Scoring

It has been a busy week with budget prep, mutual, riding, and football. The excitement for the week was Craig's second game. The league plays on the high school fields and the players get to experience what it feels like to be on the real field. The Tigers first possession, second play, Craig takes the hand off on a 34 dive - a run off tackle that ended up going up the middle. He broke a few tackles and is then in the secondary. He split the safeties. They get their hands on him and as they did, Craig kicked it into another gear and took it into the end zone - 50 yd TD. As he crossed into the end zone, he put both arms straight out. It looked like pure joy. In talking to Craig after the game, I asked where did the speed come from. His reply was "I saw the end zone and just wanted to get there." I sat in the stands and beamed. On his third carry of the game, he took the pitch, saw nothing, reversed field and ran for 60 more yards. All told, 7 carries for 132 yards and a TD. He had several tackles on defense as well. One was right in front of me, it was a sweep that he help to string out, as the back came towards the line, Craig popped him and got him to the ground. Nice tackle. He gave me a fist pump from the field. I got more joy out of seeing Craig do well than I can remember getting from playing. Thanks Buddy!

About the bike, 90+ miles this week with beautiful weather. Saturday was Yamhill, Carlton, Lafayette for 55 miles. I let the terrain handle the intervals as it is constant rollers. The difficulty this time of year is that at 6 AM it is 45 degrees - by 8 AM it is almost 60 with clear skies and sunny. I just love to ride. 700 miles to 5K.