Work, Coach, Play, Wind Down, Sleep

My days don't seem to have much of any free time anymore. I'm always on the run and getting ready for what's next. Get up in the morning, and get to work. Following that, it's off to practice. Generally I get about 45 minutes to prep for practice before heading out.


Maybe some people don't know, but this season I moved from refereeing to coaching. I'm an assistant coach for James Valley, but still have a couple of referee dates on the schedule, plus, will pick up some college games along the way here and there. The past couple of days my forte has been helping the defense, especially the goal keepers. We are having some new drills and working on speed and quickness, and having some fun while doing it. I'm already excited for one week from Friday when we open at home.

Following that, depending on the evening, I've still got softball season hanging on, although now I've got one season complete and Thursday nights I've still got the church league season going into the playoffs now, so that will free up some time also. When school starts, practice will move a bit earlier, and I'll have more of the evenings free. The season will last for 8 more weeks after this one, then it will all be over.

Following that, winding down would be checking email, checking blogs, and blogging here, along with keeping an eye on the Olympics. Got to see a little bit of the gymnasts last night, but they are more coordinated than I could ever wish to be. Otherwise, notables were the USA Men's swimming relay team that beat a French team that said they wanted to "smash the Americans" as the anchor beat his best ever time by 1.5 seconds to give the USA relay team the gold in the 4x100 relay. Take the 2 minutes to watch it by clicking here. It's unreal. I've watched it 7 times, and it never gets old. If you can find a video highlight of it, you've gotta see the swim. How many world records have fallen? Seems like the are falling and being reset constantly. Mens soccer is out, they didn't fair well at all. Cat Osterman threw a no-hitter in softball. Been pretty interesting, so I keep an eye on it.

Then it's off to my bed. 10 is my sleep number. As in on a good night, I'd get 10 hours of sleep. I don't know when the last time that happened was, but it's been a very long time. Speaking of which, about time to head there....