Ow, ow, ow, ow! Dang it!

Bayou City played another lacrosse game today!  It was an away game vs. Metro, and this makes the third year in a row (I think) that this particular game was played in the rain.  Thankfully, the rain really didn't kick in until the 2nd half and was just a chilly drizzle rather than an icy downpour as it had been in games past.  As always, I look forward to these games with great anticipation...I simply love playing.  I'm not as fast as I once was, and I'm certainly not the best player, but you don't have to be Gary Gait (Google him) to have fun playing the game.  And oh, I do.  I really, really do.

For the first time in a loooooong time, I couldn't finish the game today.  Fortunately, I wasn't horrendously injured during a play (although I did stop a shot on goal with my thigh, and WOW, that did hurt), but instead, was sidelined by a bit of plantar fasciitis that's been dogging me for a few weeks now.  My right heel held up for not quite 3 quarters before it finally gave me the 'no go' signal, and I watched the rest of the game from the sidelines.  Frustrating, but I was happy to have played that much, at least.

We lost the game, but it was fun, nonetheless.  I really am glad to be playing for this particular team.  We win some, we lose quite a few, but we always enjoy playing together.  I couldn't have picked a better team on which to play.  And the team colors are green and white, of course!

I'm scheduled to do CrossFit Games workout 15.2 tomorrow morning at 7:30am.  I'm honestly not sure that my foot will allow it, but I've got the silly thing on ice at the moment, and I'll just have to see how it's feeling tomorrow.  After that, I've got a week to rehab the thing before our next lacrosse game.  It's a pretty simple routine, really...icing it, sleeping in a boot, rolling out my calf multiple times daily.  I could look at it as a huge annoyance, but admittedly, that takes too much energy.  Instead, I'll just view it as an additional step in my physical training, like warming up or stretching.  For now, it's just something I need to do to keep everything working properly, so there's no sense in resenting it.

In other news, I'm really rolling along with Book 2, 'Gart's Road', at the moment.  I've found a good balance of doing admin stuff for my school and also finding time to write each day, so I've progressed much faster lately.  I reached a point where I was about to depict the beginning of a city siege, but another scene kept presenting itself, so I shifted to write that one instead, and I'm thrilled with the result so far.  Now that I pretty much have that scene all done, it's time to get back to work on the attack on the city of Laro.  I've been reading an awful lot lately in the genre, and I've felt a lot more open to trying new things in my story, much more creative stuff than I did in the past, so I'm pretty excited to see what I can do with this next section.

I see the whole story in scenes, and although I do know where the whole thing is going, I don't always see the scenes in proper order.  At any given time, I'm generally just writing whatever I see most vividly right then.  There are also plenty of times when I just don't see anything, so that's frustrating.  Fortunately, the muse is speaking to me lately, so I'm going to make the best of it, and write as much as I can while I'm on a roll.

Sometimes, I write here to make a point of some kind.  More often, I'm just reporting things that happen in my life because I want to remember them later.  Yes, those things could just as well be written in a private journal, but I enjoy sharing in the hopes that maybe someone would be amused or even inspired by my writing.  This post doesn't have much of a point, other than to just say that I'm doing my best to keep moving forward in several areas.  I'm closer to 50 than 40 now, and I want to remain active as much as possible, so martial arts, lacrosse, and writing are not only lifelong passions of mine but also tools that I use to keep myself nimble in both mind and body.  I have no plans to 'go soft into that good night.'  I'm going to keep training, keep playing, keep writing, keep moving until I use up every ounce of life I've been given.  So there!