Day 12

Distance Run: None
Total Distance Run for January: 21.72 miles
Other Exercise: Football (Five-a-side goalkeeping for Haringey Yacht Club - 50 minutes)

  I'm struggling to find a way to make this blog entry vaguely entertaining. Football was as depressing a 7-4 victory as you can get. Firstly, it was a friendly as the league opposition cried off. That meant we were awarded another 10-0 win, but a game against strangers with nothing at stake isn't the same. Secondly, we utterly dominated the first half only to be 1-1 at HT - not the first time we've failed to make our dominance count, with the goalkeeper playing well (I couldn't do much with the one I conceded mind). That moves me on to thirdly - their keeper suffered a serious injury which none of us saw. Not a clue what it was, but he could put no weight on his right leg - which suggested it wasn't just a minor muscle injury. After he was carried off the pitch it was hard to maintain any motivation, which leads onto fourthly - we let the opposition (with a defender in goal) back in the game from 4-1 to 4-4, despite my shouting increasing with each rubbish goal conceded. Whilst we secured another win (21 out of 23 since early August now), nobody left the field satisfied. Better will be required next week.
   As intended, I joined Simon for the pub quiz after the match. It sounded like the quiz was a bit difficult last week, so this may have been reflected in the piss-easy questions we (mainly) got instantly correct. A few we got wrong were "What is auctioned at "Tattersalls"?" and "Who did Madonna marry in 1985 (we both remembered the latter once we heard the name). We dropped 5 points on the Wales-themed round, and several on the picture round (every answer began with J), and thought we had 41/60 in the end. Either we couldn't add or we were harshly marked, but our "official" score was 39 - second-to-last scored 42 anyway but pride was at stake (the winners got 52). Our humiliation was compounded with a go on Play Your Cards Right ("lower than an 8....oh dear, it's another 8") and missing out on the cash round of Deal or No Deal on the quiz machine by 1 question (which was effectively a 50/50 choice after I ruled out 1 answer). Aaaaargh!

Injuries: Left elbow (did something to it at football yest it would seem) and lessening leg soreness
Mood: Irritated

  At least there's only one more day of filing/preparing tax returns before the weekend. Exercise plans to be sorted out, but the running total should be near 30 by Sunday night.