Ciara McGeehan

It happened a couple of times throughout my career.

Not necessarily.

I had an ability to go, like probably that I've been wise up.

Always a blooming struggle.

And it's something that I'll forever wish.

I wish that I had had just that clean period where there was no niggles and you could be consistently training.

And like Steve Vernon always said, you just need B plus training sessions.

You can touch on an A plus one every so often, but you don't... And you shouldn't constantly train at the highest level, at the hardest.

Because no matter how...

robust your body is you're out there and you're busting it and eventually something will give but unfortunately for me like I just had this is the irony my Achilles heel was my Achilles heel and it was both left and right I had two surgeries in my career and

And like the first one presented really early, like immediately post my underage career, it kind of came on just as I was getting to university stage.

So clearly like my body just had a disposition in my ankles to have that.

Now, equally like other athletes that have a robust musculoskeletal system that doesn't get injured, how their body gives might be that they get ill.

They catch colds.

Like luckily, I never really had like major, like never...

got a bad flu never very rarely caught a sickness mine just was always these injuries yeah it's something that i'll forever wish that like and i and i look at people and i'm like i'm so jealous of that athlete because they they have been able to consistently be out there but it's maybe something that the general public don't know that us athletes are often carrying something sure

And I'm not unique in that.

And I also know athletes that didn't get the opportunities and successes in their career that I have that are extremely talented too.

And I'm really fortunate and lucky that I did have those good opportunities.

I don't doubt that I could have been competitive at an Olympic Games and a World Championships if I just had a little bit more luck on my side.