{"id":4810,"date":"2019-05-03T07:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/?p=4810"},"modified":"2021-08-25T07:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:40:47","slug":"runner-feature-cassandra-vine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/runner-feature-cassandra-vine\/","title":{"rendered":"Runner Feature – Cassandra Vine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"RunnerI’m Cassandra originally from South Africa but now live in East Village, Stratford right on the door of the Olympic Park which is where my love of running started. I started doing the couch to 5k program<\/strong> in the summer of 2015<\/strong> to help increase my fitness and lose weight. I progressed to doing some 10km run\/walks but wasn’t consistent with doing it, I don’t think I really thought that I could do anything more.<\/p>\n

I knew I was never going to be a super fast runner but I am still a runner<\/em> and there was still a small part of me that enjoyed it every time I went out for a run.<\/p>\n

In April 2017<\/strong> I entered the ballot for the London Marathon<\/strong> not really expecting to get a place (I think I did it as more of a joke really), little did I know it was all about to change. The joke was clearly all on me!<\/em> In October 2017 I had a magazine pop into my mailbox that said I had a place in London Marathon 2018<\/strong>. I was up for the challenge, found a program and started my training in December 2017.<\/p>\n

During my training I never thought I would do another marathon my motto being I will have done a marathon. During this training block I lost one of my closest friends to suicide and running became a solace during this time. On the 22 April 2018<\/strong> I was on the start line of what was going to be the hottest marathon on record, it was a hard, long day. On crossing the finish line I knew that would not be the last marathon I ran and I would be back to conquer the distance. I entered the ballot again. Running was slowly changing my life; I missed the days when I didn’t get to run<\/em> and not to forget the absolutely amazing people I have met while on this incredible journey!<\/p>\n

I didn’t get a place in the ballot to no surprise and had applied to run for charity but didn’t get a place either so I decided to find another marathon for the Spring and signed up to run Paris Marathon on 14 April 2019<\/strong>. I got myself a running coach and started the training. In January 2019, I got an email from Mind Charity<\/strong> to say that they had places for London Marathon I jumped at the opportunity. Only then did I realise that they would be two weeks apart<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

On Sunday 14 April I ran Paris Marathon and was able to get a massive PB<\/strong> taking almost an hour off my time from London it was a massive high for me and knew that all the hard work had paid off. I spent two weeks recovering and on Sunday lined up for London Marathon, what an amazing marathon it is. I finished it a couple minutes slower than Paris but was on an absolute high, I had just finished two marathons in two weeks<\/strong> when only a year ago I had taken on my first marathon. Sometime pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone is the best way to challenge yourself more that you expect.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Runner             \"Runner<\/p>\n

There will be no more marathons this year, that doesn’t mean running isn’t on the cards. I plan to conquer many more 5km<\/a><\/strong>, 10km<\/a><\/strong> and a half marathon<\/a><\/strong> in October. Clearly though I needed an extra challenge for 2019 so am taking on the London Classics<\/strong> later this year. I have started planning my goals for 2020 and thinking about what marathons I can take on. Not bad for someone who 4 years ago couldn’t run<\/strong> for more than a minute<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m Cassandra originally from South Africa but now live in East Village, Stratford right on the door of the Olympic Park which is where my love of running started. I started doing the couch to 5k program in the summer of 2015 to help increase my fitness and lose weight. I progressed to doing some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2955,"featured_media":0,"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\/4810"}],"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\/2955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4810"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}