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

PART 4.6 - SUB 29!, ATTACK OF THE AKI & 1 YEAR OLD! (Phase VI - sustaining a healthy life-style) "Nothings going to happen unless you make it happen." I kick-off this blog still on a high from my two sub 30 parkruns from the previous blog [see part 4.5] .... I was on a roll and living the dream!  Welcome Blue Peter But it was summer so we took a much needed a break and I enjoyed few days away from it all with the Mrs down in Looe on the south Cornish coast, this was always going to disrupt my training schedule but I did manage to at least get out for a daily early morning walk along the coast path to help keep up my average step count and make up for those fried breakfast's, eating out and a couple or more local ales. This was intended as a quiet get away but everywhere we visited I kept bumping into people who wanted to talk 'football', much the my wife's annoyance, but this was not really surprising as the Wanderers were playing in Plymouth th...

PART 4.5 - PAIN IN THE BUM, GOING SENILE AND SUB 30! (Phase VI - sustaining a healthy life-style) "Nothings going to happen unless you make it happen." Wednesday 13th June 2018 and I make my long awaited visit to hospital to sort out my backside. As covered in my previous blog [see part 4.4] this had been ongoing for some time and I had had this fistula on my back passage since at least last Oct. (I remember when I first started parkrun having to run with a bit of toilet tissue clenched between my buttocks to soak up any discharge!) but because of the heart medication I was on for the first year after a MI, treatment had to be put on hold. After the failure of a couple courses of antibiotics the only remedy was minor day surgery and so here I was sat in Wycombe hospital feeling a little apprehensive due to my low heart rate, after some concern it could drop further, waiting to be taken down to the anaesthetic room ready to be knocked out so that my fistula could be ...

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. * ...