In terms of exercise, playing two matches was better than nothing and considering how sick I was feeling, I took it.

Bad though.

I could just leave it there to be honest. Today’s training was a badminton match. It was against an Aer Lingus team, and we lost. Again. And worse, I played horrifically badly. Like awful. Each match I play a mens doubles and a mixed doubles. Both matches went to three sets, and in both, I threw away about 10-15 cheap points just be hitting my serve out or missing an easy shot or anything.

4 hours sitting around in a cold hall in Rathmines, for 20 minutes of me playing rubbish and getting no proper exercise because I didn’t play well enough to give anyone a decent game.

To be honest, it was still exercise, it still counts, and I could actually have taken the day off having done 3 days good training Monday to Wendesday. BUT I caved on the diet. It completely fell apart. I got some bad news, and I just fell apart and comfort ate the hell out of it! I mean, I know how hard it has been to shed 6lbs. It has taken me the guts of 8 weeks to shift them, and I’m not kidding when I say I ate enough to put back on 3 or 4 of those in one day. I had 3 or 4 packets of crisps, a big bag of jellies, a couple of bars of chocolate and a few other bits and pieces, and I didn’t have proper lunch or dinner…It’s the undoing of me it really is. When I get down, I start eating junk food at a rate that is truly shocking, and I don’t even feel any better after it because I feel down that I’ve taken a step backwards.

Safe to say that today wasn’t a good day. In fact, of the 30, it was the worse one I’ve have. Even the 1st day where I just ate custard creams was probably better for my marathon training than today.

Disaster…..

Eat Eat Eat....Good training.....not

Anyway, i pushed hard when i played and probably got a good 20 minutes or half an hour out of the session, and since i was wrecked anyway, i’m going to count that as a result.

I met a friend for lunch, but had a “healthy” 30% less fat pizza. As far as i can work out, what Milanos do is cut the centre out of the pizza and bung a salad in the gap. Hardly surprising it’s 30% less fat, there’s 30% less pizza!

The Low Fat Pizza Theory

I finished off the box of after eights i had bought myself on Friday and also had a packet of hula hoops today, so overall, it has not been the best of days. I’m down at the cheerios childline concert all day tomorrow, so i dont know when i’ll squeeze any exercise in…arse, arse and double arse…here’s to a more successful tomorrow!

This means that playing badminton in a competitive environment doesnt keep you as fit (in my uneducated opinion) as it used to, so the exercise I got at our match was good but not great. I’m starting go realise that just going to badminton training/matches isn’t alwasy going to be enough (on days like today, for example) to tick all the “get fit” boxes. That’s a bit disappointing, because now I’ll have to squeeze in going to the gym AND going to play badminton, which is a bit time consuming.

Since I know you’re dying to know, I won the mens doubles game I was playing, but lost the mixed doubles, and our team as a whole were pretty much thrashed. That’s being a bit unfair actually. All the games were very close, but the end result will flatter the other team I reckon. I think we might have lost 6-2….god maybe it was 7-1? Anyway, we lost, let’s leave it at that. We’ve another match tomorrow night, so let’s see how that goes!!

Incidentally, we played against a team from Dunboyne in the Dunboyne community centre. It’s not very well signposted, but if you’re looking for a map, find one here!

Hehehe, I said cock....