Two sessions down, 23 more to go before I break even with my $150 down payment.

Recap: I showed up 15 minutes late but found 14 players already at it, 13 men and 1 woman. This meant two full teams with one sub each, which lasted about a 45 minutes before people began to bail. The overall quality of play of the group was okay to sub-par. No ringers present.

Health Report: More soreness than I expected. I nearly injured myself in the locker room trying to do a quick change into my shorts. But otherwise no knocks to report. Legs are sore and stiffening but fine.

Performance: Not good. Legs went dead quickly and it took me a good 30 minutes to find my touch, which is not impressive when you only play an hour-long game. Towards the end I scored on a curling shot off the inside of the post and hit a string of quality one-touch passes, but that didn’t make up for the shots into the rafters and the number of times I passed to the opposition.

Rating: — More ugly than not. Even the spike in decent play during the waning moments couldn’t save a sub-par (but not quite embarrassing) performance.