Pace on Earth

It Keeps You Running

When I started playing rugby with the Loyalists I was 17. Most of the guys I played with were a year or 2 or 3 older. For the first few years that young squad got our asses kicked all over the province. It was tough but it was experience and the core of our current squad still goes to that well to remind ourselves what it was like to lose. We may have needed a reminder after ripping off 36 straight wins in the last 3 seasons and on Saturday we got it…with interest.

We got a bit of a lesson in running rugby and lost 62-0 to the Swilers in St. John’s. I never expected that mostly because I didn’t think this team could lose like that. We did, and now some of the new crew of young guys get to tuck that experience away for use at a later date. I know those monumental losses in the early 90’s kept us running for a long while…and maybe still do.

Speaking of running, yesterday was the annual Run for the Cure. I don’t like missing the Run for the Cure or the Relay for Life, maybe for some morbid comfort knowing that so many other people have been floored at one time or another by cancer, but more likely to feel good knowing that there are this many people that have been affected and are trying to do something about it. Now those are losses….and they keep you running.

Diane keeps me running and I can’t here this song without thinking of her and how much she would have liked it, so here’s my future ex-wife:

Pace out.

posted by Vitamin S @ 5:27 p.m.