Ciara Mageean

But yeah, I was a fairly private person, as open as I always was with my interviews and sharing that.

I was a very private person whenever it came to the low points in my athletic career.

I kept that really close.

So, yeah, I'd say I was honing that ability.

And look, I'm not saying that's a positive trait.

I definitely then, whenever the time was right, told my family and told my friends.

I did, I did.

Well, I say myself, per Myra, my big sister and Thomas, my fiancé, they had the news too.

But I felt like our Christmas was going to be tainted already with the sadness that I'm going through a cancer journey.

I just didn't think they needed to be told that my prognosis was maybe two to three years on Christmas Eve.

And I knew, like I had just had some scans, I knew I was waiting for my PET scan and the results of that.

And I'm like, look, I'll wait until I have the full picture and all of that to then tell my family.

And look, I...

I remember telling my mummy about my two to three year prognosis.

I was sitting in a coffee shop in Belfast and she'd come up and I was like, OK, now's the time I'm going to have this little moment.

And I remember telling my daddy we had brought the dogs out and and we were walking down a lane and I let my daddy know.

And I still get emotional thinking about it because I said, like the doctor said this and he had an inhalation of breath.

He's like, don't tell me that.

And we just had a hug and I'm going to cry on your radio station today.

It is.