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Soccer: Same night, different team

Posted by Trish18 Nov 27, 2007

Fortunately for me, when I'm home in St. Louis I am able to continue my weekly routine of soccer on Monday nights because one of my best friends has a team in a women's league here. Unfortunately for her, the team they were playing against didn't have enough players to start the game. Since I was a guest player anyway, I volunteered to play on the opposing team so we could have a game.

I got to take a few shots off of my friend who playes goalie, which I've never had a chance to do in a game. But "my" team ended up winning 3-2. We all thought they officially lost and we were just playing the game off the record... but it turns out the loss counted for my friends team. Oops.

Here's some footage of the game. I thought maybe I could catch a goal on video while I was on the bench--it didn't work out, but I thought I'd share anyway.

I'm playing wallyball tonight. I'll take some video of it and include it in next post--it's intense! Crossing my fingers that it doesn't sleet on your run this evening.

< 1 hour of soccer >

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Competitive Recreational Soccer League

Posted by Trish18 Nov 21, 2007

I play in a paradoxical soccer league: It's a rec league run by one of Chicago's sport and social clubs, but it is exceedingly competitive. We have several former college athletes on the team and one ex-professional soccer player. That being said, we won our semi-final match on Monday but lost the final game 2-1.

The physicality of the league is worth mentioning. You might think that because it's coed that play would be tamer than usual. Definitely not the case. In addition to the torn ligament, broken nose, stitches above the eye, and temporary loss of vision that called for an ER visit that I have witnessed in my one year on the team--on Monday night a player on the other team got knocked out for two or three minutes when play got a little too physical and tempers flared. Yikes. I think it is this mix of very competitive athletes that don't play the game at the level they used to and don't have quite the same skills or control that leads to frustration and things getting a little out of hand.

Either way, we have a few weeks off now. I don't think we start another session until just before Christmas when we'll move indoor. Hopefully things will settle down a bit. And so begins the effort to be extra active over the holidays!

< 2 hours of soccer >

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Fall has Fallen

Posted by Trish18 Sep 24, 2007

The first full day of fall was a beautiful day to get outside and be active (although I really hate to see summer go). I decided to ride my bike to my soccer game. This session we are playing in Lincoln Park just south of the zoo--the fields are in pretty terrible shape, but the location is amazing!

Because it's on the lakefront it's convenient to hop on the path and cruise down there on the Trek instead of driving. I left a little bit late so I got a good warm up in hammering out the 7 miles trying to get there by game time.

We won the game 5-1 to remain undefeated in the young season.

We had one of our best finishers go down just before half time with a pretty serious 50/50 collision with the keeper who had come way out of the box to clear the ball. They were both on a 45 degree collision course and Ryan was on the wrong end of an inadvertent head butt. He had to go to the hospital to get stitches. It's a good thing we have an ER doctor on our team--we've had a severely sprained ankle and a broken nose that happened to our opponents while playing us and on our team we've had a guy experience temporary loss of vision in one eye for a while after taking a shot to the eye at really close range, and now stitches. It's a pretty serious co-ed "rec" league!

< one hour of soccer / 14 mile bike >

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Cycling and Soccer

Posted by Trish18 Sep 19, 2007

A couple days behind, but need to document what was probably my most active day in my life. On Sunday, I finished the North Shore Century ride--100 miles and many hours on my bike. If you want to read more details about it, see a few photos and the route, check it out here. I noticed late that night and the next day my Achilles tendons were both sore but soaking them in Epsom salt seemed to help.

I was back in (slow) action on Monday night as our soccer team started a fall outdoor session. I didn't have much in my legs but I played the whole game because we didn't have any female subs, so I played conservatively. We started off this season with a 2-0 win.

< 100 mile bike / one hour of soccer >