Fighting Unfitness!!!

Well its amazing what 7 months in London can do to ones fitness level. Well its amazing what it can do to you when you stop playing sport and don't go to the gym or anything. I recently (ok a couple of months ago) joined the gym and have been going, though my attendance has dropped to 2-3 times a week. At least I was keeping health y I though. Well that was until I volunteered to umpire in a netball tournament on Saturday. I was originally scheduled to umpire 8 games. The day before the tournament I got a call from the organiser asking if I could umpire the whole day instead. I agreed (silently reluctant) and had an early night on the Friday. Was down at the courts at 8:30am on Saturday, ready and raring to go.

Lets put it this way, I should have just stuck to the original 8 games. Because after 8 games I was knackered. But I soldiered on. Right though until 13 games. After the 13th game I could hardly run, and decided it wasn't fair on the players (especially now that they were down to finals etc) for me not to be running but rather walking up and down the side line. So luckily there were fill in refs there to give people breaks etc throughout the day, and one of them was able to umpire the last 3 games.

Afterward we headed to a bar in Covent garden for prizegiving (and a bit of drinking) and I think I was practically one of the first to leave about 4 hours later when I realised I would be better off in bed.

On Sunday I could hardly move. Every muscle in my body was achy. I could feel groin muscles and Ab muscles that have obviously been dormant for the last 8 months! Spent the day in a drunken stupor to try and fade out the pain. Did not work.

Tuesday was straight back into umpiring and it was 4 games after work. Wednesday I umpired 3 and played one and last night I umpired another four. I am actually still sore, but at least I know it is doing good for my body and working those dormant muscles. C'mon muscles wake up.
Feels great to be back on the netball scene, I think that's possibly something that's been missing from my life and making London not as enjoyable as it can be!

Best part about it all is I get paid to umpire - so that's some extra money in the bank. Am at work at the moment and struggling to stay awake tho, so its straight home to bed for a quiet Friday night for me!

Well just a quick one. Still having problems uploading photos but will try again this weekend.

Love to everyone
Sheree