Back in the game!

Determined to get a full week’s training under my belt I went to spinning on Monday and tried to push it as hard as I could, although it helped that I was on an easy bike! You find some of them are easy as you put up the resistance and some of them you put a tiny bit of resistance on and it’s so hard! I think Marky B had a tough bike so looked like he was hating it mwahaha!! Standard gym session afterwards and it was a decent start to the week.

Tuesday has kind of become my day off as I don’t do anything too strenuous. Apparently one rest day a week is almost more important than the training itself so trying to factor one in. I did walk from B & Q back to the flat though which although only a couple of miles was at least something! Standard footy and squash on Wednesday which I’m really enjoying and was pleased to keep up the full week so far. It continued as I went to hockey training on Thursday and finished off the week with a good gym session on Friday! It’s scary to see our website clock which ticks down to when we leave, the time is fast disappearing and is another reminder I can’t skimp on the training!

An early start (for a Saturday) to get down to Castle Rushen for hockey game at 11:00, which was a pretty tense affair and was gutted we were defeated against Bacchas 3-2. It was fairly similar to our first game against them where we went down 2-1, in both games we had our chances to win and it is tough to take that we got nothing to show from two very competitive games with them. Still, sitting in the sun with an after game drink and then having the afternoon with my nephew & niece cheered me up from the defeat!

To finish off the week, we decided to go for a decent walk and try to incorporate road walking and hill walking into a decent length walk. We therefore walked up from Ronague to the round table back down the sloc and then back up to Fleshwick. The hill at Fleshwick is so steep and it doesn’t seem to get any easier to power up no matter how much training I’m doing! From there, we went around Milner’s Tower, down to Port Erin for refreshment, then back round through Colby to Ronague. It was about a 15 mile walk I think, but because it was a fair bit steeply uphill it felt like longer!

Still felt good to get a full week of training under my belt and even resisted the temptation to go out! What a professional……may be a case of the calm before the storm though as next week there is a 4 day hockey tour in Blackpool!

Dave.