Ciara Mageean

And it can be an absolute nightmare chasing them around, but you'll miss it.

whenever you don't have that and it's so tiring in the moment like and so many of my friends have little infants right now and they'll be messaging and being like oh for goodness sake this happened and we had a punami on the way to whatever and and then I'm like like obviously we share everything and I'm like girls are so lucky and that's not to take away from the struggles of being a new mummy but I'm like you get to have those little cuddles and that's just so beautiful and it's

Like, obviously, I get extremely emotional because I would always have wanted that.

But I'm lucky.

I have little nieces and little goddaughters that I cuddle.

And, you know, I'm going to relish that.

Yeah, he's been my rock.

I do joke that Thomas is a very quiet man, is it any wonder?

Because you can't get a word in edgeways.

But he's just been that constant for me.

We met in UCD.

He was my best friend, Sean, his little brother.

So thankfully it's worked out.

And he's been that steady for me.

throughout my highs and lows of my athletic career throughout this journey he's a very stoic man and he hates me talking about him so the other agent that I mentioned I made her do it but yeah I'm so blessed to have a partner in life like Thomas and you know a best friend in the man that I'm going to marry and yeah

And I hated how much he gave up throughout my running career as a runner himself.

And he would come and he would pace me throughout the summer and miss all of the races that he wanted to run.

And I'd feel absolutely devastated.

But he was like, I want to do this.

I want you to achieve all of your dreams on the athletics track.