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  • Hey I'm Karan I did the 2018 Cambridge Half Marathon this year

  • well a someone who's not really run before it was a really cool personal

  • challenge and it surprised a lot of my friends and family but in a good

  • way because I also raised money for charity and because people knew it was such such

  • a big challenge for me that they were really generous with their donations

  • I first started running that park run which is a weekly local free community

  • 5k and it was just a really nice vibe there everyone's really friendly and

  • supportive and you get time each week so then each week you've got a target of

  • what to get and get getting a new PB is such such great feeling.

  • So I normally run

  • three times a week I normally do two shorter sessions during

  • the week in the evening because I'm not a morning person at all

  • and then I was to do a longer run at the weekend I first started struggling to

  • to do 5ks but then I slowly built up the distance. It took about 10

  • to 12 weeks but it was definitely worth it for come around race day

  • I was so nervous when I first signed up for the Cambridge Half Marathon as I had no

  • idea what to expect cause yeah like i mentioned before I've

  • never really run before used to hate cross country at school used to like

  • walk as much as possible so to sign up to do 13 mile run was a big big step for

  • me but I grew confidence as my training went on as I as I did

  • longer distances I was a little bit nervous before race day but mainly just

  • excited to do it and I absolutely loved it.

  • my biggest supporters have been my

  • family especially my parents my dad came to watch me do the Cambridge Half

  • and my mum has watched me at loads of other races since.

  • Yeah I'll say prepare well by making sure you do a mix of training

  • because if you haven't done any kind of long runs so make sure you kind of

  • have to do a couple runs that are close to the distant between eight to

  • ten miles and that will set you in a good start come race day and all

  • your hard work will pay off on race day that's what's it's all for

  • I completely loved the Cambridge Half Marathon then I done two more in 2018. I did the Hackney half in May and I

  • also did the Ealing half in September and in each one

  • I've got quick as well just really great

  • My PB at the moment is one hour 48 minutes

  • I did the Cambridge Half in an hour and 53 minutes and then the

  • Hackney Half in an hour and 50 minutes and then I got it down to

  • an hour 48 minutes in Ealing which i was

  • really happy with

Hey I'm Karan I did the 2018 Cambridge Half Marathon this year

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