In this episode, I head out on a steady plod along the Southbank, The Embankment and into Green park, with Chloe Guest, leader of RunTalkRun Hackney and North London. We will be talking about mental health and the safe space that running provides to enable people to open up and communicate better. We discuss the background to Run Talk Run, a community mental health group that offers mental health support, how anyone can get involved, Chloe’s own involvement and relationship with running and the future for Run Talk Run. In addition to this, we will be talking about Ali Turpie, a friend who I ran with a couple weeks ago, to record a podcast and IGTV for his challenge 10k Turpie. The podcast however, which covered a very intense and in depth conversation about both of our mental health experiences, didn’t record. We had devastating news the week of recording this episode with Chloe that Ali had suffered a stroke to the left side of his brain leaving him with verbal Apraxia; unable to speak. Having postponed the run with Chloe to process this, when the time felt better to meet Chloe, it was important for me to share Ali’s challenge. To share the amazing message he has spread to so many people about the power of talking to each other and the impact it can have on building relationships and making us feel less alone. I want to dedicate this conversation with Chloe to Ali, and his family and friends. If you would like to donate to www.gofundme.com/f/mending-ali that would be amazing!