So I joined a local tennis club last week.
I used to play competitive tennis when I was younger.
It was ‘MY sport’.
I had a dominant serve, a wicked backhand, a nasty spin, and a mean temper.
When I was 15 years old playing in an intercamp tournament, after losing a game, I bit my tennis racket and broke my braces.
Idiot!
But that was 28 years and 100 pounds ago.
Most of you who know me know I’m a big guy – 6’2”, 260lbs – thick like a can of Pepsi, but soft around the belly and big boned to boot (to quote comedian Dom Irrerra – “you got a lotta big bones comin’ outta yer ass!”).
I’m always battling the weight, but I’m also pretty active and coordinated (cat like speed and reflexes).
So I joined the ladder at the tennis club, hoping to get back into it.
I played my first match on Monday afternoon wearing a new pair (and new brand) of tennis shoes – thinking that would be a good idea.
It was not.
Halfway through the match, my body felt like a mangled pile of steel.
My foot, my knee, my lower back, my shoulder, my elbow.
After the match, and as I type this, I feel like I’ve been pulled out of a multi-car pileup on the Queensway.
I have not stopped whining for the last 24 hours, and my wife has just about had it with my not-so silent suffering.
Point is – despite my somewhat active life (10km walking per day, 700 push-ups per week), I’m certainly NOT in as good a shape as I thought I was!
All those new tennis muscles are reactivating (and throbbing).
And I realized that I have to stick with New Balance because they are the only shoes, it seems, that don’t wreak havoc on my entire body.
Can’t blame the shoes on my elbow – but I blame Asics for the rest.
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PS – I won the set (6-3).
