now here's a category I never thought I would ever write in. Sports. But it's true. I'm now a bona fide athlete. In a sport known as power soccer. Or power wheelchair soccer. I'm very excited!
And even though I will have to get my top speed ramped up a little, at least one of the settings, I was really good at ballhandling at my first practice on Monday. I'm so proud of myself.
Here is a video of my team, the Arizona Heat, before I joined it.
There are other things to report but I am too tired now to write much. Just know that I'm alive and relatively well and very happy about my new adventure. Our first scrimmage (a match which is played like a real game but doesn't count on the record officially) is October 15. Against our stronger ASU counterparts.
For now I am in what I call the lower-level reading group. Sigh. But I'm still part of the team, and I will move up quickly. It's surprising how actually physically tiring it is. But it gets rid of some of my energy.
and this is a real sport. Before I went I thought it might be a be nice to the gimps and let them push around a ball type of thing. Oh no. There is contact and everything. I am one of only two girls who regularly play, so it's a little intimidating. But I will learn and hold my own, just like I did with poker when nobody thought I knew what I was doing. :-) There is even a World Cup for the sport.
Here is the Wikipedia article about the sport:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Soccer
So now it really is time to kick some balls!