We had our last church basketball game of the season this morning.
We only had 5 players again, same 5 as last week. The other team had 7,
one of whom was about 6'8". They are a good team and I thought we were
going to lose by 20 or 30. We were down by 8 or 9 at half time, and by
10-15 points most of the second half. Then suddenly with 1 or 2
minutes to go we tied it up. We ended up losing by 4, 89 to 93 I think.
This was a pretty high scoring game for church ball. We did win the
second half, and felt pretty good about our performance. I knew my good shooting last week was an aberration. I kind of stunk it up this week. The other four, including my two sons, did rather well. Adam had an especially good game. I think he hit three 3 pointers along with several other baskets. Andrew always plays well and had something like 25 points and at least 6 steals. It was a lot
of fun, but I was pretty tired afterward.
I got home from the
game about 8:10am, drank a bunch of water and ate a couple of slices of
bread, changed my clothes, then met Larry and Kevin to run at 8:30am
(Wayne's in St. George). We ran an old 6 mile route through Lindon that
we haven't run for a long time. We only averaged about 9:12/mi, but for
me it felt a little like the last 6 miles of a marathon. My legs were
dead. I think it was a combination of boosting my mileage this week and
having just played a fast paced basketball game with no subs. It's been a good training week, and I'm optimistic there are better weeks ahead.
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