So recently I've been finding it harder to go to hockey.
I don't have my own car, for one thing, so every Saturday I had to go to my parents' house and get the car, bring it back, load it up, and head out to the east end. It was really a lot of trouble. Especially if I worked first, and then I was often too tired to play. Not to mention that with my feet troubles I was getting tired a lot more easily these days.
To add to that, every game we would have less and less girls, and really less and less people. So in addition to being tired after working, having pain in my feet, I would have to play with very few people (that means very few breaks), and less girls, which means I would have to try super hard to beat them and never do it - I haven't scored a real goal in AGES.
Plus, with school trips planned for January, and with everyone's social calendar being centred on Saturdays, there's a lot of times I just can't make it out for a game.
So I emailed Alan the other day, to let him know that I wouldn't be able to make it out as much for the second half of the season. I just couldn't commit, with all those factors in consideration.
So he emailed me back today and told me that it might be a good idea for me to "pull the plug" on hockey, and that he understood how I felt. Then he told me that, because of the whole people-not-coming thing, he was suspending our coed games, and that, after some revision, our "league" would restart as male only, because it wasn't fair to the girls to have to struggle against so many boys (what started as a women's team adopted boys because of lack of players - this year we had three girls - only two regulars - and 12 boys).
So that's it - my team that I learned to play with and got better with has dissolved, officially. It's kind of sad because we had so much fun, but in the past year it's been politics and health issues (I'm not the only gimp on the team), so it hasn't been working out and we've known it. So I'm not that upset, but it's still sad that such a huge chapter of my life is over.
I wonder what the rec hockey is like in Calgary . . . ?
Posted by Ally at December 2, 2007 10:40 PMThat's sad. :( I'm kind of feeling like that with gay soccer for indoors. Not such much that nobody is showing up, but in the fact that they're just so low-skilled that it makes it incredibly frustrating to show up and play because nobody is improving. I know it's not exactly the same kind of situation, but when you don't feel like showing up for something anymore because of whatever reason, it's still a shit feeling. And I'm sick of getting my ankles kicked in by people who don't know how to strip balls properly from somebody and end up blasting my ankles.
Is Calgary SET for next year? Or a hopeful?
Posted by: Chelle at December 8, 2007 11:01 AMNot SET, but looks like my most promising. Cross your fingers . . .
Yeah, when you don't feel like it's worth it to go anymore, when it becomes more like an obligation . . . then it's no good.
Posted by: Alio at December 9, 2007 08:21 AM