Live With The Nerds
Don't Be One
November 2003
My scale now says I weigh 216 which would be about 14 lbs down from
the start of the diet...now if I could only trust the scale, I think
I'll have to get a newer one soon.
Both Caroline and I were worried that we would be too rusty for a true open tournament,
and the first match of the day was kind of challenging since most of the folks seemed
to know each other and their syle of play .. some of them had never played 4's before
let alone rev-coed 4's. I'm always amazed at the differences in level/skill/rules
between here and Seattle. Very few if any of the guys hit really leading sets, mostly
8 foot attacks. Oh and they paint the grass so its hard to see if they're over, good
thing it was a friendly tourny most of the reffing was decent and not too many
arguements at all.
Anyway we did ok, we went 2-2 in pool with a +12 point differential, that folded
us into the 6th seed and we won our first match before losing to the 4th seed.
We were pretty happy, Caroline was banging balls hard in the morning before we
moved her to the right side, and most of the morning I was actually passing/hitting
since there were others that thought they were better setters... Most of the
afternoon and playoffs I ended up setting .. that was kind of an adventure too
becuase they were using the older beach rules ... they called "B" level in
pool which was 3 forward rotations only, and then "A" level in playoffs which
was 1 forward rotation only ... after I knocked the rust off it wasn't so bad
but it was a little nerve racking at first .. its good to be challenged. In fact
I managed some decent kills in the morning and wasn't really worked while passing
probably because they didn't know that I spend all my time setting.
Must've played too hard on sunday .. now I'm recovering from
a cold, just about well enough to travel, good thing too because
its the start of the sonics season on Friday...
So its been almost a week on the Atkins .. still no real rice cravings so thats
good, but I seem to be a bit hungry all the time and its hard to find things
to eat when I go out because I don't like to graze. On the plus side it
hasn't seemed to effected my stamina much .. I thought that I would crash
faster when playing but it doesn't seem to be so. Today was the rev-coed draw
tourny. It was pretty well run, especially for a free tournement ... in fact
there were no prizes at all. Even still it was good to be out on the grass
it's been about 2 years since I played grass at competative level, and 3 years
since the last tourny.
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