Every Little Thing
I went to practice tonight with two sore shoulders. The right because I apparently never properly rehabbed a rotator cuff injury from the fall, then aggravated it shuffling around our rather large six-month old. The left is just bruised, the result of an otherwise innocuous, nearly comical bike accident. (It involved me sprawling out on my left side on the grass and actually saying "oof.")
I've concluded that there are two big things that I need to improve in my ultimate game, especially since I want to step up and be one of the main handlers on the defensive line. The first is conditioning. Mostly on account of Ivan, I never did the preseason work I'd planned on. Strike one. Strike two has been a fairly hot summer coupled with the exhaustion that goes with full time parenting. No strike three yet, but I'm still not in the kind of shape I need to be in. Speed-wise, I'm getting closer all the time, but I need to be able to sustain that speed for long points and across whole tourneys.
The second big thing is every little thing. I need to improve my break throws. I need my short throws to be a little faster. I need to make sure that when I need to be two feet to the left on D, I'm those two feet to the left. These are things I haven't had to work on in literally years, as NW Ohio was basically slumming it, ultimate-wise. They are also things that are difficult to practice, because I can't hold them all in my head at once and still play the game. I'm trying to pick one or two things to work on at every practice. Tonight it was "use the low backhand break." I had mixed results, but it's a throw I have to go to more often, as the high backhand is expected and a risky throw in the wind.
Zooming out, life feels more directed and focused than it has been for the past few months. I've finally managed to get a few workouts in outside of practice (including the shoulder-bruising bike ride of yestereve). I'm making some phone calls that need to be made and getting bits and pieces of writing done. We've finally gotten the go-ahead on changing Amanda's work situation, which is awesome. I still have to sort out what I'm doing about Grayson's Mozart seminar. I've discovered that biking to school will take either an extra mile or a detour down Washington Avenue, neither of which appeals to me. The 35W bridge is just gone, and it happened to fall on my usual route.
Happy Anniversary!
I've concluded that there are two big things that I need to improve in my ultimate game, especially since I want to step up and be one of the main handlers on the defensive line. The first is conditioning. Mostly on account of Ivan, I never did the preseason work I'd planned on. Strike one. Strike two has been a fairly hot summer coupled with the exhaustion that goes with full time parenting. No strike three yet, but I'm still not in the kind of shape I need to be in. Speed-wise, I'm getting closer all the time, but I need to be able to sustain that speed for long points and across whole tourneys.
The second big thing is every little thing. I need to improve my break throws. I need my short throws to be a little faster. I need to make sure that when I need to be two feet to the left on D, I'm those two feet to the left. These are things I haven't had to work on in literally years, as NW Ohio was basically slumming it, ultimate-wise. They are also things that are difficult to practice, because I can't hold them all in my head at once and still play the game. I'm trying to pick one or two things to work on at every practice. Tonight it was "use the low backhand break." I had mixed results, but it's a throw I have to go to more often, as the high backhand is expected and a risky throw in the wind.
Zooming out, life feels more directed and focused than it has been for the past few months. I've finally managed to get a few workouts in outside of practice (including the shoulder-bruising bike ride of yestereve). I'm making some phone calls that need to be made and getting bits and pieces of writing done. We've finally gotten the go-ahead on changing Amanda's work situation, which is awesome. I still have to sort out what I'm doing about Grayson's Mozart seminar. I've discovered that biking to school will take either an extra mile or a detour down Washington Avenue, neither of which appeals to me. The 35W bridge is just gone, and it happened to fall on my usual route.
Happy Anniversary!
posted by J.D.J.P. at 9:24 PM
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