Adventures in Altitude

So it's been a week and a half give or take since I've been here in the Mile High city. I played my first Colorado Ultimate Tuesday night league tonight with a team (we dubbed ourselves "The Kings of Norway"...we're team #2B...get it?) that was nice enough to pick me up. It was a wicked good time! The folks are really great - fun and good players. The flow was really impressive for a couple of groups of people randomly thrown together and I can't wait for the rest of the guys to show. We've got 7 men and 4 women for a 4-3 format and 60 minute timed games. I like that a lot!
I took a picture of the really lovely fields at Dick Sporting Goods Stadium (the practice/game facility for the CO Rapids), but it might be too dark. They are really really lovely, soft, cushy, unpotholed, unhard, green lush fields. In case the picture doesn't do it justice. I did ok, I think, with the thin air...was able to play 2-3 points in a row at a time. I was feeling the effects on my lungs towards the end of the 2nd half, but nothing too awful. Yes! Plus we won. Double yes! I can't wait for next week's game.
Also, I took the bike out yesterday and rode to class and back. It is about 7 miles each way from T + L's house, and I was flying on my way to class given that the route was pretty much downhill the entire way. Unfortunately, that meant that I had to go home mostly uphill the other way. So 26 mph on the way to class turned into a laborious 9 mph in return. A great workout though, but my legs were jelly for a bit.
So this week I started classes and this weekend I will move into my new place that I'll be sharing with a couple grad students. It will be interesting living with people again. And then next weekend the CO Ultimate Sunday Fall league starts up - pretty much like Spring league in Chicago with individual signups and drafts and all. It's all about the extracurriculars.