Ed Sheeran surprises runner by serenading her from canal boat

If improving your health or even the possibility of finding love isn't getting you up and running, then maybe this will.

One runner named Nikki Atkins was on her regular jog along the canal when none other than superstar Ed Sheeran came floating up the stream alongside her.

"Any requests?" he asked, leaning back in the boat, while a camera crew filmed him.

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Atkins thought for a while before asking for his hit, Tenerife Sea.

He sang a few lines of the song while strumming his guitar, while Atkins fumbled to get her phone out and record.

She also posted her point of view on her Instagram account.

"This was so unexpected and so so beautiful. Thank you, thank you," she wrote on her stories before adding a cheeky, "This is why we run, girls."

Fans flocked to the comments of the star's TikTok video to share what they would have done if they were the lucky soul to be serenaded.

"I don't know why I spent the last 30 mins debating on what I would request like this would ever happen to me. I think it would be One Night," one fan said.

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"I thought instantly *A Team*" another added.

"I feel like my brain would short circuit and I would forget any song title," said one fan.

"The way this would literally be a dream come true," said another.

"That is a run she will never forget," one commented.

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