This spring has been a busy one for me, both at work and at home. At work I have been picking up some new clients and filling holes in my schedule. I stuck to my guns on my schedule, basically working a lot on M, W, Fri and less on Tues and Thurs. Tryin to stick to this schedule hurt me for a while but eventually paid off. I now have very busy days with little down time. As a whole I am the busiest I have been at work in a year or more. In addition to work I am also trying to be a responsible/proud home owner. I have been doing many projects around my house, mostly learning as I go. With the nicer weather we have been having I have been getting a lot of work done to the outside of my house/yard. I am also trying to play flag football on saturdays when my schedule permits. I was dying for some sort of athletic competition and got in contact with a group of guys who play most weekends. To put it lightly I have more than lost a step in the last year or so, but it is slowly coming back. With having all of the issues with my knee over the last 1-2 years I ran very little, lifted very little other than bodyweight, and did next to nothing athletically. After giving it time to heal and beginning my “journey back to strength” my confidence is starting to go up as well as my strength. I am still reluctant to push it and to be honest have not played at more than a 50% effort yet. However I feel as though I am making a comeback and have been trying to find ways to regain my athleticism. Some days I feel like one of those uncoordinated 40 year olds that have not done anything in years. I have never been one of those guys that can go and do something I have not done in months and be good at it, I need a little break in period. Add to all of this my desire to simply spend time with my wife and I am more than likely busier than ever. The good part is that I am busy on my own terms. So yea I have been slacking a little with posting about my workouts and pretty much everything else but I am ok with that because I know I will be back.
Going back to the athletic desire, I am really enjoying playing flag football. I thought about contacting some local football teams about playing actual football. All through college I wanted to look into playing again but knew that playing for the University was not in my cards. I looked online for teams for years but could never find any. A few months ago I learned of a league with several teams in the area and seriously considered it. The only problem was that they started games about a 6 weeks later, not enough time to prepare physically after sidelining myself for so long and thought of trying to play next year. I probably will not play but I am happy the option still exists, for now I am happy playing flag football.
