A whole bunch of random crap

I have been meaning to post for a couple of days now.  For today’s bit of random BS, I am going to the blogger favorite…bullet points.

• I spent a good deal of time and energy this weekend loading and unloading 2 truckloads of firewood. 
• By Monday, EVERYTHING from the waist up hurt.  When I got up Monday morning to run, I could barely walk due to lower back pain.   Does this count as cross-training?
• While perusing Facebook the other day, I noticed this back and forth between one of my college buddies and his wife.  First of all, neither one of them is what you would call healthy.  Both quite large persons.  They were making fun of a group of runners wearing Will Run for Beer shirts while eating at a place called Chunkys.  WTF, at least the runners will burn off all those calories they are consuming.  I know these people are not runners, but you are eating at the same place (most likely eating more than the runners) and you think it is ironic that the runners think they can pig out because they run!?
• Running while windy outside:  tailwind = good; headwind = bad.

Dang, for some reason I had allot more in my head the other day to write and now I am drawing a blank.

A big thank you to all our service men and women and veterans today.  Because of you, I can write the crappy blog without worrying about the gov’ment spying on me.

Someone needs to work on their algorithm

I have been reading allot of blogs talking about going to the gym. Having never been a gym person, I really have never thought about joining one.

Today I decided to look online at some of the gyms in town. I pulled up the profile of one of the gyms on Merchantcircle.com. It gave very little information, but it listed some recommended businesses.
-2 STD testing clinics
-2 local motels

Well, I guess fit folks get their groove on a little more often and might need these services.

Soccer Coaching Fail

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)

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.

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.”

1. Crappy writing Check
2. Boring topics Check
3. Very few readers Check
4. 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.