Week 2 ✅
I thought I'd be a bit more confident heading into my second week of training with Athlone Gaelic for Mothers and Others, after surviving my debut last week...
But, I didn't count on being struck down with the sniffles in the run up to training.
A runny nose is no fun when you're running around a pitch!
I also neglected the stretching over the past week so I knew that was going to come back to bite me, however I was determined to get the second session in the bag... so I laced up the boots once again - admittedly they weren't as clean as they were last week.
Again the session started off with some stretching and jogging and I was feeling the burn in the throat fairly quickly. But what was even worse, is that when we started a hand-passing game, I was quite frankly, absolutely terrible at!
I also discovered how difficult it is to consistently kick a football in a straight line, when you're targeting it towards one of your team-mates or the posts. For some reason the football always connects with the outside of my foot and slices terribly to the right so that's definitely something I have to work on.
I also have to get over my fear of tackling and being tackled as I lost count of the amount of times the football just went sailing past me as I tried to intercept it.
However I'm happy to say I'm still enjoying it, everyone in the group is so sound and doesn't seem to mind when I make a 'hames' of a drill or send a ball skew-ways despite being right in front of the posts.
SONA Vitamins have also sorted me out with a few bits to fight the head-cold so I'll be back to full fitness asap, bring on Week Three!
