The specialist said I couldn’t go home. I had to go straight to a+e. It looked l
By George Barnett Reid 👀 · October 29, 2022 · Curated by George's Blog
The specialist said I couldn’t go home. I had to go straight to a+e. It looked like I’d had a heart attack.
Despite being sat perfectly fine on his bench.
And no, I couldn’t walk to a+e.
It was a week after a 3-day cycle trip. Which was hard.
They’d not only found “troponin” in my blood, I’d also got a funky ECG result.
Troponin is released when the heart gets injured. It can happen a lot in athletes that work quite hard.
It’s not too dangerous, depends on the circumstances, but did teach me a lesson I’ve been practising a year in.
The go hard go home mentality is entirely wrong. Most of the time.
If you want to achieve something big, you actually want to do lots of little things.
At the moment, for me, that is running slowly. To achieve a 100k run next month.
And I’m still seeing results. I’ve ran 2-3 times a week for 8 weeks. Had 3 chill-ish gym sessions. And jumped from 5k runs back to 50k runs.
I still have the urge to thrash the arse out of it sometimes. But overall, even at 30 years old, I’m taking it more slowly.
I don’t have instagram or any of that shit, so you folks on LinkedIn have to soak up my Amazon spiel as well as any of stuff I’ve got to say.
#itsalwaysdayone
NB: James (far right) had done 12 days straight before I joined him. Had a rucksack on. And showed no signs of a heart attack. Whilst also raising shed loads for charity.
Maybe I’m just soft hearted after all.