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More pickling
Apr. 24th, 2023 12:26Today was pickleball day. Monday and Friday are both scheduled this week and next. It costs me $5 to access the tennis facility. They have a monthly and an annual non resident membership so if I keep it up for another month I'll just buy into the deal. The membership would work out to about three months free if I go twice a week as I'm doing now.
The play is really recess. There are 16 people who take up four courts playing doubles. The games are to 11 scored like ping pong. Only the serving side gets a point credited if they win the point. Each game takes 20-25 minutes so I ended up playing five or so games today. Each time you play it is with a different partner which makes it much less competitive, much more like recess. The competition is so low I've been congratulated by my partner for not trying for a shot as it would have been physically a bit dangerous. No one gets hurt. I've never seen anyone fall on the court. Better to let it go and live another day. I'd say the average age on the court is well into the Medicare years.
According to Fitbit I've logged 13000 steps today. Most of them are short quick twitch muscle steps which are really good for me. And I'm a lot better than I was last week. I've now played four or five times so I'm still getting better on a good curve. At some point I'll have to decide if I want to move up to the Intermediate group or stay on this playground. There are advantages to both paths and they are not mutually exclusive.
My shoulder and my neck hurt but my back is fine. At this point something hurts most of the time anyway. I can't control the volume so I may as well control the source..
Dana is making some noise about maybe trying it. She's got a friend who was in my class that she might connect with to give it a go. It would be good for her too but she'd have to get past caring how good she is and into the sand box of just running around and whacking the ball.
We're having a very late cool patch. I wore a jacket the entire time I was playing this morning. Mornings are going to be like that for a while but afternoons will clear the 80s. Nice time of year. In the past it has sometimes already been much hotter so I've loving it while I can. Working a bit in the yard to get things where they need to be before the summer takes over. Fortunately I've done most of what I need to do. May need to get some dirt and some mulch for a new small garden patch we created next to the drive. It was kind of a useless strip of grass that Dana just decided need to go. Saves me a little bit of cutting and will look nice with plants, likely roses. Once that is set up I'll be done for the year other than cutting the grass every now and then.
Right now I feel a nap coming on. Nothing to be done about it.
The play is really recess. There are 16 people who take up four courts playing doubles. The games are to 11 scored like ping pong. Only the serving side gets a point credited if they win the point. Each game takes 20-25 minutes so I ended up playing five or so games today. Each time you play it is with a different partner which makes it much less competitive, much more like recess. The competition is so low I've been congratulated by my partner for not trying for a shot as it would have been physically a bit dangerous. No one gets hurt. I've never seen anyone fall on the court. Better to let it go and live another day. I'd say the average age on the court is well into the Medicare years.
According to Fitbit I've logged 13000 steps today. Most of them are short quick twitch muscle steps which are really good for me. And I'm a lot better than I was last week. I've now played four or five times so I'm still getting better on a good curve. At some point I'll have to decide if I want to move up to the Intermediate group or stay on this playground. There are advantages to both paths and they are not mutually exclusive.
My shoulder and my neck hurt but my back is fine. At this point something hurts most of the time anyway. I can't control the volume so I may as well control the source..
Dana is making some noise about maybe trying it. She's got a friend who was in my class that she might connect with to give it a go. It would be good for her too but she'd have to get past caring how good she is and into the sand box of just running around and whacking the ball.
We're having a very late cool patch. I wore a jacket the entire time I was playing this morning. Mornings are going to be like that for a while but afternoons will clear the 80s. Nice time of year. In the past it has sometimes already been much hotter so I've loving it while I can. Working a bit in the yard to get things where they need to be before the summer takes over. Fortunately I've done most of what I need to do. May need to get some dirt and some mulch for a new small garden patch we created next to the drive. It was kind of a useless strip of grass that Dana just decided need to go. Saves me a little bit of cutting and will look nice with plants, likely roses. Once that is set up I'll be done for the year other than cutting the grass every now and then.
Right now I feel a nap coming on. Nothing to be done about it.