On the sidelines!
On Sunday afternoon we drove just over
two hours to Prijedor to play floorball against the team there. Our
team, Lavovi Jajce – or Jajce Lions, had comfortably beaten the
Prijedor side that visited us earlier this year. We felt the return
trip would not be so easy. And so it proved. The game was played with
a level of physicality well above anything we reach in our training
sessions. Our team are teenagers; Dina, who trains the side is, like
me, in her thirties. The Prijedor side seemed to be all late-teens
and twenties. For all the fact it was hard fought, it was a fair
fight and 4-4 was probably the right result.
Rowan came along for the ride. Standing
on the sidelines snapping photos with two cameras she was more often
than not winching as one heavy challenge followed another. Floorball
is a high-intensity, end-to-end game with rolling substitutions. The
three twenty-minute 'thirds' that make up a match equal a lot of
running around. Some of our team have yet to grasp the advantage of
being substituted; I'm old enough to know I need to be. I could only
be an effective physical presence in short bursts. While I picked up
a lot of compliments for my contribution I felt it was only fair to
post a picture showing me where I spent most of the game: on the
sidelines!
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