7-20-17 (Thursday) HY: Tennis + Foam Rolling + TCF.

7-20-17 (Thursday) HY: Tennis + Foam Rolling + TCF.

Another TENNIS DAY!!!  This is EXTREMELY unusual for me to play tennis three times in one week.  But it happened.  Three Thursdays a month I have a night class to teach, but whenever the free Thursday(s) come around, and if there is no other conflict, I go and play tennis with my club.  Today was one of those free days so I played tennis.

First, YES, the gym was very hot and very humid.  The temperature was over 31 degrees Celsius.  But I had a full bottle of water and a dry towel so I was good to go.  I got to the gym a little late because of traffic so I didn't get the regular warm up drills, so I was playing "cold", and it showed.  In the first set, we all were playing at about the same level so each person won their service game twice which took the score to 4-4.  Then we finally broke serve in the next game and held serve to take the set.  I was very happy because our opponent was the one of two members I and a partner have not beaten yet.  As far as my play, My serve was pretty on, over 60% of my in serves were winners.  No aces, though.  But the bad thing is that I wasn't able to make too many shots with good clean contact.  I'm usually a power hitter, but I wasn't able to play my game today.  My timing was also way off on several shots.  There were some really easy shots that on any other day I would have put away, but instead, I shanked them.

In the second set, I went through a lull and promptly lost my first service game.  I just threw it away double faulting on game point.  Again, no really good consistent play to speak of, but my serve came back for my next service game just in time. We played well on a lot of key points and we got my break back, and then another break to go up 4-3. Then on my serve I was down LOVE-30 and then I hit Service Winner - Ace - Service Winner - Ace to close out the game.  How "Federer-esque" of me.  The score was now 5-3.  The next two games went to the server so we won 6-4.  I was happy with my serve, but pretty much all the other aspects of my game were under par.  Basically I played poorly.  But I was able to hit decent shots in crunch time and we ended up winning both matches.  But the best thing is that we beat the last person I have not yet beaten.  I have won several times with him, but when I was on the opposite side of the net, I always lost... until now.  Now, I have beaten everyone in the club.

In the end, I torched 1170+kcals.  I would have been a lot more if I had gotten that drill warm up time.

My calves were feeling really tight so in the evening, I rolled them out along with my feet and legs.  No upper body rolling today.  I usually end my workout with a Flow series, but today, I'm ending my day with a Flow series.  SLEEP TIGHT!