Big day.
I cannot believe our girls did not beat Chico. Seriously? I can give a hundred reasons why we did not win this game but this is not the forum. Instead, we tied 1-1. One thing I cannot stand is when we play a less-skilled team and we bring our level of play down to meet it. Ugh. We played them our first game. So, because of the points, we ended up playing them in a Championship round. Again, we tied 0-0. Silliness really. The tournament must have a winner though, so of course, we went to PK's. We missed 4 of 6 and lost the game. I hate penalty kicks in this age group. It's too much pressure and parents are so hard on their little ones when they don't make it. There were a lot of tears and as a coach, I had to pull out my best uplifting speech ever. It was a heartbreaker, magnified by the extreme heat, plus complete physical exhaustion, and no amount of sugar was going to remedy the fallout. Live to fight another day.
I went home and kicked the bag, packed as many bathing suits and wetsuits as I could fit and Team Robinson jumped in the car and headed south. We just got here, Leucadia, CA and it's late, so I'm not going to write much more. My best friend is having her hip replaced in LA in the morning so it's back in the car for me on a Monday morning in Los Angeles. Yeah, that's gonna be fun. I have 4 hours to sleep. Mental toughness training is in full swing. I didn't even get to cheat today. In fact, I hardly ate at all. That's not good.
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