Wow… can you say that I’m just a little bit slack when it comes to regular posts? Geez, I guess the problem is that when ever I become busy, it’s posting that’s the first to give way. So no cool Marc! How are you supposed to satisfy your dozen or so readers with the lack of posts?! Anyways, I just figured that I’d catch you up what’s been comsuing my mind and time these days.
The first is the new martketing job I got at a medical technology company which has me working like a mad man. When I come home I’m just mentally drained from having to be on the ball all day. But to be honest, that’s not the main reason I’m always on the go, if it was just that then I wouldn’t have a problem keeping up to date on other projects. The main thing that’s keeping me occupied is training for the World Ultimate Club Championships in Perth, Australia.
Depending on how much and how long you’ve read this site for, you may or may not know that I love the game of ultimate. Whether you’re good at it or not, the majority of people that try it out, enjoy it, and for some people it’s like a drug, you need more and more of it, that’s the case for me. Over the previous summer I was playing as much as five or six days a week and loving it! I couldn’t get enough. I guess I was happy to finally find a sport that my lanky athletic ability was an asset.
Anyways, back to the topic on hand… Perth.
So this November the World Ultimate Club Championships are being held in Perth, Australia. Which is a city I’ve been to before for an Australian University Games championship tournament during the couple years I lived in Sydney. So with the combination of having lived in Australia, being an ultimate fanatic and being good enough to have a good chance of making it on a team that gets to go, well… lets just say that this is fueling my determination. Not only will it be a chance for me to visit old friends from Oz, but will be an oppurtunity for me to play ultimate at the highest level that I can probably get to at this moment in time. Having played sports most of my life, it’s always been my dream to play at a high level and hopefully wear that maple leaf on my jersey, but unfortunately my skill squashed that idea. But I now have a small chance to be on one of the 15 teams that will be representing Canada in Perth, the 3rd most country allocations for team numbers. The teams are broken down into 4 open, 5 coed, 3 women and 3 masters teams. So I guess in reality, I’m hoping to make one of the 9 teams I’m eligible to play on.
I started playing ultimate after my days of track & field where over and found that I was ok at it from the start. Playing with and against some of the best players Australia had to offer, I picked it up quickly and upon my return to Canada I came extremely close to making a coed team that had placed 2nd in the nation the previous season. The main reason I didn’t make the team was because I was youngest left in the late stages of the try-out and my lack of experience, I’d only been playing for just over a year when everyone else have been playing for at least four or five.
But now that I have another year’s experience, I’m hoping that I’ve aquired the skills/experience needed make it on the team. But I’m not just leaving it up to chance, I’m currently in the gym three days a week getting huuuuuuuuuuuuge, or at least stronger, I’m doing team training sessions on Sundays and I play in an indoor league. So for the “off” season, I’m still pretty busy… lets just say that I’m putting in tons of effort into the whole ordeal, so if I don’t make it, then I can’t say it’s because I didn’t put enough effort into the whole process. Mind you, if I don’t make it, I’ll be crushed, but I also realize that teams want to go down to this tournament with what they think is the best team available to them and if that doesn’t include me… so be it.
Wow… that was longer than I intended it to be, and congrats on making it this far. So in a round-about way I was trying to say that these days I’m super busy with my goal of getting on a team and gettin’ my ass down to Perth for the World Championships. For me it’s either Perth or Bust!!! And I don’t like busting!