All wired up!

Well the x-country season has been and gone and I haven't been able to do a single race. First it was shin splints and then palpitations during high intensity exercise which culminated in me having to endure a 5hr ablation last Wednesday. Put it this way, being a bit squeamish I had to draw on all my reserves of mental toughness to handle the procedure which is done under local anesthetic. It involved running wires into my heart and triggering the palpitations and then damaging the extra electrical pathway in my heart to prevent it happening again. It so happened that it was adrenaline that triggered my palpitations which meant I was put on a drip of the stuff throughout the procedure - leaving me a little drained! I'm off training for a week and then will be easing back in to it. Not your ideal pre-season prep, but long term considering the ablation was as successful as it could have been I should be able to crack on with some more high intensity work that I haven't been able to do for some time now. Big thanks to the fantastic team at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital. Hill reps here I come!