spring break 08

woo hoo.
let's see.
this week we had 30 on monday,and 14 today, which is not bad. we got chased off our fields (well, not chased, our fields were in use by a softball tournament) b/c we're on borrowed ground what with our entire multi-acre facillity falling into a sinkhole and being part of a 6 million dollar recovery effort. i'm not exaggerating.

i prefer very little structure over spring break. i do keep things moving, move the kids through games (dutch, mini, full field), and today, i regulated the scrimmage with drills (brief) and discussion to try and get crisper play.

we started with 50, i suspect, i'll take only one boys and one girls team to state, but possibly a jv boys team.

we'll have for shure an A and B co-ed team, but maybe an A and two JV teams (i'll probably weight them evenly, or on academic years to give the froshies some developmental play).

i'm going to play vertical stack, b/c i think it improves overall field sense more than H-stack, and the valley teams ALL play H-stack, so why, in our shortened season, develop a weaker version of the game the teams we'll play will play.

personally, my race season is basically over: ski'd a terrible 25km this weekend (Actually, an awesome course, etc). I finally got a battery for my heart rate monitor, and found that I was training too hard on my easy days, which is really bad. But fair is fair, last year, I never had a bad race, always felt sharp. This year, I always felt flat, and never had a good race (hampered by injury, i thought, but now, I know, I blew my training).

spring break, today, i skied (truly easy) for 2 hours, 20 or 25km, ran for 20 minutes during practice, lifted. yesterday, ski'd for 1.5 hours, lifted legs. sunday rest, saturday race, friday, ran and played ultimate (too hard) (duh, dumb), thursday, frisbee, and skiing, wednesday, ran 5 miles hard, drills, ski'd (toured) hard, set a new PR on a climb up the slope on skis (dumb on race week)... etc.

if it snows more than 4 inches tonight i'm skiing early, otherwise, sleep in and swim.