Workout Recap
Hey Everyone!
I’m back with another “workout recap”!
Woot woot! I knew you’d be so excited!
I don’t have much to report, but here’s the dealio:
Saturday morning - pickup soccer / practice. I met up with some teammates to practice at Griffith Park. There’s always a pickup game there on Saturday mornings, so we like to go sometimes. But this weekend, the game was obscenely large. It was hard to get a touch on the ball.
Instead, we set up our own nets and played small sided - 3 v 3 (there were only six of us. Clearly). After scrimmaging for a bit, we transitioned to a 2 v 2 tournament. One team was always off, and if you scored, you stayed on. The first team to ten goals won.
(that was my team, justthoughyoushouldknow).
THEN, I had a game on Sunday.
This is a new league I’m playing in. I put myself on a free agents list, sort of accidentally but on purpose. The league is Santa Monica based so allllllll the way across town. While I’m always up for playing, I am NOT always up for LA traffic.
So I wasn’t really pumped when I got the invite to play this weekend.
But I also really can’t help myself when it comes to soccer.
So on Sunday I drove out there to play.
It was supposed to be a guest player situation but I think I’m on the team now.
It was actually a pretty fun game - coed, pretty tiny fields but a lot of movement. There’s no keepers, and the nets are field hockey sized nets. But it’s not easy to score, since teams use a defender to function as a “keeper” to stand in front of the goal and block shots. There always has to be two women on the field, and there were only two ladies on our team Sunday, so we both played the whole game.
We also won 5-1 even though we only scored 3 goals.
I know, right?
Apparently, if a woman scores, the goal counts twice.
Because it’s so hard for frail creatures like us to score goals and whatnot.
Anyways, the other female and I both scored. So that’s how we got two goals.
My goal came when the last defender played a poor ball. I intercepted the pass, and pretty much had all day to square up and shoot, while he stood quivering in the net.
I blasted the ball as hard as I could, and netted it lower right corner.
He didn’t have a chance.
When I told my mom about the game, she said she’d rather be treated as an equal than get double points for scoring.
And to be honest, that’s how I felt too.
At first.
When I scored and it counted twice, I changed my mind.
Besides, when the ball was at my feet, I was treated like an equal.
Best believe.
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