catch me if you can

last week at soccer, i messed up my shoulder which precluded me from playing in the nets last night. seeing as we were going to have no subs against a team with 6 subs, i decided to suit up and play the field. now if you've ever seen me play the field, you would know that i have the ball skills of a keeper. i shoot and pass like ray charles...with polio. this is a well known fact among my teammates, but fortunately for me, the other team does not know this. this, combined with my half ironman training were the reason for my team captain's instructions to me. "run them into the ground." so i did.

i may not be able to pass or shoot, but running...now we're talking. when i was on the field, i never stood still. and because i wasn't standing still, that meant that one of their guys had to come with me lest i pull off a miracle and make a successful pass. we ended up losing 3-0 but we didn't go down quietly. according to one of the spectators, at the end of the game, they looked more tired than we did. heh.

now if i could only find some talent with the ball on my foot...