Pippa Middleton ran her first marathon, the Safaricom Marathon in Kenya on June 27, finishing the 26.2-mile distance in 3:56:33, reports HELLO! magazine.

The sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Middleton placed 30th overall and was the seventh female finisher.

“I decided that a marathon was a ‘life box’ that needed ticking and this year was my time—despite it being one of the toughest in the world, with temperatures rising to more than 30 degrees Celsius [86 degrees Fahrenheit], at an altitude of 5,550 feet and with the possibility of bumping into lions or rhinos,” Middleton wrote in a post for HELLO! magazine.

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Tusk Trust, an organization that aims to protect wildlife, support communities, and promote education, hosts the race that took more than 1,200 runners through the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy.

“I was exhausted. My eyes welled up with tears,” Middleton wrote. “Could I really manage this? I...thought of the schoolchildren, the rhinos, elephants and lions, the incredible Tusk projects—the reason I was doing this. It was tough, tougher than anything I’d been faced with before and required every inch of my energy, stamina and stubbornness.”

Middleton is an active runner and cyclist who regularly competes in various events. A week before the Safaricom Marathon, she rode 54 miles from London to Brighton to raise awareness for the British Heart Foundation.

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