7-27-18 (Friday) Pickle-Ball.

7-27-18 (Friday) Pickle-Ball.

It rained for a good part of the day yesterday so I knew it was going to be really humid in the gym today.  So I decided to give the Spandex a try in that venue as well.  Worked great.  It kept the sweat from flowing into my shoes as hoped.

Today was a little bit of a disappointment for two reasons: 1. I lost a game.  This is the first game I've lost to John is almost two months.  I was on a good roll there, but I guess it had to come to an end sometime.  2.  Right at the beginning of the first game, I noticed that my lower back was getting that wrenched feeling.  I played to the end, but I had to let up on some of the shots I would have tried for had I been feeling 100%.  But I'm not going to use that as an excuse for losing the game.    On the positive side, I totally crushed John in the other three games.

In game one, I won 15-5.  I was a pretty quick game, I jumped out to a lead and held it till the end.  I hit a lot of good shots where I wanted to hit them and ended points quickly.  No Mercy.  In the second game, my rangefinder turned itself off.  I was just junking balls into the net and couldn't get anything into the court.  I dropped to a 2-12 gap, but I slowly worked my way back, but it was too little too late.  I ended up losing the game 11-15.  I roared back in the third game, winning it in under ten minutes, 15-1.  In the final game, there were a lot of good shots and a lot of service changes.  The score doesn't really do the quality of the game justice.  But I won the game 15-5.

This was the second to last Pickle-Ball session before Summer Vacation, but we'll see if we can fit some games in when we are off school.

In the end, I burned a lower than expected 919 kcals.  Probably due to my limiting my movement because of my back.