Today was the first tennis day in December. I thought it would be colder than it was, but there was a little rain, but it was very light and stopped after a little while. The bigger worry was the ash from our active volcano, but that ended up not being a thing because the winds carried the ash a little further to the south so it just missed us.
Practice started out as usual, and we did all the usual drills. I got to practice a little late with my wife so we weren't able to do a warm-up so our warm-up was the first drill. I was shanking a lot of balls, but I was able to find my contact point and within minutes, I was striking the ball well. My serve was firing at about 60%, but my first flat serve was totally gone. I couldn't hit anything in. We did a new drill after the regular stuff, a ball toss stroke drill just to work on form. 30 balls straight. The toss was often off so I was unable to really find my stroke on the forehand, but I was able to do a little better on the backhand. It is a tiring drill.
I had a chance to play only one match today. An erratic guy was my partner against the team that won the most recent mixed doubles tournament. In the first four games, all the games were breaks. As for my service game, I hit two double faults on the deuce side but got the point back on the ad side. I was able to work the score to the game point, then I muffed an easy forehand long. Then we started again at 2-2. This time, the first two games were holds. So that meant the deciding game would be on my racket at 3-3. Erratic Guy was on a good wave so we worked the score to 40-Love, then we faltered and lost two points to go to 40-30. Serving to the ad court, we were going at a crosscourt rally, then I hit a hard topspin ball that looked like it was going to carry long, but at the last moment, the bottom dropped out and it caught the back half of the line, Point-Game-Match! We were very happy to get the win. My daughter came to visit us at the courts so we took a little time to be with her.
Personal Note: A few weeks ago when the Tennis Club had their annual Tennis & BBQ at a special and far location, I didn't go because a couple days later my daughter would be taking her university entrance exams. Well, the results came were announced and she passed. So, that means my daughter is now an unofficial University Student. We have been celebrating for and with her for the past few days. So it was special and unusual that she came to the courts. This was only her second time to come. So we were kind of doting over her.
After tennis, when I got home, I did my December challenges offered by my Beachbody coach for this month. Below are the challenges:
These are the first three challenges. The fourth is an extension of the Chin-Up Challenge I was doing in November, but this month, I'm doing Pull-Ups with a smattering of Chin-Ups to keep up the strength. I started doing these challenges yesterday, December 1 so I am on track.
In the end, I burned a modest 1813 kcals. But I got a lot of good done.
Addition:
In the evening, I played Pickle-Ball and Speed Koosh Catch with my daughter for an hour. I sweat so much that I had to take another shower. I had a great time.
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