Not the Best Soccer Coach Ever

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Had my second game as coach tonight. Good news: we scored two goals! Bad news: the other team scored seven. :( Still, the kids had fun, and I think I've now figured out who our strong players are so I can tweak our lineup a bit. (I went with a mostly random order tonight, which led to all the strongest/biggest players being on one rotation, and all the smallest/weakest players on another. Shall definitely work at balancing it a bit.)

In other news, it's been a long, looooong day. It went a little something like this:

3 a.m., woken by surprise chronic pain flare

5 a.m., give up on sleep completely, get up and check email/LJ

5:30 a.m., start getting ready for Tae Kwan Do

6 to 7 a.m., Tae Kwan Do, in deference to the already brutal heat the instructor doesn't start with our usual jogging warm up, but the half hour of doing walking and horse stance punches and blocks across the dojo he settles on instead is actually more exhausting

7 to 7:30 a.m., run home and get ready for the day

8 a.m., work on not terribly exciting documentation

10 a.m. to 4 p.m., back to back meetings, with a break for lunch

5 to 6:30 p.m., dinner, prep for game

7:30 to 8:30 p.m., game

8:30 to 9 p.m., drop off nets at soccer club office, hightail it back home to drop off Ros and the Sweetie

9:30 to 11 p.m., acupuncture appointment (moved back from the usual 8:30 to accommodate soccer)

11:30 p.m., arrive back home, collapse

Apart from the chronic pain flare, which I hope I can knock back in the next day or so, this is pretty much what my Tuesdays are going to look like for the remainder of the summer. Oh. My.

In other news, I've made a generic footie icon from not-really-generic picture of a certain member of Take That. (Do try and look shocked.)

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I'm hoping the pain has subsided. (It's a sneaky chronic pain thing that's worst at night, and it usually take a few days for me to realize I'm in the middle of a bad one.)

As for the rest, it is all voluntary and fun--well, except for the acupuncture, which is just necessary to keep my back and neck in shape--I think I was just astonished to realize last night how crazy that one day of the week is going to be.

Fingers crossed we win at least a few games. I'm just hoping I can figure out how to do some real skills development with 5 and 6 year olds.