Asif Amirat
I am running 100 Marathons in 100 Days to help our NHS Superheroes
Fundraising for NHS Charities Together
Story
Hello,
I hope you are safe and well during these difficult times for us all.
My name is Asif Amirat and I live in Manchester, England with my wife Chaimae and 2 baby girls (Sophia & Sarah). I am 34 and work as a DevOps Engineer.
I am doing a fund raiser challenge to run 100 Marathons in 100 Days to help our NHS Superheroes. 30 of those days have included doing 30 days of Marathons without any food or drink for 19 hours each day due to Fasting for Ramadan. I am doing all of this in my own time outside of work. I have been doing runs in the morning before starting work, during my lunch break and runs after finishing work. I have sacrificed all of my free time since April to run 6/7 hours every day for our lifesavers in the NHS.
To make my 100 Marathons in 100 days challenge more testing I have joined the Conqueror Route 66 Virtual Challenge which will take me 2,280 Miles / 3,669 KM along the most iconic road network in the world. I'll be running across America from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California over the next 7 weeks.
As of today (24 June 2020) I've now ran a total distance 2,941.68 KM / 1,827.87 Miles in my own time to complete 64 Marathons in 64 days
The official distance of a full marathon is 42.2 Kilometres / 26.2 Miles
I've now run the total distance of 69 full Marathons in 64 days!
I've raised over 5000 pounds (to include gift aid) so far for our NHS Superheroes and hoping to reach my target of 10000 by the end of my challenge on Thursday 30th July when I will complete my 100th marathon.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/asifamirat
BBC News has picked up my story:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-52892363
And the story has also gone global.
News of my cause to run 100 Marathons for our NHS Superheroes has now reached Africa! (please see attached pic)
I was on Morocco's biggest TV channel - 2MTV on its Nightly News Show, Info Soir
I also got the headline story and the number 1 trending story on the biggest running magazine in Asia, RunSociety:
https://www.runsociety.com/inspiration/passionate-runner/
My story is also trending across Europe. Sport.be, a European Sports News agency has run my story:
https://www.sport.be/running/nl/nieuws/article.html?Article_ID=884948
I've also been made a #MakingADifferenceHero by my local club Salford City FC for my efforts to help NHS workers:
https://twitter.com/SalfordCityFC/status/1269976550402916355?s=09
All pictures/videos of what I am doing are available to view here:
https://boards.wetransfer.com/board/sh9psmo6x6r40lz5n20200602230648/latest?token=b631b797-5f60-44c6-84ff-cdb6af30ba2b
You can also view all my videos on youtube here:
www.youtube.com/user/asifamirat
In doing my daily marathons I am doing a virtual tour of Britain. By the end of my challenge I hope to cover a total distance of over 4220 Kilometres / 2623 Miles in running marathons running around my living room coffee table. This is the total distance of 100 Full Marathons.
I originally set out to do 30 Half Marathons in 30 Days but later extended this to 50 Half Marathons in 50 days. Seeing our amazing NHS Workers and Volunteers continuing to do a fantastic job to help our Great Nation in getting through the COVID-19 outbreak has inspired me to extended my challenge to run the distance of 100 full Marathons in 100 days.
Today is Day 65 of my challenge.
I was ranked No. 1 in the United Kingdom on Strava for the most distance ran in the month of May. In the whole of the UK nobody has ran more than me so far.
I was also ranked No. 14 Globally and I was the highest ranking Briton in the world.
Yesterday I completed my 64th Marathon for our NHS Superheroes, a 49.1K / 30.50 Mile Ultra Marathon ran as part of my fundraiser challenge to run 100 Marathons in 100 Days
I'VE FINALLY GONE PAST THE HALF WAY MARK, 50 MARATHONS IN 50 DAYS COMPLETE!!
I've now ran over 2941 KM / 1827 MILES for our NHS Superheroes to complete 64 Marathons in 64 days since the start of my fundraiser challenge
I still have another 36 full marathons to complete over the next 36 days (over 5 weeks). It has been a really tough and painful journey but I am determined to keep on going for our lifesavers in the NHS.
