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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Training this week

I had a bit of a head cold all week, so I didn't get a whole pile of training done. I have been cycling into work every day though. It's been nice weather, dry and cold, perfect for cycling.

Today I met up with the DCU cycling club for a spin out to the Phoenix Park. There were four of us, Greg, Sean, Diarmuid and myself. I decided it would be a good day to finally try out Pauline's tri bars seeing as she left them here for me to try out almost a month and a half ago.

We went around the proposed route for the cycling intervarsities to test out what it was like. It's a nice fast 8km loop with long downhill stretches and no real killer climbs. We did 4 loops on that and then headed back to DCU. Myself and Greg decided to stop off for a coffee and we got chatting about general training for next year and the logistics of the Ironman itself.

I remembered that I got talking to a Niall from Cork about Ironmans at the Munster League a few weeks ago. He is training to become a coach and has finished a few Ironmans too. I have to mail him and see if I can get some tips from him.

Tomorrow I will be doing a river trip on the Liffey, bringing out some of the DCU canoe club. There probably won't be too much water, but we might be able to hone some of the basic skills that never really get worked on.

And before that, I am going to head over to Peter's house to help him lay some flooring. And get a beer for every hour worked :)

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New job and back swimming

I started a new job on Tuesday so I missed the swim and gym session on Monday night. I was too tired to go and a bit sore after the weekend anyway.
I'm working in the National Museum as IT support. It seems like a good job, lots of work to keep us busy trying to get everything ship shape and find out where everything is.

I went for a swim last night to get back on track. I did a 500m warm up and then 5 100m bursts (whatever you call them!) on 2:15. I was bushed afterwards so I went to the sauna :)

I got home and got some food and then Louise called to say it was Marie Claire's birthday so we had to go out for a few drinks to that.

Last football match of the year tomorrow evening against Kill in Kill. I hope it goes well for us, it would be a shame to end it all on a downer.

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Munster League and a run

Last weekend we had the first round of the Munster Canoe Polo League. I am playing on Sandycows as Muppets didn't get entered. We had 4 matches and did quite well, winning 2 and drawing 2. After that we headed to Lahinch as some of the guys wanted to go surfing on Sunday. I decided to give it a miss as I still have a sore elbow.

I went for a run instead and did about 10km. I felt good during it, despite having been up until 4am playing Ibble Dibble with the others in the van :)

We went and got food when everyone got off the water and headed for home. I wanted to stop on the way and watch the rugby world cup semi final, so into a quiet local pub in Roscrea. Gerry and Yvonne decided to go home through Galway. We got home about midnight, tired and in need of a good sleep!

Today I am planning on going to the gym for a weight session and also into the pool for a light workout and loosening up swim.

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First Fresher trip

Today is the first fresher trip of the college year. They are all being brought down to Wild Water Kayak Club to be thrown into the deep end. I am going to head down with them to help out with the rescue and overseeing of things. I won't be doing too much else as I managed to hurt my elbow again last night at the pool. It's gone all stiff again today. I was hoping to get to the pool for a light swim session today, but I think I might be better to leave that until tomorrow now.

Myself and Junior will also be bringing down cameras to capture the moment. I hope to learn a few things from him while we are there too :)

As promised

I put up some photos of the victorious U14 Shannon Gaels team on Picasa. You can see them by following this link

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