Ciara McGeehan

You know, it's just, you're, you're always tired.

Meanwhile, as a middle distance runner, you're like, you go out and you're like, I am busted.

I like keel over at the side of the track, wheeze in and like, and like, like you're literally like faint on the track.

I absolutely loved that.

It was amazing.

And to have that opportunity and yeah, it was more, whenever I was explaining that, I was kind of like, that's another thing that I find hard to, to verbalize.

It was like, oh yeah.

was this a path that I wanted to go down?

Would I have loved to be able to play camogie and win a Sigurdsson or win an Ashburn medal with the university and try to like, you know, I'm a strong believer in us County Down girls, like, well, it could be the Kilkenny's and Galway's.

Could we have been that?

And I'm like, that would have been another life.

But I'm so glad that I pursued the life that I did.

There was certainly points of it that were really tough.

Like,

I enjoyed pushing myself but I wish I enjoyed racing more I found racing really really obviously not not tough physically because I was always I always enjoyed whenever the gun went and I was racing but the build-up to the race day and the build-up to toeing the line I just so nervous so so nervous and if that's a lesson for any young people out there you can be nervous and scared

and you can still go and excel.

That your body has a natural ability to become adrenalized.

I switched it from saying I'm nervous to being like I'm adrenalized.

And your body goes into fight or flight.

And it doesn't know that we're not being chased by a saber-toothed tiger and we're not back in the Stone Age and we're having to