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

PART 4.4 - FALLING HEART RATE: FITTER OR HIBERNATION? (Phase VI - sustaining a healthy life-style) "Nothings going to happen unless you make it happen." I didn’t really have any intention to continue with this blog beyond the first year but like in real life, my fitness campaign keeps rolling on so must the chronicles (or so I’ve been told by my blog fan).   Picking up from where we left off, my next parkrun on 3rd Feb. became a bit of a ground breaking occasion. It all started like any previous – a combination of jogging and walking when feeling the onset of angina but suddenly at about 3km I picked up a fairly comfortable stride and managed to keep going for the next 1km without pulling up when a fellow runner saw how I was pushing myself and offered to help me to the finish line. We jogged the last 1km together and finished in 33:09, just 18 seconds behind my best time. At about 2km this was the longest distance I had ran non-stop since starting parkrun and having...

THEY TRIED TO MAKE ME GO TO REHAB. I SAID YES, YES, YES PLEASE! (Phase III – cardiac rehabilitation) the cardiac rehab team 21 st Feb 2017 and I start phase III of my cardiac event when attending the first of 6 weeks of cardiac rehabilitation classes, but this part of the story really began back at my heart assessment 3 weeks earlier. Besides receiving my pedometer and starting an obsession in counting steps [see part 2], a series of measurements were taken which have since become the base point for tracking my subsequent progress.  My heart rate was 59, blood pressure 153/96, weight 98.2 kg, height 177cm, BMI 31.34 and waist 107cm. The Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation Team set long term targets against these measurements – blood pressure <140/90, weight 58-78.3kg, BMI 18.5-25 and waist <94cm. [Care4Today Cardiac Rehab video, this features the actual team I was with ..... click here ] Part of the assessment is to do a ‘shuttle walk test’ during which you w...