Crashin' and burnin'

No big walk last week and as it was a bank holiday weekend and I was still playing hockey on Monday no spinning session wasn’t the ideal start to the week. We therefore decided to head up to Mount Murray on the Tuesday instead to do our standard Monday gym session. Footy again on Wednesday, followed by a hockey session on Thursday. Although there was no hockey scheduled for the weekend following Whit, we took the opportunity to have a game against the first team to keep them “on the ball” as they have the title decider next week, which was a good laugh.

Towards the end of the working week was feeling the pace a bit and I think I’m coming down with something at the worst possible time. Tried to push through the crap I was feeling in the gym on Friday and put it all in to the session and promptly nearly collapsed afterwards! Went around to mate’s house on Friday night and a late night the way I was feeling was probably a bit of a mistake.

Saturday was a complete write-off! As there was no hockey on it wouldn’t have been the most active day anyways I had intended to make the most of the day, get stuff sorted and keep the training going. As it turned out I spent almost the whole day on the sofa shaking, trying to fight off a fever and generally feeling absolutely awful. White as a sheet I decided that there are just some days I will have to put behind me and you physically can’t train every day. I was just hoping it isn’t something that would hold me back and make me miss too much training.

Today was a bit better, although I still felt rough I decided to “man up” and went to do the Ramsey to Douglas Parish Walk route with Mark & Pasty, our official Parish Walk Guide! To be honest the walk must have been 22 miles odd and it’s probably the best I’ve felt after a decent walk. Still not feeling too hot healthwise but my legs weren’t too bad. Even though I was worried the whole week would be a write-off, today’s walk at least made me feel that all wasn’t completely lost.

I just want to shake off this bug as quick as possible and it’s made me worry that if I picked something up on the mountain or the Parish then this may compromise my performance. I’ve just got to prepare as well as I can and keep my fingers crossed!

Dave.