Hoop It Up!

I have coached 5th grade intramural basketball for the last five years. This afternoon, we had an unusually small group who wanted to play, and I was forced to come out of basketball retirement to "hoop it ip" with the students. For a solid 45 minutes, we played full court 3 on 3. Mind you, we were not playing "walk it up the court and look for the backdoor" Princeton (my college alma mater) style basketball. Rather, we passed and dribbled the ball at a breakneck pace similar to the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers! I must admit it felt very good to run up and down the court with the kids. I loved basketball growing up and played competitively through high school. As you know, however, there is a difference in the impact on your body between jogging (which I do fairly regularly) and sprinting (which I rarely do), so now, at 10:00 PM, the soreness is setting in. If you see me walking gingerly around campus on Wednesday, you will know why!