I've had high blood pressure stats for the last few days watching the tennis at Wimbledon and football as probably most of you all will have done, I think even for none football fans the excitement and frayed nerves of watching the match are there as the minute clock ticks away down with so many Brits holding their breath pensively until that final whistle is blown so what this weekend will do to so many I have no idea? It brings hope in the face of despair to so many Brits having just faced 18 months of sheer misery in what is an unprecedented event in most people's lives and the World has ever seen. I know exactly how the excitement of it all feels as I've been super competitive most of my living life with sports being my forte being such a fast athletic speed runner no one at school could come nowhere near catching me and being the only kid to be as fast at that time as Carl Lewis or Ben Johnson doing the 100 meters in 13.1 seconds flat, I equalled it. I also excelled at swimming too wanting to become like the famous American hero of mine, Mark Spitz so bought his Speedo trunks thinking they would make me swim faster which worked for me. Swimming dominated my pre-teen youth swimming not only for the school team, I also swam for my home town wining local galas and then swimming for my area winning trophies and then going on to be picked for the Olympics, but my parents would not allow me to away to training camp for 3 years because of the family business and me being more important to them than ever excelling at my carer. Sad really looking back as to what my future may have been had this taken place? Still, we can't weep over what we never got the chance to do?
My football career was just as compromised being the best and most lethal footballer in the school and left-winger or centre forward playing for the school then again the area and home town. Because games ran into the weekend my father would not allow me to play so I had to give both of these up for the family business. I did exactly the same in fishing excelling with my skills becoming junior champion then beating adults at the age of 11 beating my father who was a master fisherman himself. I then went onto race motorbikes against my father's wishes, building field dort bikes at a very young age being trying to simulate Evel Knevil, my hero at the time and of course wanting to be like World Superbike Champion Barry Sheene which we watched Grandstand on a Saturday evening after work watching him race at Donnington. I was lucky to meet Barry at Olivers Mount when he won the 750cc World Championship and he liked me so much he sat me on his Heron Suzuki and we had a photo together. Later in my late teens, I lived in Scarborough not too far from the Olivers Mount racing circuit and we met again 3 times in as many years becoming good friends. My career in racing took off and I have been fortunate to meet and race with the Worlds greatest riders, I rode for Ducati around the Donnington circuit following in the footsteps of all my heroes and it's thanks to them this has had si many fond memories and excitement in my life. I worked with Guy Martin the famous TV presenter and truck mechanic becoming best friends and worked alongside the Tyco team. it is not Suzuki based now but Motorrad BMW have now dominated the racing world.
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Blood pressure
Changing the mindset of sadness, loneliness and anxiety 
It's the loneliness that gets me
I felt joy in my heart 
