As you can probably guess from the title, the soccer team has concluded the season winning a grand total of ZERO games. Let me tell you about the game before I get into the coaching fail.
The game, in a word, awesome. The girls played their butts off. We failed to capitalize on some really good scoring opportunities, but they really played great. Actually, both teams really played great. At the end of regulation, we were tied 0-0. The score had more to do with the awesome defense played by both teams. Both teams have really gotten much better during the season (even though we missed tons of games and practices due to the rain).
Since this was part of the Regional Tournament, we had to decide a winner. The normal process for this is called "Kicking from the mark." If you have ever seen any soccer, the mark is the penalty spot on the field. The coach, me, picks 5 players (that were on the field at the end of regulation) and gives the ref the order in which they will kick. It is basically the kickers versus the goal keeper. Most goals win. If we are tied after 5 kicks, you repeat.
1st round: weak kick by them, but our keeper bobbled it and it goes it. Miss kick by our girl, misses the goal. (1-0 them)
2nd round: good kick by them, goal. Teh Daughter makes an AWESOME kick (not just saying this as her Dad, it was the best kick of the night), goal (2-1 them)
3rd round: miss kick by them, missed the goal. Our girl make a great kick, but the goal keeper made an even better save. It was really spectacular. (2-1 them)
4th round: good kick by them, goal. Miss kick by our girl, missed the goal. (3-1 them) End of game.
It was really a great experience and the girls played so well. A couple of these girls could be very good if they keep on playing (they just need a better coach then me, as you shall see).
Coaching FAIL:
Right before the start of the last period started, my best defender decided that she wanted to sit out. In her defense, she has played every single minute of every game except for the 1st game. She has been awesome and was playing great last night. So she sat. The girl (H) that was rotating with teh Daughter at goal keeper didn't want to play keeper the last period (she is also a good mid-fielder/striker). I put my #4 keeper in hoping that we would score with teh Daughter and H playing offensive positions. FAIL and FAIL.
The #4 keeper was really struggling during the kicks at the end and we would have been much better off with either teh Daughter or H playing there. I learned today that I could have switched out the keeper during the kicks. FAIL
Oh yeah, I ran 2.08 miles this morning. Sorry BMI active will not let me go past 2 decimal places when I map my run, but I am pretty sure it was 2.082112544 miles. (No, I will not list times because they are pathetic)
Friday, October 30, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Running happens
I know that you are all waiting eagerly to find out if I got off my lazy, pathetic ass to go running since my last post.
Surprise! I actually did. I went out for a nice 2+ mile run this morning and it felt pretty good.
Amazing how this "running" always makes me feel better, but I don't do it enough. (Yes G, I am talking about running)
Tomorrow night, is the start of teh Daughter's Regional soccer tournament. Since our team is 0 for the season, we get to play a "play-in" game with the other non-winning team. We played them this past Saturday and tied. At least someone will get a win on the season. It may take overtime or penalty kicks, but one team is finally going to get a win.
If we win tomorrow, we play again on Saturday morning. Our chances of winning that game are around 0.0000012%. This team beat us 7-0 earlier in the season and it was not that close.
Surprise! I actually did. I went out for a nice 2+ mile run this morning and it felt pretty good.
Amazing how this "running" always makes me feel better, but I don't do it enough. (Yes G, I am talking about running)
Tomorrow night, is the start of teh Daughter's Regional soccer tournament. Since our team is 0 for the season, we get to play a "play-in" game with the other non-winning team. We played them this past Saturday and tied. At least someone will get a win on the season. It may take overtime or penalty kicks, but one team is finally going to get a win.
If we win tomorrow, we play again on Saturday morning. Our chances of winning that game are around 0.0000012%. This team beat us 7-0 earlier in the season and it was not that close.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Death of a blog
No, not this one, yet.
Since I am such a loser, I was listening the NPR on the way to work yesterday. (I commute with another employee at work and NPR is a much safer station that trying to find music we both like) NPR ran a story that the web service geocities was being shut down. Geocities was the site of my 1st lame-ass blog.
