Do more!

After a near disastrous trip back from Blackpool on the Monday but finally getting on the right boat rather than the 2am one, I felt like I was one of the only members of CHC who was actually in work the day after returning! As a tour virgin, I hadn’t realised the importance of booking the day(s!) immediately following the tour off work. A bleary eyed Tuesday therefore was the start of the week, and as we were feeling bad about the prior week setback we hit the gym after work and then I went to Peel swimming pool to start a 4 week kayaking course. On my day off I figured I wasn’t doing enough sport!

Footy as always religiously followed on Wednesday, but as everyone was still in recovery mode from tour the squash went by the wayside! Hockey training on Thursday mainly consisted of reminiscing about Blackpool and taking the mickey out of the people who didn’t exactly cover themselves in glory on tour! Ended the working week at the gym again but Bratt has picked up a back injury and didn’t make it which tends to make it a tougher session due to my self motivation. A 4 day week of work immediately following 4 days of pretty heavy going left me shattered and I was struggling to make it through the session. Attempted to walk back to the flat to keep my legs going but went back to Bratt’s to get my stick bag and collapsed in front of a movie!

Still, a hockey match on Saturday and with our star striker Dale away again I was hankering for a run up front! We grabbed a 4-1 win but I had a bit of a shocker in attack! Managed to bag a couple of goals but I think my chance conversion rate must have been about 6%, missed bucketloads. I’m only glad Lar Watterson didn’t attend as I’m sure there would have been another fare in the taxi for me!

Finished the week with more sport...beer pong at the flat. The pong league is threatening to take over the hockey and I don’t think it will be too long before we are Castletown Beer Pong Club rather than Castletown Hockey Club! Still I wasn’t complaining as James “Chunk” Ormond and I carried our Blackpool form to the island and won the championship (and associated t-shirts) 3 times! Hilarious night!

With Bratty still feeling his back injury and after the night before, we didn’t walk on Sunday but instead I went to play footy up at Nobles Park, which was ace as always. Wanting to do something towards the events, Mark’s girlfriend Hayley very kindly drove us round the Parish Walk in order to familiarise ourselves with where we have to go! It was completely daunting to think just the drive round the course lasted 3 hours!!!! And we have to walk this?! Time to man up, be better and do more!

Dave.