Posting was delayed due to unusually high loli activity over the weekend. I suffered 2 levels of exhaustion.
We went swimming and it was insane. The girl is not only a decent runner, but excels at swimming. I'm not a particularly good swimmer and rarely swim longer distances. Not a good combination. Since I was responsible for the loli, and dozens of people drown each weekend in Germany, I needed to keep up with her. Which proved near impossible. Why do kids have so much energy? I thought I needed her to rescue me after a few minutes. We forcefully rested, the body adapted to the emergency situation, and things improved. It still was crazy. We swam across a small lake in both directions. Probably 1km. In total a mile probably as we didn't take a straight path. Her mom said this was fine (and didn't go into the water at all as she felt sick). It certainly wasn't fine for me. The water was deep, murky, and I'd have no chance to rescue her if things went South. I barely survived myself. Good thing I never develop cramps or I probably wouldn't be posting here anymore. This is why Alice actually dislikes swimming. It's one of the easiest methods to kill yourself in an everyday situation. I was glad we made it to the shore again. We ate, played some games, and then the loli decided - to do the same thing again. Mfw. As the loli wasn't allowed to go alone for obvious reasons and Bernd as professional lolimancer cannot disappoint a girl, of course I went. It surprisingly was easier than the first round, I didn't feel stressed or out of breath.
But things were far from over. My troubles handn't even begun. We went home in the early evening, the loli went to sleep exhausted from the day, and so did I as I was beat. But not for long...
I thought I'd rest for an hour or so as Alice still had to post in the campaign, but after a short while I was struck with increasing pain in the shoulder muscles, mostly trapezius. It gradually spread to chest and even stomach, but shoulders were the worst. I can't remember when I last experienced acute muscle soreness. Probably in the military. Never from a gym session.Very rarely mild delayed onset muscle soreness in the same region, but nothing like this.
Within a few hours I reached a level of shoulder soreness I had not experienced in my entire life. It was so bad that laying down was impossible. It was better while standing or sitting, but even then it was only bearable while walking in circles. I'm not the most pain-tolerant person, but this was out of this world. Last time I was in such pain was after the removal of my wisdom teeth. I actually went outside for a walk at night as sleeping was impossible. Could barely sleep all night, it was horrible. As suddenly as the pain had set in, it completely disappeared in the morning. This was probably from lactic acid that had accumulated and was processed overnight, not microtraumata which would take longer to heal. Again interesting, I was neither tired nor was there any pain or weakness though I carried heavy stuff at work.
What do we learn from this?
Certainly my gym sessions, even with Alice, are little more than glorified warm-ups. I know it. I'd have to do the same exercise for an hour without any breaks to reach the same strain. Also it was an unusual movement as I don't swim for prolonged times. There's apparently no gym exercise I do which emulates swimming. I'm still proud the body regenerated within a (sleepless) night and was fit again 12h later. The loli of course had no soreness and could probably do this every day. Feels old man. Though it wouldn't have been better when I was her age. My stamina was terrible as a kid. I have more strength and endurance than ever before. It's not great, but still better than before.
