Just keep staring at it.. you look as a twenty-something bad-ass girl
Wow, I just now read this and I think you are saying I look young! How cool is that!!!? I actually am a bit self concious about the age thing as you might imagine being so much older than everyone else on the team and all.
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I'm one who would miss you if you weren't around (but I do seriously understand lack of time issues). Do post your blog address though and I'll add it to my reader.
I will still be around to update this one as much as I can. Just won't be able to keep up with your logs as much in the next few months. I gotta focus on keeping my head above water for awhile.
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I just love your new avi. Your hair looks great a little longer.
Be sure to put up your schedule as soon as you can so yer fans can start planning.
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Great new avi
Wow things sound like a whirlwind right now. Let us know which cable channel will be carrying some of the games when you find out.
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Thanks for the links! I subbed to your blog and joined the Fillies' FB page. I'm excited to be able to follow all of this!
Now quit hurting yourself. Dang it.
Thanks to all of you for the AVI compliments. As we get our pads and uniforms, I'll post another. I will also make sure to post game times and channels as I know them. The actual schedule is due Nov 17th time frame.
We had a team 101 meeting last night (first one) and we went over all the various game infractions (fouls) that can be called as well as the coache's personal rules. One of the rules he has is that your head is always covered on the field. If your helmet is off then you have to be on the bench drinking water. He claims the helmet is part of the battlegear and when we are in the field we are in gear (no exceptions). Not sure how I feel about this. On one hand it is very cool. On the other hand I am going to hate it when it is hot and I want to take the stupid thing off.
This is reminding me of how long it has been since I have been a member of a team and actually had to follow orders.
I would have, except I though that page was set up for the Fillies themselves... as in you had to actually be a part of the team. (As opposed to fan page where you become a fan...?)
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HA HA! Gotta make sure they NEVER talk. Nice to see ya here Tom and great AVI.
Today I saw the really good PT down the street. On one hand I am excited because he is so good... on the other hand I am sad because he is not covered by my insurance. I am going to switch insurance so that I can use him next year without it costing me so much out of pocket.
He did not jump on the "overdeveloped hams" bandwagon. He said that is very rare but conceded if anyone was going to do it.... it would be me. We had not seen each other for a few years but he remembered everything about me.
But it wasn't the case... Long story short is that he determined I had weakness in my abductor/glutes on my left side which is causing this overuse of my quad. He thinks I have the problem on both sides actually to some degree. So we will work on that for long term and for short term we have to do massage, accupunture, light exercise and rest for the injured quad. He said the injury was on the muscle (not tendon) and that it was rectus femorus. He thinks this can be a rather quick heal but I am not to run for 4 weeks minimum.
I don't know if I can do that. I will likely do practices like I did this Sunday. No sprinting or running fast but still be in the plays. We'll see what my tolerance is for this "resting" concept thing. The PT told me that he will be evaluating my whole program as a football player and that he had these special glasses used by receivers in the NFL that he was going to use on me. The purpose of the glasses is to improve ball handling/reaction time. HOW FREAK'N COOL IS THAT?!
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Hey ladies! Thanks for keeping my log off page 3. LOL!
YES, I have been crazy busy and things have been moving. It isn't all football but football is a HUGE part of it all. My cert test comes up in 2 weeks so I have been feeling compelled to study for that and I am ramping into my new job as well. Seems like changes all had to happen at the same time.
Things going swimingly well for me here and am just riding out the changes and giving myself time to adapt. My broken finger and quad injury are making expected progress despite the fact that I am not resting them. Practices have had to be very reserved and cautious. Even so the coach named me for first string WR last week. On one hand I am happy that I am trending towards first string but I am sad that I wasn't picked for defense. I know that all of this can change though and it will as I get healthy and can work out harder in practice. So stay tuned to see if I can make the defense team first string.
On other significant news, Alan and I have agreed that I am graduated from his dailly care. I knew it was time when I woke up one morning and my belly fat seemed to be a bit more than it had been (makes sense since I am eating to maintain/gain now). The interesting thing was that I did not even care one little tiny bit about this. I realized that I wasn't gaining fat like an out of control person. I realized that I was getting stronger and I could honestly say that I just did not care anymore about physique goals. I had managed to put the bbing thing behind me and move mentally into the performance related goals that are required to support me as a football palyer. So Alan and I talked and he agreed that the daily reporting was not needed anymore and that I was "graduated".
In a way I was thrilled because I feel like I had grown so much through this past year of studying with him. I was also beyond thrilled to not do daily reporting. BUT there is a huge component that I will miss dearly (and I do) and that is our daily communications. I also somewhat miss the accountability though I have been pretty steadily accountable to myself the past week. I even got up out of bed last week when I logged my daily consumption and discovered I was short. (that was hard) So, I do believe I can now steer this ship on my own. Alan is always an email/phone call away for me and so I feel pretty comfortable.
