7-30-18 (Monday) Pickle-Ball.

7-30-18 (Monday) Pickle-Ball.

The semester has ended and I have no more classes during the day.  I just have to get my grades in and make some emergency changes to my syllabus and I will be totally free of office work.  I, of course, still have to prepare for two summer seminars I am teaching, but I can take it easy for a few days before I have to think too much about those.

SOOOO, I have time this Monday to do a little workout.  I was planning to do a morning resistance workout, but since John will be busy the rest of the week with his stuff, we decided to play Pickle-Ball today.

We played for a little longer than usual because of the break, but we weren't sure if there would be students coming to use the gym so we were a little wary of what was going on just outside the doors.  But past a certain time, we were safe and could play worry-free.

We got in four games.  But the first three games were extremely competitive and took almost an hour.  The first game, I jumped out to a big lead, 12-2, but then John kept on fighting and worked his way back.  I wasn't playing badly.  I mean I wasn't junking a lot of balls into the net like on Friday, but John just picked up his game and I had a lapse in concentration.  But I eventually won 15-10.  The second game, I was the one who fell behind, but John's biggest lead was only 5 points.  But I kept coming back to almost tie, then John would jump out in front again.  I finally caught him at 14-14.  There were several points in the game where we were stuck on a certain score for several serve changes with no points.  The game took a long time, just over 20 minutes.  I prevailed in the end, 16-14.  The third game was like the first, except I fell behind again in the beginning, but I caught up before John could get too big of a lead.  There were several lead changes in this game also.  A lot of really good shots, too.  But I finally took the game, 15-13.  The fourth and final game, I took matters into my hands and blew John out of the water, 15-2.

It was a really good session, and I am glad to get back to my "Sweeping" ways.

In the end, I burned a good 1091 kcals.  It was quite humid in the gym again so we sweat a ton.  I'm going to miss Pickle-Ball this next month.