weekend in Naperville

I spent last weekend in Naperville, Illinois at a club Ultimate Frisbee tournament called Chicago Heavy Weights. I play for an mixed (which means co-ed) club frisbee team called One Trick Pony. Most of the players on this team are from around the Saint Louis area and 3-10 years out of college. Four of the players, myself included, are still in college. The way co-ed ultimate differs from open Ultimate is that at all time on the field you must have 4 men and 3 women playing. It makes the rhythm of the game a lot different.

This particular tournament is the last big tournament before the postseason series for the club division starts. Ultimate is divided into two seasons: club and college. The club series is in the Fall, and the college series is in the Spring. There were 20 teams in our division this weekend and our ranking was 15th out of 20. We broke seed and eventually finished 10, finishing the weekend with a 5-2 record. What was crucial about the team's performance was that we lost by a combined 5 points in the two losses against teams that had previously blown us out at tournaments in June and July.

A lot of this may not make sense. But the weather was beautiful. It was not even breezy, 80 degrees, and there were no clouds all weekend. I got seriously sunburnt. Being outside and playing all weekend was very relaxing, but at the same time very tiring. Each game lasts 90 minutes. So, if I do the math right, I was running around and playing for about 630 minutes, about 10 and a half hours-which doesn't include time between games. I'll edit this again later