Surfz Up dudes!!

I may finally have found a sport I can get involved in besides cycling! 
I reached the beach this afternoon with the enthusiasm of a chicken at a fox convention, but by the end of a day they had me ‘riding a board’ as promised. Everyone else had already had a go, and I’d had a few drinks and thought ‘sod it, why not? - anything for a quiet life’ and let them talk me into it.
What a buzz!
I didn’t stand up on the board or any of that clever athletic shit, but I managed to ride a wave in and control it all the way and it was like being a turbo-charged dolphin! What a feeling!
I got lots of high-fives and comments like “you tamed that bitch, bro!” and “stellar control man” and suddenly it was like I was one of them. 
It must have looked funny - a group of chiselled, tanned beach-babes in three-quarter wetsuits, and this pot-bellied white-collar wimp in a pair of cheap shorts and a T-shirt, but I really didn’t care. Adrenaline is a great defeater of embarrassment. 
Every so often I find something I enjoy and I throw myself into it like a madman.
So obviously now I’m going to go online and buy a surfboard, wetsuit, flippers, and a Volvo estate to carry it all in.
And book us a trip to Hawaii.

RC 26-7-15