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So we finally got Mira a serious tennis racket - 'serious' here meaning something better than the $19.95 fare you see at Target. Her skill has progressed to the point that it warranted it, her old racket was getting really pretty thrashed and she really wanted something better. She has a genuine love for the game.

And it's been good for us too. This is amazing exercise, and playing against Mira has made me actually a 'reasonably' good player too. In fact I've just about caught up to her now so our matches are typically 5 games to 4, or 4 to 3, etc.

Lately the pattern has been we play like crazy on the weekends that we're home. Mira rests and Kris and I do yardwork and other things, and maybe then we all do a bike ride. Last weekend we did about a 7-mile bike ride round trip to the Farmer's Market downtown (uphill all the way home!) -- then mowed the lawn, then played tennis for hours. The pedometer watch Kris & Mirs gave me registered over 30,000 steps that day, over 13 miles worth of walking(?!) Went in to work a little sore on Monday and was pretty well wiped out until Tuesday.