Was I sitting comfortably?

I had a bit of a lazy weekend. Not to say I didn’t try to do something active. It was just one of the few days every year that I don’t feel guilty hanging around the house on Saturday & Sunday afternoon. My excuse – The Six Nations rugby was on and it was nice to sit in front of the TV to watch a sport that had left me with some great memories since I last played when I was back at school. That’s not to say there were no events on over the weekend. The NI Orienteering Night Championship was being held on Saturday evening; however, located down in Castle Archdale Country Park near Enniskillen, it was just too far to justify a 45 minute run to the wife, especially when she was trying to catch up on school reports and needed the kids ‘out of her hair!’. FERMO were also organising the 3rd round of their Frostbite series on Sunday morning and it was oh so very tempting to go down and stay over, but with ‘school reports’, ‘kid’s football on Sunday morning’, it was simple not to be …….so rugby was a good distraction.

But it was not all doom and gloom on the training front. I have found over the years the best and most enjoyable training is the training you don’t expect to get done – the training you can squeeze it in when you never originally planned to do. Examples include: taking the train into work and then running home; sneaking out for a quick hour’s blast on the bike while your wife watches a double bill of Coronation Street; leaving your running gear in the car and stopping at Carinwood on the way home to do a quick loop of the forest – the wife never needs to know about that one . So on Sunday when I take Scott to his footy practice at Newforge, I have about 70 minutes to kill. Most of the other parents sit in their cars and read the papers (or sleep), but I would be pulling my hair out after about 10 minutes if I had to do that. The good thing about Newforge is it is situated right beside Clement Wilson Park and more importantly Belvoir Forest. Sunday football training means I can get a good 10km run around the forest before I need to collect Scott. Usually when I do go home I still have time to take the bike out of a couple of hours, but yesterday the matter of watching Scotland and France was too tempting and the bike got a quick maintenance check and wash instead.

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