Jan. 13, Tennis, plus some biking in the late afternoon.

January 13, Sunday - Tennis.

Another Sunday, and another slow start.  I myself got to the courts about 10 minutes late, but when I got there, there were no basket of balls and only 6 people.  So, me getting there was a good thing because I had one of four baskets of balls.  The warm-up, again, was a little longer than usual because we were sort of waiting for more people to come, and they did after some time.  The weather was beautiful.  Sunny and some occasional cloud cover, but overall a nice warm day.  We started off with a full rotation of Stroke/Volley drills which didn't quite go through a full rotation, then we switched to Service/Return.  But this set of Drills was split by the court.  One and a half courts had Service/Return, and the other cross position was just stroke drills with an older member feeding balls to a weaker member.  After a few rotations, we moved on to Matches.  As of today, I was 0-3 in matches and 1-4 for service games.  I really wanted to turn that around, and I thought I would get an easy win in my first match because the first opponent was an older guy and a bigger less mobile guy.  My partner was one of the better players, but not in that top tier.  We ended up all losing our first service game for a 2-2 tie.  Then the next two players held serve.  3-3.  My serve.  I finally got a good game in and we won the first match 4-3.  I was fully prepared not to win the second match because my partner was a guy who just doesn't win with other people.  But it seems that he can win with me.  The last time we were paired up, we went down 0-3 but came back to win 4-3 against two good players.  Today, we were up against two good players again, and the match started off with my team holding serve and then we got one break so we went up 3-1.  Then we got the break and held.  We held serve again and won 4-1 against a supposed much better team.  So I was happy, very happy to get two good wins today. 

Then, in the afternoon, I had to ride my daughter's bike to the shop which was about 4 miles away, so that added some exercise for my legs.  I could feel a good sweat coming, but I opened my coat to cool off and so I didn't sweat too much.  I didn't wear my HRM for the little ride, but it was a good little burn.

In the end, after the tennis, I burned 2037 kcals.  A little below average for a Sunday, but I was glad to break the two grand mark.