Thursday, November 13, 2003

For those of you that don't know, in high school I swam competitively year round. For 3 years of my life I swam 5-9 times a week, thousands of yards a day. I haven't really worked out swimming since November of 2000, my senior year of high school, sure I've swam occasionally since then but now I'm taking fitness swimming. My instructor is Michigan State's former swim coach. So she'd been going easy on us, today that all changed. She kicked our butts. We did a lot of sprinting. It actually felt real good to be that pushed again. I could hear Tony yelling at me in my head. My old coach still haunts me, I can still see Tony on the side of the deck giving his signals, still hear his voice in my head as I swim. But anyways, after today I was kinda sore, even with the good warm down that I did. Damn arthritic shoulders. I've had arthritis now in my shoulders since I was 14. Lucky me. Anyways, after a few weeks of searching I finally found what I wanted tonight. Tiger Balm! I love that stuff. It is the best muscle relaxant/arthritis cream out there. And it actually smells good too. Ok, it smells good if you like the smell of menthol, camphor and cloves. I'm addicted to this stuff. Started using it during swim season in high school. Half the team used it. We were the hardest working team in the conference and we really beat ourselves up during practive so the pool always smelled of chlorine and tiger balm. I love this stuff. Just the smell brings back all the memories of HS, and I feel great now. Buh bye aches and pains

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