11-28-16 HY: Pickleball + Splits + TCF.

11-28-16 HY: Pickleball + Splits + TCF.

Back, and with a vengeance!

Last week, for the first time, I reported the loss of  1-3.  I wasn't happy, but I accepted that result as a challenge for the next week.  THIS WEEK!  This week, I made it a point to get to bed earlier to get a good sleep the night before, and I requested a high protein breakfast to charge me up.  This was also the first time for us to play in the the morning.  Until now, we were playing in the afternoon, but since I have no class anymore, we moved our session to the morning.

I came out ROARING!!!  The first two games I was unstoppable!  Shot making, moving, stretching for shots.  I was so fun.  But I paid the price for my lightning start.  By the end of the second game, my legs were burning.  In Pickleball, changing directions quickly is extremely important as is stretching for shots.  I do a huge number of lunges and squats during every point.  I was really feeling it.  I took the first to games allowing only 4 and 5 points to my 15 respectively.  But I lost the third game, taking only 9 points.  I was considerably slower, and wasn't recovering as quickly and my movement was too slow.  I tried to pick it up in the final game and it was a battle.  The longest game of the day.  Lots of good shots.  I started to get a second wind, but that didn't help much with my burning legs.  I eventually took the game 17-15.  So much fun!

I did my splits and flow in the evening and the first round was painful, but I got loose quickly and got low in the second round.  Everything worked out very nicely.

In the end, I torched 1100+kcals.  Awesome BURN!!!