24th - Sports with my daughter

November 24, Saturday - HY: Badminton + Tennis + Chin-Up Challenge.

Saturday is usually an off day, but something unusual happened.  My daughter is a high school senior and she has been studying her butt off for tests and entrance exams.  She was feeling really cooped up so she really wanted to do something to release her tension.  So she asked to play tennis.  We got a court reservation for 1 hour.  But when we checked the weather forecast it was rainy at that time.  So just in case, we tried to get a reservation for badminton, but there was one only the previous hour.  So we ended up playing an hour of Badminton and an hour of tennis because there was no rain and we didn't want to cancel the reservation.

My daughter is a natural athlete and she crushed badminton.  Movement between badminton and tennis is quite different so my arches started to hurt about half an hour in.  So I had to let up some.  But my daughter was killing it, so I asked her if she wanted to play a game but she said "no".  So, in my head, I kept score.  We traded the lead several times.  I was one point from the game point at 20-16, but then, without even knowing it, my daughter put on a clinic and scored six straight points to win the game, 20-22.  When I told her, she was like, "Oh, okay."  It's not the winning, but the playing for my daughter.  For me, it's the winning. HA!  But we had a great time.

Then we moved to the tennis court.  Now, tennis is my sport so there was no competition here.  My daughter never really played tennis, but she can hit the ball.  But after just a few minutes, she was able to hit a good forehand and sometime later, a respectable backhand.  We had several really good rallies, and her serve was going in with good form.  We were the only ones on the courts so we were yelling and laughing.  It was a good time.

When I got home, I procrastinated again and did the Chin-Ups almost just before going to bed.  But I did them in sets of five so I wouldn't sweat and I wouldn't get too winded.

For my time with my daughter, I burned 1333 kcals.  I was tired, but it was a great evening.