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Heart Attack to 10K (part 1) - That fateful day.

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THAT FATEFUL DAY. (Phase I – heart attack) Being at a bit of a loose end and with nothing better to do during that dull period between Christmas and New Year (or the Plymouth Argyle & Cheltenham Town matches as my fellow Chairboys & girls (Wycombe Wanderers) would remember it), I decided to go for a walk in the local countryside around the rolling Chiltern hills. Overnight it had frozen, but the bright winter sunshine turned the early frost into a mist persuading me that it might make for some good atmospheric photographs. So, on Wednesday 28 th December 2016 (a date now etched into my memory) I drove out to Bledlow Ridge, parked the car in a side road just after mid-day and set out with my camera on a 6.8 mile walk that by the time I returned to the car would become an adventure I wouldn't forget in a hurry and ultimately have a dramatic change on my priorities and the way I live my life. I had been meaning to walk the Radnage area for some time and with the ...

Heart Attack to 10K (part 4.27) - Giving it all my Heart & Soul

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Part 4.27 - GIVING IT ALL MY HEART & SOUL (Phase VI - sustaining a healthy life-style) "Nothings going to happ en unless you ma ke it happen." It's been awhile since I last gave any thought to writing another blog, mainly because there hasn't really been that much to report and it's always difficult to get started on a new topic. Having said that (and probably not of the greatest of general interest), I have for some time been considering writing and explaining about my obsession with a local charity that keeps cropping up throughout this series of blogs, becoming a big part of my whole rehabilitation story. A charity that left a lasting impression on me since first hearing about it during a talk given by one of the charity trustee's, Steve Wildman, during my second round of cardiac rehabilitation classes back in 2017. Back in those days the cardiac rehab. exercise sessions where supplemented by a couple of afternoons where the patients were given educati...

Heart Attack to 10K (part 4.26) - Persisting with parkrun - part 2

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Part 4.26 - PERSISTING WITH PARKRUN - PART 2 (Phase VI - sustaining a healthy life-style) "Nothings going to happ en unless you ma ke it happen." It's nearly 3 years since I published part. 1 of my 'Persisting with parkrun' blog [ part 4.20 ], soon after completing my 150th parkrun and as I'm now fast approaching my 250th - a shirt at times I never thought I would get my hands on, it just seemed a good time to recap on what has happened both parkrun & health wise within my life since part 1 and consider how  parkrun and I can carry on persisting together from here. With four runs still to go (July 2025), I've decided to publish this blog before actually attempting my 250th parkrun to help mark the actual occasion and hopefully muster some support and encouragement (and boy do I need it!). This could possibly be my 'swansong parkrun'  for reasons I hope will become apparent below, and l et's face it, I'm not going to get the next 500 pa...