As of today (25 June 2020) I have now covered a total distance of 2941 KM / 1827 Miles in just 64 days since the start of my challenge in April.
GRAND TOTALS (all data from my strava account)
https://www.strava.com/athletes/13083881
Distance:
2941 KM / 1827 Miles
The official distance of a full marathon is 42.2 Kilometres / 26.2 Miles
So far I've run the total distance of 53 full Marathons in 50 days!
Total Metres Ran
2,941,680
I've now ran nearly 3 Million metres for our NHS staff members and volunteers across Britain.In real terms this is the total distance I've ran from my hometown of Manchester, England to Tayakadın, Turkey 🇹🇷 in just 64 days!
If I was to walk this distance it would take me a total duration of 17 days and 19 hours / 427 hours in total of non stop walking without any break.
Being at home with the lockdown and seeing all the amazing work that NHS staff are doing has really touched me. They are really at the forefront of this COVID-19 pandemic and are risking their lives to help those who are affected. I really wanted to do something to help them. I know first hand what an amazing job they do because the care that the NHS staff gave to my premature daughters was second to none. They looked after them like they were their own children and helped them make it through. I will never forget that. Now has come the time where they really need support. I would like to do something to help them during these extremely difficult times.
So I am doing a fund raiser challenge to complete 100 Marathons in 100 Days @home for OUR NHS HEROES. 30 of those days will include doing 30 Marathons without any food or drink from dusk till dawn (18 hours on average) due to Fasting for Ramadan. I will complete the daily challenge in my own time during the morning before work, lunch break and after work.
My personal challenge is to complete the distance of a full marathon ( 26.2 MILES / 42.2 KM) in my living room over 100 days to help raise £10000 for our NHS Heroes. I will complete the distance of a full marathon each day by running around the coffee table in the centre of my small living room (2m x 2.5m). Please see the attached image showing my living room and where I will be running. Each lap around my coffee is 4 metres. On average to include my half marathons, lunch runs and evening runs I am covering a daily distance of 42.2 km which is the full distance of a full marathon (42.2 KM / 26.2 Miles).
I hope to run the distance of a full marathon by the end of each day. Daily to include my morning half marathons, lunch runs and evening runs I am covering more than the distance of a full marathon (42.2 KM /26.2 Miles every day and weekly I am covering a total distance of nearly 300KM (pleased see attached evidence)
In doing my runs at home I am doing a virtual tour of britain (England, Scotland Wales & Northern Ireland starting from Thursday 14 May 2020. I began in my hometown of Manchester and make my way towards yorkshire, then the north east and then into scotland. I will then make my way down the country and into wales before heading across into northern ireland. By the end of my challenge on 30 july 2020 I should be back home in Manchester.
By the end of my challenge I hope to cover a total distance of over 4222 KILOMETRES / 2623 MILES in running marathons running around my living room coffee table. This is the distance of 100 Full Marathons.
As part of my fundraiser challenge I've also completed 30 Days of Marathons without any food/drink for 19 hours each day whilst Fasting for Ramadan)
In running 100 Marathons for 100 Days I will be completing a 4222 KM / 2623 Mile Virtual Tour of Britain.
I'm now ranked No. 1 in the United Kingdom on Strava for the most distance ran in the month of May. In the whole of the UK nobody has ran more than me.
I'm also ranked No. 14 Globally and I am the highest ranking Briton in the world.
All done in my own time and I am doing this to help our NHS SUPERHEROES
I'm totally shocked about my running efforts for the NHS because for most of May (3 weeks / 21 Days) I was running whilst fasting without any food or drink for 19 hours each day and to still make it to the top is an achievement
Also from January to April I hadn't done any running at all as was at hospital and looking after our premature daughters. So don't know how I've gone from zero running in 4 months to this.
