I signed up for the Ealing Half Marathon earlier in the year when I was at the peak of my fitness. Final year university assignments and my dissertation were taking up nearly all my time and the gym had gone from somewhere you don’t really want to go to, to somewhere that provided a much-needed break from studying without the guilt of actually doing anything too ‘fun’. I had got myself into a wonderfully healthy routine of eating well, studying hard and exercising lots, both in terms of weight training and running. Obviously there was the odd chocolate bar (or 5) to break up the boredom, but in general I was in pretty good shape and deciding to run my second half marathon with my running and travel buddy Alice seemed like a brilliant one.

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