Talk Radio 702’s Aki Anastasiou completes his first half marathon

As a runner, once you’ve been around the proverbial block a few times, it is easy to forget what it felt like to complete your first race. Remember your first 5km?Remember making the step up to 10km and how you thought there is no way you could EVER run a half marathon?Once you’ve been running a while and have run a few marathons and ultra’s you quickly forget what a struggle it was to first get going.On this episode of Run Talk SA we chat to Talk Radio 702’s morning traffic guy and gadget guru, Aki Anastasiou, who has just completed his first half marathon.Aki tells Brad what brought about this fitness transformation and why it meant so much to him to completing the Varsity Kudus 21km on Sunday.Aki also asks Brad how he can now go about getting faster and bringing his half marathon time down to below 2 hours.As far as running gadgets and technology goes, Aki gives us the low down on what some of the technology is that is making waves on the international running scene and what his favourite running gadgets are.Brad also spoke about the training that he has been working on to get you running on the Low Carb High Fat diet on the show. If you want to find out more about what he is up to click here.