11-01-15 HY: Tennis + Splits + TCF.

11-01-15 HY: Tennis + Splits + TCF.

Yes, it is not normal for me to play tennis on Sunday, but since my son was unable to find one of his friends to play, he asked me. We ended up spending most of the day together. Great father son time.

Started off warming up and things were okay. We both were hitting good and bad shots. I had to fight a bit to get used to the hard court since I almost exclusively play on a hard wood gym floor, which is a lot faster and doesn't react to spin nearly as much. But once the match started, we were in it. I'm not going to give the shot-by-shot commentary but it was a good game, almost equal in ability. My son took the first set 6-4. I started off fast taking the first two games, then proceeded to lose the next four, Then we both held serve to finish it out. The second set was a different story. But I'll just say it was a good set. I took the second set 6-0. At 4-0, my strings broke and I had to change rackets. The feel was VERY different, and I proceeded to lose the first two points. But I got the feel back quickly and finished off the set. We didn't have time to play a decisive third set, so we played a 10-point tie breaker which I took 10-5.

Just some personal info. The rest of the day, we went to a tennis shop to get our rackets restrung (mine, and one my son had from previously breaking his strings). Then we went out to eat at an Indian restaurant. I loved our time together, and I'm really valuing these times because... I can't believe it... But he'll be leaving for college in less than 6 months. Uggh, I don't even want to think about that.

Tennis today was a lot longer than I usually play, I usually play for about an hour, then hit the weight machines on Tuesday. But today, we were on the court for almost three hours. My legs and especially my joints were really feeling it. On one particular shot I had to run and stop, and after the shot, my right ankle felt a little gimpy. That started to throb more as the day went on. I almost decided to no go with the splits, but when it came right down to it, I couldn't Not do them. So I went ahead and did them but cut the time a bit, and I didn't push as hard, since my knees were also really feeling it.

The Flow started off well, but I suddenly started to forget the progression from different points so I had to restart several times. Yep, you guessed it, I was in a different location so that probably had some influence. But I tried just not thinking and focused on the tennis match (Basal Finals) my son was watching and suddenly I was able to nail it. Then, I thought about not thinking about it and I messed up again. I kept on doing the Flow and restarting until I had at least four flawless Flows. Odd how the body and brain work.

In the end, the tennis alone torched over 1700kcals. Great way to start the week, and the month.