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

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 and why I keep 'championing' 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...

Part 4.25 - LIFE CHANGES (Phase VI - sustaining a healthy life-style) "Nothings going to happ en unless you ma ke it happen." I last published a blog way back in June 2023 and fair bit has changed within my life both 'on-field' and 'off-field' since then, and as my blog is regularly mentioned to me and I'm always being asked 'how you doing now?', which is not a answer you can easily wrap up in few words while chatting, so I thought an update to this series might be a little overdue. When I left off I had just been diagnosed with ' Chronotropic Incompetence ' (CI), an exercise intolerance. I'm still not totally sure what this really means or how it will impact my life, but what is very apparent is that my parkrun times have suffered a lot since then. Since returning back to parkrun post Covid, during which time my (intermittent) paroxysmal AFib episodes had become more regular and longer causing some worry and concern, I could never ma...

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...