Cycle to Football

Shadwell Rovers versus Stoke Bishop

Before today I had only clocked up about 140 miles, not including Bike Polo on Thursday night. Yes I went back to give it another go. I turned up and only three other people were there so it a little more obvious that I was a beginner although it meant I had more touches of the ball. I am really getting the hang of it. Since the previous week I have found that it is not going to be in the 2012 Olympics, it was two years ago when I saw a BBC Sport VT with Mike Bushell, he was trying out the sport at a time when people were campaigning for it to be re-introduced. Oh well it makes me feel better that I would not have been good enough for an Olympic squad.

So last night I made a decision to cycle to football and back. It was in Keynsham at the Cadbury's Chocolate factory so I picked up a friend in Southville and another in Whitchurch in a sort of cycling bus. This is the factory non-locals may have seen on the Television as it is due to close February 2011, so this may be my last chance to smell the Chocolate whilst playing football. I think that would be my favourite past time.

The good thing was my friend had an i-Phone with GPS signal which meant we could follow a route and have a map to follow which was handy as I didn't know the route we were going to take. This reminds me of normal journeys to football where I just sit in the back of the car and not really take much notice of the journey. Although after playing football in and around Bristol helped me realise there is much more to Bristol than Park Street, Gloucester Road and The Centre. The ride was going well, or I thought, we had got to a massive roundabout and even given someone directions. We cycled for another 15 minutes and ended up doing a massive loop ending up at the same roundabout. Ironically my friend worked out on his phone that we needed to take the road we had directed the lost pedestrian. I couldn't blame my friend as I hadn't take much notice of the signpost as I thought he had it under control.

We continued on the right road and met up with another team-mate and made it along to the Chocolate Factory playing fields. On arrival the sweet smell of chocolate hit my nostrils, I nearly started dribbling. Only 10 players turned up, usual pre-season friendly so the other team loaned us a goalkeeper and our goalkeeper played out on pitch. Yurka, a Czech the 1st one to play for the club. We played really well considering we had loads of players out and we hadn't played since the 1st week of May. To only lose 2-0 was a good result I think my fitness showed as I was running about for the full 90 when most others were struggling.

The journey back was tiring I saw it as a warm down, just taking it easy. I stopped off at the supermarket to get an Apple Juice and Pasty, Sportsman's snack you may think.

I managed to get out of taking the kit, perhaps I should cycle to every game, hmmm...

A very tired Louis