After suffering a serious injury to his ankle, Damian Lai's fitness got progressively worse.

Overweight, eating the wrong things and constantly out of breath he was given a serious warning when he nearly died after contracting a virus and ending up in hospital.

Realising things had to change, Damian joined a beginners' running group at his local club - and his life changed.

This weekend he completed his 49th marathon, including finishing London five times - the last of which saw him narrowly miss out on a World Record for the fastest ice cream!

He is currently running to raise funds for Ukraine, while helping new runners complete the same course that started him off on his journey.

This is his running tale... 

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The music in this podcast is:"Fearless First" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/