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

Part 4.12 - PLUS & MINUS 3.5 YEARS; HEART ATTACK TO HALF MARATHON !: (Phase VI - sustaining a healthy life-style) "Nothings going to happen unless you make it happen." This blog is being written the day after running my first half marathon in 27 years, the culmination of 3.5 years of exercising, semi-controlled dieting and a fair bit of self discipline while nursing plenty aches and pains from the day before! Going back about 3 weeks to Tuesday 8th Sept. 2020 this was not just another 'working from home' day for me but a far more significant landmark which came about because of a heart attack I had on the 28th Dec 2016, 3.5 years ago (or 3 years, 8 months and 11 days ago to be precise). As I lay in the Harefield hospital bed days after Christmas the realisation that I had gone from having my first angiogram and stents (when I was diagnosed with unstable angina) to a heart attack in a little the over previous 3.5 years  (or 3 yea...

PART 4.8 - BLING, BLING, BLING - TWO 10K's AND A 5K. (Phase VI - sustaining a healthy life-style) "Nothings going to happen unless you make it happen." It's been a while since I last hit the keyboard and a torrent of water has passed under the bridge in that time and there's a fair bit to wade through, so I best crack on and not disappoint my reader ... Throughout Jan to May 2019 on parkrun I hit my most consistent form yet with the next 12 runs, excluding tail-walking duties, all within the 27-28 minute band (except one) including 3 consecutive PB's at 27:40, 27:30 and 27:02 - I was on fire!!, the one and only run outside this time-band during the run was 28:01, just 2 bloody seconds too slow to keep the run going but I was gobsmacked at just how similar my times were becoming no matter how I ran or what the weather threw at me, I can only put this down to the extra running I had started since Christmas. I had started to up my distance training in...