22 October 2008
Football Stadium, Willamette University, Salem, OR
9:15
Tonight I had a championship IM soccer game and it was freezing! I thought that it would be interesting to compare the differences between my day observations and my night observations. In the stadium we play on what is supposed to be “grass” but in all actuality, there is no comparison. When I run on real grass, I definitely do not get tiny little rubber beads stuck in my shores, nor do I feel the squishy under mat that is man made. I know they use this turf to make sure the field is always in good condition, but there is no comparison to real grass. As we walk out of the stadium, we enter into a scene of real nature, the grass is fresh and dewy and the trees rustle in the night time breeze as we walk below them on our way back to campus.