Sunday was a well ‘ard game against Lakenham Hewitt ladies. Due to injuries we ended up playing with only 13 girls but somehow only lost by 2 points. It was an immense game and I really believe we should have won. We were tackling like demons towards the end and were unlucky not to get another try to win it. The ref was possibly the worst referee I’ve come across in 12 years of playing, but that’s another story.
Besides the loss, the other outcome of Sunday was a particularly nasty bruise on my (good) knee. See below:
Mmmm. Nice knee
My mate Robyn says it looks like her 80-year-old Nan’s knee, but I’m not sure it’s even that good. The purple-ness is particularly luscious and I discovered last night that it extends below the knee into my calf too. Nice! I can’t remember how I injured it (always the way) but it must have been a heck of a bundle.
Moving on to the lunchtime activities at work, which I’m getting into, on Wednesday I attended my belly-dancing class. This is an excellent blend of hilarity, core muscle work-out and learning how to shake it. Really shake it. My stomach muscles were working hard with the hip rolls I was trying to perfect (unfortunately I tend to gurn or bite my lip whilst concentrating on these moves, rather than smiling beguilingly as one should) and anyhoo, later that evening my belly was sore sore sore!!
Today brought another lunchtime activity, of volleyball with my mate Robyn. I’d not tried this before and I do like to be good at sport so I found it frustrating at times that I wasn’t immediately excellent. However, it was ace of base fun and I got into it, but found that ‘digging’ the ball up using your fore-arms is not a nice sensation. My arms are still smarting now!
So with a purple knee, aching stomach and smarting fore-arms I’m not doing so well this week. But I have had fun getting into this state!
No pain no gain matey! And you did super-tastic at volleyball today. Tis a tricky sport to get to grips with and the conditions were piss poor. Wet ball, wet ground, coldness. The elements were against you bud, but you did good.