The best thing...

...I can do for this training is to not play the football until after the Koko Half. Every time I play during the weekend it takes me till Wednesday to recover. My training runs suffer. My head hurts, my lungs feel shrunken, my heart rate is out of whack, everything is stiff from my neck to the arches of my feet. The runs are off pace by a good 45 seconds per mile and every single mile is painful. It sucks.

The problem is I feel terrible about not being there for my team and our sponsor. Even when I'm in bed sick, I feel horrible if I'm not on the field helping out. Every time I say I'm going to take a break to focus on something else, I get drawn in. I'm weak and don't know how to say "no".

7-a-side starts this Sunday. *sigh*

Ouch!

I jacked up my ankle last night. Went in for a tackle the same time my opponent took a swing. We both missed the ball and it was his striking foot vs my ankle. It hurts. Futsal today. I'm having a hard time just walking. Maybe some ibuprofen, tape, magic spray can get me through it. It's going to suck to run on it. Don't think anythings broken, since I'm still walking, but it's pretty swollen. Oh well. Game on.

Slackity slack!

Ok, I'm back.  Geeze, I can't focus on anything these days.


Updates
Perimeter Relay: Full team now.  Mostly a recreational team, but I hope to have only one 4 mile leg.  I have my first masters game that night, and national practice has been kicking my ass and jacking up my knees.  Don't know how much I can contribute after 8 miles in the morning.


Women's League: Futsal starts this Saturday.  Didn't want to play, but we WERE short so I committed.  Then 3 more decided they wanted to play.  What the hell?!  Take my spot then.  I don't want to play futsal unless we go to 45 minute halves.

Marianas Cup: In training, but I'm not enjoying it.  The game will be played on June 19th in Saipan.  Maybe having the chance to drink the entire weekend and not have to worry about logistics will be fun. I mini vaca'.

Practice tonight.  Yay.

Make Mama proud, Juventus!

My beloved plays Fulham tonight, and they are down to their 3rd string for defense.  Let's hope it's true that Fulham is a more defending team than a scoring one.  Go, Juve!

Ran 3.5 on the treadmill.  It kicked my ass and my legs are so stiff now that I'm walking around looking like I have a stick up my butt.  My 5k portion I did in 31:20.  I started off pretty slow hoping to be content with a slow long run, but running slow makes it take longer!  I sped it up to finish the 3.1 pretty quickly then gimped the rest of it.

Sat in on the women's league meeting for Tracy tonight.  Futsal starts April 9th, and I'm not all that excited.  We have a kabillion players and I always feel bad about anyone sitting out very long.  I want to sit out the rest of this season and just enjoy the co-ed league.  I guess we'll see who commits first.

I'm tired.