10-29-17 (Sunday) HY: Walking + Tennis + 30-Day PUC + TCF.

10-29-17 (Sunday) HY: Walking + Tennis + 30-Day PUC + TCF.

This day was almost a bust.  According to the weather forecast, the typhoon was supposed to skirt along the east of Japan around 3am, and then be gone by the morning.  But what happened was that it pretty much NOT that.  It ran up the eastern side of Japan, and slowed during the night so that it was pretty much right on top of us in the morning.  I had to go to work early, and then jet off to catch tennis.  Luckily, the organizers moved to an indoor court so even in rain, we could play.  Anyway, the reason why I had work on Sunday is because the school was having their annual School Festival and as an adviser for freshmen, I had to go and show support.  But with the typhoon, it became sort of a manual labor day.  It is a two-day event.  Saturday was rainy but not to bad I heard (I didn't go on Saturday).  As usual, the tents and awnings were left up for the next day.  Well, the high winds and heavy rain play havoc with all that stuff.  So, all the booths and things had to me dismantled put away and all the stuff was moved indoors.  So, for the time that I was there, I was moving like crazy.  I was not dressed for it and I sweat through all my clothes.  I wish I had my HRM on, because I was walking all over the campus, up and down countless flights of stairs, carrying this and that.  But I did happen to meet some former students and took a few moments to catch up.  So that was nice.  Luckily, a lot of people were working really hard, so everything got mostly done relatively quickly.

I was able to dash off to tennis as planned.  We only had one indoor court, but the members were few, so we were able to do a lot of hitting and practicing.  We also all had a chance to play a couple set matches with different partners.  My first partner was an intermediate player.  We were playing again two very experienced players.  We were able to hang with them for the first round, but then they got wise and started to pick on my partner.  A lot of effort went into the match, but we ultimately lost the set, 6-3.  My second match, my partner was one of the really experienced guys and we were going against another experienced guy and a heavy-hitter but intermediate player.  There were a lot more longer rallies in this match.  The score was tied to the last game.  Everyone pretty much won one service game and lost once so with no ad scoring, at 5-5, the winner of the next game wins.  To make a long story short, the score was deuce and they chose to sever to me.  GREAT!!!  (sarcasm dripping profusely)  My partner said to me, "Don't worry about it, just go for it."  So, I went for it and crushed it.  The opponent got a racket on my return but it didn't come back over the net.  That felt good.  We still had time left, so we did stroke practice.  Since I have been playing a lot more regularly as of late, I find that I am able to really find my groove a lot quicker.  I'm able to feel the ball and see the ball better as well.  So I'm really liking my clubs.

When I got home, I was tired, but I had to get the last day of the Pull-Up challenge done.  So, I went right to my bar, stretched out, then went for it.  Today, "No coming off the bar breaks" was my goal.  Hanging breaks for a breath or two was fine, though.  Today's menu,  3 sets of three grips,  Pull-Up 8 reps, Chin-Ups 7 reps, Parallel Grip 6 reps.  The protocol says to take up to two minute breaks between sets.  I took less than that and was able to finish in less than 18 minutes.  I got a great pump and I was really happy that I could reach my goal, not mid-set breaks off the bar.  And full range of motion on each rep., no half reps allowed... EVER!  BUT, since I did leak over into a fifth week, I'm going to do a couple extra days of the Pull-Up Challenge to finish right.  My next day will be eccentric, then the final day again.

Then, I finished off with my Flow series.  Also did several extra rounds just because I could.

In the end, I burned a whopping 1420kcals not including the initial walking stuff.  I think I would have topped 2000 if I were wearing my HRM.  Great start to my week.