On Saturday, I woke up at around 7:45 AM and took a quick shower. I had a dentist appointment at 8:30 AM and I was still feeling like a zombie from the lack of sleep the night before. It was just a checkup to see how my gums healed from the surgery last month. I was pleased that things were looking good.
After the dentist appointment, I went home to pick up Tary. We drove north to LensCrafters where I had an appointment with the eye doctor. I have been having problems with my left eye lately where it's been twitching a lot during the day. It always felt like I had something in my eye. I thought the vision in my left eye was getting worse. After seeing the doctor though, I found out that my eye was twitching because it had actually gotten better. What?!
I normally wear glasses when I work on the computer. My prescription was -1.0 in my left eye and +0.25 in my right eye. The doctor told me that my left eye had gotten better to only -0.5 and that my right eye stayed the same. The reason why my left eye was twitching so much was that my glasses were at the wrong strength for me. Whew, what a relief. I had to pay for a new set of lenses but I was glad it was cheaper than having to buy a new set of frames.
After the eye doctor's appointment, we picked up Tary's cousin K.M. and I dropped them both off at their other cousin's house. They were going off to have a little girls' afternoon thing together.
I went home to change and put on some athletic-wear. I drove to the park near my house to play Ultimate Frisbee. I was the first one there so I was a little bored. I played some Bejeweled Blitz (which I think I need an intervention for) while I waited for the others to arrive. After about 15 minutes, the others started to show up.
It was a pretty low turnout. We had only 10 people come and play. The emails this week were late so I don't know if everyone knew that we were playing today. It was cold, windy, and freezing rain kept falling on us. It wasn't a great day to play but we still made the best of it. We only played two games but they were both very competitive and close games. I think I ended up on the winning side of both of them so that's always fun.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Ultimate Frisbee 2010 Season
On this past Saturday, the Ultimate Frisbee 2010 season got underway. I was excited to be playing Ultimate Frisbee again. At the same time, I felt a little hesitant because of my wrist. Would it hold up? It still hurts sometimes. This was the first action since the injury back in late October. It's also the first time I would be doing anything physical since last season so I know everything would hurt. Sometimes I hate it when I'm right...
There were about 21 people so we split ourselves up into 3 even teams. I was fortunate enough to play in the first game. The 3rd team would play the winner of our game. Being asstupid greedy gung ho as I am, I shouted "First to 5!". My buddy didn't hear me and requested that we play to just 3. I overruled and 5 it was...for now.
The first point of the season was brutal. It always is. Everyone was still trying to get their conditioning back. I know it's only been about 5 months since our last action but my lungs were on fire. I think we scored first. I don't remember because I felt like keeling over. I was wheezing, hunched over, gasping for air. I had the lungs of a smoker after a box of Marlboro's...except I don't smoke. I quickly shouted, "Let's play to 3!" I was relieved when the other team agreed.
We ended up winning the first game. That was so much fun but wow, my whole body hurts.We played the next game and we won that one as well. At this point, I was kind of hoping we'd actually lose a game just so I can sit down for a few minutes. My teammates luckily felt the same way and we let the other two teams play a few games while we rested on the sidelines.
After everyone had a chance to play a few games, we decided to split everyone up again into two large teams for one final showdown. It was a great game. We were down early but we caught up and took a small lead. The other team fought hard to tie it up at 9 points a piece. We ended up scoring the last point to win it all. Woo hoo!
It is now 3 days later and I am still soooooo sore from this past Saturday. My calves are sore. My quads are sore. My hamstrings are sore. My back is sore. Even my left arm is sore and I don't even use it to throw with. I feel so old. I know it's now the 2010 season and it has only been 5 months since the last season ended, but I feel more than a year older than I did the previous season. I don't know how professional athletes can keep going when they are sometimes more than 10 years older than I am.
I need to start exercising more so I won't feel so sore each week. It's hard to find time to do that though when I sit in front of a computer for most of the day. I suppose I can't complain. I'll easily take what I have now over some of the physically intensive jobs that I had to do in my younger days.
What's kind of funny is that my good friend, C.D. asked me why don't I just lift some weights in my basement? I replied, "Because they are so heavy!" Maybe when Baby is born, we can take him for little walks or something.
Well, the first game of the Ultimate Frisbee season is finally behind us. Hopefully one of many more to come this year. I'm looking forward to it! Bring it on! Just let me catch my breath first...
There were about 21 people so we split ourselves up into 3 even teams. I was fortunate enough to play in the first game. The 3rd team would play the winner of our game. Being as
The first point of the season was brutal. It always is. Everyone was still trying to get their conditioning back. I know it's only been about 5 months since our last action but my lungs were on fire. I think we scored first. I don't remember because I felt like keeling over. I was wheezing, hunched over, gasping for air. I had the lungs of a smoker after a box of Marlboro's...except I don't smoke. I quickly shouted, "Let's play to 3!" I was relieved when the other team agreed.
We ended up winning the first game. That was so much fun but wow, my whole body hurts.We played the next game and we won that one as well. At this point, I was kind of hoping we'd actually lose a game just so I can sit down for a few minutes. My teammates luckily felt the same way and we let the other two teams play a few games while we rested on the sidelines.
After everyone had a chance to play a few games, we decided to split everyone up again into two large teams for one final showdown. It was a great game. We were down early but we caught up and took a small lead. The other team fought hard to tie it up at 9 points a piece. We ended up scoring the last point to win it all. Woo hoo!
It is now 3 days later and I am still soooooo sore from this past Saturday. My calves are sore. My quads are sore. My hamstrings are sore. My back is sore. Even my left arm is sore and I don't even use it to throw with. I feel so old. I know it's now the 2010 season and it has only been 5 months since the last season ended, but I feel more than a year older than I did the previous season. I don't know how professional athletes can keep going when they are sometimes more than 10 years older than I am.
I need to start exercising more so I won't feel so sore each week. It's hard to find time to do that though when I sit in front of a computer for most of the day. I suppose I can't complain. I'll easily take what I have now over some of the physically intensive jobs that I had to do in my younger days.
What's kind of funny is that my good friend, C.D. asked me why don't I just lift some weights in my basement? I replied, "Because they are so heavy!" Maybe when Baby is born, we can take him for little walks or something.
Well, the first game of the Ultimate Frisbee season is finally behind us. Hopefully one of many more to come this year. I'm looking forward to it! Bring it on! Just let me catch my breath first...
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