UPDATE: A quick thank you to everyone who has sponsored me so far! I really am grateful for all of the generosity. With 2.5 weeks to go I have reached my initial target of £200! That's enough to fund a BHF researcher for one day, working to better understand how to diagnose, prevent, treat and cure heart disease. Let's see what else we can do :)

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In what can only be described as a moment of madness (or sheer peer pressure...) I signed up to run the Run Hackney half marathon on 10 May 2015 with just under 7 weeks to train. There are just over 5 weeks to go, and I may just about make it over the finish line in one piece.

I am running this half marathon on behalf of the British Heart Foundation, a charity which carries out invaluable work and research to combat heart disease, an issue which I am sure most people, myself included, have been in some way affected by.

I would be incredibly grateful for any donations, no matter how big or small! Thanks - see you at the finish line!

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