Played about 2 hours of pickup volleyball at Danehy
Played about 2 hours of pickup volleyball at Danehy
Played an hour or two of pickup in New Hampshire. Level of play was pretty low, but it was fun to go outside and run around. I tried to cover Jeremy as much as possible so we could both get a good workout.
2 solid hours of indoor ultimate at North Branford. I was hoping for more people and a higher overall level, but it was pretty good considering its thanksgiving weekend and it’s our first session. We played a couple games for score, plus a lot of just scrimmaging. Already looking forward to next time.
Threw with Gabe and Himalaya for about an hour at Penn Park. We mosly threw deep throws, but did some cutting and 3-man marking too. Right as we were finishing up, pickup started. So we played for a while in the bubble, then got kicked out and played some more outside. The weather warmed up, so it was actually really nice to play.
Ran 6 150m shuttles with Butter and Sara. First 3 were a 50m course, last 3 were 25m course. I ran the 50m ones in about 24-25s each. The 25m ones were 27-28s each. We also warmed up by jogging the circumference of the field twice. We did long strides for the long edges and slow jog for the short edges.
Afterwards, Sara and I joined the Penn pickup crew and played ultimate for a while. She left early, I stuck around till the end. There were a few new girls there. Two were high schoolers and one just moved to the area. One of the high schoolers had a cannon flick for her age, and the other was a good deep cutter and receiver. Pretty sure Butter’s recruiting them for his indoor team.
Did the first of the new BenJ workouts with Ben at penn park.
150 seconds rest between each rep. We threw during some of the rests but forgot during others.
Mel showed up during the end of our shuttles and we threw for about 15 min. I worked on my flick throws - trying to get them smooth, flat and high enough.
Played half an hour or so of pickup in the park. It was not very high-level but a few good players were there so I got to cover them.
Went to penn park with Diana to try out our new cleats and throw for a bit. We ended up picking up with some people who were playing there. The game was very low-level - no stalls, no calls, no real defense. But it was a great way to try out all the cleats I brought and it’s always fun to run around and chase some plastic.
“Are we doing the counting thing?” - Penn Park Pickup