I played floor hockey on Saturday, and am just now able to walk semi-normally… I stretched before the first game, but neglected to stretch after the game, before the next two games, or even after the whole tournament was done . That’s part of the problem. The other part is the unfortunate spill that i took in warmup that resulted in me hitting the ground, knee first, at a relatively high speed. It swelled some, but not too bad, and the swelling seems to be mostly gone. I still played all the games, but I think I wound up favouring my leg some, because it’s quite sore when compared to the other one.

There really is no substitute for actually playing floor hockey though - all the cardio at the gym that I could ever want to do, couldn’t prepare me for four hours of floor hockey. My endurance wasn’t too bad, though my lungs were burning about halfway through the first game. I managed to recover nicely though, and had some pep for the last game still. For the record, we lost all four games by a total of something like 46-16. I didn’t play particularly well, but the teams we came up against had more top notch players than we did, by a large margin. We did manage to score first in three of the four games, and we were even pretty tight in the consolation game at halftime (3-2) but a couple of quick goals against, and the game got out of reach in a hurry.

Then, Bombastic arrived yesterday. Blowing up dice is pretty fun.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Our city will not negotiate with terrorists. Is there a city nearby that will?” - Mayor Quimby