<\/span><\/p>\nHowever, I was much better prepared this time around. <\/span>I started my training regime in late-August: focusing on appropriate conditioning to aid running. <\/span>I slowly build up my pace and distance to 8 km in an hour around 10 days before the run. There are innumerable sites and blogs dedicated to running which came in extremely handy. <\/span><\/p>\nThe run itself: It was an early start with kick off at 5:20 am.<\/span> <\/span>The crowd in the holding area was enormous and I would be lying if I said that there wasn’t a five minute period when I regretted the decision to register for the run.<\/span> <\/span>But eventually, we reached the starting line in one piece.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t