Sunday - rest day

Got up late - cereal and coffee
Went to Borders
Went to Starter for wings and beer with Maki and Bryan
Went for a movie with them - Dark Water (Okay movie)
Had Chinese and rice and hot sauce (this was not a good idea)

Bad Soccer today

1. I felt tired and did not sleep well, I plan to take the pills today (damn)
2. Too many players and no organization on our side. I need at least 2 to 3 players to combine and play well with

Oh well. Need to take rest the day before the game or run a easy 3 mile. That's it, no speed work out for sure :-)

Food diary:
Coffee, Cereal, hot dog and 3 potato dumpling, bar, 2 bottles of gatorade, dinner: a 1.5 inch piece of salmon, 1/2 cup rice, 1/2 cup boiled broccoli, 1 strip of turkey Jekry and 5 to 6 blackberry.

Nipples!

My nipples are sore from running! I have to get some protection for it. There are some stuff that you can put on so that there is less friction. What's next!

On a brighter note: The speed workout went well despite a sleepless night. I did 400 meter warm up and then 100 meter max with 100 meter walk reps. Did not do many reps today since I have a game tomorrow. Next time I do it - I plan to do 8 reps.

100 meter reading was 20 seconds ... it should have been way better.

Food diary:
Cereal, Coffee, 1/2 cup rice with sliced tomato, spring onion and pepper salad, power bar, 1 flat fruit, 4 slices of wheat bread, 4 salami (fat free tofu) , 1/2 cup boiled okra

No Sleep last night

I had a lot of trouble shutting my eyes last night. May be the running does make you active. I got up and did some work which is good. I wonder how the speed workout will be today. I plan to do it around 7. Finally closed my eyes around 4:00 .....

5 miler again

Although we ran in Daytona and Pennsylvania during our vacation I was unable to do 5 miles. Reasons: 1) Beer 2) TG intimidates me 3) bad diet (maybe) 4) Morning hours

Today I ran a five 5 mile in the mountain. I warmed up and did stretching for a longer period than I usually do. Did not really have any serious pain. Was a bit out of breath specially going up the hill I was making about 14 mm for a while. But overall I did good. 1 h 54 sec so about 12:11 mm and about 3 minutes slower than my best time (note the best time was on a different flatter course).

Should start run around 7:00 - it gets really dark towards the end. Tomorrow a speed work out and run with soccer ball for a mile, Saturday soccer and Sunday rest.

Food diary:

1. Cereal, milk, coffee
2. 2 slice wheat bread and fat free Tofu salami
3. 1 apple
4. 1 Vitamin water
5. 1/2 cup beans
6. 1 power bar
7. Dinner: Salmon, half cup rice, 1/4 cup boiled pea, 1/4 cup boiled corn and banana - some V8

Lovely :-)

Soccer - with boots and blister

In order to play better soccer I bought a pair of soccer boots. I followed my dad's advice (who was a semi professional soccer player) and got the boot a size below my regular size 7. The first day I played with it was about 2 weeks back. I got a big blister on my right ankle. I endured the pain and played on. The blister broke and the skin came up. It was a mess. Could not play for two weeks - could not even put on my sneakers.

After taking care of it and buying $7/pair nike blister protection socks, today I put the boots back again. I warmed up and ran slowly for a while. Took the boots off and readjusted them. And then played a GREAT game. I had much better control of the ball and better accuracy of shooting. Scored a goal from 30 yards. Never done that before. Towards the end the injured area started hurting a bit. Its okay now but a bit sore. Good thing I will just run tomorrow. Next soccer is Saturday with the Chinese folks.