The Schalke bubble is coming to an end but we have delayed our flight back to London until tomorrow evening. This way Jack can squeeze in one more session tomorrow afternoon.
Jack had no training today and was fatigued which given the double sessions over the last week is hardly surprising. In the late morning we walked down to see his age group play Rot Weiß Essen. The game was frenetic from the off. The speed is the one thing which I will take away from this trip. All the boys are lightening quick and seem to be constantly on the move. They are litrerally panting for the entire game. The coaches immediately sream when they don't track back. Ozil junior was again running the show in midfield with Schalke running out 2-0 winners.
Late morning we took the Straßenbahn to Gelsenkirchen which is hardcore working class Germany. It got annihilated in the 2nd world war and is grim. It's noticeable the number of poor people on the streets and are possibly some of the refugee contingency. It's hard to tell.
At lunch I headed out around the Schalke grounds and was struggling with heavy legs after a fair bit of running for me this week. Started sluggishly starting with a 4.45 first k but then knocked out 7ks averaging 3.50s including a 19min 5k. I stopped the clock and took a 3 min rest and then jogged around watching the 15s taking on Bayer Leverkusen for another 7ks to get me to 15 all up.
In the afternoon we did not move from the hotel enjoying the autumn sunshine.
My cousin Florian joined us for dinner in the evening. Nice catching up with him.
Some more pics from the week and the day:
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