
want to ran my first half at eighteen and maybe
at UNI. I did my second half marathon when I
was like twenty two, and then I haven't done one
since because you know, kid's got in the way. But
people say you're actually better mentally to run when you're
our age because you know how to push through pain.
(02:54):
But I also feel like I don't care as much,
so I feel like it might try Now I'll be like,
I don't need to feel Uncomora, why would I want
to do the same?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I a creature of comfort.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I was like, no, I just I don't if it's
going to make me feel uncomfortable, why would I bout
myself through that?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But I get it, so.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Run because they want to feel something, you know what
I mean? Oh, at least this gives me some feels.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Were saw alive.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So when I was at school and stuff, at that
cross country, I was a whipp it. I was quick
at the cross country, so.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I was doing all right. And then we had athletics
days and one hundred meters.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
In the two hundred meters, I was normally in the
top three, so I was quite a quick kid. But
then again I started playing sport, and then you did
into radio, and then I was working shift with basically
doing the mid dawn so midnight the show started to finishing.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
At six in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
To get out of routine.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Way to smash routine, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And then years later you know a Nika More, a
friend of Nikomo, right, so she took up running and
I remember bumping into her and she lost so much
weight because she was diabetic.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I just started. I hated. I started walking. Suddenly I
started running little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I started trotting, and I was like, run lamp post,
walk a lamp post, run a lamp post.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
So I started doing that too.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I remember doing a bit of running when she did
it too.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
She was quits sparring, she really so. So I got inspired
by that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And then I started and I was running a bit further,
and I was running about three to three to four
five k's and things like this, right, And because we
were quite a flat little part of New Zealand where
I live.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
So there's no hills, I was great.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
But then my knees started hurting, my back started hurting,
and everyone seed to get some decent shoes.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Thin. I looked at the price of running running.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Shoes three hundred plus parks.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, and I don't like it that much.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So it's interesting how when you're young, the kids that
are just naturally fast, and then you assume that they'll
just carry on being fast, and then they don't.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
It all switches.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And then so for me, and then I wasn't enjoying it,
and I take the dog for a run and then
he'd like, he'd want to sniff things and then stop
for things and so on the lead. I didn't really
enjoy that either, so he would slow me down, and
so then I started running, and then.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
My mind would wander.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And everyone says it's so calming because you think about
all sorts of stuff and you're very mindful thing to do,
but my mind would wander, and I think about all
sorts of scenarios and sometimes work yourself up when you're
not supposed to be doing that. And then people said,
we'll run with earbuds or headphones on and listen to things,
and I found that really uncomfortable as well.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So all up, anything I tried to do with running,
it's uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Basically, there are people that find it therapeutic. In some
people that are never going to understand it. They're just
going to be in pain every time.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But we should do it because apparently it reverses our
aging by what nine years.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast,
Get your day started with Coasts Feel Good Breakfast, Tony Street,
Jason Reeves and Sam Wallace.
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