Stadiums or Stadii or Something Else According to Goose

So Bruns might poop his pants that I'm updating two consecutive days, but consider this an early birthday present to you Bruns.

So today, I joined a few non handler types for a track workout of sorts. We went to memorial stadium to run stairs. First we did a pretty big warm up job around assembly hall and back into the stadium. Stretched a lil bit and then goose started rambling about what this was gonna work and the origins of the words stadium. I think his dissertation is making him more crazy than usual. Either way we were gonna do 2 sets of 5 from bottom to top. Apparently Sidrys counted and its 72 steps. We were running on the bleachers themselves. 72 doesn't sound like a lot but as you go higher the height difference between steps gets larger and you start getting winded.
After the 2nd or 3rd rep my legs were burning pretty good and starting to shaking. I toughed out the rest of that set and then my legs were shaking even more. The second set i ran on the smaller concrete steps which there are more of but are smaller which seemed to be a little bit easier. I also only did every other rep so a total of 8 reps overall.

This definitely was an eye opener to how weak my legs really are and how out of shape I am. Lots of work to do before/during the series and in the off season to get where I want to be.

157 days

Its been 157 days since I tore my ACL, and I completed my first practice since then. It was a pretty awesome feeling to be back on the field not only doing drills (which I've been doing for a while), but participating in the scrimmages was exhilarating.

My knee felt good in all situations, my only complaint is that I felt really slow, and apparently looked it as well. I was described as being "Joe Sidrys" slow. I'll take anything at this point. Its only going to get better from here.

We have a tournament this coming weekend, Huck Finn, in St Louis, but I do not plan on playing. I see my doctor next week and he may want me to wear a brace before I go 100% crazy on the field.

While I was scrimmaging i still don't have the ability to cut hard at full speed. When I need to do any sort of cutting I really concentrate on my footwork with lots of choppy steps. I think that my time with the agility ladder will help with that.

Basically my plan is to see how it progresses these next couple of weeks in preparation for sectionals and regionals. The competition at sectionals shouldn't be too great so that'll be a good launching pad back into it.

I'm pretty optimistic about the weeks to come. Hopefully everything turns out as planned.

Sippin on haterade

I couldn't think of what to title this post so I'm titling it sippin on haterade because a few things have annoyed me lately but I wont go into that in detail.

I had my last PT appointment this past wednesday so I was pretty excited about that. Now its gunna be on me to get into the gym and getting stronger and faster so I can be back as soon as possible. My current plan is to participate in as many drills in practice as I can. If the team is doing something that I can't do I'm gunna work on one of the following: agility ladder, jump rope, footwork, throwing, or just form running and stuff of the likes.

At my last rehab session, She took the final measurements and pretty much everything was where it was supposed to be, and my range of motion was pretty much as good if not better than my good leg. (lots of stretching of just the bad leg).

My current plan is to continue doing what I'm doing and get into the gym 3-4 times a week to build up more leg strength. I should be going in for another checkup with the doctor shortly following spring break. That will be around 14-15 weeks which is a little early because I'm supposed to have a check up at 16 weeks which is also supposed to be when i can participate in "unrestricted sports." I put unrestricted sports in quotes because I'm not sure what his definition of unrestricted is compared to mine. Either way if I get cleared then (2 weeks early) I would be super pumped, and I would definitely be ready to play once the series start.

Tonight i practiced with the B team in Irwin because the A team didnt have practice last night due to unofficial, and this whole week was a recovery week for the A team because of team wide injuries and a tournament last weekend. At the B team practiced I warmed up with them and while they were doing a crossfit I worked on some footwork drills on the agility ladder. Hopefully that will help me recover some of my speed without putting too much pressure on my knee.

Theres a lot going on right now and hopefully everything goes well and I can be back for the series.