7-28-16 HY: Tennis + Splits + TCF.

7-28-16 HY: Tennis + Splits + TCF.

Tennis Day!

Actually I was planning to play twice, once in the morning and then in the evening, but I wasn't able to make it to the evening session because of a weird reason: My shoes were wet.  The gym today was extremely hot and humid.  I started dripping sweat just by putting up the net.  I decided to go totally with standard scoring today just to see how things were going.  I started out strong, but went through a lull in the middle, then blasted back at the end.  The score was 6-2, 7-5, 6-0.  In the beginning, I was fresh and hitting the ball well, but still couldn't iron out the unforced errors.  But in the second set, My partner raised his level just as I was losing my concentration and had to play catch up the whole time.  The one good thing is that I was able to fight my way back from 15-40 down and had ad a few time before losing.  I never lost a game with anything less than 30.  I would fight my way back, then putter out.  But I definitely caught a second wind for the third, and I think he was getting a bit tired and I was hitting and placing shots at will. But by the third set, the sweat was flowing and I had to stop several times to wipe myself down and the floor. Where are the Ball Boys when you need them!  This brings me to the reason why I didn't go to the evening tennis.  When I sweat, I sweat a lot.  And as usual, I sweat so much, it filled my shoes and they were water-logged.  Those are my only pair of tennis shoes, so no go for the evening.  It was a great match, and I had a great time.

Splits and Flow came in the evening so I really enjoyed just relaxing and stretching out.  Everything was choice!

At the end of the tennis, I torched a big but not totally unexpected 1200+kcals.  Only one more time this semester, then it's off time until we can figure out a new time for second semester.