Sue's Sports Starter by Sue_Thearle

Hello kids and welcome to another week. Thanks one and all for your brilliant comments on the holiday plan. I think I will take my trainers as a fall back, but the pool is now out in front in terms of main point of exercise..... well that and shopping of course..... It's been another mad week as we enter the final countdown to the holiday frenzy. I have bought 6 bottles of sun lotion.....yes 6. I will need to be out there night and day to get through that lot. Work has been fairly manic as well, with lots of telly news and voiceovers. And to top it off, we went to a marvellous weekend wedding in the Cotswolds. I like to think I tore up the dance floor.......again the reality might be slightly different.

But I managed to keep up with The Open by listening to it mostly on Radio 5 Live. Honestly their golf coverage is fantastic. If you haven't tried it, I would thoroughly recommend it. Loads of brilliant broadcasters just sitting around and chewing the fat about all sorts of things while the golf unfolded. Top notch. Have a listen when the Ryder Cup comes round in the autumn. And once again, my theory about the British bottlers as I shall now call them, held true. Rory McIllroy, Lee Westwood, Paul Casey...... the list goes on. Could have, should have, didn't. Oh dear.

Now with the prospect of sheer unadulterated bikini panic setting in, I have been hitting the gym in a big way, oh and running as well. But I also spotted something this week which took me wistfully back to my schooldays and all those brilliant Enid Blyton-esque books about lashings of ginger beer and dorms and girls with attitude called Aggie. I am of course talking about Lacrosse.....Yes honestly. Now Lacrosse is one of those sports that I always desperately wanted to play, but never had the chance. I was a hockey nut and had the obligatory pigtails and frightening demeanour, but I never got the chance to have a go at Lacrosse because it just wasn’t available in my part of Cornwall all those years ago.

I fear now I would be too old and slow to give it a go, but if you are a younger fitter model, I would urge you to have a try…..and possibly get a gum shield….. you know…. just in case. The reason I’m banging on about it is because the World Championships are taking place in Manchester this week. It's hard to track down current figures, but from my undercover detective work around 2000 people play the sport in the UK, which seems on the low side to be honest. But if you are interested, check out the English Lacrosse Association. I found tons of clubs right on my doorstep, so I may yet go and have a nose because it looks like the most brilliant game. Right I am off to buy more sun holiday accoutrements and perhaps another bottle of sun lotion…. Just in case…. Toodle pip.