This was back in the late 90's and I remember playing around on yahoo one day and seeing where I could create my own webpage with a blog. I am pretty sure that I had even less people read it than this one (if that is even possible).
I cannot even remember what kinda crap I put on it, but I think that it was back when I was running some and I posted a bit about it. There are some similarities between these two "blogs."
Wow, after all these years and still the greatness shines.
Back to running:
Need someone to kick my ass into gear. I am becoming teh Excuse Master every morning and have not been running very much. I even have a plan to follow and my lazy ass still doesn't go. Please help by making fun of me until I get off my duff and get some running done.
Since I am such a loser, I was listening the NPR on the way to work yesterday. (I commute with another employee at work and NPR is a much safer station that trying to find music we both like) NPR ran a story that the web service geocities was being shut down. Geocities was the site of my 1st lame-ass blog.
This was back in the late 90's and I remember playing around on yahoo one day and seeing where I could create my own webpage with a blog. I am pretty sure that I had even less people read it than this one (if that is even possible).
I cannot even remember what kinda crap I put on it, but I think that it was back when I was running some and I posted a bit about it. There are some similarities between these two "blogs."
- Crappy writing Check
- Boring topics Check
- Very few readers Check
- Running infrequently Check
Wow, after all these years and still the greatness shines.
Back to running:
Need someone to kick my ass into gear. I am becoming teh Excuse Master every morning and have not been running very much. I even have a plan to follow and my lazy ass still doesn't go. Please help by making fun of me until I get off my duff and get some running done.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Back from my hiatus
I know that absolutely no one has missed me and I cannot blame you at all. I have been too lazy to get off my butt and write a post.
Well, since no one saw my last post due to the fucktardary of wordpress (go ahead, read it), obviously no feedback on teh daughter running with me. Today was our first run together and it was awesome.
We were planning on running Monday, but the downpour outside gave me the perfect excuse to just go back to sleep for another hour instead of running.
The weather Tuesday was great, but I was lazy again (go figure, and you will see this trend rather prominent in my posts). Wednesday morning was misty rain and temps in the lower 60's. I tried for about 5 minutes to get teh daughter up, but she refused. I did go running, just with out her.
Yesterday was a rest day for me (the schedule I am using said to walk for 30 mins, but as you know by now I am just lazy). This morning she got up and went out with me. It was a PERFECT 56 degrees outside. I put a reflective vest on teh daughter and out we went. Since she is starting, we are doing a run-walk program together. I have run 2 half-marathons and attempted on full, but I have always been super slow. My thought is that I will do this program with her running at a much faster pace. I want to improve my snailish 13-14 min/mile pace to around 10 min/mile. I think this program is my way to do it. We ran 2 minutes and then walked 2 minutes. We went out from the house for 11 minutes and then back. We covered 1.9 miles in 21 minutes. Damn good running pace.
The schedule call for another run tomorrow morning and we are planning on doing it. However, since I found out that teh daughter will be playing soccer tomorrow, I may just do it by myself.
Also, please think warm thoughts for me this weekend. The whole family is doing a cub scout camping trip and it is supposed to drop into the 30's Saturday night. Brr.
Have a great weekend.
Well, since no one saw my last post due to the fucktardary of wordpress (go ahead, read it), obviously no feedback on teh daughter running with me. Today was our first run together and it was awesome.
We were planning on running Monday, but the downpour outside gave me the perfect excuse to just go back to sleep for another hour instead of running.
The weather Tuesday was great, but I was lazy again (go figure, and you will see this trend rather prominent in my posts). Wednesday morning was misty rain and temps in the lower 60's. I tried for about 5 minutes to get teh daughter up, but she refused. I did go running, just with out her.
Yesterday was a rest day for me (the schedule I am using said to walk for 30 mins, but as you know by now I am just lazy). This morning she got up and went out with me. It was a PERFECT 56 degrees outside. I put a reflective vest on teh daughter and out we went. Since she is starting, we are doing a run-walk program together. I have run 2 half-marathons and attempted on full, but I have always been super slow. My thought is that I will do this program with her running at a much faster pace. I want to improve my snailish 13-14 min/mile pace to around 10 min/mile. I think this program is my way to do it. We ran 2 minutes and then walked 2 minutes. We went out from the house for 11 minutes and then back. We covered 1.9 miles in 21 minutes. Damn good running pace.
