It's gold, it's gold, it's solid gold baby

So, game 2 of the season under the belt.
No AR's and first game of the season for the boys, so we did 30 min halves.
Actually, 25 min first half then 35 the second. Yes, I know both halves need to be the same, but at my core I'm a bleeding heart liberal.

To track GPS I use http://www.endomondo.com/home.  It's a free "app" (short for application).
Why doesn't the city have wifi at all fields? Would save me using data plan.
Also, silly phone died at half so couldn't track 2nd half.

Stat line:
half / total distance (km) / avg speed (km/hr) / top speed (min/km)

1st: 1.84 / 14:03 / 0:03:24

2nd: phone died.  

1.84 km for 25 min, which puts me on track for 6.6 for 90 min.

Last post I set a goal for 7km / game, which I thought was good. Until I got a text from a colleague saying she and her partner each did 8km for their games. Sigh.

Visual:

Ok, why doesn't Mac come with a Paint application? Really, I can't download and simple edit a graphic file (like on Windows)? If one of my readers can fill me in on how to do this that would be great

So, for this photo I took a picture on my phone of the track on my computer, then emailed the picture to the computer, download, then uploaded. Technology!

My diagonal was shifted to the west touchline for some reason.

No bookings, heck, didn't record scorers as it's exhibition.

Kit

Goldmember (yup, search the archive to find this kit reference)

Can't wait until the 2014 WC kit arrives...

If anyone knows Stephen + Aaron, bug them for me!

Peace Out

I don't say a-boot

I thought this was spring?
Bit chilly but bearable.
And I certainly do NOT want to hear anyone in August say 'it's too hot to play'. We live in Canada, we have seasons. 

Got to do some small side games today. Nice to see the enthusiasm and kids playing for the sake of playing. I had hoped the I could break out the new dark Euro (and bonus if it was raining, cause I suspect the dark Euro will look *fantastic* in the rain). As it happened I wore Goldmember. Liking the no collar. Not liking not having velcro patches sewed on. 

Game summary:
Two games back to back. Second game was higher scoring. 30 min halves.

Stat line:
half / total distance (km) / avg speed (km/hr) / top speed (min/km)

Game 1, 1st: 2.4 / 3.9 / 0:03:49

Game 1, 2nd: 1.91 / 3.5  / 0:04:09

Game 2, 1st: 1.55 / 3.0 / 0:03:00

Game 2, 2nd: 1.31 / 2.6 / 0:03:46

Game 1, on pace for 6.47 km (!?!) and game 2, 4.3 km.

Three games into the season and once over 6km and another at 5.99. Will be nice to see a full 45 min. 
Visual:

The satellite image is hopelessly out-of-date and doesn't show the current boundaries.  This image is good in that it shows the field coverage a referee needs to cover without AR's. Basically the whole field. 

Booking:
Nothing.Assistants:
Nope

Kit:
Goldmember


So, one of my two readers suggested a name for dark Euro: Dark Knight.

Not bad. I need to wear it first then I will get a better sense of it's name.

The 10 Greatest Batman villians:

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/10-best-batman-villains-111116-1.html

Man of Mystery

Well, first game of 2013 in the books.
Exhibition with no AR's but oh well.
Good to get out and stretch the legs.

For those new to this blog, I write about my games. I have a gps tracker and provide some rudimentary stats. Nobody reads this but whatever. 

To bring everyone up to speed:
I generally only wear 2010 World Cup jerseys. I have 3 sets of 3 colours (yes, 9 jerseys total), yellow, black and red. I've named these:
Adjudicator (yellow)
Peacemaker (black)
El Presidente (red)

Actually, for this game I wore a new Euro kit. I only have singles of those (yellow and dark) so maybe yellow Euro shall be: Goldmember

Game summary:
Two halves of 35 minutes each. Exhibition so the boys were tame and restrained. Kinda nice in a way, just playing soccer and not trying to finish with body checks. One or two players didn't get the memo and went in a bit hard but other than that fairly straight forward.

Am using a new GPS tracker. Well, same software but new phone. I use Endomondo (http://www.endomondo.com/home) it's a free app(lication). Set the phone to mute, start the app, strap on via armband and voila, free gps tracker.

Stat line:
half / total distance (km) / avg speed (km/hr) / top speed (min/km)
1st / 2.49 / 4.2 / 3:16 
2nd / 2.17 / 3.5 / 3:53 

This version of the app provides top speed as min/km. Is a 3 min kilometre good?
However, not bad overall. On pace for 5.99 km over 90 minutes.

Visual:
I don't think the field boundaries are accurate, next game might have to do a gps baseline and 'mark' the midline.
Anyway, not bad diagonals each half.

1st half

2nd half

Booking:
Nothing.


Assistants:
Nope

Kit:
Goldmember


Must think of name for dark Euro.