water polo

After 24 Hours of Triathlon and Ironman Canada, I opted to take a mental break and have been playing some water polo. As there is not a large following here in Colorado, i've managed to hook up with a few ex-high school and college water polo players in town and we meet up and work on shooting and passing. There is no deep water pool in town, so this past Monday David Walker and I drove down to Denver U to play with the masters team there.


What a workout as we spent the entire hour-and-a-half scrimmaging. This meant non-stop treading water and bursts of sprinting. It's a 40-minute drive away but we will play in a tournament in mid-October so I'd like to keep playing at least once/week until then.

I tried convincing Emily how tough it is to play and what great shape you have to be in, but she holds steadfast that water polo players are the ones who couldn't handle the intensity of swimming as kids and liked to party too much. We'll agree to disagree on this one!