First Men's League Soccer Game: 9-3 Win Against Brazilians

We won our Men's league soccer game tonight 9-3 against the previously undefeated Brazilian team. According to our coach this team also won the Acton Indoor Men's league last session and went undefeated in that league. Seeing the kids walk on the field I knew it would be difficult. The first half certainly proved to be that difficult as we reached halftime leading only 4-2 in a hard fought game. In the second half, the Brazilians scored right away to make it 4-3 giving them great momentum. However, after that we woke up and scored 5 unanswered goals to win 9-3. I played about 15 minutes of the first half, and all 25 minutes of the second half. It was a very tiring game, but great exercise.

1 Full Set of Tennis Against my Brother in about 45 Minutes

Scott and I took to the tennis courts here in Costa Rica for a full set that took about 45 minutes. I ended up the winner today by a score of 6-5 (we didn't play a tiebreaker). It was great exercise, especially in the morning humidity with temps in the 80s. What beautiful weather.

45 Minutes of Soccer - Blogging from Costa Rica!

From the beautiful land of Costa Rica, I am here to blog and tell my fellow friends and fans alike that I got in a full 45 minute game of pick-up soccer with some Costa Rican natives. I'd like to say that us Americans (me and my 2 brothers) played exceptionally well and held our own against the natives.

First Hard Run in Over a Month

After little to no running outside of playing soccer in the past 5 weeks, I finally hit the streets tonight for a hard 2.5 mile run with my roommate Adam. For those of you who don't know Adam, he ran track at Bentley for 4 years, and garnered "All-American" honors in the 800 his Junior year when he ran a blistering 1:52 800. To put that into perspective, that is essentially running 2 back-2-bacl 51 second splits in consecutive 400s. My fastest single 400 time in 8 years of running was a 50.8

Living in the North End now, we chose a run that took us from our apartment, now North St, down Commercial, over the bridge to Charlestown, and a loop around the neighborhood before coming back. We were trucking at around a 7:15 mile pace, which brought us home in 18:40. It was certainly cold during the run, but a good workout. Temperature was 29 degrees during the run.

Lifting again!

After months of little to no lifting, I lifted shoulders heavy today, and it felt great. There is no doubt that I lost a considerable amount of muscle as part of the 19 pounds I lost in my marathon training. Doing my exercises, I realized it was much more difficult to put up the same dumbell weights that I had previously become accustomed to.

I did: Seated Shoulder Press (behind neck), Shoulder Raise (front), Shrugs, Row (upright), Abs.


Weight = 168