The schedule call for another run tomorrow morning and we are planning on doing it. However, since I found out that teh daughter will be playing soccer tomorrow, I may just do it by myself.
Also, please think warm thoughts for me this weekend. The whole family is doing a cub scout camping trip and it is supposed to drop into the 30's Saturday night. Brr.
Have a great weekend.
No, Mrs Needle didn't kill me in my sleep
Ed note: I actually wrote this thing 10 days ago and for some reason it didn't publish. Damn wordpress. So today you will get a two-fer. Sorry.
Greetings! I have been thinking about posting for a couple of days, but every time I think about starting I realize that I have nothing interesting to say. Life has been pretty boring lately. It has primarily consisted of soccer, football, work and a little family time. Do you notice what is missing? Yeah, running.
Last weekend we had a soccer game at 9 am (we lost, as usual). For the season we are 0-5-1. Not sure why that one team stunk so bad and let us tie that one game. S, teh daughter, finally got to play this past weekend. She is doing ok, but you can tell she has missed allot and is kinda out of shape (being in a cast will do that to you). C, teh son, also played Saturday and he is doing pretty well. However, the poor guy got kicked in teh n*ts@ck during the game. REALLY felt bad for him. He kept saying he got kicked in teh weenie!
Anyway, after soccer, we headed to Mississippi to watch the old college team lose, again. See a theme here? My teams and losing? Geez. We had a good time tailgating before and after the game. We stayed in Mississippi Saturday night and went back to campus to watch the women's soccer team play. It started raining about the time we left the hotel and didn't stop the rest of the day. We only watch about 30 minutes of the soccer game and about 20 minutes of the women's volleyball game before we decided to head on back home.
See, really, really boring.
I do need some advice though. Teh daughter really wants to start running with me in the mornings. Which I think is great. Problem though is that I go running on the roads around the house while it is pitch black outside. I have no problem with ME running at dark thirty in the morning on these roads, but I really don't like the idea of HER running at dark thirty on these same roads.
Should we drive the 10-15 minutes each way to the nearest town and run in the park? Run an altered route around the house that does not include so much time on the busy road (there is almost no traffic on the side roads)? Needs me some help here.
Greetings! I have been thinking about posting for a couple of days, but every time I think about starting I realize that I have nothing interesting to say. Life has been pretty boring lately. It has primarily consisted of soccer, football, work and a little family time. Do you notice what is missing? Yeah, running.
Last weekend we had a soccer game at 9 am (we lost, as usual). For the season we are 0-5-1. Not sure why that one team stunk so bad and let us tie that one game. S, teh daughter, finally got to play this past weekend. She is doing ok, but you can tell she has missed allot and is kinda out of shape (being in a cast will do that to you). C, teh son, also played Saturday and he is doing pretty well. However, the poor guy got kicked in teh n*ts@ck during the game. REALLY felt bad for him. He kept saying he got kicked in teh weenie!
Anyway, after soccer, we headed to Mississippi to watch the old college team lose, again. See a theme here? My teams and losing? Geez. We had a good time tailgating before and after the game. We stayed in Mississippi Saturday night and went back to campus to watch the women's soccer team play. It started raining about the time we left the hotel and didn't stop the rest of the day. We only watch about 30 minutes of the soccer game and about 20 minutes of the women's volleyball game before we decided to head on back home.
See, really, really boring.
I do need some advice though. Teh daughter really wants to start running with me in the mornings. Which I think is great. Problem though is that I go running on the roads around the house while it is pitch black outside. I have no problem with ME running at dark thirty in the morning on these roads, but I really don't like the idea of HER running at dark thirty on these same roads.
Should we drive the 10-15 minutes each way to the nearest town and run in the park? Run an altered route around the house that does not include so much time on the busy road (there is almost no traffic on the side roads)? Needs me some help here.
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