Good start to the week

The week started off well.

Had my personal trainer come back from Sydney, full of new ideas and learning on positioning and weight distribution. So we did some interesting exercises that showed just how much I use the muscles in top of the knee instead of the glute. Something I really must focus on to relieve pressure of the knees.

Then he stepped up the intensity and after weight-squads and pushups it was time for 3X250m sprints on the rowing machine. I can feel me strength increasing every week so thats positive, I still need a fair bit of reshaping to do before I go back to triathlons or longer runs.

Today my team was playing in the pennants squash league. I played a player some 15 points below me and probably some 45 years senior, but if I thought I might have an easy game I was in for a surprise. After losing the first game 9-8 I fought back and won 9-1. Full of confidence (possibly too full) I went into the third set and got tought a squash lesson, lost 9-1 and didnt get to run at all as every single shot was dropped by accuracy I can only dream of achieving. Back to reality and I got the fourth game 9-5 and going into the fifth game I saw that he was finished, running wise. But again he started dropping the ball from most unlikely positions. Before I knew I was trailing 7-3 in the fifth set and the situation didnt look good. I managed to calm my self down a little bit and got some lucky shots on my side. At 8-8 he chose to play to 10. I got a point straight away but he won the serve back and from that one a point, 9-9. I won the serve back but lost it, he had a matchpoint serve but again I was fortunate enough to win it back. Back and forth it went 3 times until I managed to score the winning point. 10-9 and 3-2 in games.

The player (John) being around 70 years old played amazingly and showed that speed and stamina only takes you so far, he played with intelligence and accuracy that I can only hope I will have achieved and retained when I am 70. Good work John!!!

My team had a very good night and my two team mates both won their games in three sets. With our team being second in the league (6 team per league, double round) it will be interesting to see tomorrow the results from the other matches.

The plan for tomorrow is an early start, smash work so I can go out early for an hour on the bike. Then on to a Malasian cookery night, organized by my friends at Curtin University.

The summer is rolling in with Saturday reaching 37 degrees (Celcius), thats a little bit too much for an Icelander like my self but beautiful it was and a nice change from 6 months of rain (this has been the wettest winter for some 90 years here in Western Australia)

Anyways, I am back on track, putting my faith in David, my personal trainer to keep my injury free so I should be able to start doing short triathlons by the end of this summer.

Tomas