I ran a mammoth 1352 KM / 840 Miles last month and my running efforts for our NHS Heroes helped me make it to the No. 1 position in the United Kingdom rankings for Strava's May distance running challenge. This means that in the month of May nobody in the ran a greater distance than me. I am also ranked 14th in the world and I am the highest ranking Briton globally.
In the Month of May I ran a total of 1352 KM / 840 Miles. I have been running an average of 338 KM / 210 Miles per week. And on average per day I have been running 43.61 KM / 27.09 Miles. So I have been running the distance of a full marathon (42.2 KM / 26.2 Miles every day). In the last week alone I ran a total of 391 KM / 243 Miles.
Last month I recorded 1,627,977 steps. This is nearly 2 million steps in just 31 days. So each week I have been averaging 406,995 which is not far off from half a million steps each week. And each day I have been averaging 52,515 steps.
I've also completed the distance of 30 back to back marathons whilst fasting to complete the Holy Month of Ramadan where I've been running without any food/drink for 19 hours each day.
In running all through Ramadan I have ran a total of 1,149.65 KM / 714.35 Miles. I have been averaging nearly 300km each week and about 42 km / 26 miles each day which means I've been running the distance of a full marathon everyday for 30 days consecutively and all this whilst not having anything to eat or drink for 19 hours each day. So this includes my daily half marathons, runs I do during my lunch break and then runs in the evening after work.
And all this has been done to help our NHS lifesavers.
It did get a little difficult for the first few days of Ramadan as I felt quite thirsty and dehydrated. But I pulled through. It has been a really difficult month but I've kept going. My body seems gotten used to not having any food or drink and I felt ok.
I believe I can keep going for the next 36 days.
I am doing this fundraiser because I have been really touched by what our NHS heroes are doing and wanted to do something to help them. They are at the very front line of the COVID-19 outbreak and doing everything they can to battle this Pandemic. Many of us will know of people who have been affected by this terrible disease and its the NHS workers who have been doing everything they can to help these people. So I wanted to do my bit to try and do anything I can to help our NHS heroes.
I know first hand the amazing work that the NHS workers do. My daughters (Sarah & Sophia pic below) were born Two months premature in January and had to be kept in the hospital for quite some time until they were allowed home. Whilst they were at the hospital the nurses and doctors looked after the girls as if they were their own children. The staff at North Manchester General Hospital did an amazing job in helping our daughters make it through. Without the great help of the NHS staff at the hospital I don’t know what we could have done. They are complete lifesavers and deserve all the help they can get.
Initially I was not keen into running until my late twenties where I got into the activity to lose weight. After running for some time I set myself a very ambitious personal target of losing 30 kilograms in 3 months. I was successful in achieving this goal and was able to drop from 120 KG to just under 90 KG. Unfortunately I have gained quite a lot of weight recently since the birth of my two beautiful daughters who were born prematurely in January. Outside of work and fitness I am a keen gamer and enjoy watching football.
My challenge was really difficult from the get go. I was really doubting myself whether or not I could even do the challenge and was having thoughts about giving up. But I didn't let it get to me. The first hurdle was the dizziness because of the constant running around in circles initially caused a bit of dizziness. I tried to allay this by having a distraction by playing music and watching TV Whilst I was running and it did help a little. And over time I was able to overcome the dizziness and eventually my body got used to it. Now I don't feel dizzy at all. The next major problem was extremely tight space that I had to run around. Whilst running Around the perimeter of the coffee table I only had a gap of around 40 cm between the coffee table on the walls on the sofas. This was a really tight gap so the run required extra attention to detail. I had to have 100% focus and attention during this exercise. Over time this hurdle was also overcome as I began getting used to my surroundings and my mind had a mental map of where everything was.
During my first run I tried to keep going and going and it felt like an eternity. Just making it to 5 km what is so hard and I tried not to look at my fitness tracker regularly to check my progress during the because it would just fill me with negativity that I had not made much progress. But I did not let this deter me and kept going. And eventually with sheer determination and grit I made it through. These runs have been recorded on Strava and are available to view on my strava profile (link provided below). So at the time I believed I was ready for the challenge.
