You would give me kiss if I was on soccer team!

Okay, that was a rigorous two hours of soccer last night. Well, honestly, it turned out to be about 1:45 of playing with 15 min of water breaks. As promised, I played the field and I did a lot (and I mean a LOT) of running. I didn't play any particular position. I roamed the field and went from midfield to defense to striker.

Still, this was a little intimidating. Me being both over 30 and over weight, and here I was playing against high school students. Granted, it made it a little easier since this was mostly the cross country team. However, there are many on the soccer team who run cross country to stay in shape. At the end of the night, the final score was 9-5, with my team on top. Of course I was very proud to have put in 4 of those goals!!

Granted, this was all unofficial. There was no coaching going on, and this was just for fun more than anything else, but it still felt good reminding these kids that as a coach, I actually seem to know what I am doing. There's nothing like schooling these kids who think I don't know anything.


Now I do have to admit that I got taken down by a girl half my size. It was one of my students from last year, so I'm sure she really enjoyed it. She had the ball and made a bad pass. So she tried to recover and I was on it too. Fortunately, I got there right before her and cleared the ball, but her leg got wrapped up in mine. She twisted my ankle pretty well, and while I was off balance she actually managed to flip me over. It was quite impressive, but looked awesome for her!!


All in all, it was a good sweat. Actually, it was quite disgusting how much I sweat last night, but that's another story. I don't use many sports drinks, but last night I had to get Powerade simply because of how drained I was. I am sore now, but it is a very good kind of sore!

I think that today, instead of riding, I am going to go and walk for a few miles. I haven't decided where yet, but I need to be ready for the next time we play.

(Oh, and if you don't get the title reference, go and look up Group X)