7-14-16 HY: Tennis + Splits + TCF.

7-14-16 HY: Tennis + Splits + TCF.

Test Day! and Tennis Day!

I have taken it easy on my Achilles for the past week or so and today was testing day.  I was planning to just play as normal while keeping close tabs on the condition of my Achilles.  To make a long story short, everything went well.  Not a bit of pain, but there was a little stiffness, but I had expected that.  That being said, I wasn't really able to play as "normally" as I had hoped.  The reason was that since we've been having a lot of rain recently, the gym was extremely humid and there was a big puddle on the side of the court from some ceiling drippage.  I tried to mop up the floor as best I could, but it wasn't going to totally dry.  So I kept a mental note not to try to attempt a sudden stop in that area.  To make matters worse, for some reason, right at the center of my baseline, there was a layer of condensation that stretched for about 1.5 meters either way of the center hash mark.  I tried playing on the baseline, but I was just slipping around, and when I moved quickly for a shot, I slipped.  So, I ended up having to play about a meter inside the baseline.  Timing was way off for a while.  Then to make matters even worse, I was sweating like I was in a sauna (actually, the gym was that humid), so with movement, I was dripping on the floor.  There was a point that the moisture from condensation was less than the wetness from my sweat, so I moved back to the baseline.  Then only a few minutes of play, that area was drip wet.  And my shoes, MY NEW SHOES!!! were so wet inside due to the sweat running down my legs and into my shoes, the last 15-20 minutes, I was literally sloshing around the court.  I had a few year spills and one big spill.  It happened as I was hitting a shot and tried to change directions too quickly. BAM!!! Down to the ground.  So most of the time, I had to really soft step around the court, and I had to give up on shots I could normally get because I couldn't change directions or get a good push off.  Now, that being said, I scored regularly today, with standard scoring, and I took the match, 6-2, 6-2.  It took a lot less time to get that score, but I didn't want to continue with that because of the potential danger of slipping, so I just practiced after those two sets.  There were some really good shots and rallies, but we'll never know if some of those should could have been returned.  But it was a fun session.

I did the splits after work in the evening and everything went well.  I feel like I'm getting over a plateau so I'm pushing lower.  Flow was on point as usual.


In the end, after the tennis, I torched a solid 1100+kcals.  That is pretty much par for the course.