6-23-17 (Friday) Pickle-Ball.

6-23-17 (Friday) Pickle-Ball.

Pickle-Ball Day is BACK!!!

Very excited to play again.  We got started a little earlier than usual because I was able to get everything set up and my playing partner (from now on I'll call him Dan) was able to end his class on time and get to the gym quickly.  I was like we had never taken a two-week break.  We got right back into the game.  We warmed up quickly and got into the match.  The first two games were pretty close in score but very different in play pace.  I won the first game 15-13 but the game only took about 10 minutes.  We talked about why that was on the changeover and discovered that we both went on long and medium sized point runs and there wasn't a lot of contested serves.  There was a total of 28 points and only about 8 - 10 changes of serve.  Well, we talked about it, so wouldn't you know, the second game made it to 1-1 and then we got stuck.  We changed serve over 10 times before I went on a little run to break the 1-1 tie.  The second game took almost 30 minutes.  There were a lot of awesome rallies and some incredible gets and WOW shots.  Very entertaining game.  Thankfully I took that game also, 15-12.  The, I went off, and totally destroyed Dan in the third game.  I took the score up to 12-1, then I stalled out.  He came back some to get to 12-6, then I just shut the door and closed out the game, 15-6.  But Dan was clearly off in the third game.  He was spraying shots everywhere.  He hit so many service returns into the net it wasn't even funny.  We finished the game in less than 10 minutes.  Then it was my turn, I went off the boil.  In the final game, I just couldn't get anything started.  I served fine, but I was just spraying shots everywhere but in the court.  I scraped together a few multi-point runs, but nothing more than 2 points at a time, while Dan was putting runs of 5 points and more together.  But it was a competitive game because it took over 20 minutes.  I lost it 8-15.  3-1 isn't a bad record for the day, so I was happy.  I will say this, I tried to not let it affect my play, but my glutes and legs were really sore.  I was really feeling yesterday's lower body workout.  Also, my back was feeling a lot better.  Still not at 100%, but no tweaks today.

In the end, I torched well over 1050kcals.  So glad to get back into Pickle-ball.