Walking, riding, golfing.....

 7:14 am - Wednesday - April 27th - Likely, CA - 31° F, humidity 62%, wind 2 mph out of the northwest....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 62° F.  On this date in 2012 (our first year on the road) TLE and I were in Ann Arbor, Michigan visiting the 'Big House'......the world famous University of Michigan Wolverines football stadium aka: The Big House.....↴

.....our view this morning....look at all that sunshine!.....↴

So, Tuesday was the 3rd of four consecutive off work days for us, and we finally got out for a walk.  We have a loop we do now that is about 1.28 miles in length, which is just perfect as we can cover that distance in about 20 minutes....

Took us almost 24 minutes as we stopped at the Club House to pick up a couple of packages

Our obligatory end of walk 'usie'

.....after a brief rest I changed into my riding clothes, and took the Haibike SDURO out for a ride on the perimeter bike/hiking trail again......

.....it's been about a week since my last ride, and the weather was so nice I just had to take the ride.  In all I covered 4.15 miles in just over 32 minutes gaining 249' of elevation, and burning 317 caloric units at an average speed of 7.6 mph.....

A cool shed on the other side of the property line

.....upon my return home I took time to do some stretching exercises, especially for my lower back, because I wanted to go hit a bucket of balls around 3 pm.  My back is feeling great after playing the front 9 on Sunday, but I wanted to see if stretching before I hit balls, or play golf will ameliorate the lower back aching after either activity.

I drove over to the driving range in cart #20 around 3 pm, got a small bucket of balls, and pulled out my other set of clubs (3 Callaway 'woods', and 9 Prima irons (3-9 + pitching wedge, and sand wedge) from the locker to test again.  I used the other set already in my golf bag to play the front 9 on Sunday, and was not completely happy with the woods, or irons as far as distance was concerned.  Before heading to the driving range I watched a YouTube video on how to swing a golf club, and just applying one of the principles the guy in the video suggested made a big difference in my swing, and the results.  The longest drive I managed when I hit balls about 10 days ago, with either set, was 150 yards.  Using the Callaway Big Bertha driver, this time, I hit numerous drives over 175, and one close to 200 yards....WOW...big improvement!  As far as the irons go I went through clubs 3-9, and was able to better my distances on all of them by 15 to 20 yards just using the one swing tip the guy in the YouTube video suggested.  Along with the improvement in distance I hit mostly straight, long drives with all clubs, with only 5 to 6 really bad shots out of the entire bucket...was I ever stoked!  I have never been able to hit a 3 iron, but I was able to hit that Prima 3 iron 140 yards....straight and high.  I'm pretty much set on using the Callaways and Primas when I play the back 9 Wednesday.....

The YouTube video I watched

After finishing the bucket of balls I headed to the putting green to work on my putting, as well as reading the greens, and had much better results.  I've pretty much settled upon the Taylor putter, and am setting the other two aside for now. I get the most consistent results with the Taylor.  Oh, by the way, the stretching helped a lot....no lower back aching this time!

By the time I put my golf clubs away (I removed the clubs from my golf bag I used on Sunday, and moved the Callaways and Primas into my bag where they should remain for the foreseeable future) and headed for home it was 4:55 pm, and almost time for dinner, which was a salmon Caesar Salad.....delish!  I was able to catch the setting sun as it slipped over the mountains to the west of us.....

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