10-24-16 HY: Pickleball + Splits + TFC.
Tennis Day.... Not!
It would have been tennis day, but since I got the Pickleball Set a few weeks ago, I've been wanting to play. So, I asked my tennis partner if he wanted to give Pickleball a try. He said "sure". I went early to the gym to set the net up. I thought it would be the same configuration as the net I played with at my parent's home, but it wasn't. So I had to take a little more time to figure out how it all went together. I eventually got it, but it took more time that I was hoping it would. Anyway, I got the paddles and balls out and started bouncing a ball on the paddle and the sound reminded me of what I first thought of that sound. I thought that my playing partner would think similarly. I took a little time to explain the basic rules that I knew and we started rallying. Unlike tennis, we started off pretty intensely. After just about 10 minutes or so, we decided that we should start playing a game. Once the game started, we threw it into high gear. The rallies were awesome. More good shots than mishits. This was a lot more movement than when I played in the US. Singles and Doubles are so different. We ended up playing four and a half games. He took the first game, 11-15, then I came back and took the next three games, 15-10, 15-6, 15-13, and I was in the lead in the fifth game when we had to stop because of the time, 7-4. As in the US, I burned more calories playing Pickleball than I did playing tennis. The action just didn't stop. Once the ball was served, whether the rally was long or short, we got it going. It was a really intense session. At the end, he was really excited about Pickleball, for which I was very happy. He even said that he wanted to play next week as well. So, it seems that we may take a little break from Tennis and play more Pickleball. Ideally, I hope that we can alternate between Tennis and Pickleball. One thing I forgot to mention was the fact that I was feeling a lot of muscle soreness from the Leg Day. But I wasn't dying, and I could still move. But I would really feel it in the evening.
The Splits and Flow came in the evening. And boy did I ever feel the soreness come on then. I took me a lot longer to get down to the mark, and I wasn't really able to reach it until the very end. I felt really sore and tight tonight. But I'll keep pushing through. My knee didn't feel too bad, but I felt it when I was doing balistic ankle stretches on my left. My right leg was bent and serving as the anchor and my knee was feeling that hold position. But I eventually got a good stretch, hit my splits, and Flowed out.
In the end, after Pickleball, I torched 1100+kcals. Very competitive and intense. Great day!
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