Ok now we start!

Hi all and welcome to the end of Monday !!! yeah!

i have had a great weekend... but i feel it today

• Saturday was Riding group meeting at 5.30am - I decided to ride to the meeting place so i left home at 4.50am it was so dark out and a little cold but not a breath of air so as soon as i got my light going and riding it was hot as. No arm warmers or any extra warm gear needed.. it was so hot on the Gold Coast. By the time I got to the meeting spot i was a puddle of sweat and the sun had not even come up as yet. We then took off as a small group for a 70km ride. I was great there where all women in the group (for this ride the wanted the women had have a get to know you ride.) We rode out to camp Enden out in the currumbin valley (where they had one of the biggest loser shows filmed) very pretty and a easy ride with some hills. We had coffee and chatted and I really like these ladies some do tri's and some run and they all love to ride .. Very happy i found this little group (it is quiet big with the men included) but happy just the same.
• The rest of the day we (as a family) went to IKEA. We got bits and pieces and head back home to put them together. 
• then we were off to hockey for my first game of the season with my local group .. We had a 2 all draw. I save some great shots on goal and remember what an rush it is to have a great game and have balls flying at your head. After the game i was putting my goalie gear in the car and was having trouble when i hurt my back. At first i thought OH NO! not again (June last year I hurt my back and ended up in hospital for a week and couldn't walk. took my 8 weeks to get myself back and I hated it.) But it was ok. I just twisted the wrong way and didn't do my stretches after the game. So I stretched when i got home and had a good night sleep.
  
• Sunday morning I woke up and I felt ok little stiff and sore but nothing bad .. I stretched and felt good, I check my messages on my phone and the coach from the Firsts team had messaged me at 7.30am asking if  I could play in goals for the first team. My seconds team play at 10am and then the First's team at 5.30pm I talked to OH and we both agreed that we had rules for this situation and that we both agreed on the rules. So only one game for me on Sunday. So we headed to my 10am game of the day. IT was so hot here on the gold coast yesterday that we had one girl drop to the turf from the heat. We continued playing but I was feeling pretty bad myself. We talk to the umpirers and all agreed that the second half of the game to be broken up into two halves 17minutes each with a little 2min break to get more water in us. So glad they did this and we won 3-1. I was so tried and hot after the game. The first team coach came up to talk to me after the game. asking again if i could help out. This we where i got a little funny about stuff. 
• The guy does not want me to play firsts .. thats fine i am dealing with that and i have other things to do.. I have moved on
• I have played all but 1 game for first and I have had full games everytime.
• The guy knew on Tuesday that he would be with out a goalkeeper but didn't tell me till sunday morning and then makes me feel bad for saying no! grrr
• In the end I told him that I have a family and they come first, If he would have given me some more notice I would have helped out but in the end, I made a deal with OH and that is more important then a hockey game. I have for filled my hockey requirement for the club I have played in the team that they have allocated to me. Plus I have to get ready for my tri next week :) 
• I walked out of hockey feeling good about my decision and went home. Showered and had lunch then it was cleaned up the house time. Then my back started to get really bad, I stretched it out  and slowed down a little. Told OH and he said that I should go for a swim (he was very happy with me standing my ground at hockey) So we decised to all go for a swim including the dogs down at the creek. It was a great idea and I was feeling good swimming in the water. Till Dash (my black lab) decides that she is tired and wants a ride on my back .. not good. I kicked her off and made my way back to OH and told him i was in trouble. We packed up and went home. I had a shower and tried to stretch my back out more but i was in pain. I took some drugs and went to bed. 
• When OH came to bed he gave me a good rub, I felt so good after that and slept the whole night with out a drama.
• This morning I felt a little stiff but great, and was happy to get out of bed when Little Miss came in to my room. All good at work today till I was cleaning up some mess in the kitchen that someone left behind and then my back went again.
• I spent my lunch hour stretching and  walking it out, feel a bit better but not 100% . So no run tonight just a walk ..

God I hate my back !! oh well its the only one i have got. Better get OH magic hands on it again tonight :) so that were I am at!

ox Trace