Ciara Mageean

And I was like, oh great, on top of everything else, I now have an irritable bowel.

this is, and I can be brought on by stress.

And anybody could imagine I had a pretty stressful time in the lead up to Paris and then had surgery immediately after Paris and, you know, moved house.

That's a stressful time.

It's like, ah, this is all, it's all just building up and this is how it's presenting in my body.

But I was training.

I went off to a training camp in Font Rameau.

Me and Tommy headed out.

One of my

best friends Izzy was out there one of my fellow 1500m compatriots from Canada Gabriella was there so I was I was out there training a load of the lads from Tommy's training group in Manchester arrived out we were having a bit of crack but I was up on the spin bike in the gym and I would have to jump off

four or five times in the middle of a spin session that might have only been lasting an hour to run to the toilet.

And Tommy was probably the one that was like, you really, like, you need to get that.

There's something not right.

So just completely perchance, I had...

phone calls scheduled in with my nutritionist, Sharon Madigan.

And I was walking up to an Ultra G session, talking to Sharon as I was strolling.

I was like, I'm going to mention it to Sharon today.

And I wonder, could I have mentioned it sooner?

I wonder, do you know, you reflect back and you're like, was there signs earlier?

Was there like a sign the summer before?