trial of miles; miles of trials

Dual Varsity boys.

Game with the regular league

Game with the women's league-- it's 8v8 on a tiny field so I do my best, but I never feel tired afterwards.

Two high school games, Varsity Boys and Girls, on the line.

Regular league game. Another bad loss, at least this one was to a team I have some respect for.

Not sure if 5 is a reasonable distance for a ninety-minute game where I play in the midfield with no subs. I do come off the field hell of tired.

JV Boys (AR) and Varsity Girls (Ctr). Supposed to have a third game, but it was rained out, thank goodness. Damp, uncomfy, and great. I love it.

Two JV games (one boys, one girls) at tournament. Cold out!!

Center on a MS-B.

Soccer practice. About an hour. It's excruciatingly hot since I returned from Maine. We'll get used to it.

On the line for a Var-B then game in women's. It's telling that after both of those, I still feel okay. They really need to make our field bigger in women's league.

Two duals, both middle school. Low-key.

Weight appears to have dropped. Not a bad thing, but odd for me.

Long time no see, FRB.

Playing on two soccer teams this season in addition to ref'ing has sped me up a LOT. This makes sense, as I'd guess I run an average of six sprints per half when ref'ing (and generally have two games each night), and probably ten sprints per half when playing. I play between one and three games a week, and ref between two and five nights a week. You can do the math, if you want, but the point is that I do literally hundreds of sprints every week.

In other news, cross-training still works. Made 4.06 in 30:44. About a 7:30 pace. I'm likin' it.

Very fun AR jobs for a Varsity Boys' tournament. One of the teams I had ended up winning the tournament.

Game with regular league. We had subs this time, which was nice.

Surprise duals with K. Middle school. Not bad.

Weight has dropped more.

Pickup soccer. Two hours and I tried to run as much as possible (why not). Maybe I should start playing right midfield instead of left?

Weight is steady. Eating nuts like you would not belieeeeeeeeve.

4-mile shakeout after a game. Wasn't timing. Slow, shin-splinty. Thinking of taking tomorrow off.

I've decided to start logging my games as miles: 3 if I'm AR, 5 if I'm center, and 4 on a dual. It's probably close enough, especially since I'm not training for anything. I want to know what kind on aerobic base I'm looking at at the end of the soccer season before I start training for the Rocket City Marathon. So I just went back and put in all my games from the last month. It's been fun.