2-14-17 HY: TCF + Pickle-Ball + Splits + TCF.

2-14-17 HY: TCF + Pickle-Ball + Splits + TCF.

Due to another schedule change, today turned out to be Pickle-Ball Day!  And again, the gym was frigidly cold.  The coldest it has been this year.  It was a good session, but a very Up/Down session to say the least.  As usual, we traded great shots and unforced errors, amazing rallies and long and netted service returns.  But the weirdest thing was that the initial server just couldn't win a game.  The first receiver won all the games.  We played four games and we split them 2-2, me-him-me-him.  The score of the first two games was 15-7 then 7-15.  The last two games was 15-8 and 9-15.  Each game, the one who ended up winning went on a 5-8 point run, then stalled, then went on another run, and closed it out.  In the last game, I got the score to 9-9, then just couldn't get anything together on my serve.  And the reverse was also true.  But either way, we had a great time playing and the level of the match is getting higher and we are both improving all around.

But before we started playing, I had some time to do a series of Flows.  It was nice to be unhindered in my Flow and I could move with full range of motion.

I did the splits after getting home in the early evening and I pushed it as much as I could.  I also did more Flowing.  It was a good day.

In the end, after the Pickle-Ball, I torched 950+kcals.  That is lower than usual for the amount we played.  We played about 30 minutes longer than usual and usually I would have burned way more than 1200kcals, but today it was less than 1000kcals.  I am assuming it was because of the cold.  It took a while for the sweat to start flowing, and my peak heart rate was in the mid 150's.  I usually tops out over the 160 range.  Once it starts to warm up, the calories will melt away.