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January 15 The return of indoor soccerMike and I played soccer Friday night (in the rain) for our old outdoor team and indoor soccer Saturday night. We moved from Monday night to Saturday because we kept getting killed by the more experienced and younger players. We lost a few players in the move (SeanPur = too cool for school) so we had to do some recruiting. Thankfully CarmenZ and Nilaldri joined up. Carmen was amazing. Her baby Tyler is only 9 weeks old and yet she was running around the field like crazy. She scored the team's highest number of points (3) and was a wall on defense. We won the game 8-1. I scored 2 goals thanks to Carmen's brilliant passing. I even had a couple of assists. I love Saturdays! :) November 28 Indoor soccer teamMike and I are on a co-ed indoor soccer team that plays Monday nights. This season we moved to Monday nights from Saturday nights because our team kept complaining about missing "date night". Anyway, we discoved upon moving to Monday night that every former college/high scool soccer player who nows lives in the Seattle area plays on Monday nights. The other teams are totally killing us. Our team members are no slouches but the majority of us are over 30 and never played in school. Last week for example, we lost 18 to 0. OUCH!!! That one really hurt. What annoyed me the most is that the team we played never slowed down. Even though they are totally killing us they kept pushing all their guys forward and slamming the ball down our throats. Believe it or not but I have actually played on teams where we were by far the better team and at some points our good guys moved back to defense and gave the girls the opportunity to play up front and take the corner kicks. It really pisses me off that some people take the game so seriously that they will humiliate another team just to get their rocks off. Hopefully today we'll score some points. I think next season it is back to playing on Saturday night. January 22 Boxing againI started boxing again today. I go to a boxing gym called Cappy's on Union. It is run by a woman and most of the people in the classes are women. The class I go to is the boxing fitness class. Today's class was about 20 minutes of jump rope, 20 minutes of core work (sit ups, push ups, back ups, leg lifts), and then 20 minutes of boxing. The boxing portion was mostly bag work. I did some speed bag work, different combinations on the heavy bags, and then some work in the ring with the mits. I got paired up with a girl who had never really boxed before so I had to show her how to do everything. Hopefully, I can convince some friends and co-workers to come with me next week. December 01 seattle half marathonWe ran the half marathon on Sunday. It look us 2 hours 20 minutes and 38 seconds. I can't believe we ran for that long. My right knee starting killing me around mile 9 right after the monster hill at Madison. I wasn't sure I was going to make it but I made myself keep going because I am stubborn. It really seemed to go alot faster than I expected. The scenery was fantastic! I'm not sure if I'd do it again but we'll see. I have to go check if the photographs were posted yet. I made Mike hold hands with me crossing the finish line. Ha ha we are dorks! Update: I posted the pics from the marathon. Enjoy!
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