There are no off days, Day 5
Friday, March 11th: I know I'm doing the Spartacus work out with Shon tomorrow and I don't have any tennis matches set up, so I decide to take a more low key day. I go to the gym straight when I wake up on an empty stomach and sit on a bike for 30 minutes at medium pace, then grab breakfast and take my racket to the court to practice at a calm pace. I'm going to need my legs for tomorrow.
I spoke to our chef today. I increased my order to the point that every meal of every week will be accounted for ahead of time, that is, I need to put 0% thought into any meal for the rest of my time in Vegas until late May. It is all accounted for already.
Last night I felt a bit too hungry to fall asleep, despite numerous attempts to read myself unconscious. I went back to the kitchen and heated up a little chicken and whole wheat pasta to just hold me over until morning. I think especially after coming off a period in which I was eating such a huge amount of calories per day my body is starting to really notice the difference.
I played a pretty small session last night. I actually made plans to go out with some of the boys so I stopped registering early. I made a fairly deep run in the $100 rebuy six max on Stars but unfortunately busted 13th. I was going to go out and be the sober guy who goes home at 2am because he has a training session, but figured I could still try to tear it up a bit. Our venue changed as a result of last minute drop outs, and by the time we'd collected everyone in front of the club it was midnight and I was fading. Truck Dan gave me the keys to his car in full knowledge that there was no way he was driving home that night.
I went home and sat at my computer looking over my accumulated interesting spots from the week. I filtered out the more mundane ones, then set reads, history, and questions above each hand. Then I messaged a couple players I respected and asked if they'd look it over for me, and told Chewy he'd have to as well when he was done grinding. Neither of us are ever done grinding these days, we just waste away in the office listening to hip-hop on Pandora, occasionally flicking on the volcano, perennially obsessed with getting all the money. I take notes on people all day. I think within three weeks I'll have a huge amount of notes on the current batch of regs that populate the fields. Hours:
Session start: 4:00pm
Registration end: 6:00pm
Session end: 9:39pm
Once I get feedback from the guys on the hands I'll post some of them and include peoples thoughts.