Heart attack to 10K (or maybe that should be half marathon) - 'my story'

WALKING FOR HEART & SOUL & FINDING PARKRUN (Phase VI – sustaining a healthy life-style ) "Nothings going to happen unless you make it happen." With the carrot of a £100.00 b onus hanging on my 2,500,000 step challenge [see part 4.1], at the half-way point 16 days before the Heart & Souls London Bridges sponsored walk I had completed 53.4% of the task, this was boosted by a hefty 25,326 steps running between to two Totteridge FC stalls at a highly successful Hazlemere Fete on glorious August bank holiday, trying to keep both their floats replenished with £1.00 coins.    This left a very doable 206,634 steps or an average of 12,914 per day to complete the challenge. I was again looking for ways to increase my step count and introduced walking around the school car park while waiting for my wife to finish her evening cleaning job, I worked out that one lap gave me about 250 steps and if I arrived early and she was late out I could do 8-10 laps, that cou...

BACK HOME & DRAMA AT WHITE HART LANE (Phase II – home recovery) Not the New Year's Eve I had planned but I was home!! 4 to 6 weeks off work, no driving for a month, lots of rest, no lifting – welcome to phase II of a cardiac event. Sounds good but it soon becomes tedious, never mind at last I get to see those photos that had led to all this excitement in the first place [see part 1] and that was about it for the first week or so, sitting in front either the TV or computer or reading a jolly good book I got for Christmas about a tale of a Chairboy who missed that famous FA Cup run* with the odd excursion past a few neighbours houses and back mummified with my WWFC scarf wrapped tightly around my head to keep the cold air at bay. The instructions were simple enough, plenty of rest and start slowly with gentle short walks, a little light dusting etc. and gradually build up the pace and length of the walks and resume normal daily activities over the next 4 weeks. * ...