Beep test

Sean (who I think I'll be building up as the villain of this story) decided that doing a beep test may be a fun idea.  For those that don’t know a beep test is a series of shuttle runs over a marked 20 metre course completed in an prescribed and accelerated time.  The basic idea is that you star off almost walking and then over 10 / 15 mins your pace increases until your going as fast as you can whilst simultaneously reaching your state of exhaustion.  It’s not fun.

What is funny however is three fully grown guys who absolutely should know better haring back and forth in a residential cul de sac whilst trying to hear Sean’s phone telling us when to turn and what level we’d reached.  We must have looked like freaks.  Not that I'm bitter because I was rubbish you understand, no, not at all.  It turns out that there was no need for me to spend any time googling professional athletes results, oh no.  Anyway, the upshot of it was that Sean’s about as fit as the fat one who bowls spin for the Sri Lanka cricket team, and if that sounds as though I'm on my high horse, please don’t think that, I'm only as good as a Russian female shot putter who’s just coming back from an injury.  And Nigel ?  He doesn’t count because he misunderstood the concept of having to stop if you miss two beeps, so he just showed he had the morals of a premiership footballer.