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

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 4.10 - COPING WITH COVID-19 AND WHAT THEY SAY (Phase VI - sustaining a healthy life-style) "Nothings going to happen unless you make it happen." This is a bit of a spontaneous short blog to pen how I'm feeling and coping during this Coronavirus pandemic (it is being written off the cuff so probably not very coherent). Useful BHF pages: Coronavirus: what it means for you if you have heart or circulatory disease ...... click here What does coronavirus do to your body? ...... click here Coronavirus and heart medication ....... click here Rainbow by Ellineya As I write this (02/04/20), the UK has been in a lock-down for 10 days with no telling how long it will go on. This is to prevent the spread of the virus with only 4 valid reasons to leave your home - 1) to shop for essentials; 2) medical need or medication; 3) travelling to and from work when working from home is not possible or you are an essential key worker and 4) daily exercise - meeting with f...

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...