Signs of Burn Out?

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by Manny A

I'm curious how much you work. I used to umpire college games starting in mid February, then the full HS season starting in March thru May with probably around five or six games a week. Then when summer/fall rec and travel started, I'd do a couple night games a week, and work a weekend tournament probably every other weekend until around late October.

I umpire fast pitch only.

Usually, about 30 school games, although this year too many schedule conflicts dropped that to low 20's.
This year, 72 travel games with 2 weekends to go. That is down a bit, especially not going to away Nationals anymore. Most travel weekends are 7 games, but 9 this week.
I do not umpire college games anymore and that was mostly JUCO and D3.

As far as challenge, besides being my best, often something odd happens, and more often finding ways to explain rules, especially with teams playing under different sanctions and with USA pool play.