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Long day, for a change

I just woke up from a much-needed nap; before the nap, I was up before 7am to go to my first grass doubles volleyball tournament of the summer. I’d love to provide a full report of the day, but I’m still a little tired, so I’ll limit myself to:

• I played with my friend Emily (who I’ve known almost as long as I’ve lived in the DC region); we last played together three or more years ago.
• We had great weather all day long - so much so that I got a little burned
• We came out of pool in first place on our net and were ranked third in the 6-team playoffs
• We barely won our first-round playoff game buttook our second-round game pretty easilyy
• We lost in the finals against a trucker-hat wearing guy and his 17-18 year old friend… we decided to use their ball for the game and it felt completely different (much lighter) than the one we’d been using all day, so we just didn’t play as well as I thought we could in that game.
• All in all, it was a fantastic day. We both had a lot of fun and we played really well together, and I feel now the best I’ve felt after any tournament I can remember playing. I’m thinking all the running in the heat of the last few weeks really paid off today.

And with that, I’m off to bed.