Over on my other blog, I told the story of trying to get in shape.   A tragic story, really, resulting in much pain and suffering.

I have laid off the working out for a few days, hoping my neck would stop hurting.  No such luck.  So I thought I’d go swimming today and knock that pain right on out.

I carefully, slowly swam a lap of  freestyle.  I thought I’d feel it in the neck when it came to breathing, and I did.  I switched to backstroke.  I imagined myself swimming a whole mile of backstroke–it felt so good to be in the water!

I swam on, and somewhere around the 250 yard mark, my neck started hurting even swimming backstroke.  I tried a length of breast stroke.  It still hurt.  I tried a length of elementary back, and even a length of sidestroke.  I got out of the pool after that one, having only swum 350.

I went to the hot tub and soaked my sore muscles.   Good news!  The pain is going away.  I hope to return to the pool on Thursday for a real workout.