I've already done a warmup run of 9 back to back half marathons over 9 days before work and have
The Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan started a few days into my challenge. I continued to run the marathons whilst observing the fast each day. It was quite tough but I was even more determined to do it for our NHS staff who really need all the help they can get during this pandemic.
I have successfully ran the distance of a full marathon every day of Ramadan (30 days) to complete the Holy Month whilst fasting and have managed to do really well. It did get a little difficult for the first few days as I felt quite thirsty. But I pulled through. My body has now gotten used to not having any food or drink and I feel great. I believe I can keep going for the next 68 days.
A few weekends ago I ran ran Epic 105 km / 65 mile Weekend where I completed 2 back to back Ultra Marathons, ran for a total of 12 hours with no food or drink for 19 hours each day to top off an excellent week where I ran a total of 300 km / 186 miles and I did all this to help our NHS Superheroes
I believe I have it in me to do the 100 Marathons in 100 Days so that I can help those in the NHS who urgently need help during this crisis.
I would be very grateful for your support in helping our NHS Superheroes
All my runs have been recorded on the fitness tracker strava. You can see all my recorded runs on my profile here:
https://www.strava.com/athletes/13083881
I am doing daily live streams of all of my half marathons everyday from 6am to a public audience on my Facebook Page, url provided below:
https://www.facebook.com/asifamirat1/
Full videos of my recent marathons have been uploaded to YouTube and can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/asifamirat
My progress can be followed on my various social media accounts:
INSTAGRAM:
www.instagram.com/asif.amirat
SNAPCHAT:
www.snapchat.com/add/asif.amirat
TWITTER
@Asif_Amirat
If you would like kindly support this great cause you can do so by donating at the following link:
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/asifamirat
Further details about my fundraiser for NHS TOGETHER CHARITIES and information about how you can follow my progress is provided in the above link.
I still have another 36 days of my challenge to go! Do wish me luck
Thank You so much
Kind Regards,
Asif Amirat
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I hope you are safe and well during these difficult times for us all.
My name is Asif Amirat and I live in Manchester, England with my wife Chaimae and 2 baby girls (Sophia & Sarah). I am 34 and work as a DevOps Engineer.
I am doing a fund raiser challenge to run 100 Marathons in 100 Days to help our NHS Superheroes. 30 of those days have included doing 30 days of Marathons without any food or drink for 19 hours each day due to Fasting for Ramadan. I am doing all of this in my own time outside of work. I have been doing runs in the morning before starting work, during my lunch break and runs after finishing work. I have sacrificed all of my free time since April to run 6/7 hours every day for our lifesavers in the NHS.
To make my 100 Marathons in 100 days challenge more testing I have joined the Conqueror Route 66 Virtual Challenge which will take me 2,280 Miles / 3,669 KM along the most iconic road network in the world. I'll be running across America from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California over the next 7 weeks.
As of today (24 June 2020) I've now ran a total distance 2,941.68 KM / 1,827.87 Miles in my own time to complete 64 Marathons in 64 days
The official distance of a full marathon is 42.2 Kilometres / 26.2 Miles
I've now run the total distance of 69 full Marathons in 64 days!
I've raised over 5000 pounds (to include gift aid) so far for our NHS Superheroes and hoping to reach my target of 10000 by the end of my challenge on Thursday 30th July when I will complete my 100th marathon.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/asifamirat
BBC News has picked up my story:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-52892363
And the story has also gone global.
