10-02-17 (Monday) HY: Pickle-Ball + TCF + Foam Rolling.
After that big tennis day yesterday, it wasn't my first choice to play Pickle-Ball today. My hip flexors especially were feeling sore after tennis. Luckily, they weren't feeling too bad this morning, but I was a little sore. But Monday is the only day my playing partner and I have a matching free period in our class schedules so it has to be on Monday if we play at all.
As we started warming up, it was like "Old Hat". We haven't played in over a month with each other, but we seemed to be firing on all cylinders. Then we started a match. Right away we could both feel the match pressure. (We talked and realized that after the match was done.) I realized that my footwork and body positioning was way off. John wrong-footed me more times than I can count. Hit behind me more times than I care to count. But I was getting in some good shots as well. I eventually took the first game 15-8. The second game was more hard fought, but my downfall was the first 5 points. As John was serving first, I let him jump out to a 0-5 lead. So, throughout the whole game, I was playing catch up. Once I got to within one point of tying at 11-12. But then the rally gassed out there and he closed it out. I lost 12-15. In the final game, we were both pushing ourselves to the edge. Offense and defense, Netplay and baseline play. It all sort of came together... for me. I took the final game 15-4. But in the middle of that final game, my quads just started to burn. So many squats and lunges, dropping to get the ball. It truly was a leg workout for the times. It was great to be back playing, and I look forward to Mondays.
At home in the evening, my hip flexors started to get sore again, so I tried a Flow series and then some Foam Rolling to loosen them up. Stretching hurt a little too much at that point. But definitely back to Unlocking my hip flexors tomorrow.
In the end, I torched a nice 1000+kcals during the Pickle-Ball. No HRM for the evening activities.
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