{"id":604,"date":"2019-03-15T14:53:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T14:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/?p=604"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:29:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:29:51","slug":"running-the-great-kings-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/2019\/03\/15\/running-the-great-kings-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Running the Great King\u2019s Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unimentalhealthday.co.uk\/\">University Mental Health Day<\/a> on the 7<sup>th<\/sup> of March and I was itching to do something really positive for my mental health and myself. The perfect opportunity presented itself as King\u2019s Sport had organised the Great King\u2019s Run on the 10<sup>th<\/sup>. Before I could even question my decision to run 5K around the Thames, I bought a ticket!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/GKR-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-605\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/GKR-map-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/GKR-map-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/GKR-map-768x314.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/GKR-map.jpg 885w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Waking up on Sunday morning, the first challenge was making sure I didn\u2019t flop back into bed. I\u2019d been looking forward to the run for about a week, although slightly apprehensive about going it alone. Then again, I did have Reggie the lion, the university mascot, on Snapchat to keep me company!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-607\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-1-152x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was great to speak to other runners once I\u2019d registered and collected my t-shirt and race number; some were running 10K (absolutely amazing!) or 5K like me, others were doing the colour run, which sounded incredibly fun, especially with your friends as a team.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-604 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/2019\/03\/15\/running-the-great-kings-run\/gkr-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"152\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-5-152x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-5-152x300.jpg 152w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-5-768x1513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-5-520x1024.jpg 520w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-5.jpg 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The group warm-up before we all set off was fantastic! There was so much energy and enthusiasm from over 300 of us, despite the weather not being on our side. Honestly, I was worried at first, I thought I\u2019d struggle to complete the 5K but everybody around me was so encouraging and I was so grateful to be around such positivity. Every volunteer guiding us on our route was cheering us on and it felt phenomenal, mentally and physically, to complete the run! Even passers-by were chanting encouragement and motivation as we ran past. Not to mention, the river was so beautiful and the London landmarks so striking, even with the wind blowing in my eyes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-612\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-7-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-7-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-7-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-7-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-7-365x365.jpg 365w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-7-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/files\/2019\/03\/gkr-7.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Running the Great King\u2019s Run was a great confidence booster and motivation for the week ahead. Well done everybody! If you want to see more photos, head to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bu1HHDqgjZp\/\">Instagram<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/KingsSport.ac.uk\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=10156911710371006\">King&#8217;s Sport Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See what else is going on at King\u2019s Sport:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/sport\">https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/sport<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It was University Mental Health Day on the 7th of March and I was itching to do something really positive for my mental health and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/2019\/03\/15\/running-the-great-kings-run\/\" title=\"Running the Great King\u2019s Run\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":524,"featured_media":612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[85,47,11,12,49,86,51,36,32,25,45,14,84,83,42,52,43,26,48],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-postgraduates","tag-5k","tag-higher-education","tag-ioppn","tag-kings-college-london","tag-kings","tag-kings-sport","tag-kingscollegelondon","tag-life-at-kings","tag-london","tag-mental-health","tag-postgrad","tag-postgraduate","tag-running","tag-sport","tag-student","tag-student-ambassadors","tag-student-blog","tag-student-wellbeing","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}