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(I'm on a conference call so nobody bother telling me to get out - this is play time.)

Anyway, I let labrat know that I was bailing out of the training program for the run in Iowa next month because I took a nasty hit in a game a couple weeks back (beautiful airborne flip - real highlight reel stuff) that resulted in a lower back problem causing my left leg to go numb if I run too much.

Of course that doesn't mean I wouldn't play soccer... dummy. On sunday, my second game of the day, third of the weekend I made a sliding tackle, no big deal. Nothing spectacular or exciting, just run of the mill play. I felt something pull a bit though. By half time it felt as if the whole team had taken turns kicking me in the crotch. I finished the game out but the pain was pretty intense so I spent the rest of the day with an ice pack in my shorts. Not a lot of fun.

I've got some nasty bruising on the inside of my left thigh going up to where my belt rests. the pain isn't that bad now, it just pulls from time to time. I'm hoping it is just a pulled muscle and not a hernia. (i've had a couple of those) I really don't want to take the time out of life to have a stupid surgery.

Ah, I love this game.