Friday, 11 May 2012

Ouch It Still Hurts A Bit

Ouch it hurts! Thankfully not as much as over the last few weeks though.

I am referring to session four of the new Hethersett social running club. For the fourth consecutive session well over 30 people turned up  and that is very heartening. Already people are talking about continuing to meet after the initial 10 week programme is complete.

Norfolk Olympiad Paul Evans is an excellent coach and, although sessions are getting harder, we are getting used to jogging round the field and even sprinting. My main problem with distance running has always been the breathing but this is improving as well. It's all aimed at being able to run the two mile funrun at this year's village open event.

I had just 20 minutes to get home from the session, have a shower and get changed to go to a meeting to sort out our football club's ladies section. Another good, positive meeting and we will be fielding two ladies teams next year - one in the Eastern Region League and one in the Norfolk Women's League. The meeting was to improve the flow of information between the club and players and to sort out management teams.

The ladies section is holding a major five-a-side football tournament on our Memorial Playing Field on June 24th and already we have 20 plus teams lined-up for what should be our best tournament to date. The ladies section is also visiting local schools and organising a come and try event on the playing field in June where girl footballers can come along, try their hand at the game and enjoy some fun games. Things at our football club are really moving in the right direction.

I'm also busy at the moment organising with Active Norfolk a come and try sports event on the Memorial Field on May 30th. Athletics, football and archery are already confirmed and we are hoping to add cricket, bowls and petanque. The idea of the evening is to have a limited number of sports that people of all ages and abilities can come along and try their hand at. It is like a mini version of the come and try sports event on June 23rd when over 20 Olympic themed sports will be featured.

Today it will be work on next week's Hethersett Sports Association meeting. At the moment my life seems to be sport, sport all the way - and that's certainly not a bad thing. Tomorrow I'm off to the Hethersett Old Hall School's Olympic themed fete in the morning, hoping to get some pictures of former England international Dean Ashton and his beat the goalie competition. Then in the afternoon, if the weather holds, its off to Flordon for the first time this season for Hethersett and Tas Valley Cricket and in the evening we are going to see folk/rock band Dry the River at Norwich Arts Centre. Just like to point out that the last of these events is actually music and not sport!!

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