Why was Alun Davies running in a Cardiff Park and not Blaneau Gwent?

The news tha Blaenau Gwent AM Alun Davies has revealed how he suffered a cardiac arrest while running last week. is shocking and I hope he makes a full recover

However it does beggar the question , what was the Senedd Member for Blaneau Gwent  doing running in a Cardiff Park?

According to the RAC it takes just under a hour to travel from Blaneau Gwent  to the Senedd building

.The Wasting Mule reports that.

The assembly member opened up on his blog about collapsing in Bute Park in Cardiff on Friday before being rushed into hospital on Friday night .
His partner, Cardiff North MP Anna McMorrin, has also shared how her Friday night was spent "standing outside A&E not knowing" if he was going to survive while not being permitted to see him.
In his blog, Mr Davies said: "Somewhere in park – I still don’t remember where exactly – I saw some old friends of mine and stopped to have [a] word.
"I was pleased to bump into them. It was very nearly the last thing that I ever did.
"Apparently – and I have no memory of this – I stopped and took a breath, said hello, and then collapsed. I know because of the cuts and bruises on my head and face that the collapse was total and immediate.
"It turns out that I had suffered a cardiac arrest. At that moment my heart had simply stopped beating.
"It had ceased to function. The most reliable pump that nature has ever constructed simply stopped working."
The Labour politician told how he was given CPR by his friends as a 999 operator guided another person to the nearest defibrillator.
He was taken to the University Hospital of Wales and said he believes he spent Saturday unconscious.
He said: "I was connected up to various machines and feeling in extreme discomfort.
"I know that I received and replied to some text messages. But I also now know that medical staff were forced to ask Anna to give consent on my behalf for some procedures because I was not able to give reasoned consent myself.
"I lay in bed listening to people discussing me. There must be an elocution school for cardiac surgeons and airline pilots. In his utterly calm, confident and reassuring voice the surgeon told me exactly what he was going to do to me."
In his blog, Mr Davies also took the opportunity to thank NHS staff for saving his life.
He said: "And a few days later I’m sitting here in hospital and writing these words.
"We all talk about the NHS and it may well have its faults, but at a time when it is dealing with the biggest health crisis in our lifetimes it can also save the life of an overweight middle-aged man with a vision of himself as championship middle-distance runner.
"The best way to give thanks of course is not to waste the gift that has been given. [Friends] Mike and Thoma, the paramedics and the staff in the Heath Hospital have given me the gift of life for a few more years.
"I’m feeling a profound sense of gratitude to everyone who stopped to help, friends who have texted and contacted me over the last days and to all those people who took care of me in hospital. Together they have saved my life and enabled me to write about this."
In a tweet, Anna McMorrin said: "It's been a very stressful and scary few days. Spent most of Friday night outside A&E not knowing if you were going to survive and not allowed in to see you.
"I can't thank the amazing paramedics and staff at the CCU in the Heath enough."

I admit   that it may be inappropriate to question why Mr Davies was running in a park so far from his constituency, but considering those seeking Job Seekers allowance , are obliged to travel 1 hour and 30 minutes each way to work , we should ask why our elected representative who live within certain areas do not live in the area they represent and not commute to Cardiff rather than charge the taxpayer for their Cardiff Home.


It is perhaps ironic though a grateful one , that Mr Davies' life was possibly saved because he was in a public place during lockdown.

Nevertheless when he is fully recovered we may well expect answers on why he was running in a Cardiff Park and not one in his Constituency.