April 19th - Track

Hamish's first Gala Harriers track session, which he's been nipping my ear about for weeks. First rain this month started falling just before we got there, unfortunately. Left him in the care of a clutch of coaches, with several dozen shouting contemporaries for company and joined the adults for a warm-up. The drills played merry hell with my foot, however, so I decided against the session and instead jogged a couple of laps then went into the gym and did 15 minutes on the exercise bike (sweaty and mind-numbing), 3 minutes on the rowing machine (pointless - didn't quite understand what it was supposed to do other than hurt my wrists!) and a few sets of leg-thingies on one of the machines with the clanky weights. Quite good fun watching the posers checking themselves in the big mirrors. Even had time to go back outside and watch the end of Hamish's session, which seemed to involve quite a bit of standing around with his hands down his trousers, punctuated by brief periods of running frantically and looking desperately behind him to see who was likely to come past.