Training Plan

The fist shot on net tonight went in on me. After that, nothing else got by me. I have a specific routine when I play a game, and tonight, it was cut very short. Instead of the usual 4-5 minute warm-up, we got about 90 seconds. I play better with my routine; it’s like a training plan for every game.

The training plan I’ve found for running is going smoothly. I’m finding it easier to focus on running when I don’t have to try to figure what I should run on a particular day. Walking around work, I’m able to think about an upcoming workout and be mentally prepared when I get home. There’s no more hemming and hawing about what to do. Why didn’t I find one of these sooner?

The tongue started falling out of my left shoe. It just so happens that a coupon for 25% off at a local running store showed up in the mail a day or two after. Without the coupon, I wouldn’t have bought new shoes today. This also means my older shoes can become work shoes, which I desperately need.

One of my defensemen purposefully gave the other team a break-away tonight because I was embarrassing him in front of his girlfriend, during the game. I was laughing so hard when the guy shot the puck, I could barely see it coming at me. Still stopped it.

Sleep

In the last 44 hours, I’ve played two hockey games, bowled three games and went to my league banquet, worked 22 hours, had and in-house interview to transfer departments-will happen after our baby is born- slept for about 3.5 hours, and napped for 20 minutes.

Now I’m cranky. But I can never sleep right when I get home from hockey, so here I sit.

My legs have felt pretty good the last couple of days, with only some slight pain in my right knee while going down stairs (IT band?). What I really want to do is get done with hockey tomorrow, come home and grab the dogs and go run trails for about an hour.

My brother wanted a pair of running shoes, so yesterday I accompanied him to a running store. He found a pair he liked, and we made a plan to run a race together in three weeks. But, in the third period of our game tonight, he pulled his groin, and was barely able to walk to the truck after the game. Right now, I’ll say I’m still running it. It feels good to have a running goal.

I haven’t really seen my wife in two days, and I need rest.