No football last week due to overnighter with p-Dub, so a bit rusty. Scored 6 goals, amazingly. Also got my hand caught in the door whilst trying to tackle Africa East, ran onwards at full pelt with my hand stuck in the door. Big egg shaped swelling on my hand. Not broken, I’m sure. Nice to be back “playing”.
Tag Archive: 5-a-side
Only a game of fives to report. I’m still useless, but I do manage to run around, and thrash about.
A few bruises, and knocks, but a great fitness workout.
5 a side tonight. Only it was 5 vs 6. I was on the 6. We had a permanent goalie, as he’s no keen of getting out of the goalface. This is great, but it does mean I don’t get a rest at any point. By the last 10 minutes I was pretty knackered. Scored 5 goals, set up more. I’m still rubbish, but I do enjoy it.
Before last year I used to play 5-a-side every Thursday. I’m hopeless, but it kept me fit. 5 a side fitness is a very different fitness to swimming fitness, but at the moment, anything aerobic is a winner! And, truth be told, I enjoyed running about with the guys, and I have a reasonable shot, so speculative digs from the half way line are always on the cards!
This week, I put in to play again. There’s a whole new set of players, all of whom can actually play. I was pretty puggled after only 20 mins, but some restorative time in net allowed me to recover sufficiently to manage the whole session without vomiting. We lost, but that’s not the point. I scored twice.
I will endeavour to play most weeks again. Although Emma is on call some Thursdays, so it’ll have to be most weeks, not all.
