What have I been listening to?: How Long - Charlie Puth
Last meal consisted of: Cheese fries, brownie, fruit and yogurt, banana, and ice cream cone (The dining hall is a dangerous place)
I just posted yesterday but I found myself sitting in bed this evening with a bit of free time, so I figured I'd write some more. I was reading through a few old posts and realized that I never wrote about how my first ultimate frisbee tournament went.
As you may recall (or more likely, you didn't give two shits so you don't remember) my ultimate frisbee team participated in our first tournament of the fall semester in Lincoln, Nebraska. This was two weekends ago, and the tournament was humorously named Children of the Corn. We received an official University excused absence from our classes Friday so that we could make the heinous 7 hour drive to Lincoln. Despite my determination to not be roped into driving my car, I somehow ended up driving my car. My Kia, myself, and 3 teammates left at about 9:30 Friday morning. We were one of the first groups of the team to arrive at the hotel later in the afternoon, so we claimed sleeping arrangements. Our team, with I believe 18 players in attendance, shared three hotel rooms, each with two double beds. In other words, 3 people to each double bed.
We rose bright and early Saturday morning to head to the fields. We played 4 games that day. The day started out warm and got very hot and sunny by midday. My team is dealing with a lot of injuries right now so we were struggling to find subs. I myself am still suffering from shin splints, and I also am having foot/ankle pain which gets super bad after a bit of running. I sat out an entire game, icing my feet and shins. Also, something I struggled with is that you can only sub out players after a point has been made, or when an injured person needs to sub out. It can be a long time between points, and at one point during a particularly long pointless-stretch I nearly had something resembling a panic attack (I would say asthma attack except I don't have asthma?)
Anyways, the bad news is that we lost every single game that weekend. But the good news far outweighs the bad. Firstly, we are a pretty positive team that cares more about having fun and personal growth and improvement than about beating another team. It was our first tournament and we were actually pretty proud of ourselves. I personally was extremely proud to have had three successful defensive blocks. I did not ever expect to be capable of that, considering my stature. Secondly, we made good friends with the first team that we played with. This was our closest game, and this team had some of the friendlier people we encountered. Unfortunately, of all the teams in the tournament, this one resides farthest away from us (Colorado). On Sunday we did a temporary jersey swap. I much preferred their jerseys to our own. (The sleeves on my size small t-shirt go past my elbows....)
It was a decent first tournament experience. I wish I wasn't having these issues with my legs and feet so that I could give it my all, but I have lots of time over the next two years at River Falls to play in additional tournaments.
Next weekend I plan to go home and have some fun with my siblings (despite having major tests the following Monday and Tuesday..) and the two weekends after that, the last two weekends of October, will be occupied by frisbee tournaments! It's getting quite chilly out lately so I will need to invest in a long sleeve undershirt as well as friction gloves.
Stay classy
-G
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