5-06-18 (Sunday) Tennis.

5-06-18 (Sunday) Tennis.

When I woke up on Friday morning my triceps were on fire.  What made it worse is that I woke up at 5 am because we had to drive close to 300km to another prefecture because my daughter was playing Field Hockey in a tournament there.  So, it was almost 4 hours there, then after the games, close to 4 hours back home for a day trip.  We were able to catch the last half of the first game and then the whole second game.  This was day-2 of the tournament.  My daughter had a good warm-up day yesterday, scoring 2 goals in two games.  Today, she went on a tear.  She totally dismantled the opposing team in the first game, tagging them for FOUR GOALS!!!  Then she scored 1 goal in the second game.  The opponent was their old nemesis that usually always beats them, and who is from the same prefecture.  But on this day, my daughter's team came out on top.  It was great to see my daughter actually do some scoring.  This is my first time to see it in an official game.  We did some sightseeing around the area and then headed home.  It was a good day, but I was exhausted.  Thankful for my Saturday rest day.  It may be my last one for a while if I want more than two resistance days.

I was still sore, especially my triceps on Saturday, and Sunday morning.  But I figured that if I played tennis, my muscles would loosen up with the movement.  Warming up was a bit painful, but I was right, getting the blood pumping eventually loosened me up, along with my Triceps.  The menu for the day was as usual, Stroke and Volley, then Serve and Return.  Then, we did set drills on one court while the other court ran matches.  The drills were good, but I think I need more match experience so I was looking forward to my turn playing a match.  In my first match, I was paired with a 70ish woman.  But she was a former Prefecture #1 player, so she is actually really good.  We played another really good player and someone close to my level.  To start the match, we went down 1-3, but miraculously came back to win three straight games to take the match.  I was really happy to notch the win.  Then it was back to drills while another match went on.  Once finished, I went back to play another match,  I had another older partner, probably in his early to mid-60's, but also pretty good.  But we were playing against the same intermediate guy from my first match, and one of the best members in the club.  To start, there were three breaks of serve and one hold, by the good guy, so we were down 1-3.  I was able to hold serve as well as the opponent, so it became 2-4.  Then the my partner had to leave, so he switched out with a guy in his 30's but not as good.  Anyway, we broke serve of the intermediate guy to get back on serve, and we had a chance to get back to a 4-4 tie, but my partner was also broken so we were down 3-5, with the best guy to serve next.  We had to break or the match was over.  And miracle of miracle, we were able to break to get to 4-5.  It was on my racket.  We would either tie with a hold or lose with a break.  My serve in the last game wasn't very good, so I was a little nervous, but I was able to keep it together and get the hold.  The match had to end in a 5-5 tie because of time.  But it was a great match.  I need more match experience to check my nerves.

In the end, I burned 2284 kcals.  It was a good day to burn it off.