This evening we have a 3 hour practice in the cold rainy PNW under lights in the stadium. I will have my workout food/drink as always and will be guarding my injuries. Tomorrow I see a hand therapist to get my cast changed on my broken finger in the AM then I see my other PT for the quad imbalance work.... Sheesh... could I possibly be more high maintenance?
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Good for you to graduate from daily accountibility but I can see it's a sad one too. Must say that doing things for performance is really so much more gratifying.. and you seem to be in that place too.
Good luck on your cert test.. mine is coming up in 2 or 3 weeks (there's still no mail) but I'm not feeling like studying much .. yet.
Thanks guys!!! It feels good because I finally feel fully empowered through my work last year with Alan. Durning my recent newspaper interview I named him as my most important athletic influence over the past year. He really propelled me in my quest to be fit. He made me promise to send him pics in uniform (during our season) and be on his "champions" (testimonial) page. I will gladly do that for him.
I would not say that peformance goals are more gratifying at all. I found a great deal of pleasure in the physique goal work that I did. I got consistent results so it was a good thing all around. The two goals collide though when one is shooting for such a low bf%. My need right now is to be stronger not win a bbing comp. I am not at all giving up bbing. Just putting it on hold until I can regain my health and make the team.
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Thanks guys!!! It feels good because I finally feel fully empowered through my work last year with Alan. Durning my recent newspaper interview I named him as my most important athletic influence over the past year.
Well...okay I guess, but I damn well had better been in your top 3.
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Interestingly, I have heard him referred to as number 2 a few times myself
Love the new avi! It's all tough and stuff
HA HA! Good one. The AVI cracks me up because you can really see how tiny I am under those shoulder pads. Yet still I try to be all badass and all. LOL!
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Y stories would require workouts. And it would also help if the Y hadn't shut down the men's locker room due to renovations!
ROTFLMAO at the Youtube link. Where do you come up with all this? I am completely amazed. Okay then if no Y stories then where are the baby pics?
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For my health and for my life. For coming back from war and for those who serve today. For all my friends and accquaintances who make me complete. For those who mentor me and for those I mentor.
LIFE IS GOOD!
Just returned from the Surgery office and NO surgery needed for the broken finger. Xrays are clean despite my football practices over the past weeks. We took off the splint and bent it a tiny bit (all I could) and it seems to be holding. I have to wear the splint for another 2 weeks then I get to begin rehabbing (4 hours off, etc). I gradually increase the time the finger is free until 6 weeks from today when it should be 100%. How convienent! Just in time for football camp.
Another point of gratitude comes from my new relationship with food. When Alan and I decided to allow me to try this on my own it was scary to me. I knew that there were times I would not have eaten if not for having to answer to Alan later. I was worried that without that accountability I would not do right by me. Turns out I can do it. I even got out of bed one night when I grossly underestimated my food, and got my calories in!! So I can do it. And not because I am told to do it but because I know that I need it. I know that it is what is healthy and right for me and because I love myself enough to do it. YAY for forward progress all around. I really am graduated!!
YAY for grateful days!!
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Yay on the food progress. It can be a tough thing to get a handle on. Oh, and on the finger... I'm thinking that keeping the splint on during the camp might not be a bad thing. You don't want to break it again!
LOL! thanks guys for rescuing my log for the 2nd page for me. I disappeared from all of the world for the past week to enter into an intensive week-long study bootcamp for a certification that I needed to get for work. Today I took the test and passed it so I am free again to go about my daily life! YEHAW! I feel like I just got out of jail.
Football is going great. My quad is still not 100% so I am not running at full power yet but the rehab is still going on so things are progressing. The finger is better and better each week. Last week I had only the new smaller splint on and was able to better handle the ball than before. I realize that this season is going to be a season of learning for me as a Rookie but still I am excited as hell to be a part of it. Tomorrow the reporter from the Oregonian is going to be at the practice to take pics and get some other bits and pieces for the article she is doing on me and the team. She said we will be in print by Dec 15th.
Anyway... lots of catching up to do and I will do it. I have taken vacation starting Sunday night when I jump on the plane to the East Coast for Thanksgiving week. Tom and I will be meeting in Philly on Wed and spending the day there. Am looking forward to doing nothing for just a little while and catching up with everyone here.
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Congrats on passing the test & wooohooo for celebrating Thanksgiving with Tom! So cool!
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LOL! thanks guys for rescuing my log for the 2nd page for me. I disappeared from all of the world for the past week to enter into an intensive week-long study bootcamp for a certification that I needed to get for work. Today I took the test and passed it so I am free again to go about my daily life! YEHAW! I feel like I just got out of jail.
Bolded that sentence since that's how I feel right now.. a prisoner. Not just because of exam but also since a frigging parcel has been sitting at customs for 4 days now!
In case you don't know, seems like how almost everything coming from California is now highly suspect.. BB.com being raided etc. They even opened a bottle of coconut oil thinking it contained drugs!
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