This morning I played some pick up basketball games. I usually play every Tuesday and Thursday, it is a great workout for me because I love competition and I love the comrraderie that I have with the guy’s I play wih. We have a great time with each other, and we are getting in shape in the process. This morning when we went to the gym it was very hot. It reminded me of my soccer game this week that was extremely hot! I was sweating before we even started to play. We had several great games and we played for about an hour and a half. It was a great time and I probably losta lot more than I normally would have because of the heat. Just my luck to have 2 extremely hot workout sessions in the same week. I guess that is what happens when you live in the dessert.

I think playing soccer is one of the best workout I recieve all week. I usually have a game every monday night and I am going to start playing pick up games on Saturday mornings. My monday night games are on an indoor league so it is a lot of running and very fast paced. I am pretty tired after a 40 minute game and I am also very sore. This last monday we had 2 games on the same night. We played our first game and I was exhausted, we play in an old warehouse and the air conditioning does not work very well. It was a hot summer day, and our game was at 7:00. It was probably between 90 – 100 degrees on the field. I have never sweat as badly as I did during that frst game. After the first game, which we won 4-1, we had a 40 minute break before we played the best team in the league. I was worried I was not going to have the energy to play in the second game. I was suprised when i felt as though I had more energy in the second game than I had in the first game. It was like I got my second wind and I was able to play very well. We ended up tying the best team in our league and we played one of the best games of our season. I am one of the youngest players on my team at 26, and their oldest player was probably 23. They were young, but the old guys ran circles around them and we should have won the game. It just taught me that I can still be in great shape despite my age!

I slept very well that night and got up and played basketball the next morning. I was still pretty sore from soccer, but I drug myself out of bed and made it to the gym. I played a good 40 minutes and felt great all day at work. It was a great 12 hours of working out!