Damn I'm getting old. Just got back from a 2 hour basketball game with younger, faster, and more skilled college students and I feel pain everywhere. I thought I gave everything I've got, running, hussling, defending, shooting, jumping, (though most of the time I walked), but I just wasn't able to keep up with the speed. They were shorter, all of them, I was taller, almost all of us were taller, but it was like I was walking and they were running, when in fact I was running my ass like crazy. It took me less than 2 rounds of running up and down the court when I felt I was running out of gas in my brain, and I was starting to breathe through my mouth. Maybe next time I'd keep an oxygen tank ready in the bench.
It's been a long time since I've had a body work out like this, and my sweat felt like dirt, like it's made up of nicotine and red horse, oozing out from my skin. It took me less than 2 minutes to injure my right forefinger, it's still swollen up to now. You get that when you try to poke the ball with your finger instead of catching it, or try to put a hole in the ball instead of trying to grab a rebound. And this is the most irritating injury one can get, because after that, it is almost next to impossible to get a decent handle of the ball, and you can't grab the ball without trying to lift and hide your injured finger. But I played on, and almost cramped my left leg. I scored points, and missed a lot of shots, there were times I thought I jumped high enough when I didn't. We gave up both games, the second game in a huge margin, because the opponents most of the time had only 2 or 3 defenders left to worry about, everyone else was either still halfway through the court, or were busy catching their breath.
It should have been an easy win, we were all taller than the opponent, and we had skills, but they were faster, not to mention serious, and had more oxygen supply in their lungs. It sucks, realizing you're starting to get old, so we drank coffee and smoked our lungs out instead. May araw din sila, next time magdadala na ko ng oxygen tank.
It's been a long time since I've had a body work out like this, and my sweat felt like dirt, like it's made up of nicotine and red horse, oozing out from my skin. It took me less than 2 minutes to injure my right forefinger, it's still swollen up to now. You get that when you try to poke the ball with your finger instead of catching it, or try to put a hole in the ball instead of trying to grab a rebound. And this is the most irritating injury one can get, because after that, it is almost next to impossible to get a decent handle of the ball, and you can't grab the ball without trying to lift and hide your injured finger. But I played on, and almost cramped my left leg. I scored points, and missed a lot of shots, there were times I thought I jumped high enough when I didn't. We gave up both games, the second game in a huge margin, because the opponents most of the time had only 2 or 3 defenders left to worry about, everyone else was either still halfway through the court, or were busy catching their breath.
It should have been an easy win, we were all taller than the opponent, and we had skills, but they were faster, not to mention serious, and had more oxygen supply in their lungs. It sucks, realizing you're starting to get old, so we drank coffee and smoked our lungs out instead. May araw din sila, next time magdadala na ko ng oxygen tank.
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Don't you think you just need regular practice?
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