Ironopolis

One of the things I will miss about leaving Birmingham is playing six a side football on Wednesday nights. Our team, Ironopolis is currently third bottom of Division One of the Solihull Fox Hollies Wednesday night league run by Leisure Leagues. Despite being rubbish at football, I really enjoy playing. Also it is the only time I regularly see my brother and a few of my mates.

It is also the only proper execise I do, which makes me worry about getting even more unfit when I move up to Chester. The company I am about to start work with has a good discount with the local gym, which may be worth considering. However I am not really a gym person. I know that I would start off going about two or three times a week, and then maybe once a week, and before too long, hardly ever go. Gyms bore me to death, and I much prefer playing football. It is possibly ironic that I might be a bit better at football (and therefore enjoy it even more) if I actually used a gym to get fitter. I was never that quick when I was a kid, and now at 35, I can barely run compared to the younger, fitter players in most the other teams we play against. Still, playing football is a laugh and hopefully there will be an opportunity in Chester for me to get a game.