6-30-17 (Friday) HY: TCF + Pickle-Ball.

6-30-17 (Friday) HY: TCF + Pickle-Ball.

Today is the regularly scheduled Pickle-Ball Day!

I got to the gym a little early, so I used that time to stretch and do a series of Flows.  I was trying to control my heart so as to not sweat as much.  It worked a little, but I ended up sweating like a sprinkler anyway.

I look forward to this day every week.  This week was no different.  The gym was a sauna, but a little less hot than the gym last night.  The similarity is the dead feeling of the air, again, zero circulation and very humid.  We got right to the game, and I stormed out of the gate.  I was on fire and was playing awesomely.  I was rather surprised at myself.  I took the first game 15-2.  Total domination.  But I wasn't able to maintain my level of play and I was making a lot of stupid mistakes.  A lot of unreturned serves that I should have been able to return.  But on the brighter side, it was a much more competitive game, but I came up on the short end of the stick.  I lost the game 10-15.  The next game was an all-out dogfight.  There were a lot of service changes, a lot of long rallies, and a lot of incredible shots.  By this time, we were both sweating like crazy and there were puddles lining the baseline of both ends of the court.  I was lucky to get away with that game, 16-14.  We were both gassed in the last game,  I really wanted to get the majority wins, but I just couldn't get anything going until the end.  But by that time Nick had opened up a big lead and I just couldn't catch him.  I ended up losing the final game, 12-15.  Although the conditions were brutal, we had a great time.

In the end, I torched a big 1300+kcals.  Great way to end my week.  I was Pumped to play my two favorite sports these last two days.  So I'm going to have to really bring it with more resistance next week.