Last weekend I had a chance to attend a soccer match of Salt Lake City's own professional soccer team, ReAL Salt Lake. I was chosen to attend with my Director as well as two of my colleagues for the work we did on a large initiative in Q1 of this year. The seats are part of the 100 Lions club where you receive dinner and dessert before the game, more food at half time and after the game, not to mention the snacks during the game and the open bar.
It was amazing how much food was there and it was actually quite good. However, the food, as you might guess, was of little interest to me. The game was the most exciting part and for a reason you might not expect. I'm not a huge ReAL fan. I don't follow the team, I don't have any ReAL team gear and I haven't been to a soccer game when my company hasn't paid. I'm simply intrigued by the idea that I could play once again and revive some of the memories of my youth.
Recently I have been looking for other activities to participate in because simply going to the gym has gotten stale and while I am infinitely pleased with my running progress, ultimately I need another challenge. In high school I went to state in both my Jr & Sr years for discus in Track and Field which is quite an accomplishment for a 4a division school in California. While on some level I would love to compete in that again, the solitary nature of the event isn't going to give me the pizazz I'm searching for. Thus, my fallback sports are tennis and soccer.
Both of those options are actually a bit scary. With tennis, my serve lacks strength and will get me hammered in any type of real match. With soccer, I'm not quite to the real adult league yet (over 40) so I must play in the pseudo adult league with all the college girls who are still too young to know anything about beanie babies much less Max Headroom. The fear of annihilation is real folks and it lives deep within the cavity of my heart.
Let's see if I can dig it out, shall we?
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