Una punta “winded„ noi era, early on, on that small surface.

Hit the gym again last night. There’s no small victory in these bursts of renewed fitness activity that haven’t already produced injury. I’ve also thrown down a bit of a nutritional gauntlet this week: no Dairy Queen, and wheat tortillas with my burritos. Last Friday night I tried Rolling Rock Light with my home movie viewing. The horror in the bottle was more terrifying than ShowtimeBeyond. (Under the category perhaps of wedding re-gifting, I still have five bottles to donate to any OFB reader.)

The odds are overwhelming, I think, that about 20 minutes into tonight’s skate I’ll be UpTkachuking.

But there’s no turning back. I’m treating tonight as a seminal moment in my hockey career. This autumn delivers one of those calamitous, ending-in-zero birthdays for me, a widely acknowledged crossroads between sun-setting athletic viability and out-to-pasture, well-past-prime leisure pursuits that quietly are lamented by the young in rinks. Tonight I will learn where Coach Life is slotting me on my shifts in 2007-’08: grinding on the fourth line with other grey-hair-eds or still hopping the boards for second power play unit potency.

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Posted at 5:15 am. Filed under Area Youth Hockey, College Hockey, Frivolous Summer File, Hockey Rinks, Kettler Capitals Iceplex, Morning cup-a-joe, Shinny.
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3 Comments

  1. SovSport wrote:

    Don’t break your hip, geezer :)

    Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 11:59 am | Permalink
  2. Hockey Amor wrote:

    Pucksandbooks,

    Don

    Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 1:20 pm | Permalink
  3. Jesse Hightower wrote:

    Say, I’ll take those 5 beers off your hands

    Monday, August 20, 2007 at 12:59 pm | Permalink

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