Tuesday, August 08, 2006
The great American past time
Sometime I forget how great an activity is until you are doing it. I have recently been playing softball for the company that I work for. During the week I think about how it takes up one of my precious evenings. It is funny though because once I get started with playing softball, I love it. This seems to be true for other activities that I participate in. Like learning to code or soccer or running. Running is the worse because I wake up at 4:45am Mom - Fri just to meet my running partner so we can finish our workout and make it to work on time. Every morning when the alarm goes off, I consider quitting. But once I have gotten to my workout destination and have started the workout all those bad thoughts go away.
Back to softball/baseball, baseball is supposedly the great American pastime sport. And during last nights game I figured out why. In baseball everyone gets their chance to shine. And our conglomerate of IT specialists, HR manager, client service reps, and finance execs all shined. We took it to a stronger, faster, undefeated team that was barely out of highschool, which I'm pretty sure most of them played baseball or softball during highschool. Even when a developer strikes out 3 times in one night and then finally gets a hit to lead his team closer to victory is more exciting than watching the world series or the superbowl to me. Or when a networker that is pitching dives for a pop up and hits his head on the ground just for an out. These are the things that are fun to be part of.
I did run this morning while everyone was asleep.
I ran 1 mile after a 10 mile bike ride around hefner. I used my wife's mountain bike for about 7 miles and switched with my running partner because his bike was a lot better.
shake and bake - DD
Back to softball/baseball, baseball is supposedly the great American pastime sport. And during last nights game I figured out why. In baseball everyone gets their chance to shine. And our conglomerate of IT specialists, HR manager, client service reps, and finance execs all shined. We took it to a stronger, faster, undefeated team that was barely out of highschool, which I'm pretty sure most of them played baseball or softball during highschool. Even when a developer strikes out 3 times in one night and then finally gets a hit to lead his team closer to victory is more exciting than watching the world series or the superbowl to me. Or when a networker that is pitching dives for a pop up and hits his head on the ground just for an out. These are the things that are fun to be part of.
I did run this morning while everyone was asleep.
I ran 1 mile after a 10 mile bike ride around hefner. I used my wife's mountain bike for about 7 miles and switched with my running partner because his bike was a lot better.
shake and bake - DD
