a hard fought victory

tonight was my coed soccer league. it will likely be the last session that I play on a coed team since, even though we have 5 girls on our team, none of them ever show up. it sucks. tonight was one such night. the rule is that you have to have two girls on the field at all times. you can play with less, but you can't sub in a guy. you'll just play a man short. since no girls showed up for my team tonight, we decided to see just how good of shape we were all in. we played two short the whole night.

i have never run so hard or so much when i've had my goalie gloves on. it was nuts. i picked the wrong day to do a 13 mile run right before a match. but as luck would have it, every one of us was having the games of our lives. even yours truly managed to dribble down the entire field on more than one occasion and still made it back to block shots.

i felt like puking when it was over, but we won. 3 to 2. insert big stupid grin here.