updates from last week

Coach Z, 12/24:
"ultimate has been the last thing on my mind for the last two weeks. Just got back to campus from Nicaragua last night and will be sitting all day today in the manchester airport...sooo much blitzing to do...
knowing me, you know that i could easily send a three-page blitz to you about how this trip changed my life and how that justifies my inactivity during the last two weeks (though i did run a couple times and swim in a poo-infested river a couple times).

if you do want to hear more, just holla at me.

sorry for the extra sets if you did them for me. i haven't seen a computer nor a weight room in two weeks, so fuel-cell activity has been understandably limited. will get back on the ball over the week and a half. promise."


Downtown, 12/23:
"lifted yesterday, day 2, didn't pick up extra cause i forgot to

will lift day 3 today or tomorrow. Been doing 2 lifts a week. Been playing lots of pickup for cardio stuff. At pickup i've been playing alright, except that I didn't kick the confidence thing.. made like a couple drops I should've caught. However I've thrown less turnovers."

Socks, 12/23:
"if you want to work on your mark, either wear socks on tile floor or put shoes on and go and ice, and practice shuffling back and forth. this will tell you where you're off balance.

i've been working out. if you want to hear about what i did, blitz me and i'll tell you. otherwise i'll leave the rest of you to assume it was more or less the same thing [as before]"

Sunshine, 12/21:
"so work today was really tiring for my upper body and back, and my last workout was more core and less leg strength, so i did a leg strength workout today, sans equipment since i have none, and i picked up for one since that seems to have been the trend.

rocket jumps, lunges, harvard two steps, toe raises and toe presses, leg lifts, and tried some hindu squats out"

I Shall Return (about, ummm.... now)

So this is my final post of christmas break as tomorrow my girlfriend is flying out to see me and help drive my Jeep back to cold and goddammit it better be snowy Hanover. I will be seeing everyone on the 4th for what I assume will be the first day of conditioning.

So the past week I went running 3 times on my hill route, making pretty good time. I'm starting to feel in a bit better shape and I don't think eating nonstop for the entire christmas holiday hurt me too much. We'll see how I do sitting on my ass in a car for multiple days as I chug soft drinks and eat value meals treats me. I've also been playing a decent amount of basketball as well as doing a couple hours of yardyard a day for the last week or so. Stupid bark beetles killing all of our trees. Tomorrow for the first time in a couple weeks I'll get some throwing in as well, which I'm looking forward to.

I got disc 4 for christmas, and have already watched it almost twice. It's pretty good. Seigs shows up a ton, and I think I may have even seen lil liz on the sidelines of the finals.

I'll see you all soon

I didn't...

...get anything ultimate-related for Christmas, save travel stuff for those weekends away, as my family is incapable of simply googling titles and items mentioned on my christmas list.

I did, however, get a shitton of cold, hard, cash, as my list was otherwise short, and my extended family is large and generous, so I expect I'll get a good bit of ordering/shopping in before I return to Dear Old Dartmouth.

Been keeping up the same general workouts as previously stated; I do a full workout MTThF, with T and F being lower/upper body lifts, respectively, and M and Th being weightless full-body workouts. Saturday I do a lighter workout with only a few exercises just to get the blood flowing.

I've been feeling a lot stronger, which is a good sign. Still haven't dared to try running again yet, on account of the fact that my ankle started acting up when I was simply walking through the mall doing last-minute shopping a few days ago, and also because it's usually below freezing outside. I want to get new running shoes anyways, so I may wait a few more days until I can get out to Dick's Sporting Goods to use my gift card(s) before I go out for a run.