I've threatened this for a while now. Urged by those lucky/unfortunate to have to listen to my ramblings, I've decided to chance it.
It's about time.
It's also about time that I got fit. I've literally no excuse but laziness now. Facilities of a semi professional standard, local teams across GAA and soccer are playing at a top level, currently injury free and realistically I've probably 4 or 5 years left at this. Then it gets all 5 aside and golf.
So why am I so unmotivated? Eleven years of a committing to 3 teams, it's tiring. Then I watch programs like 30 for 30 on ESPN. I've never felt more ungrateful or selfish than I did after watching Into The Wind a documentary about Terry Fox.
If you get a chance watch it.
So, step one is admittance right, well I admit I need to get fit. Steps two to one thousand are actually doing it. I've being getting stuff in order lately, maybe it's maturity at last. Weights in the house, hitting the gym when I'm away from home, but it's the running I fear. Driving has knocked 5 yards off me, can you get that back? I would imagine so. But it's also the motivation to go out and actually do it. I see old guys out running all the time, am I in the motivational hole between actively competing and that mid life crisis "get fit" buzz that guys in singlets jogging around D4 have.
I'm fine on the pitch - still competitive, still want to win as much as ever. But something's lost off the pitch. I prefer to sit and moan about a niggle than play through it.
This will be the first and last self obsessed post, I'm back running in the morning, Sunday 17th July for the soccer season, end of.
In real world sports:
Just watched Liverpool beat a Malaysian XI in a pre season friendly, Adam and Aquilani were impressive. In fact most of the last seasons castaways did well. There's a lesson in there somewhere about proving yourself kids.
Man City are still in their "cheating on Championship Manager" mode, Nasri and Aguero are the latest two on the way to Eastlands. Modric is doing a Mascherano and single handedly destroying his hero status at Spurs with his transfer request status.
Football Qualifiers this evening, I expect Limerick, Kildare and Down to prevail. Fancy Meath to start well against Kildare but McGeeney has Kildare in a different league of fitness and they finish very game incredibly strong. Decent odds on a HT turnaround in that one.
The Open Golf has turned into a lottery with the weather making par a fantastic score.I'm tipping an experienced player to survive the storm and win, which experienced player however, who knows?
I see Sky Sports have a 5 hour FishOMania marathon on today...and there was none of the GAA qualifiers on Irish tv last week? Crazy.
On a final note, I watched some of the Tour de France this week. The level of fitness is awesome, they're machine like. The level of pain for the guy that got knocked into the barbed fence was.... Well look for yourself
