No Place For A Competitive Parent – Water Is The Source Of All Life – Just One More

A hot one today. And SonNumberOne’s school sports day. At 1.30pm. You can imagine how warm it was.

But it was brilliantly organised though as the entire school was seperated into teams. Each team consisting of a mixture of children from all age groups. 8 different challenges to be tackled as a team and once the challenge is finished, all the teams move round to their next challenge. And each team had scheduled water breaks so effectively sat out twice.

The team element did mean that there was no traditional “parents race” unfortunately – therefore denying me the opportunity to re-enact the brilliant seaside strider / sorelimbs Sports Day parents race video.

So, once again, what with Sports Day and the boys’ swimming lessons, the day got the better of me so I combined a post-dinner cycle to the allotment to water the (surprisingly still alive) plants with todays penultimate Juneathon. The plant watering took all of 10 minutes and then allowed me, once again, to take another scenic route home and clock up some miles. It had begun to cool down by about 8pm and I really enjoyed hitting a fairly swift pace on the bike and then keeping it there… I believe the technical term for it is “being in the zone” but I can’t bring myself to use it so let’s just say I had fun hacking around bridlepaths and country lanes on my pushbike.

Tomorrow looks like being another sticky day so plan to get a brisk run out of the way early(ish) on and tackle my 100 press-up challenge (yikes!)

Juneathon Stats: 13.88 mile cycle

Soundtrack to this post: Don’t Throw Stones – Prince Buster