With my back feeling pretty much all better now, I'm finally able to get back into golf and softball again. I played golf last Wednesday, and it was my first round with the new driver. I was looking forward to seeing how far I was hitting the ball, since it looked like I had gained a few yards on the driving range, but I wasn't quite sure. As it turns out, I gained a lot of yards.
- 2nd hole, 436 yards with the tees about 20 yards up, I had 100 yards in
- 7th hole, 359 yards, I hit it to about 20 feet off the green
- 10th hole, 364 yards, I was 30 yards off the green
- 15th hole, 364 yards, I was 30 feet off the green
Those were just solid drives that hit the fairway, but even the bad drives were going 300 yards, which was amazing. Still, having not played in a while I made a number of mistakes that I can chalk up to just a lack of practice, and I ended up with an 89. I can see 7 or 8 of those shots coming off pretty easily.
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What can I say about the autox really, except that new tires are a lot more fun than old tires, and I never got the top clump section right. :-( I really think that's where I lost most of my time. First two runs I didn't go down to first, third run I missed the gas pedal and couldn't get it into first right away, last run I just felt like I coasted through the left into the clump. I didn't like it at all.
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Softball later that day was my first two games of the season, as I missed the first two weekends with the back injury. My fielding was horrible - I dropped two catches at first, and made a throw that I shouldn't have. Fortunately, I made up for it at the plate. I batted 1.000 for the night, including the game-winning hit in the last inning of the second game that I'd like to think made up for the other errors I made. :-P
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So all that's left now is to get back mountain biking again, but man is it ever hot out after work these days, and before work? Well that just isn't happening. :-P
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