The events of this weekend and upcoming week are likely a blessing in disguise. You see, I’m on a BUDA spring hat league team and the end of season tournament is today. However, I missed it, because I’m currently in San Francisco preparing for JavaOne (more on that in a later post). Disappointing yes, but there could have been an easy and obvious solution to this problem: participating in yesterday’s tournament instead! BUDA’s hat leagues are actually split into two leagues, and they each have their own tournament. I could have jumped in with a team and played as a pickup player in yesterday’s tournament. I even went so far as to submit my name as a potential pickup player to BUDA so they could contact me if they needed players.

The problem is that I submitted my name kind of late (Friday) so they never got back to me. However, I easily could’ve still just shown up and jumped in with a team (I did this for last year’s summer BUDA hat tournament and it was a blast). Why didn’t I though? My hamstring. It’s still bothering me, and I’m sure if I had played in either yesterday’s or today’s tournament then I would have seriously damaged my chances at getting through this summer’s super busy ultimate schedule (read: 5 days a week) without an injury incident. So I sat it out yesterday on an absolutely perfect day, and spent today traveling on a plane.

Sigh. Like I said, it’s a blessing in disguise. This week I’m at JavaOne all week so I’ll be giving my hammy a much needed continuous period of rest. Then next week summer club games startup along with regularly scheduled Burlington lunchtime pickup. Hopefully by then I’ll be back to 100%!

Ultimate Statistics (since January 2008):
Total Games Played: 188
Total Hours Played: 219