Going to Portland

You can't make this one up...I attended the Northwest Conference S-AAC conference at Whitman on Sunday, and Jim Brazeau was there. He's the head coach at Pacific U and also the Timber's goalkeeper coach. We got to talking about the Timbers of course and he invited me out to train with the 1st team during the second week of March. Go figure. He actually called me yesterday and said that next week would be better for them, so I'm going to go to Portland next Sunday, training with the team Monday and Tuesday, and driving back on Tuesday afternoon/evening.

As far as training is going, today was the first day in months that I felt like myself and not a complete idiot. I've just felt like I was a 12 year old playing against college kids for the last 2 weeks. Steve and I have been training outside 3 times a week and working on fitness and lifting a total of 4-5 times a week. So, finally this morning it finally felt like this work has been doing something. I could catch hard hit balls, dive with some kind of form, had better judgement and reactions also. Again, FINALLY. This Sunday is going to come real fast, but I'm real excited for it...