News of my cause to run 100 Marathons for our NHS Superheroes has now reached Africa! (please see attached pic)
I was on Morocco's biggest TV channel - 2MTV on its Nightly News Show, Info Soir
I also got the headline story and the number 1 trending story on the biggest running magazine in Asia, RunSociety:
https://www.runsociety.com/inspiration/passionate-runner/
My story is also trending across Europe. Sport.be, a European Sports News agency has run my story:
https://www.sport.be/running/nl/nieuws/article.html?Article_ID=884948
I've also been made a #MakingADifferenceHero by my local club Salford City FC for my efforts to help NHS workers:
https://twitter.com/SalfordCityFC/status/1269976550402916355?s=09
All pictures/videos of what I am doing are available to view here:
https://boards.wetransfer.com/board/sh9psmo6x6r40lz5n20200602230648/latest?token=b631b797-5f60-44c6-84ff-cdb6af30ba2b
You can also view all my videos on youtube here:
www.youtube.com/user/asifamirat
In doing my daily marathons I am doing a virtual tour of Britain. By the end of my challenge I hope to cover a total distance of over 4220 Kilometres / 2623 Miles in running marathons running around my living room coffee table. This is the total distance of 100 Full Marathons.
I originally set out to do 30 Half Marathons in 30 Days but later extended this to 50 Half Marathons in 50 days. Seeing our amazing NHS Workers and Volunteers continuing to do a fantastic job to help our Great Nation in getting through the COVID-19 outbreak has inspired me to extended my challenge to run the distance of 100 full Marathons in 100 days.
Today is Day 65 of my challenge.
I was ranked No. 1 in the United Kingdom on Strava for the most distance ran in the month of May. In the whole of the UK nobody has ran more than me so far.
I was also ranked No. 14 Globally and I was the highest ranking Briton in the world.
Yesterday I completed my 64th Marathon for our NHS Superheroes, a 49.1K / 30.50 Mile Ultra Marathon ran as part of my fundraiser challenge to run 100 Marathons in 100 Days
I'VE FINALLY GONE PAST THE HALF WAY MARK, 50 MARATHONS IN 50 DAYS COMPLETE!!
I've now ran over 2941 KM / 1827 MILES for our NHS Superheroes to complete 64 Marathons in 64 days since the start of my fundraiser challenge
I still have another 36 full marathons to complete over the next 36 days (over 5 weeks). It has been a really tough and painful journey but I am determined to keep on going for our lifesavers in the NHS.
As of today (25 June 2020) I have now covered a total distance of 2941 KM / 1827 Miles in just 64 days since the start of my challenge in April.
GRAND TOTALS (all data from my strava account)
https://www.strava.com/athletes/13083881
Distance:
2941 KM / 1827 Miles
The official distance of a full marathon is 42.2 Kilometres / 26.2 Miles
So far I've run the total distance of 53 full Marathons in 50 days!
Total Metres Ran
2,941,680
I've now ran nearly 3 Million metres for our NHS staff members and volunteers across Britain.In real terms this is the total distance I've ran from my hometown of Manchester, England to Tayakadın, Turkey 🇹🇷 in just 64 days!
If I was to walk this distance it would take me a total duration of 17 days and 19 hours / 427 hours in total of non stop walking without any break.
Being at home with the lockdown and seeing all the amazing work that NHS staff are doing has really touched me. They are really at the forefront of this COVID-19 pandemic and are risking their lives to help those who are affected. I really wanted to do something to help them. I know first hand what an amazing job they do because the care that the NHS staff gave to my premature daughters was second to none. They looked after them like they were their own children and helped them make it through. I will never forget that. Now has come the time where they really need support. I would like to do something to help them during these extremely difficult times.
So I am doing a fund raiser challenge to complete 100 Marathons in 100 Days @home for OUR NHS HEROES. 30 of those days will include doing 30 Marathons without any food or drink from dusk till dawn (18 hours on average) due to Fasting for Ramadan. I will complete the daily challenge in my own time during the morning before work, lunch break and after work.
My personal challenge is to complete the distance of a full marathon ( 26.2 MILES / 42.2 KM) in my living room over 100 days to help raise £10000 for our NHS Heroes. I will complete the distance of a full marathon each day by running around the coffee table in the centre of my small living room (2m x 2.5m). Please see the attached image showing my living room and where I will be running. Each lap around my coffee is 4 metres. On average to include my half marathons, lunch runs and evening runs I am covering a daily distance of 42.2 km which is the full distance of a full marathon (42.2 KM / 26.2 Miles).
