How sadly out of shape am I?
This sadly:
New Year's Eve, I was over at my brother's house. He has one of those new Nintendo Wii things. We played the boxing on the "WiiSports" disc. 2 fights, we split. After which, I was fairly winded. Almost 48 hours later, my shoulders and neck are still slightly sore from the activity. Almost makes me miss high school, when I'd swim 2 miles and lift weights for an hour before sunrise.
Almost. That pretty much sucked at the time. Especially given the fact that once school ended, I'd have another 5 miles of swimming and 1000 situps to do. In mid-january, when my hair would be frozen by the time I got from the door of the school to the door of my car. Plus, those days, I was in school for swim practice long before dawn, and in school for swim practice about an hour after sunset. That pretty much sucked ass, not seeing the sun for 5 days a week except the 10 minutes during lunch hour I was driving to the mall for some toxic hell...
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-Almost makes me miss high school, when I'd swim 2 miles and lift weights for an hour before sunrise.-
Jesus, man! What Shaolin temple did you go to school at?
One with a sadistic bastard for a swim coach at the time. (and which generally had a pretty good team. I think the league started in '64, and by the time I graduated in '93, we had our 22nd or 23rd league title. Our worst finish in my 4 years was 4th in state). Did I mention that he took "Christmas break" as an opportunity to have much more difficult and longer practices? 8 am to 1:30 in the afternoon, with about an hour to an hour and a half of that taken up with a trip to the weight room. At least we got to sleep in that week though. And we got Christmas Eve and Christmas day off.
I really don't miss the "in the weight room at 5:15 am" policy, but it would be nice to get back into some sort of decent shape. But, we swimmers always got great parking spots when we got to school.
Boy, does that bring back memories. I vaguely recall seeing the sun between October and April each year... at least summer season had a lot of outdoor meets. :)
But you're absolutely right, it was awesome to be in that sort of shape. I miss it.
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