Slow Training Progress

Bizarrely we didn’t initially appear on the results for last Sunday’s Draycote Water 10k and I’d emailed the chap to ask why. He’s now emailed back and it’s all sorted. We now exist again. Our times were apparently on their ‘backup’ system but not the main system. It’s odd it effected both of us because we neither started nor finished together.

On Thursday we finally restart squash after the Christmas break and in a close game I lose 3-2. It looks like we’ll be in for another break now as he’s aggravated his back again.

Amid Yellow, Amber and Red weather warning for ice\snow\the apocalypse L’s outdoor tennis, which has now been moved to Fridays, is off. Amid a 78% chance of sleet my weekly long training run is on. Eek.

L offers to meet me same place, same time, same dogs. It's as good an offer as I get these days. Mind you, if she can find any other dogs that’s fine too. In the end there is no sleet but it’s still bloody cold.

This time I make it as far as the Haveli Indian in Chilwell (fond memories of Christmas Day 2017 from there), a total of 17.9km. So I’m still not up to half marathon distance yet, let alone pushing towards the full distance.

(Friday 18^th January)

Snow Envy

Today we head over to see Son and his girlfriend in Leamington Spa, as a sort of a backup plan in case they can’t fit us in over Christmas.

It has snowed impressively in Nottingham this morning but by mid-afternoon a major thaw has set in and the roads to Leamington are fine. However, we have a touch of snow envy when we arrive as they’d had far more than us and they’re hanging onto it.

We have booked the White Horse and it’s a good job we did as they are not accepting any more bookings due to the weather!

After a decent evening with them, L suggests that rather than take them out for a meal next time we challenge them to a game of squash or badminton instead. This may have something to do with the fact that Son’s expanding waistline looks like it could do with a damn good squash match or three.  

(Sunday 10^th December)

There's A Rumour Going Round

A first bike ride of the week this morning and very good it was too.

Not a bad day all round as even win a game a squash. Something I haven’t done for a while. Unfortunately I won’t be repeating the feat next week as all the courts were booked up before I could ring up to grab one and that was at 11am.

There's a rumour going round that we might revert to tennis but I'm not terribly keen on that idea.

(Thursday 1^st December)