I hope to run the distance of a full marathon by the end of each day. Daily to include my morning half marathons, lunch runs and evening runs I am covering more than the distance of a full marathon (42.2 KM /26.2 Miles every day and weekly I am covering a total distance of nearly 300KM (pleased see attached evidence)
In doing my runs at home I am doing a virtual tour of britain (England, Scotland Wales & Northern Ireland starting from Thursday 14 May 2020. I began in my hometown of Manchester and make my way towards yorkshire, then the north east and then into scotland. I will then make my way down the country and into wales before heading across into northern ireland. By the end of my challenge on 30 july 2020 I should be back home in Manchester.
By the end of my challenge I hope to cover a total distance of over 4222 KILOMETRES / 2623 MILES in running marathons running around my living room coffee table. This is the distance of 100 Full Marathons.
As part of my fundraiser challenge I've also completed 30 Days of Marathons without any food/drink for 19 hours each day whilst Fasting for Ramadan)
In running 100 Marathons for 100 Days I will be completing a 4222 KM / 2623 Mile Virtual Tour of Britain.
I'm now ranked No. 1 in the United Kingdom on Strava for the most distance ran in the month of May. In the whole of the UK nobody has ran more than me.
I'm also ranked No. 14 Globally and I am the highest ranking Briton in the world.
All done in my own time and I am doing this to help our NHS SUPERHEROES
I'm totally shocked about my running efforts for the NHS because for most of May (3 weeks / 21 Days) I was running whilst fasting without any food or drink for 19 hours each day and to still make it to the top is an achievement
Also from January to April I hadn't done any running at all as was at hospital and looking after our premature daughters. So don't know how I've gone from zero running in 4 months to this.
I ran a mammoth 1352 KM / 840 Miles last month and my running efforts for our NHS Heroes helped me make it to the No. 1 position in the United Kingdom rankings for Strava's May distance running challenge. This means that in the month of May nobody in the ran a greater distance than me. I am also ranked 14th in the world and I am the highest ranking Briton globally.
In the Month of May I ran a total of 1352 KM / 840 Miles. I have been running an average of 338 KM / 210 Miles per week. And on average per day I have been running 43.61 KM / 27.09 Miles. So I have been running the distance of a full marathon (42.2 KM / 26.2 Miles every day). In the last week alone I ran a total of 391 KM / 243 Miles.
Last month I recorded 1,627,977 steps. This is nearly 2 million steps in just 31 days. So each week I have been averaging 406,995 which is not far off from half a million steps each week. And each day I have been averaging 52,515 steps.
I've also completed the distance of 30 back to back marathons whilst fasting to complete the Holy Month of Ramadan where I've been running without any food/drink for 19 hours each day.
In running all through Ramadan I have ran a total of 1,149.65 KM / 714.35 Miles. I have been averaging nearly 300km each week and about 42 km / 26 miles each day which means I've been running the distance of a full marathon everyday for 30 days consecutively and all this whilst not having anything to eat or drink for 19 hours each day. So this includes my daily half marathons, runs I do during my lunch break and then runs in the evening after work.
And all this has been done to help our NHS lifesavers.
It did get a little difficult for the first few days of Ramadan as I felt quite thirsty and dehydrated. But I pulled through. It has been a really difficult month but I've kept going. My body seems gotten used to not having any food or drink and I felt ok.
I believe I can keep going for the next 36 days.
I am doing this fundraiser because I have been really touched by what our NHS heroes are doing and wanted to do something to help them. They are at the very front line of the COVID-19 outbreak and doing everything they can to battle this Pandemic. Many of us will know of people who have been affected by this terrible disease and its the NHS workers who have been doing everything they can to help these people. So I wanted to do my bit to try and do anything I can to help our NHS heroes.
