So, as I continue my blogging experiment, I tried to come up with some different aspects of my life that I thought would be interesting to vent/talk about. As some of you know I had a bit of a run at becoming an actual hockey player when I was younger. I spent most of my formidable youth training and trying to be the best I could be. Being huge at a young age helped me to turn heads at camps and have some success in moving up the junior ranks. I never really had any aspirations to play professionally I always just wanted to play and train as hard as I could. So if things worked out and I made a team that was always a bonus but was never really my goal. I never put too much thought into it, a recurring theme in my life. Anyways eventually things got stale, my coach was a dick and after being a healthy scratch in Hull I said fuck it, not exactly, I think I was praying with my family in an East side Mario’s. I decided that was it I was going home to figure something else out. All that being said I have put some miles between than and now (I’m married, I have a career, I own a house etc.) and I think it’s time for a come back. So this fall I will “hopefully” be trying out for the Carleton Raven’s. I realized, after reading an article about Mike Danton the CIS has no age limit and I was planning to take some classes at Carleton so it seemed like a perfect fit. Since my wife and I made the decision to go for it I have been doing some training and trying to get back into some sort of game shape. So far I have lost about 20 lbs and almost half of my body fat. I doubt my conditioning will be an issue by the fall.
A Blast From the Past
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