The good ole days

Just like being back in med school i am doing laundry (ok just drying 3 large loads) as our clothes dryer is messing up again. Just wish i still weighed 137 lbs and got 60 plus miles in each week.

Frozen sections and table tennis...?

My kids, my direct family hate table tennis. They do not like to hear about it, they don't like to talk about and really do not like me to do it. In fact outside of maybe 10 or 15 people in the world, most of whom play at my table tennis club, no one could care less about about my FH counter loop or my persistent inability to execute a BH long pip hit.

Certainly table tennis technique is a trivial matter. Its not "revolution in Egypt" or have to do with ministry of eternal significance. So why or how does this trivial pusuit get my attention? It probably is due to my competitive nature, to the joy of "The shot well hit," [see Golf_which by the way bores me]. But maybe, just maybe it is to balance the fact of my day job. Just yesterday at work I found out about of a kid who died this weekend w cancer. A young man I "knew" professionally but also with peripheral community ties. And I did a frozen on another who will probably die in the same manner. Plus one more young girl who is now on the Very Serious Cancer Road.

This work life contrasts so sharply with home life. On that I could on.

So any one want to talk about FH looping of long serves wide to the FH?

Lamar park in January

kids and Lamar park in the good time of year

Oceanography comp

Middle school competition oceanography challenge. HOST is the home school team w Sarah.

Biking

Although I self identify as a runner, I am an "old" runner. Not as in years running, but as in miles run. I am somewhere just south of 70,000 (ok 69,060) miles on the legs. They do not have the bounce. My weight makes their bounce even less. Anyway I don't improve when I run now. It takes lots of hard work just to tread water. Anyway a sore achilles tendon has told me to back off and after only one run this month, I have taken to the bike trainer this winter.

I have had 10 rides this month so far. I have progressed very nicely from just under 15 miles in an hour to over 17 miles an hour. It is nice to see some progress. And to be able to push myself. I usually warm up at an easy gear and gear up. The trainer is a cyclops 2 fluid trainer that Barb and I have had for a number (5 or 6 maybe?) years and is a progressive resistance machine. As the speed increases, so does the pain and resistance. It is quiet so I can listen to music. Also I have a cateye wireless computer that works on the spinning back wheel and measures cadence and speed. No power meter for me, but its not hard to figure when I am working hard.

It is nice to see progress. Although the bathroom wall mirrors (where our bike trainer is) show the innertube around my waist. Hopefully that inner tube will go flat with time. And biking.

Course getting 1000 or 1500 miles running this year looks to be a little difficult.

Club table tennis

Attached is a link to a club match of myself (in all black) vs. 1500 rated hardbatter who is very tough (he wins this match).

Just an FYI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBmSHeyf_IU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

How i won points in Frisco

Lots of technical points. Varying pushes and sidespin pushes. Lots of chopping eventually followed by a net ball. Rare attacks.
Varied serve locations and serves. Flipping and variation on BH serve returns. Selected 3rd ball attack.

What I did NOT try-BH push blocking or BH slow topspin rolls. I did not win any w BH inverted topspin or attacks but it seemed to keep them off balance. Did not hit any LP BH balls. Did lose points w FH LP chopping.

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