Munster League and DCPL

What a weekend of polo!

On Friday night we won one and lost one match in the DCPL. I didn't play well, but Louise pulled it out of the bag with a hat trick in the first match!

On Saturday night, we headed to Limerick again. We had three matches, against Kamikaze, Swink and Carnage. We beat Kamikaze 6-0 and Swink by one goal. We were confident going into the Carnage match and went 1-0 up pretty quickly. They only had 4 players, so we thought it would be easy enough. They equalised shortly after, but coming up to half time, I put us 2-1 up. But then it all caved in, we let in two second half goals and missed a few long range chances to lose 3-2 overall.

But we are still top of the league so far.

On Sunday, I was supposed to go paddling on the Boyne, but ended up having to re construct the nose of my boat after a nose to nose with Vinny in the second sprint on Saturday night.

Right now, I am just after upgrading my laptop to Leopard and losing all my information. Luckily I had some backups of my photos and most of my music on my iPod. Time now for some sleep before climbing and a pool session tomorrow.

Phew

Well, I think I am finally over Achill. We went there last weekend with the canoe club and there was much drinking, falling over and some surfing. For the first time in ages the surf was actually good but I only managed about an hour and a half on the water. The rest of the day was spent trying to stop the world from spinning!

Myself and Junior were playing with our cameras over the weekend too, so here are some photos:
Mine and Juniors

So because of that, I have been in recovery mode all week. I went for a swim last night and only managed 500m before the sauna beckoned me in because I had the mother of all headaches. I know, I know, not the best idea to go to the sauna with a headache.

But on the upside, I am still cycling into work every day, so I'm averaging about 17-18km per day. Not a lot but it all adds up and I am managing to throw some sprints in there too. Yesterday I did nearly manage to plough into the back of a UPS truck though. As a bus pulled out, I decided it was a good idea to pull in behind it and cut into the cycle lane. Except there was a UPS van, right in front of me! After locking the back wheel and resigning myself to face planting, I got traction again and managed to skirt around the edge of it. It put the jitters up me, that's for sure.

This weekend we have Munster League again, and DCPL on Friday night too. I think we are playing the same teams in the Munster League as we did the last weekend, but what the hey, it's polo.

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