Not so Manic Monday

Mon 5th

Today was a general day off for 3 of the grades including ours. The day started in the same way as yesterday - waking up early and worrying about Skins. I haven't played a game or even practised with out wearing them for 5 years since I got a medical certificate to wear them. Those of us who have worn the full length ones in previous vets championships expected to do so again and have no short grippers, bike pants or skins to wear instead. I composed an email to the sports doctor who I went to for my knee problem initially requesting a medical certificate, then appeared to lose the draft. I managed to recover it by opening the file and copying it, but it would not appear in the drafts folder. But the time I had fiddled around with this the others were up and we got ready for another 8am training session.

It didn't take long to confirm I should not run again today so I more or less repeated the actions of yesterday. warming up the goalie, seagull on the post and short corners. As we were leaving the manager provided me with a hat say this is for "Dora the explorer" because I have been navigating for the bus. I realised this was just a sortned for of my real name "a - dora-ble"

Our manager had managed to contact a doctor playing for one of our other teams who was quite disgusted with the Skins business and more than happy to provide medical certificates as required.

After returning to the apartments for breakfast and showers, we headed back to the stadium to watch the 50s again, arriving almost exactly halfway through the first half. The already had a 1-0 lead scoring about 10 minutes in. Lidia has a video camera which I used to capture the rest of that half and which she used for the second half. After less than a minute after half time there was a collision betwen 2 players with the NSW girl eventually being taken off in an ambulance. There appeared to be a clash of heads, watching the video, but someone said that whiplash was the worry. Our doctor was playing and advised them not to move her and call the ambulance.

We stopped at Woollies on the way back and I took the short stroll to the BWS to buy some whisky. A small bottle would have been enough but the economics had me buying a normal size one. My roomies walked from there but I was happy to ride and had the leftover nachos for lunch. Another run to the stadium was available to watch the 35s but I had a problem to look at for a Perth client. IN fact I was able to find the error and send of a fix within 5 minutes but they had already left. I finished up having a nap which was probably better for me.

We started working on our skit for the WA team get together based on one used at a local club windup. We have changed some of the verses to reflect some of the events and situations here. Hopefully it will get some laughs.

Dinner tonight was at the Vietnamese Restaurant down the street where we had bought ice creams a few times. It was good value and quite tasty and I do like that sort of food. Once we were back my room mate, who is a psychologist ran a guided imagery session for the team. This is a meditation type exercise to help us focus on being in the game and visualise us having the skills we need. It is used by elite athletes.