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Monday & Tuesday


(This was written Tuesday, but the post failed)

Its the first official day of the season. Excitement and gitters fill the mood. After months of hard work and preparation, the beginning is finally here. With the beginning, comes the first run test. 
There is an extra smell of sweat and hardwork. Extra words of encouragement and cheering fill the air. Additional sounds of the jump rope hitting the gravel of the parking lot behind me and coach calling out the timing for the interval test. Breaths are much deeper today and the huffing and puffing is like a low mumble underneath all of the other noise. It is much more intense, almost darker than last thursday when they practiced running the interval test. 

After everyone passing the run test last night (Monday), there is a feeling of relief and excitement while the next run test still looms ahead tomorrow (Wednesday). Movement up and down the field is in all different directions and all different speeds now that lacrosse is actually being played. Having played previously, I know how much training and thought goes into each of their movements. But putting that out of my mind, from here it looks like a bunch of zig zags. 
Cheers are almost as frequent, but different words of encouragement are used. The meaning of these is all the same, the individual words are actually rather unimportant. However, the talk of the players communicating to one another on the field is incredibly important. When the players are quiet, the coach talks. There is never a silence in this hour, very different from the rather lonely hours I've spent on the empty field.

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