1.5 hours of metro north indoor. Only had 5 guys, so I got to play a lot.

Feedback: my decisions are good in general, but sometimes I do something stupid. Diana called it my “let’s see” throws.

Double header at Woodbridge, then 2 hours of outdoor pickup. Felt great to be outside, but definitely not ready to run so much yet.

Close game at woodbridge. We played poorly but still won.

Played a game with my team, then picked up with the high school team right after.

Played a close game against the UConn team. They were young and athletic and did a much better job moving the disc to the break side than we did. They also got more Ds and were more patient outside the endzone. We lost 27-24.

Played Woodbridge. Opponents were not strong. We won by a good amount. I worked a bit on my IO backhan.

Solid invite-only pickup game at North Branford. Got a bunch of Colt players, plus the New Haven crew and Jeremy and Rachel. Played 4v4 with 1 or 2 subs per team. Much happier with the quality of play than last time.

Woodbridge indoor game. Not very challenging. But I keep forgetting to use these games as deliberate practice!

Lost two close games to finish 4th for the season. Both were solid games. My highlights: got bunch of nice Ds, esp in the second game. Also completed two skipsies for goals (out of three attempts). Lowlights: still more turns than I’d like (esp first game) and some weak defense at times. I also could have been more aggressive as a cutter throughout.

Played 6 games of 2v2 mini with Diana, Ross and Miriam. It was pretty windy and we were fooling around a bit, but it was still quite tiring and 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.

Played two games against fairly weak teams to win Woodbridge league. Our team is pretty stacked, so it made the games lopsided. We were just shy of scoring a combined 100 points between both games.

Started our first game with only 3 people. Had to pick up some friends for the first half, until reinforcements arrived. Ended up losing by a couple. Second game was closer and more intense. We won in OT after they had the disc to win bun turned it over.

In general, I thought we played pretty poorly (probably not a popular sentiment). Lots of high risk throws and turnovers. Some of the risky stuff worked (Including the winning throw of the last game), but it’s not a sustainable way of playing.

A bit of ultimate, skiils and frolf in good ol Troy. I did decent in the pull comp but sucked at TRC and accuracy. The weather was cold but decent, the partys were both some of the best that we’ve thrown, and Diana had fun the whole time (except frolf), so I’ll count the weekend a victory.

Two days of beach ultimate in Miami. A fun tourney with a bit of wind and a good amount of partying. We played decently well most of the time, though shitty sometimes. Ended up losing in semis to a Seattle team.

Another strong finish by the Rockford Peaches in fall league, though we played quite poorly in our second game. The guys didn’t have many subs, so our rotation was pretty tight. Our decision-making got really bad in the second game, especially towards the end. There was a 10-minute stretch right out of half where neither team scored a goal. We even called a timeout to talk about reining in our throws and going for the easy ones, but then kept making bad choices even after that. In the end, we did manage to turn down the aggresiveness and score some easy, patient goals. It also helped that the other team was missing Bosco, their best player.

Since Halloween is on Saturday, we all dressed up as the Peaches - pink dresses, red socks and hats. Our team was the best-dressed of the evening.

Played an hour of indoor at Woodbridge. We played a team of fairly young but very athletic players. They all ran pretty hard, and one guy had really nice throws that he used to find the endzone a lot. They only had one girl, but she also played very well most of the time. She got really tired at the end. Our team was lacking most of our strong players, and we didn’t play very well at first. Eventually we got our shit together and stopped turning it over so much.

Two games, two very different results. First game, we smoked our opponents. We scored twice as many points as they did, which is pretty difficult to do in indoor. We were even missing our first-round guy, and started off with almost no guy subs because many of our guys were running late. Still, we played well, moved the disc to the break side easily, and got a lot of Ds.

Second game, the exact opposite. We started off pretty weak and went down 5-1. After a timeout, we refocused and picked up our game, but we still struggled with poor spacing and unforced mistakes. Our opponents backed us hard and forced us to cut under, which we did. But we moved the disc to the open side too readily and got stuck in the black hole corner too often. People didn’t stay out of the endzone, so scoring was also difficult. And on turns, our defense was lacking. We did close the gap to 3 points at the very end, but they were in control the whole time and milked the clock nicely to end the game.

After lot of team shifts and last-minute scrambling for players, we scraped together a squad to send to Clambake. I only knew half the team going into the weekend, but they turned out to be a great bunch. We also had people drop and pick up as the tourney progressed. We ended up winning all our pool games and making it all the way to semis before Silence of the Clams knocked us out. The weekend was cold and windy on the whole, so a lot of games were upwind-downwind turnoverfests. Our “bobbing for shots” game went over really well during the day. The game didnt make it to the party because we went hard pretty early and lost focus.

2 games of indoor. Had decent subs, so wasn’t too tired. I did convince Diana to play too :-)