We played Paraparaumu College today at soccer. The wind was about 25kts (that’s about 45km/h, 28m/h). We played with the wind in the first half and were up 3-1 at half time. We knew that the wind would be bad in the second half and it was. We only got into their half a few times. Luckily we did manage to score on one of them. The final score was 4 all.

Playing school kids is hard. Mostly, 17 year olds are very fit and fast. I am one of the fastest on our team (although nowhere near fit) and I could out sprint most of them head to head. However, they were significantly more agile. One got past me for their final goal (which really sucks).

I think that the reason the didn’t thrash us (as was predicted) was attitude. Our team is really positive even when we get on the back foot (at some disadvantage, a cricket metaphore for the amercan reader). More on this topic later…

…if I’m not asleep.