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Loving a variety of sports and being driven to always improve myself, I was challenged to run my first 5km run<\/strong><\/a> by my partner in 2012<\/strong>. I was truly worried and nervous about the challenge ahead! I used the emotions to my advantage though – using them to motivate me to train well. I thoroughly enjoyed the event – it ignited my running journey!<\/p>\n Since then, I have continuously pushed myself to run further, from 5km through to running my first marathon<\/strong> this year. Each progression has been eventful: from being sick after running my first 10km run<\/strong><\/a>, to crying with the thought of having to potentially run for 4 hours in my first half marathon<\/strong><\/a> (thankfully I done a lot better than I thought I was going to do!), and most recently badly injuring myself six weeks prior to my first marathon yet still completing it!<\/p>\n I’ve loved every moment of my running journey though!<\/em><\/p>\n Last year, I spent huge amounts of time training with the goal of becoming a much faster runner. Amazingly I managed to beat all personal bests. It was a successful year!<\/p>\n Unfortunately, on Mother’s Day this year, I was struck down at around 6.5 miles, of a 20-mile run by plantar fasciitis<\/strong>. Instead of pulling out of the event, I persevered and completed the event, not realising the amount that decision would cost me… I had to use crutches for 2 weeks, could not properly train for the remaining 6 weeks<\/strong> before the marathon and it took me nearly 6 hours to complete the marathon! The injury also drove me into a spiral of depression, weight gain and slower paces; this lasted for nearly 4 months. I am thankful to the RunThrough community<\/strong> who were so supportive both at events and on social media during the dark time that I experienced.<\/p>\n To transform myself as a runner and learn more about running, I have recently started receiving coaching<\/strong>. We are working closely together so that I can finally challenge my partner, who I have always been slower than when it comes to longer distances, at all distances!<\/p>\n The real test of all my efforts will be Chicago Marathon<\/strong> where I will be aiming for 4 hours<\/strong>, hoping it will be a running party, <\/em>and complete Great North Run<\/strong> in 1 hour 45 minutes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Loving a variety of sports and being driven to always improve myself, I was challenged to run my first 5km run by my partner in 2012. I was truly worried and nervous about the challenge ahead! I used the emotions to my advantage though – using them to motivate me to train well. I thoroughly enjoyed the event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6468,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions\/6468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Runner](\"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/48359910_2127441617585653_6381709811397951488_n.jpg\" "\\"Runner")
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