Hi everyone
Its been quite a good month in training terms and its good to see some hard work paying off. Some horrible interval runs and jogs at Hylands park have got my cardio levels up and bench press apart, my weights have been going well too. I had one week where I thought that I might win my bench press bet with the physio, but in the weight sessions since my chest is nowhere to be seen. We have a training session with Saracens rugby team this tuesday which should be good. We are in the gym with them in the morning and then in the afternoon we are doing rugby skills and conditioning games. It promises to be a tough day but should be fun watching them smash the gym up.
Coaching has been going well this month at New Hall School. The New Hall squad are halfway through a tour of the UAE and it appears to be going well. Prior to the boys trip the bowlers and I worked on bowling a wicket to wicket line, and some variations, slower balls and yorkers etc to compensate for the dry and flat conditions. They have won their opening two games but as yet dont know how the bowlers did. Hopefully well or I will lose that coaching job.
My poker playing has slowed down a little in Feb, obviously as the season grows closer I play less and less. I am keen to try to play as much as possible before Barbados so I can have some spending money for the trip. Not sure where we are staying yet but its pretty expensive. We went to TGI Fridays last time we were there and there was a rack off ribs on the menu for $180!! TGIs is hardly fine dining either. Bend over, Cha ching!
On another note glad to see Arsenal doing so well at the moment. The game v Barcelona was amazing and was very pleased for Arshavin to score the winner after struggling a bit this season. Hopefully Man U slip up in the coming weeks, they have two games v Chelsea and will play Liverpool so maybe we can overtake them.
Take it easy Chris
