Snow joke!

After four weeks of pretty solid training this was the first week that it went a little bit backwards!

With Marky B picking up a bug in the previous week it was up my own self motivation to get training hard, hence why the training went a bit backwards! Managed spinning and the gym on Monday, however Tuesday I didn’t go for a swim as it was the start of the Winter Olympics and I wanted to see how fellow manxie Zoe Gillings got on in the snowboard cross! As someone who has only tried skiing a couple of times I can only wonder how impossible it must be to carry those speeds on a snowboard on a difficult track, let alone with four other people bombing down next to you! In the end Zoe did brilliantly getting into the semi and it’s great to see someone really putting the rock on the map on a global scale!

Played footy and squash as usual on Wednesday, but as we didn’t have any hockey match on the Saturday, instead of Thursday training (some of) the hockey club decided to go on a ghost walk round Castletown! Was a good tour and there were some really interesting and gruesome stories, but as a cynic I have to say my favourite moment was the headless dog ghost whose existence cannot be proven as it can only be seen by other dogs!!

It’s amazing how quickly fitness leaves you and by the end of my Friday spinning session and gym I was absolutely knackered! Was really struggling with the spinning and had a severe case of couldn’t be bothered, I was all up for it but I hadn’t told my legs they were nooot interested! After struggling through spinning and the gym I went to the hydropool and sauna at the spa and it was only jumping in the freezing cold plunge pool that woke me up!

Again the weekend was pretty slack, Saturday I moved the rest of my stuff including beds etc. into the flat and sorted out a fair bit of my stuff. Went for a few quiet pints on Saturday night as I was shattered from the week’s non-exertions! Today we decided for our “big walk” we would go from my flat down Marine Drive, through Port Soderick and then walk back down South to Ronague. The only slight problem is that it had snowed overnight and there were no pavements for part of the way out of Douglas (especially around the Fairy Bridge). We were therefore dodging fast-moving traffic in the slush and although we managed to walk 12.5 miles on road it certainly wasn’t my most enjoyable walk and we do not intend to repeat it!

Luckily since the walk I’ve managed to not have too many flashbacks of traffic going 50mph on a freezing road tearing towards me!

Dave.

PS I appreciate the titles of these blogs are getting worse and worse.....