I usually run long on Saturday mornings, and this year with two kids playing soccer, that has caused me to miss a couple soccer games. Actually, it hasn’t all been the fault of running. The kids sometimes have games spread far apart, and Erin has not wanted CJ to go to the field at 8am and start playing soccer with other kids when we get there, when he doesn’t have a game until 1pm! So I have stayed home with CJ while Erin takes Colin. Consequently, I hadn’t seen even one of Colin’s games this year until today. I post-poned the “long run” (it will only be ten miles) until tomorrow and went to both games.
In between games, CJ and I watched an older-kids game while Erin and Colin went to the store and got lunch. It was great. CJ has not switched on this year at all. Last year he was the older side of the age bracket. This year, he is the younger side of the age bracket. And it is really showing. Last year we had to take him out after he got four or five goals in a game. Last year he got a goal on the first kick off of the season. This year, he is intimidated by the older kids. He runs along side the opponents without ever aggressively trying to take the ball. Oh well, he has a blast. And, if nothing else, I can focus on the fact that the older kids aren’t out-running him.
Erin is coaching his team, and all the kids on the team are six year olds playing in the under-8 age bracket. Only one seven year old on the whole team. So they had not won a game until today. I am glad I was there. It was a great game, both team were evenly matched. Cj’s team won 2-1. And a lot of credit goes to their little six year old female goalie. She is going to be the only one from the team to go to All Stars. In the process of watching all that soccer, I got scorched with sunburn…. gotta love California. Absolutely fried on October 14th.
More great news… Sears has bought K-Mart and now all the K-Mart stores are getting loaded up with Craftsman tools! This is excitement when you live in timbuktu! The K-Mart in Placerville is a nice store, much better than the Wall Mart in our opinion, because Wal Mart is filled with dirtbags. There is a Sears outlet, which means, until now, you had to order your Craftsman tools from the Sears catalog and go to the outlet in Placerville to pick up your tools. So a K-Mart full of Craftsman tools is Exciting News. :-)
Going 10 miles on Cronan Ranch tomorrow at sunrise.
Run long and taper.
Chris
