Sunday Is My Funday

So I decided that today was going to be a day off from the gym and any serious working out. I don't want to burn myself out plus it's just nice to have a day to relax and not have much of anything to do. Sunday is my day to take part in one of my favorite past times. No, not swilling cheap beer and watching my beloved Raiders embarrass me yet again- that joy doesn't start until the Fall. No, Sunday to me is kickball. Yes that's right, kickball: the same game you remember playing as a kid on the playground of your elementary school. Don't mock it, it's freaking fun. It's pretty much exactly the same game you remember growing up just played by adults. There are leagues everywhere so I highly recommend looking into one, just go to kickball.com.

Anyway, one of the joys of playing kickball is it gives me a chance to enjoy the fantastic So-Cal weather and run around carefree, but most of all I get to hang out with friends and enjoy not exerting myself. Think about how little you run around etc. playing baseball or softball and then multiply that by the circumference of a big red rubber ball. That's what makes it so great.

Unfortunately, today our team was well short of the amount of players we need to play. So we played a whole game with only eight players. Bear in mind that you are allowed 11 people in the field defensively. So between the playing defense and running the bases, this was easily the most exhausting game of kickball I've ever played and I loved every last second of it! It's great when you can go out and get exercise and not really feel like you are. Kicking the crap out of a big red ball is definitely the cure for what ails me, even if it's just momentary. Tomorrow, it's back to the gym and my first official weigh-in after the first week back in the gym.