The journey home on Tuesday was OK at best - cold and light rain. I was very pleased to be home. A bowl of muesli and three hours' rest and I made my way to Slough for 5-a-side football. This was fun - a friendly against a team three divisions higher than the league we're entering, who were intrigued to learn that we'd never played together before. At half time we were 11-0 down. In the second half, they took their feet off the gas and we began to get it together a bit: it finished 12-5.

I did feel my recovery was better than when I used to play a couple of years ago - although with rolling subs no-one was on for more than about 15 minutes at a time. I was worried about lower leg tweaks like knees, calves and ankles, but I seem to have avoided those. However, the fronts of my hips (no idea what the muscle is called) are really sore. I guess I should do some stretching. Will do a short run on Friday to try and loosen up for Sunday.

Oh yes - no more football for me until after April 17th.

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