Temple Track

Hit the Temple University track with 14 other Philly area people (14!) including Pike hopefuls NickM, Ellis, Jason, and Sean Murray. Did what started out looking like a reasonable workout but ended up being harder than any of us realized.

Workout:

1 lap warmup
Active stretching

2 laps jogging the curves, striding the straightaways
2 x (8 x 50 yard sprint, 50 yard jog) 4 minute break between sets
2 x 200
2 x 400
2 x 200
90 second rest between the 2's and 4's.

Hit up some delicious Venezuelan food and then came home, foam rolled and collapsed into my bed.

Mother Nature vs. Pike

We headed out to the Art Museum to do a workout this afternoon. Tous and I got there around 6:10 to warm up. As we began to warm up it began to thunder storm, pour rain, and hail. As a result we decided to stop waiting for other people to get there. It was an awesome weather experience and a lot of fun to do a hard workout in.

Workout:
Every cycle involves a run down the steps. Its something like 50 steps on the way up

Warm up
Every step
Every other step
Karaoke one direction
Karaoke other direction

Stretch with focus on calves, quads, and hamstrings

Every step
Every other step
Up 2, down 1
every step
every other step
karaoke one direction
every step
every other step
karaoke other direction
every step
every other step
single leg hop up every step
every step
every other step
other leg hop
every step
every other step
bunny hops
every step
every other step, sprint across the courtyard and every other step up the stairs leading to the entrance.

Tabata push ups. Rough guess on numbers because I was keeping time
20-18-10-5-5-6-5-9
Tabata dips
9-7-4-4-3-2-2-6

Every step
Every other step
Up 2, down 1
every step
karaoke one direction
every other step
karaoke other direction
every step
single leg hop up every step
every other step
other leg hop
every step
bunny hops
every other step, sprint across the courtyard and every other step up the stairs leading to the entrance.

By the end Ellis, Ross, NickM, Keri Dorko, and Tree had shown up. Dorko and Tree were going with Tous and I, Ellis, Ross and NickM were going at it as a group as well.

Pike Practice - 6/13/09

Headed up to the old stomping grounds in Princeton. Were promptly given the boot by an assistant AD telling us we didn't have permits. No kidding. Headed over to the MCUDL fields and played there. Had a good run, ran through some strategy, had some pretty good scrimmages, played some mini, and got to finish up with a game in a torrential downpour.

Good work overall.

Summer League

Played a fairly easy game against the Frentzel's. Largely easy because Jon Frentzel wasn't pushing his recently broken foot prior to his trip to Peru. My team is still figuring out how to play together but if and when we get it, we could be scary. Final score 15-11. Red Dawn references? 3.

Light Monday

Did a little recovery work with the Finks at the park near our house.

Workout:
Light stretching
Tabata in cuts*
40 minutes of throwing finishing with some longer throws focusing on OI backhands and continuing to work on regaining my flick huck. Felt really good about the throws by the end.

*8 sets 3 people 2 discs
Put a cone 15 yards away and have the first person cut to the cone, turn, and catch an in-cut from person 3, have the second person run and make the same cut, then person 3 cuts and receives a throw from person 1. Think juggling with in-cutters. 45 seconds on, 15 seconds off.


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CUT

Took a team of about 20 up to Cazenovia NY to play at CUT. It was also a big weekend for weddings and graduations that took a number of our players away from us for the weekend. We played well on the whole with some flashes of impressive play. Got to see a lot of tryouts in pressure situations and against club competition. If we can keep the focus and intensity we showed in flashes this weekend for a whole tournament we will be in great shape.

The take home for me from the weekend is that in order to play the competition that we want to challenge ourselves against at tournaments throughout the season we must win every game on Saturday with no exceptions. Personally this will mean a need for great intensity and hard work while on the field and focus while leading the team on the sidelines. I'm excited about where this team has the potential to go.

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Quick 200

Having long weeks sucks. Did a quick Med Ball 200 to get some work in last night.

Workout:
8.8 lbs medicine ball
20 x Big Circles
20 x Woodchopper
20 x Standing Russian Twist
20 x Squat to Press
20 x Medicine-ball Sit-up
20 x Rocky Solo
20 x Toe Touch
20 x 45-Degree Twist
20 x Suitcase Crunch
20 x Diagonal Crunch

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6/1 - Recovery Mini

After the grueling work over the weekend I found myself surprisingly refreshed on Monday and decided to head out to Edgely to meet up with folks from the Philly workout group. The end result was we decided to play 4v4 Mini with punishments for losing. Punishments started as 25 push-ups, suicide of the field, followed by 25 crunches. The suicides were later abandoned and the pushups intensified.

Workout:

1:30 of Mini including 2 or so runs of 4+ games in a row
120-150 push ups in varying styles (regular, clap, diamond, etc.)
50 crunches
2 extra suicides

Long toss until it got too dark

And I still feel pretty good today..

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5/30 - 5/31 - Tryout Weekend

This past weekend was Pike's tryout weekend. We had, between the two days close to 40 guys out working their asses off to see if they have what it takes to make the team. Saturday was very drill, effort, and focus intensive whereas Sunday was primarily scrimmaging.

This was really my first full weekend practice in a year. I forgot how much I love working this hard.

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5/26 and 5/28 - Summer League

Had two summer league games this week. In the first my team matched up against Kyle's on a chilly, rainy night. His team was savage, mine was without my 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, and I believe 8th round picks. We ended up losing something like 13-11? No one was really keeping score because its the pre-season. We had some trouble while playing around with a Ho-Stack but eventually started to get it. Missing all those draft picks meant I was missing primary cutters which makes the Ho much harder to run.

Thursday we played Ross's team and my team played a great game. We abandoned the Ho stack experiment and then proceeded to go on a huge run to close out the game and ended up winning 15-14...I think. Very well played game by both teams. I was also happy to get out and do some serious cutting in this game as opposed to only playing a few points here and there and mostly being stuck behind the disc.

I have a very deep team. This is good overall, but bad when it comes to having tons of people show up and having to focus on making sure they all get PT and have a good time. Looking forward to the regular season starting though.