I ran in Bluffdale with a Riverton runner named Parker Howell...who is also my ping pong buddy. we ran 4.5. then decided to go to his house and play ping pong for a while which made it 5 miles.
we had a tournement with about 8 people to see who was the champion of 2012 in ping pong. It was double elimanation, and we all put in things from our christmas so there were sweet prizes for 1, 2, 3, and 4th place. Parker and I made it to the finals in the winning bracket and he beat me 3 games to 0. (we played best out of 5, games to 11) so i went to the losers bracket and played my cousin who had lost to Parker earlier but beat everyone in the losers bracket. We had a really close game but i edged her out. So i went to the Championship game against Parker. I had to beat him best out of 5 games twice to win, since he hadn't lost yet.
So after much thinking of how i played the last game, and figuring why i lost so badly, i changed a few things. We started playing, and i every game was really close. but i beat him the first set 3-0. So we were all tied up. The next game He beat me 11-8, then i won 11-7. Then i was just on fire! third game i smoked him 11-2, because i was returing all his slams and giving him spins and shots that made him pop the ball up, which i would then slam down his throat. Then i brought the tournement to a close by winning the 4th game 11-6, aceing him on the last serve by giving him a top spin of wonder to him back hand, with a little bit of right spin which cause it to go right under his paddle!
It was amazing. we had a little ceramony and i felt so happy! (we are still friends by the way) | 