Footie!
I played 5-a-side football for an hour last night for the first time in 10 years. It was amazing.
Now, I have never been good at football - but I will always put the effort in. I was definitely in the bottom group for football skills last night though. However, I did score and did some great defending. I also managed to be the main hacker - taking out people’s legs unintentionally - honest! “Oooyaaa - you f***ing tw*t!” was ringing in my ears half the night. The main highlight was the fact that I managed to run around for an hour with virtually no rest and I didn’t feel like I was dying. The running has obviously started to pay dividends in terms of my aerobic fitness.
There is a chance we may make this a regular, once a week session which would be ideal. Good fun and a bit different from running. You also have other people to keep you going which will be useful if motivation ever becomes an issue. At the moment I’m flying high and motivation is so NOT an issue for me.
If I keep going at this rate, I will achieve my weight and fitness goals by the summer. I am going to Australia in March for a week and it would be really great to be feeling the body benefit by then. I haven’t started with measuring my vital statistics or weighing myself but I think I will do that this week so I can benchmark things. I think I have lost a little weight of the last two weeks (maybe a couple of pounds) but not an amazing amount. I’ll buy myself a fancy set of weighing scales and a tape measure!
Cheers, M