He is playing with kids that are almost a year older than him, U6, when he should be playing in the U5 as he just turned 5 in November but since I really think his coach is great I’ll let him play with the older kids just to stay with his coach. I am very grateful that we ended up on his coach’s team the first season and we got to hang with him. This is his third son he’s coaching and he is really into it. He buys training materials about how to teach young children to play soccer and he keeps the practice very entertaining for the 5 year old boys who have the attention span of a puppy.

And while I was over there at the field I had nothing better to do so I went to do my last run before my race. In previous seasons I’d just sit around and wait for the practice to be over but this season I think I’ll try to get a run in instead of warming the bench. Tomorrow is going to be rest day so I will be in fully rested condition come Saturday morning. The run was pretty short, I only ran 2 miles as all I really wanted to do is get some blood flowing in my muscles but I didn’t really want to wear myself down or heaven forbid injure myself at this point. I ran a bit faster than I probably should have but it really gave me confidence in my ability to make my target of 48 minutes Saturday. I really hope it’ll be a good run.

My son’s coach saw me running and asked if I was going to run in the weekend race at Cowtown. He asked if I was running the Marathon and I told him that I’ll be running the 10K. He said he signed up for the half Marathon and he’d be there too. He also commented on that I must have lost some serious weight as he had not seen me since I embarked on my transformation. It was pretty cool to surprise people like that who have not seen me in such a long time. 50 lbs is 50 lbs any way you look at it. When I told the coach my 5K time from the last race and my goal time for the 10K he thought I should be running a half Marathon instead.

I know I could probably run a half Marathon but I much rather run a great 10K than a half assed half Marathon. I prepared for the 10K, I have trained for the 10K and I am ready for the 10K. I’m sure I could drag my butt through the finish line on a half marathon at this point and I would probably finish in the top half but I have goals that are much bigger than that. And I know that I will run that half marathon when I’m good and ready. And it won’t be for another couple of months before that happens. I actually have trained more for my 10K than coach Steve trained for his half Marathon. His goal is to beat his 1:58 time from last year by at least a minute. If I’ll run a half Marathon I wouldn’t want it to be above 1:40.

Oh and my host just informed me that they have moved my account to a new server! I’m pretty excited about the move as my site seems to be a heck of a lot faster than it was on the old server. Thank you DreamHost! Hopefully you can see the speed difference too. I think I fixed everything that got broken in the move but I can’t guarantee that everything is fully working. I’ll just have to keep an eye on it and hope that everything is 10-4.

And since I’ve been talking about my son and his soccer training here are a couple of pictures of him from last season: