Indoor Soccer

There is nothing like jumping back into indoor soccer to find out just how out of shape you are! I started indoor two weeks ago. The shocking part is... SCOTT is also playing indoor soccer. He'd never played before but Glassman Inc has so many men and women who play or have played soccer in the past, they decided to put together a team. I'd actually hesitated to play until he said he was playing. Once he told me he was playing I knew there was no way I could stand on the side lines and watch! Overall we've ended up with 3 couples playing and lots of other glassman employees and of course... Ben, Scott's best friend and my other husband.

The first game was a shock to all of our systems. In the first minute of play Scott managed to shoulder a girl right in the cheek. His fault, but not... he ran around one guy and she was right in front of the guy and he didn't see her in time. But about one minute after that, I managed to trip a girl and get a foul called on me. So, within 2 minutes, both Waring's had a foul called on them. I think they were ready to kick us off the field. :) But after that it smoothed out and Scott even got a goal!! However, the drive home was the 3 of us (Ben was with us) all complaining of the different aches we were already feeling. Game one was a reality check and I realized I needed to start running if I wanted to survive the season. Scott also has more sympthy for my aches and pains after a first game back than he did before - since I'm still pretty sure Ben and Scott complained more in 2 hours than I do the entire week after a game. :)

I spent most of last week running on our treadmill that had been gathering a nice layer of dust in the garage. Between my Ipod and movies on the DVD player out there I've managed to get up to 4 miles in 50 minutes. I should've gone the additional 10 minutes yesterday to make it an even hour but I needed to get in and feed the family dinner. Not to mention, the DVD was at a good spot and I wanted to save the action to motivate me for tonight's run.

If I wasn't trying so hard to catch my breath during the short breaks I get during the games, I'd take some pictures. Maybe by game 5 I'll manage a couple of the Monkey running around. Yes, I told Scott he looks like a monkey running. He's SO tall and skinny and his arms are so gosh darn long that I laughed the first game and pointed out that his elbows are out when he runs. He is already keeping them down and I must say, I am JEALOUS at how natural he is at sports! He jumped right in with no problems. It's almost like me trying to jump into basketball. I know the concept, have played it for fun (eon's ago) but if you were to put me out on the court and give me a ball, I'm not sure I could dribble it down the court muchless make a basket! He had a goal in 2 minutes and no problems with passing, trapping or dribbling!

So if you are in Tacoma in the next month on a sunday, let me know. Our games are fun to watch. Not to mention there is a bar upstairs in the soccer center so you can have a beer while laughing at us. As long as it's an afternoon game... so far we've only had morning games and the bar hasn't been open yet. Bummer!