I'd thought I'd start my blogging again, its been a while so I lot has gone on in the past year. I have to say my mood is a lot better these days thankfully, yes I've had my ups and downs but they've not spiraled out of control.
Its been a bit of a wet summer to say the least but I've still managed to get out and about. I took J and his friend camping in July which was a success, we stayed at Lane Foot Farm Thornthwaite. We spent our time at GoApe in Whinlatter Cumbria, which was great a I throughly recommend it. We mountain biked around Derwentwater, climbed Catbells and lastly did the open 10k loop of the new Altura Single Track MTB trail in Whinlatter, it was challenging but fantastic at the same time.
On the running front the summer has been a bit of a wash out as well as the weather. After going for x rays, ultrasound, mri scan my problematic pains in my shins/ankles are still causing me problems. I ended up at the podiatrists and now have insoles, it may be just my impatience but things aren't improving as much as I'd like. So I've not had much opportunity to do the events I wanted. I did the Hawkshead and Garburn Trail Races but both were a very painful experience. In fact in the Garburn I walked most of it.
The kids footy started last night and we lost 1-0, its going to be hard this season with my nephew J now at an academy (which I am so so proud of) and the loss of a few others, its like a new team. Its not going to be as successful trophy wise as last season when we did a cup and league double. We have to be realistic and take this as a rebuilding season. To be honest I wasn't totally sure of whether to carry on managing them. On the one hand I didn't want to leave them giving the impression that it was only about J cos it wasn't. On the otherhand a break would have been good and to leave a cup double satisfying. One thing that worries me is that some of the players after years of success may struggle to cope with not winning most of the time. I suppose we'll have to wait and see. What I have decided though is this will be my last season with them, C has started playing with the U6s so that he will be my priority as family has always come first.
On the workfront, never the most interesting of subjects I decided after months of feeling the least important supervisor to pluck up the courage to speak to my line manager one up. In the past few months I have spoken to my line manager about doing her duties but nothing has come of it and now with her moving to a new post I just feel it will be back to square one again. So I asked to speak to her to express my concerns and to basically say I deserve a chance. Anyway we will see if anything comes of it. At the moment I have decided when November comes and manager jobs are advertised I will give it a bash. However, I need to keep strong and not let doubts creep in or a defeatist attitude. I know I am good enough to do this and know that if I ever get the chance I will prove it.
Well I'm astonished, the person taking over the manager role is MC. Firstly I'd expected that it would be DC, he seems to be the blue eyed boy and the obvious choice. Secondly, MC is just unbelievably difficulr to understand, not only does she have a very strong scottish accent which isn't really the problem, she mumbles her words and is totally incoherent. Once again when it seems things are going okay it all goes wrong, it always seems that's the way it goes for me. Anyway, its only until Nov/Dec as I have been told the posts are to be advertised. All I can do is just keep being polite and pleasant to her, don't make any jokes and certainly no discussions about anything really as she is such a religious bigot.
