Hello everybody! I'm glad you made it to my fundraising page!

By visiting this page you already show great interest and support for me and my big aim. I really appreciate that you made this effort. Let me tell you about my motivation for doing this half marathon and why I chose the Children's Heart Federation as a charity to run for.

You probably don't know this but I was born with a serious heart condition. The main artery leading to my heart was too narrow. This meant that I wasn't able to do sports at all. After a few metres of running I would stop, being out of breath with my head as red as a lobster. I would not even have dreamt about being able to do a half marathon.

Then by the time I hit puberty and started growing rapidly my condition was getting worse. It turned out the diameter of my aorta had shrunk to only a couple of millimeters. The only option I had was to undergo surgery. I was eleven by that time and also had to face the possibility of severe complications  in case the surgery didn't go well. I also didn't find a suitable blood donor which added to the severity of the surgery.

Now eleven years later I have decided to run the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon. My surgery turned out to be very successful. Actually only 3% of all operations produce results as good as mine.

For this reason I enjoy every breath and every heart beat during exercise. For this reason I love doing sports. And for this reason I decided to run the Children's Heart Federation, because I  feel I want to give something back for the good I have received.

So let's do this together! I do the running bit and you give what you can affort.

Thanks ever so much folks!

 

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