I know first hand the amazing work that the NHS workers do. My daughters (Sarah & Sophia pic below) were born Two months premature in January and had to be kept in the hospital for quite some time until they were allowed home. Whilst they were at the hospital the nurses and doctors looked after the girls as if they were their own children. The staff at North Manchester General Hospital did an amazing job in helping our daughters make it through. Without the great help of the NHS staff at the hospital I don’t know what we could have done. They are complete lifesavers and deserve all the help they can get.
Initially I was not keen into running until my late twenties where I got into the activity to lose weight. After running for some time I set myself a very ambitious personal target of losing 30 kilograms in 3 months. I was successful in achieving this goal and was able to drop from 120 KG to just under 90 KG. Unfortunately I have gained quite a lot of weight recently since the birth of my two beautiful daughters who were born prematurely in January. Outside of work and fitness I am a keen gamer and enjoy watching football.
My challenge was really difficult from the get go. I was really doubting myself whether or not I could even do the challenge and was having thoughts about giving up. But I didn't let it get to me. The first hurdle was the dizziness because of the constant running around in circles initially caused a bit of dizziness. I tried to allay this by having a distraction by playing music and watching TV Whilst I was running and it did help a little. And over time I was able to overcome the dizziness and eventually my body got used to it. Now I don't feel dizzy at all. The next major problem was extremely tight space that I had to run around. Whilst running Around the perimeter of the coffee table I only had a gap of around 40 cm between the coffee table on the walls on the sofas. This was a really tight gap so the run required extra attention to detail. I had to have 100% focus and attention during this exercise. Over time this hurdle was also overcome as I began getting used to my surroundings and my mind had a mental map of where everything was.
During my first run I tried to keep going and going and it felt like an eternity. Just making it to 5 km what is so hard and I tried not to look at my fitness tracker regularly to check my progress during the because it would just fill me with negativity that I had not made much progress. But I did not let this deter me and kept going. And eventually with sheer determination and grit I made it through. These runs have been recorded on Strava and are available to view on my strava profile (link provided below). So at the time I believed I was ready for the challenge.
I've already done a warmup run of 9 back to back half marathons over 9 days before work and have
The Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan started a few days into my challenge. I continued to run the marathons whilst observing the fast each day. It was quite tough but I was even more determined to do it for our NHS staff who really need all the help they can get during this pandemic.
I have successfully ran the distance of a full marathon every day of Ramadan (30 days) to complete the Holy Month whilst fasting and have managed to do really well. It did get a little difficult for the first few days as I felt quite thirsty. But I pulled through. My body has now gotten used to not having any food or drink and I feel great. I believe I can keep going for the next 68 days.
A few weekends ago I ran ran Epic 105 km / 65 mile Weekend where I completed 2 back to back Ultra Marathons, ran for a total of 12 hours with no food or drink for 19 hours each day to top off an excellent week where I ran a total of 300 km / 186 miles and I did all this to help our NHS Superheroes
I believe I have it in me to do the 100 Marathons in 100 Days so that I can help those in the NHS who urgently need help during this crisis.
I would be very grateful for your support in helping our NHS Superheroes
All my runs have been recorded on the fitness tracker strava. You can see all my recorded runs on my profile here:
https://www.strava.com/athletes/13083881
I am doing daily live streams of all of my half marathons everyday from 6am to a public audience on my Facebook Page, url provided below:
https://www.facebook.com/asifamirat1/
Full videos of my recent marathons have been uploaded to YouTube and can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/asifamirat
My progress can be followed on my various social media accounts:
INSTAGRAM:
www.instagram.com/asif.amirat
SNAPCHAT:
www.snapchat.com/add/asif.amirat
@Asif_Amirat
If you would like kindly support this great cause you can do so by donating at the following link:
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/asifamirat
Further details about my fundraiser for NHS TOGETHER CHARITIES and information about how you can follow my progress is provided in the above link.
I still have another 36 days of my challenge to go! Do wish me luck
Thank You so much
Kind Regards,
Asif Amirat
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