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Two longshots...
Nov. 24th, 2008 08:35 pmI play this game on the Sportsnet website called Premiership Predictor. Essentially, they list the upcoming weekend's English football games and you have to go down the list and pick the winning team of every game, or if it will end in a draw. For each correct winner you pick, you get 2 points. If you correctly pick a draw, you get 3.
Last year, I did poorly, but then I missed the first few weeks due to our honeymoon and then my knee surgery. This year, I have been steadily climbing until, now, I'm ranked #2. Number two! Out of thousands and thousands of people! One of the co-anchors is ranked in the 1700s! If I'm 1st on December 28th, I will win the first half of the contest and get a 16GB iPod.
Of course, last week's #2 dropped to #18 this week, so I can't get my hopes up too much. It's a volatile thing, this Premiership Predictor.
Another surprising thing occurred over the past few weeks. I was late for the bus one day and I saw it reach the corner ahead of me. I immediately started running, my heavy laptop bag and moderately heavy shoulder bag weighing me down quite a bit.
It was only after I had sat down on the bus that I realized that I haven't been able to run since last July. Somehow, something got better with my knee in the last few weeks.
I had actually been really depressed about it since it got too cold for me to cycle to work. I didn't go to the gym anymore and I was feeling pretty resigned to remaining a football spectator only, never again a (recreational) player. After that run for the bus, I started going to the gym.
It's not 100%, of course. It cracks if I try to do open-chain exercises, so I don't do those. But it can take more than it could even just one month ago. I haven't tried running again - I don't want to jinx it - but I'm encouraged and hopeful enough to get back to the exercise routine that I've been following for a year now. As my surgeon said, it is possible for this type of problem to fix itself over time. I just need to keep up my exercises.
And some music from a new iPod could help keep me motivated...
Last year, I did poorly, but then I missed the first few weeks due to our honeymoon and then my knee surgery. This year, I have been steadily climbing until, now, I'm ranked #2. Number two! Out of thousands and thousands of people! One of the co-anchors is ranked in the 1700s! If I'm 1st on December 28th, I will win the first half of the contest and get a 16GB iPod.
Of course, last week's #2 dropped to #18 this week, so I can't get my hopes up too much. It's a volatile thing, this Premiership Predictor.
Another surprising thing occurred over the past few weeks. I was late for the bus one day and I saw it reach the corner ahead of me. I immediately started running, my heavy laptop bag and moderately heavy shoulder bag weighing me down quite a bit.
It was only after I had sat down on the bus that I realized that I haven't been able to run since last July. Somehow, something got better with my knee in the last few weeks.
I had actually been really depressed about it since it got too cold for me to cycle to work. I didn't go to the gym anymore and I was feeling pretty resigned to remaining a football spectator only, never again a (recreational) player. After that run for the bus, I started going to the gym.
It's not 100%, of course. It cracks if I try to do open-chain exercises, so I don't do those. But it can take more than it could even just one month ago. I haven't tried running again - I don't want to jinx it - but I'm encouraged and hopeful enough to get back to the exercise routine that I've been following for a year now. As my surgeon said, it is possible for this type of problem to fix itself over time. I just need to keep up my exercises.
And some music from a new iPod could help keep me motivated...