In my efforts to get fit I have been taking on many types of exercise, such as swimming, walking, cycling and running – well, jogging really – and none of those to any great levels, it must be said.
On one lovely morning this week I decided on a jog around Pitchcroft, Worcester racecourse if you like.
Now when I am out running – sorry, jogging – I rarely speak to anyone. It is nothing to do with concentrating on my running style as I don’t have one, or being anti-social, it’s simply that I don’t have the breath to spare.
Anyway, this morning a very fit bloke came up alongside me as I’m struggling down the back straight, like the last horse I put money on at Worcester, and he starts chatting to me.
He asked “What are you running in”, to which I replied “********* agony” and he then explained he was training for some marathon.
He asked me what I was training for and I could only answer “to avoid an early death”.
One of my favourite subjects is people’s inability to park cars, in particular when there are no white lines.
This week, on a certain car park, someone had parked a large car in three spaces. Honestly, three cars could have got in to them.
I was thinking of leaving a note on the windscreen when the driver returned and I enquired why they had taken up three spaces, to which I got the reply: “What the ***** has it got to do with you, are you a traffic warden”.
Which I thought was not good language from an 80-year-old lady.
Later in the day, I saw a vehicle parked with a white line right up the middle of the car, probably an airline pilot.
You know it’s the cricket season when you get your whites out and they have shrunk, you oil your bat, it snows and many other reasons.
But for me it’s the annual chairman’s lunch at New Road which takes place next week.
Best of luck to new chairman Martin ‘ Percy’ Price, who is taking over from John Elliott.
I have been lucky to attend a few of these events and it was stated one year that some 200 folks were sat in a tent, eating and drinking, chatting and drinking, laughing and drinking on Wednesday afternoon, when all the world goes about its business.
It makes you proud to be British.
Warriors are at Bristol tomorrow, another tough one. Just make sure I park in between the white lines.
l Dave Bradley is the BBC Hereford & Worcester sports correspondent
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