Sore Reminder

Been a while since I've felt like this before. This weekend Bermuda Lacrosse is having its "tryouts" for the National squad. It's not much of tryouts because there's about 25 people at our practice and about five won't be playing because they are really, really bad. Its the honest truth, they just haven't been playing the game long at all and won't be on the squad and they mostly know this.

We had two practices today and will have two tomorrow. They're not strenuous practices, but I've got that "sore in the morning" feel already going on and I'm drained of energy. It's literally been a struggle to microwave a can of soup. But, I think that's just more me, being lazy as shit.

The team is being coached by the head coach of Cabrini. I had to look them up, top 10 DIII team. Obviously, he knows what he's talking about. We've done a few things that were done in Oosterbaan. I got giddy when we ran the Airforce drill(I think that's the right name for it). Except, the offensive doesn't run back to recovering the next 3v2. I also heard my two least favorite words today. Dialogue...

Coach: "Dougy, go PLAY MIDDIE"
Doug: Get the fuck out of here.
Coach: Alright, sorry, calm down. Stay down at attack.

Just kidding, I love middie! The O will be running a lot of invert stuff. But seriously, I hate middie.

Right now, +60 knot winds are bashing a tree against my apartment. Forecasts were for 30-40 knot winds, with gusts +50 today. Luckily there was no rain and we were able to practice perfectly. Although, the ride on the way over was unnerving. It's not really cool, when a gust can literally shift your bike a foot over lightning fast. Into oncoming traffic. I had a few multiple "oh fuck" moments while trying to regain control of bike. You almost have to drive into the shoulder to make up for the wind.

If you're curious to see who we might be playing in the tournament. Here's the website. 2010 World Championships. My guess is we'd facing lacrosse super-giants such as Lativa, Hong Kong, and the dominant force of Slovakia. I've been told that we'd open in a round robin format with groups divided by level of play. If we win that group, we'd advance to the playoff format. I'm not sure how many teams from each group would advance, but I know that the lowliest group(mostly like us), only advanced their champion, Finland, in 2006.

That's it for today. I've had several people asked why I stopped writing. There's a few reasons, I didn't think anybody read this/enjoyed this. And if it was only 2 people, that's not enough to persuade me to regularly update this glorious blog's content. Also, not a big fan of talking about myself. So, I'm gonna try to update ONCE a DAY, with one post, that will be usually fairly short. Hopefully that will be easier to follow and give yourself a little more joy out of your day between the hours between 9am and 5pm.

Best video of the decade. Wait, did I say decade, because i meant EVER.